Ex-British spy who wrote Trump 'golden showers' dossier got $163,000 for his work for dirty tricks firm Hillary hired
- Christopher Steele was the former MI6 operative hired by Washington 'research firm' Fusion GPS to look into Trump in Russia
- He came up with discredited claims Trump ordered prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room to urinate on a bed once slept on by President Obama in
- Now bill for 35-page work is revealed: Steele's 'intelligence company' got $168,000 from Fusion GPS, D.C. firm has admitted
- Hillary Clinton's campaign lawyer was then billed by Fusion GPS for its 'opposition research'
A Washington research firm paid a former British spy's company $168,000 for work on a dossier outlining Russian financial and personal links to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, the U.S. firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
Although it was public knowledge that Fusion GPS paid for the work, the amount had not been disclosed. Fusion GPS hired former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to collect information about Trump and his advisers.
Fusion GPS' statement said it had told Congress about how $168,000 was paid last year to Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele's company.

In the money: Ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele's company got $168,000 for its 35-page work which included the claims about degrading sexual practices by the now president


Paymistress: Hillary Clinton's campaign formed over $1.02 million to Fusion GPS, run by ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson
The money paid to Orbis was taken from $1.02 million it received in fees and expenses from the Perkins Coie law firm, the statement said.
The law firm represented the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, although initial research by Fusion into Trump and other Republican primary candidates was commissioned by a conservative website.
Steele's reports are central to investigations by a special counsel and congressional committees into U.S. intelligence agency allegations that Russia tried to help Trump's campaign.
Russia had repeatedly denied the allegations. Trump denies any collusion with Moscow officials, calling the probes a witch hunt.
In an Oct. 29 message posted on Twitter, President Trump said the dossier had cost as much as $12 million, without providing evidence.
'Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),....' Trump tweeted.
Sources familiar with Steele's work said he began working for Fusion GPS in May 2016 and stopped with the election.
Earlier, a Washington-based conservative website backed by a wealthy Republican donor, the Washington Free Beacon, hired Fusion to conduct research on Trump and other Republican candidates.
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