Bruce Ohr May Have Broken More Than The Law By Pushing His Wife’s Opposition Research To The FBI

The Federalist ^ | August 16, 2018 | Adam Mill

[T Ruth]

A review of publicly available information causes a reasonable person to wonder whether Bruce Ohr broke the law by promoting his wife’s anti-Trump research to the FBI when he was working at the Justice Department.

The law prohibits public officials from involvement in matters in which their spouse has a financial interest. The question is, Did Ohr “personally and substantially” participate in a particular matter in which his spouse had a “financial interest” while he was employed by the Justice Department as the assistant attorney general? ***

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***Former FBI agent Peter Strzok has confirmed Ohr fed the FBI documents pertinent to the investigation into Trump’s Russia ties, and The Hill reported the FBI used Ohr to continue collecting information from Steele, even after it terminated him as a source for leaking word of the investigation to the media.

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Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson disclosed in a sworn declaration that Fusion GPS paid Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, a Russia expert, to help research and analyze potential opposition research on Trump.

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As pointed out by The Daily Caller, Ohr failed to disclose that his wife was being paid by Fusion GPS in his mandatory public financial disclosure form. The purpose of the form is to “identify potential or actual conflicts of interest.” Thus, *** [Ohr] deprived DOJ of the opportunity to identify this potential conflict of interest by failing to disclose the source of her “consulting” income. ***

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Violation of the law prohibiting public officials from involving themselves in matters in which their spouse has a financial interest (18 U.S.C. §208) is a crime punishable for up to five years in prison, if the conduct is deemed willful. ***

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[struggle]

Yeah, but there’s no security. I also doubt that a Tech licensee like Ohr with no real log activity or lookups (QRZ.com) is going to start contacting others with RTTY or whatever. Any one could be listening in. If she was going to do illegal broadcasting, she could just do it.

I have a strong feeling it’s Echolink she was using, because of the P2P user to user chat and the fact that it’s a relatively unknown and probably unmonitored service.

[Dr.Deth]

Breaker 1-9, Breaker 1-9, what's your 40 good buddy?