Who Is Glenn Simpson, Man Entangled in Two Russia Scandals?

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/who-glenn-simpson-n786321

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WASHINGTON — A decade ago, as a Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, Glenn Simpson co-authored a story about how well-connected Republicans, including future Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, were earning big fees by representing controversial clients from the former Soviet Union.

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Simpson helped write the Trump-Russia dossier, the one compiled by a former British intelligence officer that includes unproven, salacious allegations about President Donald Trump and Russian prostitutes. The dossier's claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia helped spark the FBI investigation now supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

And, in a less well known role, Simpson has worked for several years on a cause dear to the heart of Vladimir Putin — investigating the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a tax accountant whose death in prison helped prompt Congress to pass a set of sanctions in his name. Simpson believes he uncovered information contradicting the account of the Magnitsky case generally accepted by the U.S. government.

That case put Simpson on the same side as the two Russians who met with Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in June 2016, a meeting that came after an email promised help to the Trump campaign from the Russian government. Trump Jr. said they talked about adoptions, a possible reference to the ban on American adoptions of Russian children that came in response to the Magnitsky sanctions.

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