Jim Jordan asked the dates. Nellie Ohr answered under oath: “Approximately, October of 2015, give or take a couple weeks, and into the end of September, 2016.” Rate: $55 an hour. Hours: “somewhere around 30 hours a week.” Location: “From home.”
What she said she did: “online open source research using Russian sources, media, social media, government, you know, business registers, legal databases.” First project, she said, was a Russian firm, Vlad Models, “suspected of being involved in sex trafficking.” Then: “I worked on a project looking into the relationship of Donald Trump with organized crime, a Russian organized crime.” Jordan asked if that work was related to “the now famous dossier.” She said, “No.”
She said she would “write occasional reports” on “Donald Trump’s relationships with various people in Russia.” Daily Caller (March 28, 2019) and Daily Wire (January 30, 2019) reported from the same transcript that Fusion also had her look at Trump’s children and at associates including Manafort, Page, and Flynn. Daily Caller quoted her saying she “favored Hillary Clinton.” Those are her words in the transcript as those outlets reported them. They are not a crime.
She said nobody approached her; she approached Fusion after reading Glenn Simpson’s name. She said she did not know the Fusion client. She said she first saw the full Steele dossier when it became public. That is her testimony. Durham later described a stack of her Fusion reports. That is a different episode.