Durham zeroes in on Clinton campaign, could call some aides to testify, court memo reveals

Hillary Clinton's team long fought to keep its ties to Christopher Steele's dossier from public view, but Special Counsel John Durham is now making clear he has a strong interest in her campaign's behavior during the Russia collusion probe.

Pdf Durham's motion asked the presiding judge to determine whether Danchenko's lawyers -Danny Onorato and Stuart Sears of the Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears law firm - pose a conflict of interest because the firm also represents the Hillary for America campaign as well as several former campaign officials in "Matters before the special counsel." "The Clinton Campaign financed the opposition research reports, colloquially known as the 'Dossier,' that are central to the Indictment against the defendant," the Durham team stated in the motion.

Pdf Prosecutors said they want to know what the Clinton campaign knew about the accuracy of the Steele dossier's now-discredited allegations of Trump-Russia collusion and whether any campaign "Representatives directed, solicited, or controlled" Danchenko's activities assisting Steele.

"The interests of the Clinton Campaign and the defendant could potentially diverge in connection with any plea discussions, pre-trial proceedings, hearings, trial, and sentencing proceedings," the prosecutors told the court, often referring to the Steele dossier as "Company Reports." "For example, the Clinton Campaign and the defendant each might have an incentive to shift blame and/or responsibility to the other party for any allegedly false information that was contained within the Company Reports and/or provided to the FBI," the Durham filing stated.

"In the event that one or more former representatives of the Clinton Campaign are called to testify at any trial or other court proceeding, the defendant and any such witness would be represented by the same law firm, resulting in a potential conflict," Durham's team argued.

For one of the first times, Durham's team declares to a court what it believes was the political motive for the Clinton campaign to pay its law firm, Perkins Coie, to hire the Fusion GPS investigative firm to hire the retired MI6 agent Steele to write the anti-Trump Russia reports known as the dossier.

"Why would the Clinton campaign lawyers go and represent the Steele dossier's No. 1 source, who has been charged federally with five counts of lying to the FBI in a 39-page indictment that cites Clinton campaign former staffers?"There is no such thing as coincidences in these types of investigations.

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