1\\

Crime in Progress by Simpson and Fritsch
2\\

Crime in Progress Page 6

"McCain...wanted to put a copy of Steele's memos in front of FBI Director James Comey- a decision his friend and fellow Republican senator Lindsey Graham encouraged."

Kramer "still hoped to find a way -any way- to stop Trump from being inaugurated."
3\\

Crime in Progress

Page 50

"Weeks before Trump tapped Manafoet to run his campaign, Christopher Steele had hired Fusipn for help investigating Manafort. Orbis had recently been queried by an American law firm about finding Manafort's assets."
4\\

Crime in Progress

Page 51

In early April 2016...Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News, a friend of Simpson called about a 2014 court case.. "Deripaska invests $18.9 million in some cable-telecommunicati0ms deal, the money disappears and they can't get in touch with Manafort."
5\\

Crime in Progress

Page 53

Re-emergence of Manafort was simply too weird and disturbing. Why would he take such a high-profile job without pay if he was in hock and on the run? Wouldn't that mean the person managing a major presidential campaign was dangerously compromised?
6\\

Crime in Progress

The next day, March 2, 2016, Fritsch had a preliminary chat with Fusion's Democratic contact, who promised to make some inquiries inside the Hillary campaign and get back ASAP.
7\\

Crime in Progress

Page 64

In the spring of 1988, Steele went on a blind date with Laura Hunt who happend to be the daughter of a Russian-speaking nuclear physicist. In April 1990, they moved to Moscow and returned to London in July.
8\\

Crime in Progress

Page 69

Mid May 2016
"Another possibility, Simpson said, was that Trump was merely going to Russia to chase women.. To the contrary, said Steele, if Trump was engaged in sexual dalliance in Moscow, he'd probably been taped by the FSB, Kompromat is serious
9\\

Crime in Progress

Page 77

Steele's Sources:

A: "a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure"

B: former top-level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin

C: senior Russian financial official

D: close associate of Trump

E & F: Ritz

G: senior Kremlin official
9\\

Crime in Progress

Steele ran through a separate report he called a "source key" that listed and described his "sub sources"- people who had existing relationship with Orbis's sources. That key identified, sometimes by name, no fewer than seven sources for the hotel scene.
10\\

Crime in Progress

Page 89

July 26, 2016 at the Democratic Convention Simpsom and Fritsch met the NYT's Baquet and Purdy.

They discussed how one might go about reporting the Manafort story and that there would be information in Ukraine from pro-Western political parties.
You can follow @RevisitedRick.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: