The Post revealed in October that Fusion was paid, via
a law firm, by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee for its work on the dossier.
After Trump won the primary, Fusion approached
Marc Elias, a partner at
the law firm Perkins Coie who represented the Democratic Party during the 2016 election. Perkins Coie decided the party needed to go deeper than traditional, issue-oriented opposition research groups — a “no-stones-unturned approach,” according to a person familiar with the arrangement who was not authorized to speak publicly.
A spokeswoman for Perkins Coie said Trump “was unvetted by the political process — a businessman with significant real estate holdings both in the United States and around the globe, a history of litigation, financial problems and bankruptcies, and of a decidedly litigious nature,” adding that “the challenge of reviewing public-record information alone on his candidacy necessitated additional research.”
- The Washington Post
The law firm Perkins Coie was hired to probe Strauss’s behavior at the school, where he joined the clinical faculty in 1978. The investigation is being overseen by Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, which was appointed by the Ohio attorney general’s office.
In an interview Thursday with Fox News, Jordan
criticized Perkins Coie, which represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election. The firm hired Fusion GPS, the company that produced the now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia using research from Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer.
- The Washington Post