Thread by @ChuckRossDC

Fusion GPS has racked up millions in legal fees from lawsuits and congressional probes. But who has paid for it?

A non-profit funded heavily by LinkedIn founder REID HOFFMAN coughed up at least $620,000, per IRS filings. dailycaller.com/2020/12/21/fus…

Hoffman appears to have a penchant for misinformation projects. He contributed $100k to the Alabama senate "false flag" operation in 2017.

The firm New Knowledge was involved in that. They also worked with Fusion GPS.

Facebook investigating whether a Hoffman-funded project called "News for Democracy" was peddling misinformation before the 2018 midterm.

Hoffman was also an early investor in ACRONYM, which was behind the Iowa caucuses app fiasco earlier this year.

The group that paid Fusion GPS, called Integrity First for America, hired Mary Mapes as its director of research, a gig paying $300k.

Mapes is best known for being fired from CBS over "Memogate," the story about George W. Bush's national guard service.

The Fusion GPS founders wrote in their book that they passed around the hat for legal defense fund donations because their insurance company balked at covering them. They said they found "a few donors."

In early 2017, after the dossier was published, Fusion partnered w/ ex-Senate Intel staffer Daniel Jones to form an anti-Trump research non-profit. Fusion helped arrange fundraising meetings, and leaned on John Podesta to set some up.

Jones told the FBI in March 2017 that the consortium, which involved Fusion GPS and Steele, had raised $50 million from 7-10 wealthy liberal donors.

The actual amount raised was quite a bit less, but Fusion GPS was paid $3.3 million in 2017, and Steele received $250,000.

George Soros has given at least $1.5 million to Jones' groups.