In a statement after the verdict, Durham said: “While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service. I also want to recognize and thank the investigators and the prosecution team for their dedicated efforts in seeking truth and justice in this case.'ĭanchenko’s attorney, Stuart Sears, said outside the courthouse: 'We’ve known all along that Mr. Millian has denied he was a source of information for the dossier. The government obtained Millian’s email records, which included messages from Danchenko but no contact information for any apps or references to a purported call between the two men. Prosecutors, using phone records, said the call never happened, while the defense maintained the conversation could have occurred over an encrypted phone app. The FBI used the largely unsubstantiated dossier to support its surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.ĭanchenko, 44, had told the FBI he received some of the information that went into the dossier in an anonymous phone call in July 2016 from someone he thought was the prominent Belarusian American businessman Sergei Millian - a claim the defense argued was always speculative.

Prosecutors alleged Danchenko provided false information to the FBI in 2017, when it was trying to verify information in a dossier detailing Trump’s alleged ties to Russia that was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

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