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From the article: CTH is very interested in the Ohr communication, writ large, for several reasons. One of the things we want to do is overlay the post-election communication between Senator Mark Warner and Lobbyist Adam Waldman (lobbying for Oleg Deripaska) while Waldman was trying to work out communication between Senator Warner and Chris Steele.

Related: Was Christopher Steele Paid by Russian Oligarch Deripaska?: A release last week of texts showed that Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose memos regarding the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia are referred to as the Steele dossier, reached out to Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, through a Russian-linked Washington, D.C., lobbyist named Adam Waldman. Among Waldman’s clients is Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a text dated March 16, 2017, Waldman texted Warner, “Chris Steele asked me to call you.”

So Steele was possibly getting paid by an enemy of Paul Manafort while he was putting the dossier together?

In January, Deripaska filed a lawsuit against Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign-convention manager—the latest chapter in an ongoing nine-year business dispute between the two men, in which Deripaska has alleged that Manafort failed to properly account for more than $20 million in investments and fees from a 2008 business deal between the two men. In 2014, Deripaska took legal action against Manafort in the Cayman Islands.: Was Christopher Steele Paid by Russian Oligarch and Putin Ally Oleg Deripaska?