The file
The Nellie Ohr File
They hired the Associate Deputy Attorney General’s wife to write Russia papers on Donald Trump. Durham says she first identified Sergei Millian — twelve reports — before Steele was even on the payroll. A thumb drive went to the FBI. Meadows referred her. An FBI analysis said the testimony was “demonstrably false.” The Department did not charge her. This is not a biography. It is the episodes. Facts are cited. Opinion is marked. An FBI memo is not a court. A referral is not an indictment.
Compiled as a critical briefing, in the voice of a packet. Identity: About. Not a court. Not a White House product. No invented quotes, CIA rank, or conviction.
Durham · documented
April 22, 2016
Fusion GPS records, Durham wrote. First Millian report April 22, 2016 — ten days after Perkins Coie retained Fusion, before Steele. At least twelve reports. Not a conviction. Not dumped again in the grid below.
The rest of the file
CIA shop
2008
Testimony: Open Source Works, not a direct agency employee. FBI analysis and Simpson call it CIA contract work. No personnel record.
Fusion GPS
October 2015
Her dates. Her rate. Home office. Trump and Russian organized crime. She denied the work was the Steele dossier.
Emails
April 20, 2016
“Thanks! I’m deleting these emails now.” Examiner and Epoch Times on a Judicial Watch FOIA thread. Reporting, not a conviction.
FCC
May 23, 2016
KM4UDZ, Technician, granted May 23, 2016. She said “well before” Fusion. FBI analysts flagged the dates. Not a finding she ran covert traffic.
Mayflower
July 30, 2016
July 30, 2016 breakfast with Christopher Steele. She said it. Bruce said it. The next day the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane.
DOJ emails
November 22, 2016
Holtyn, Nizich, Wheatley. Epoch Times and Gateway Pundit on Judicial Watch FOIA. The FBI memo later listed the same names.
Thumb drive
December 20, 2016
December 20, 2016. Bruce walked her Fusion files to an FBI agent. She told the House she did not do it “directly.”
First reports
December 11, 2017
NY Post December 11. Fox and Daily Caller December 12. Simpson’s declaration: Fusion hired her to research Trump.
About Bruce
February 14, 2018
Daily Caller on Bruce’s ethics forms and her Fusion pay. His paperwork. Her contract is the other post.
Testimony
October 19, 2018
Voluntary transcribed interview. Privilege assertions. Denials on the dossier and on knowing a DOJ Russia case. Collins released it.
Commentary
April 8, 2019
Federalist FISA-mirror hypothesis. CTH material-dossier-author post is speculation. Not a court finding.
Allegation
May 1, 2019
Meadows section 1001 referral, May 2019. Epoch Times and Daily Wire reported it. No indictment located.
Just the News
October 14, 2020
Solomon on Bruce’s 2020 retirement. Richards on the 2025 FBI analysis. Reporting. No charge.
2025 release
May 28, 2025
2019 FBI EC: demonstrably false in two aspects. Grassley: no prosecution. Analysis, not a conviction.