“Specifically, Fusion GPS records demonstrate that Nellie Ohr first identified Millian as having connections to Trump.” Special Counsel John H. Durham, report, May 12, 2023 (official pagination p. 180)
That sentence is in the Durham report. This draft checked the text against the same PDF later filed on PACER; the Department of Justice still hosts the official file. Durham identified Ohr as “a Russian-language contractor employed by Fusion GPS and the wife of Department official Bruce Ohr.”
On April 22, 2016, he wrote, she “prepared a report for Fusion GPS that set forth, in part, Millian’s connections to Trump.” “This report was prepared just ten days after Fusion GPS was retained by Perkins Coie to conduct opposition research on Trump, and prior to Steele being retained by Fusion GPS.” A May 7, 2016, weekly write-up discussed Millian again. Then this: “All told, Ohr prepared at least 12 reports that discussed Sergei Millian.”
Durham added that “the reports prepared by Ohr and others at Fusion GPS were ultimately provided to Crossfire Hurricane investigators by Ohr’s husband, Bruce Ohr.” He wrote that by the time Glenn Simpson met Steele, “Nellie Ohr had already identified Millian’s alleged connections to Trump,” and that the timing “strongly supports the inference that Fusion GPS directed Steele to pursue Millian.” That last clause is Durham’s inference. It is not a jury verdict. It is not a finding that she authored the Steele dossier.
Paul Sperry at RealClearInvestigations (May 16, 2023) quoted the Millian sentences. Conservative Treehouse (May 17, 2023) relayed them and then added that she “used HAM radios for communication.” That last clause is not in Durham. It is not repeated here as fact.