Russian source for Steele’s Trump dossier arrested | First Thing

Analyst Igor Danchenko is accused of lying to the FBI. Plus, how telling a New Jersey cop you have Covid could get you 10 years in prison

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The main Russian source behind Christopher Steele’s dossier on Donald Trump and Moscow has been arrested, the justice department has said.

What were the allegations? Danchenko claimed that Trump may have been covertly filmed with sex workers during his Moscow trip, putting him at risk of blackmail.

Is Danchenko the first arrest? No. The analyst is the third person, and second within two months, to face indictment.

What are the charges? The FBI accuses Danchenko of fabricating the conversation understood to be behind the claim that Trump watched sex workers urinate on each other at the Moscow hotel. He is also accused of including information from a Democrat-linked PR executive in the dossier and concealing its source. A lawyer for Danchenko had no immediate comment.

The incident comes just two weeks after a Californian blogger and a German tourist were killed in the nearby beach resort of Tulum during a shootout between suspected gang members.

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