The bank for Fusion GPS has finally handed over a bunch of financial documents to Congress investigating the “Trump dossier” and why it was made.
The financial records that Fusion GPS fought for months to keep out of the hands of Congress have been turned over, according to a new court filing.
TD Bank “has produced all remaining responsive documents” to the House Intelligence Committee under the terms of a confidential settlement, a lawyer for the House wrote Friday afternoon.
Fusion GPS had argued that handing over those 70 documents in response to a subpoena from the House committee’s Russia investigators could reveal its clients, hinder its business and step on its First Amendment rights. Fusion GPS said that once the committee had the documents, its clients’ names and financial details would be likely to leak.
Before the handover of documents Friday, a federal judge had disagreed with Fusion GPS’ protests, and the company pledged to appeal.
Lawyers for Fusion GPS did not respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon. Judge Richard Leon denied Fusion GPS’s request to stay his earlier ruling pending an appeal because the House said it already had the documents being requested.
This is being made into a big deal and it probably is – there’s a good reason that Fusion didn’t want those documents out, and if their donors are leaked, you could be looking at huge fireworks. Even if they’re not, if the investigation finds that the dossier was made purely for the sake of Obama surveilling Trump, then you’re looking at nuclear fireworks.
OR, on the other hand, it could actually be a GOP witchhunt, and nothing could come of it. I guess, we’ll have to wait and see…