At issue are 70 financial transactions from 2016, however Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) demanded\u00a0“complete”\u00a0<\/strong>records going all the way back to Aug. 2015 Fusion filed for an injunction –\u00a0claiming Nunes issued the subpoena illegally, it was overly broad, and it was a violation of the 1st amendment.<\/p>\n The request also covers a period in which Fusion was paid\u00a0$523,651<\/strong>\u00a0by a law firm for a Russian businessman whose company, Prevezon Holdings, Ltd. settled with the U.S. Justice department for $5.9 million in a money laundering an embezzlement scheme involving high level Russian officials. The Russian’s attorney\u00a0was none other than\u00a0Natalia Veselnitskaya of Trump Tower meeting fame<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote a\u00a0scorching denial<\/a>\u00a0to Fusion’s request –\u00a0concluding that Nunes legally issued the subpoena, it wasn’t overly broad, and that the transactions are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0covered by the first amendment.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately for the plaintiff, I cannot agree,”<\/strong>\u00a0Judge Leon wrote on the basis that Fusion’s commercial relationship with its clients does not provide Fusion with “some special First Amendment protection from subpoenas,”\u00a0since it would allow “any entity that provides goods and services to a customer who engages in political activity to resist a subpoena on the ground that its client engages in political speech.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n While we don’t know what the 70 financial transactions cover, Nunes’ Subpoena was broad, demanding\u00a0complete records\u00a0<\/strong>going back to August, 2015…<\/p>\n In late November,\u00a0The Daily Caller<\/em>‘s\u00a0Chuck Ross<\/a>\u00a0reported that\u00a0heavily redacted Fusion GPS bank records<\/a>\u00a0unsealed Tuesday reveal DNC law firm\u00a0Perkins Coie<\/a>\u00a0paid Fusion a total of\u00a0$1,024,408<\/strong>\u00a0in 2016 for opposition research on then-candidate Donald Trump – including the 34-page dossier.<\/p>\n Ross\u00a0also\u00a0reported\u00a0that law firm\u00a0Baker Hostelter\u00a0paid Fusion\u00a0$523,651<\/strong>\u00a0between March and October 2016 on behalf of a company owned by\u00a0Russian businessman and money launderer Denis Katsyv\u00a0<\/strong>to research Bill Browder<\/a>, a London banker who helped push through the Magnitsky Act – named after deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.<\/p>\n Katsyv was busted for a\u00a0high level embezzlement and money laundering scheme, sanctioned by Russian Officials, in which large sums of money were stolen from the Russian government\u00a0and invested in New York real estate. Some of the missing funds were\u00a0traced to Katsyv<\/a>‘s firm<\/a>, Prevezon Holdings Ltd., which settled with the Justice Department in 2017 – paying\u00a0$5.9 million<\/a>\u00a0in fines.<\/p>\n And again, what does Nunes’ Subpoena cover? Banking records from the period in which Katsyv utilized Fusion GPS services.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Enter Natalia<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n Katsyv’s attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya – a\u00a0John McCain fan<\/a>\u00a0who hates Trump and\u00a0uses Democrat lobbyists<\/a>, was initially\u00a0denied entry into the United States<\/strong>,\u00a0only to be allowed in under “extraordinary circumstances” by Obama’s Homeland Security Department and\u00a0approved by former AG Loretta Lynch<\/a>\u00a0so she could represent\u00a0Fusion GPS client\u00a0<\/strong>Denis Katsyv’s company, Prevezon Holdings –\u00a0and attend the meeting at Trump Tower\u00a0with Donald Trump Jr. – arranged by Fusion GPS associate Rob Goldstone.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s Review:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n Meanwhile…<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n For their efforts,\u00a0Fusion GPS was paid over $1.5 million dollars between Hillary Clinton, the\u00a0DNC, and the holding company owned by pro-Kremlin businessman\u00a0Denis Katsyv.<\/strong><\/p>\n Also recall that Fusion GPS hired\u00a0Nellie Ohr<\/strong>, the\u00a0CIA-linked<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0wife of demoted DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, to help with investigation Trump, and that\u00a0Bruce Ohr was demoted after meeting with Simpson and Christopher Steele,\u00a0<\/strong>the former MI6 spy who assembled the dossier for Fusion.<\/p>\n House investigators have determined that\u00a0Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson<\/strong>, the founder of Fusion GPS the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n …evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that\u00a0Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele<\/strong>, the former British spy who authored the dossier. \u00a0\u00a0–Fox News<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let’s also remember\u00a0Fusion’s failed\u00a0effort to link the President to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein:<\/p>\n Since you asked, yes, they helped me with that<\/strong>, Mr. Silverstein said.\u00a0But as you can see, I could not make a strong case for Trump being super close to Epstein, so they could hardly have been thrilled with that story.<\/strong>\u00a0[In my humble opinion], that was the best story written about Trumps ties to Epstein, but\u00a0I failed to nail him. Trumps ties were mild compared to Bill Clintons<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As well as a fabricated story that a\u00a0secret email server existed between Trump Tower and Moscow’s Alpha Bank<\/strong>– which was\u00a0debunked by internet sleuths who traced the IP address to a marketing server located outside Philadelphia.<\/p>\n F<\/strong>usion is\u00a0currently being sued<\/a>\u00a0for libel<\/strong>\u00a0in two separate cases by three Russian businessmen-bankers in US District Court for their inclusion in the Dossier, along with the ‘secret server’ story pushed by Glenn Simpson.\u00a0Alfa bank executives Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan filed suit in early October, claiming their reputations were harmed by the largely unsubstantiated document<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Given that Fusion GPS appears to have had their ‘investigative’ hands in several pots related to ongoing investigations on Capitol Hill, it’s no wonder they\u00a0penned a desperate self-defense<\/a>\u00a0last week, as if to leave people with some sort of positive impression of the company before the storm truly arrives.<\/p>\n![\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/nunes-654x362-ee0fbc7_0.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/nunes-654x362-ee0fbc7_0.jpg\")
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