{"id":351537,"date":"2018-03-10T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-russian-billionaire-claims-fusion-gps-funded-by-soros\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T00:45:00","slug":"prison-planet-com-russian-billionaire-claims-fusion-gps-funded-by-soros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-russian-billionaire-claims-fusion-gps-funded-by-soros\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Russian Billionaire Claims Fusion GPS Funded By Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-03-09\/russian-billionaire-claims-fusion-gps-funded-soros\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 9, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a\u00a0<em>Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0op-ed calling the Russian meddling\u00a0narrative\u00a0a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/08\/the-ever-changing-russia-narrative-in-american-politics-is-cynically-false-public-manipulation\/\">false public manipulation<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska\u00a0claims that Daniel Jones \u2013 <em>a former FBI investigator, Feinstein staffer\u00a0and now a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-20\/leaked-texts-suggest-former-feinstein-staffer-part-ongoing-scramble-verify-dossier\">Fusion GPS operative<\/a><\/em> \u2013 told the Russian Oligarch\u2019s lawyer in March,\u00a02017 that Fusion GPS was funded by \u201ca group of Silicon Valley billionaires and George Soros.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of note, Deripaska\u2019s lawyer, D.C. lobbyist\u00a0Adam Waldman, <strong>recommended Jones to investigate and verify the claims from the Fusion GPS anti-Trump dossier<\/strong> assembled by former UK spy Christopher Steele. Waldman was also\u00a0an intermediary between Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Steele in trying to arrange a meeting \u2013 which suggests that Waldman, Jones, Steele and Fusion GPS are all connected.<\/p>\n<p>Deripaska describes the ongoing \u201cRussia narrative\u201d as nothing more than a scandal manufactured by the deep state.\u00a0\u201cWagging the dog costs money,\u201d writes Deripaska.\u00a0\u201cSo, who is the \u201cfunding mechanism\u201d of this \u201cshadowy government?\u201d\u201d Why,<strong> none other than billionaire financier George Soros<\/strong>, according to Daniel Jones \u2013 as relayed to Congressional investigators by Deripaska\u2019s attorney Adam Waldman:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[O]n March 16, 2017, <strong>Daniel Jones \u2014 himself a team member of Fusion GPS, self-described former FBI agent and, as we now know from the media, an ex-Feinstein staffer \u2014 met with my lawyer, Adam Waldman, and described Fusion as a \u201cshadow media organization helping the government,\u201d funded by a \u201cgroup of Silicon Valley billionaires and George Soros.\u201d<\/strong> My lawyer testified these facts to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Nov. 3. <strong>Mr. Soros is, not coincidentally, also the funder of two \u201cethics watchdog\u201d NGOs <\/strong>(Democracy 21 and CREW) attacking Rep. Nunes\u2019 committee memo. \u2013<em>Oleg Deripaska<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jones currently runs the Penn Quarter Group, a \u201cresearch and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/russian-billionaire-claims-fusion-gps-funded-by-soros.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeMarch 9, 2018 In a\u00a0Daily Caller\u00a0op-ed calling the Russian meddling\u00a0narrative\u00a0a \u201cfalse public manipulation,\u201d\u00a0Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska\u00a0claims that Daniel Jones \u2013 a former FBI investigator, Feinstein staffer\u00a0and now a\u00a0Fusion GPS operative \u2013 told the Russian Oligarch\u2019s lawyer in March,\u00a02017 that Fusion GPS was funded by \u201ca group of Silicon Valley billionaires and George Soros.\u201d Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}