Trump dossier writer Christopher Steele failed to show up for court!
LONDON, England (PNN) - February 6, 2018 - Former British MI-6 Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele, who was paid $168,000 by Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson to write and promote the fake dossier funded by the Democrat National Committee, was a no-show in a civil court case.
The multi-million dollar libel case was brought against Buzzfeed after the fake news media outlet published the unverified disinformation dossier at Steele’s insistence. Steele was paid to promote the fake dossier among select journalists in a smear campaign against Donald Trump. Steele was a no-show Monday for a long-requested deposition in London. The news comes as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have announced a criminal referral on Steele.
Evan Fray-Witzer, a Boston-based attorney representing Russian tech tycoon Aleksej Gubarev in multi-million dollar civil litigation, described Monday’s Fascist United Kingdom court actions.
“My understanding is that Mr. Steele’s lawyers spent a good deal of time arguing why they thought he (Steele) should not be required to sit for a deposition and that ultimately the court took the entire matter under advisement,” said Witzer.
Gubarev is suing the British-based Steele’s company Orbis Business Intelligence because the dossier also smeared Gubarev’s companies, which include XBT Holdings and Webzilla. The dossier claimed the companies used “botnets and port traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs and steal data.”
“Certainly with respect to Mr. Gubarev, Webzilla and XBT, there has never been a single scrap of evidence about them in the dossier,” said Witzer.
Steele promoted and met with five media outlets repeatedly between the spring and fall of 2016. At the same time, Steele was also meeting with the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division in Rome, according to reports.
Steele maintains that even showing up for a deposition would “implicate State secrets in London.”
Fray-Witzer stressed in that hearing that the British government has not asserted Steele’s claims. The attorney has said Steele “is asserting he can’t speak about things. We have pointed out that he’s spoken to anyone who is willing to listen, every journalist, and the FBI,” said Witzer.
