According to UK court docs, Sussmann told Steele of allegations re: potential communications between a server in Trump Tower and a server at Alpha Bank
h/t @ChuckRossDC
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Other members of the media also had this same information.
Elias served as general counsel to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016 and John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004.
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It was the first article to state that Carter Page was under investigation.
Steele was the source for Isikoff, although the FBI would state the opposite in its FISA application on Page.
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It not only discussed Page extensively but also appeared to highlight efforts by Fusion GPS to influence media reporting.
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"the Rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russia’s Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin; that Page met with Sechin and Ivanov in Moscow; that he is now being investigated by the FBI for those meetings"
But CH team didn't get Steele memos until Sept 19.
They did open a FARA investigation of Page resulting in the transfer of the espionage investigation of Page from the New York field office to FBI HQ on 8/10.
This was well before the official transfer of the Page investigation to FBI HQ on Aug 8, 2016.
And who was it that told them.
It seems reasonably apparent that the FBI investigation of Page was known to Fusion - and probably Steele - early on.