Later, Durham spent a decent chunk of time showing jurors the warrant applications that the FBI submitted to surveil Page. He said the bureau “should have uncovered” Danchenko’s alleged lies, “but never did.”
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Keilty said in opening statements that the trial would cover the FBI’s “troubling conduct” regarding the Page surveillance. After three years, Durham only secured one conviction of a low-level FBI lawyer.īut his team used the Danchenko case Tuesday to put the FBI on trial, in some ways, and air some of the bureau’s dirty laundry for all to see. The judge told the jury that Onorato’s assertions about the supposed immunity deal “need to be clarified” because the deal provided Danchenko partial immunity.ĭurham was appointed in 2019 by former Attorney General Bill Barr to find government misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe.
Durham later asked District Judge Anthony Trenga to admonish Onorato. “Think about that while you consider the government’s case.”Īfterward, during a courtroom break, Keilty and Onorato got into a visible argument. “That’s a lie … he just lied to you,” Onorato told the jurors. Specifically, Onorato took issue with Keilty’s comment that Danchenko was offered immunity during some of his FBI interviews. Things got heated when Onorato accused Keilty of lying in his own opening statement. “A truthful statement to an FBI agent … cannot be a crime,” Onorato added. He told jurors that Durham wants them to “defy common sense, logic and reality” and to “rewrite the dictionary” to convict Danchenko. “This case is about protecting the functions and integrity of our institutions,” Keilty said.ĭanchenko’s lawyers torched Durham during their own opening statements, accusing him of trying to dupe the jury into a conviction.Īttorney Danny Onorato criticized the prosecution’s “convoluted theory” of the case, and told jurors that Durham will “try to convince you that his truthful answer was somehow false.” “Those lies mattered,” Keilty said, because the FBI was essentially duped by Danchenko, and then included his inaccurate information in applications submitted to a judge to secure the Page wiretaps. Special counsel John Durham in federal court on Tuesday, Oct. Specifically, Danchenko’s alleged deception tainted surveillance warrants that the FBI sought against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 20. Prosecutor Michael Keilty said Danchenko’s alleged lies “corrupted” the functions of the FBI. In opening statements, prosecutors said Danchenko “fabricated a source” and “concealed a source” in his interviews with the FBI in January 2017, where investigators were furiously trying to “corroborate or refute” the details of the Trump-Russia dossier. His trial kicked off Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia.ĭurham, a Trump-era prosecutor who is looking for misconduct in the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, handled most of the in-court arguments on Tuesday and personally questioned Auten on the witness stand – a rare move for a special counsel and former US attorney. Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to five counts of lying to the FBI about his sourcing for some information that ended up in the dossier. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Chip Somodevilla/Getty Imagesįinal expected trial of Durham investigation returns spotlight to flawed Trump-Russia dossierĪuten also said Steele refused to provide the names of any of his sources during that meeting, and that Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier.Īuten was testifying at the criminal trial of Igor Danchenko, a primary source for Steele’s dossier, who is being prosecuted by special counsel John Durham. Russian analyst Igor Danchenko arrives at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, for his arraignment on November 10, 2021.
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