Glenn Simpson, one of Fusion GPS' founders, met with Veselnitskaya about that litigation before and after her meeting with Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort, according to a source familiar with the matter. The firm represented Russian businessman Denis Katsyv, who was engaged in disputes with Browder and U.S. The memo had been prepared by Fusion, which had been hired to conduct legal research on Browder by Baker and Hostetler law firm. In December, 2014, the sources said, Veselnitskaya, who then was involved in litigation pitting her Russian client against British-American financier William Browder, received a legal research memo reporting that the Ziff Brothers, two New York financiers allied with Browder, had made a large contribution to a Clinton charity. showed that a publicist for the son of one of his father's Russian business contacts helped introduce Veselnitskaya and advised him that she and her associates had "sensitive" information that could damage Clinton. asked her for written evidence that illegal funds went to Clinton's campaign, Bloomberg reported.Įmails made public earlier this year by Trump Jr. In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Veselnitskaya said she went to the Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner, and top campaign adviser Paul Manafort to show them proof of tax evasion by major Democratic donors. election and Trump denies any collusion between his campaign and Moscow officials. Russia has repeatedly denied allegations of meddling in the U.S. Trump backers call the 35-page report a "dodgy dossier" financed by Clinton supporters. Trump's congressional supporters have suggested that because Fusion also conducted research for lawyers representing a Russian firm in the unrelated matter, the dossier was part of a Russian campaign to help Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The sources told Reuters that the negative information that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya wanted to give to Republican Trump's campaign at a June 2016 meeting in New York had been dug up by Fusion GPS in an unrelated investigation. spy agencies that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election and wanted to help Trump win. The White House and Republican lawmakers have attacked the firm, Fusion GPS, over the dossier compiled by a former British spy that is central to investigations in Congress and by a special counsel into conclusions by U.S. WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The same political research firm that prepared a dossier on Trump campaign ties to Russia had unrelated information on Clinton Foundation donors that a Russian lawyer obtained and offered to President Donald Trump's eldest son last year, three sources familiar with the matter said.