What Does Baker Hostetler Have to Do With the Fusion GPS Controversy?
A brief guide to how the law firm's work for a Cyprus-based holding company became part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
January 11, 2018 at 02:05 PM
5 minute read
A Russian who met Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016—reportedly to provide information damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign—shared the firm's client when it hired the company behind the infamous Steele dossier.
How did Baker Hostetler become a supporting character in the geopolitical drama over Russian meddling in the U.S. election, with possible implications for the fate of the Trump administration?
The simple version? It was partly a matter of luck.
The firm was tapped beginning in at least 2013 to defend a Cypriot company, Prevezon Holdings Ltd., against U.S. money laundering accusations. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016—reportedly with the intent to provide information damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign—was also working for Prevezon. And Fusion GPS, the company that produced the infamous Steele dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia, was also retained by Baker Hostetler amid the Prevezon litigation.
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