https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/politics/bruce-ohr-trump-justice-department.html
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Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime. Now He’s a Target of Trump.
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The longtime Justice Department official Bruce G. Ohr, center, has come under fire from President Trump and his allies.CreditCreditLucía Godínez/Agencia El Universal, via Associated Press
By*Adam Goldman*and*Katie Benner
Aug. 27, 2018
In nearly three decades at the Justice Department, Mr. Ohr has made a career of supporting and facilitating important cases that targeted Russian organized crime. Now he is a target of President Trump, who has put his security clearance*under review*and*attacked him*publicly, and allies. They have cast Mr. Ohr and his wife — who worked as a contractor at the same research firm that produced a damaging dossier of information about Mr. Trump — as villains, part of a pro-Clinton cabal out to destroy the president.
But Mr. Ohr, 56, is far from corrupt, friends and former colleagues said. An experienced law enforcement official, he has a deep understanding of the underworld of Russian organized crime, they said, including raising concerns about at least one oligarch whose name has resurfaced amid the scrutiny of contacts between Trump associates and Russia.
As part of this work, Mr. Ohr met a British spy who specialized in Russia, Christopher Steele, and the two men developed a bond based on their shared expertise. Mr. Steele went on to investigate ties between Mr. Trump and Russia for the same research firm, Fusion GPS, where Ms. Ohr was a contractor.
Those connections have upended Mr. Ohr’s once relatively anonymous life,*dragging him*into the maelstrom of the Russia investigation. Justice Department officials transferred Mr. Ohr, an associate deputy attorney general, to a less powerful post last year after learning about his contacts with Mr. Steele and the scope of his wife’s work. If he loses his security clearance, he would probably be forced to leave federal law enforcement after nearly three decades.
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