![]() ![]() Steele used his "old contacts and farmed out other research to native Russian speakers who made phone calls on his behalf". In June 2016, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent, to obtain information on Trump. From April 2016 into early May, the Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton Campaign/DNC were independently both clients of Fusion GPS. ![]() In April 2016, the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign's law firm, Perkins Coie, retained Simpson's company Fusion GPS. Explaining why he left journalism, he quipped: "We don't use the word ' sold out.' We use the word 'cashed in.'" Trump opposition research įrom September 2015 to May 2016, Simpson was retained by a conservative newspaper, the Washington Free Beacon, to collect information on many of the Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump. Simpson left journalism in part to earn more money. Career īefore Simpson worked for The Wall Street Journal, he was a reporter for Roll Call, where he broke stories on GOPAC, a political action committee headed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Simpson graduated from Conestoga High School in 1982, then went to George Washington University, where his neck was broken in a car crash. ![]() A New York Times book review called the book's approach "fiercely bipartisan". He is the co-author of Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics written with political scientist Larry Sabato and published in 1996. He was also a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. Glenn Richard Simpson (born 1964) is an American former journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal until 2009, and then co-founded the Washington-based research business Fusion GPS. ![]()
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