TRUMP DOSSIER AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER STEELE APPEARS FOR COURT-ORDERED DEPOSITION IN LONDON
Posted on
June 19, 2018
Trump dossier author Christopher Steele appears for court-ordered deposition which took place for took four hours and was held in a private office.
- There were more than a dozen people in the room: Mr. Gubarev’s two U.S. attorneys and his two British attorneys; two BuzzFeed attorneys and their two local counsel; Mr. Steele and his legal team; two representatives from the government, to make sure no state secrets came out; a court master; and a stenographer and a videographer.
By
Rowan Scarborough – The Washington Times – Monday, June 18, 2018
Anti-
Trump dossier writer
Christopher Steele on Monday underwent his first adversarial questioning since his unverified charges were posted by BuzzFeed in January 2017.
Mr. Steele, a former British spy, has so far evaded requests by U.S. congressional committees to appear as a witness.
He is being sued for libel by
Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian tech entrepreneur, who
Mr. Steele said in his dossier was responsible for hacking
Democratic Party computers and infecting them with spyware and pornography.
A British master ruled in March that
Gubarev, who is also suing BuzzFeed, was entitled to question
Mr. Steele within certain parameters.
The session happened Monday in London.
“I can confirm that the deposition took place today as scheduled, that
Mr. Steele appeared, was professional and congenial and that we are satisfied with the results of the deposition,” Val Gurvits, a
Gubarev attorney, told The Washington Times in an email. “I cannot, however, give you any details regarding
Mr. Steele’s testimony because his entire testimony was designated as confidential by his legal team.”