Author of Trump dossier moves closer to testimony in lawsuit
Source: McClatchy DC
BY KEVIN G. HALL
khall@mcclatchydc.com
March 23, 2018 03:15 PM
Updated 1 hour 38 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The U.S. lawyer for a Russian tech mogul suing online news site BuzzFeed will travel to London to take testimony from the former British spy at the center of the allegations of possible Trump campaign collusion with the Kremlin.
A British court on Wednesday accepted a compromise between lawyers that compels narrow testimony from Christopher Steele, who produced the so-called Trump dossier that prompted congressional and federal investigations in the United States.
Aleksej Gubarev and his Cyprus-based company XBT Holdings, who are suing BuzzFeed for defamation, will be permitted to question Steele about the final page of the document, where both are mentioned.
Gubarev’s lawyers brought separate suits early last year in South Florida and London, alleging BuzzFeed should have given him an opportunity to comment when it published the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017, setting in motion political drama in London, Moscow and Washington, D.C.
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Maybe he should go undercover now. This could be a veiled assassination attempt, or maybe they're trying to see if he is vulnerable.
