Overview

• A 2019 FBI public corruption squad review, declassified in May 2025, found that Nellie Ohr’s private emails and documents directly contradicted her October 2018 congressional testimony.
• Records reveal that Ohr gave her husband, then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a thumb drive of Fusion GPS research and corresponded with DOJ prosecutors and FBI officials.
• The FBI determined that Ohr’s claim of purchasing a ham radio for emergency use before joining Fusion GPS was false, as she took licensing classes during her tenure in mid-2016.
• Despite the bureau’s finding of demonstrable false statements to Congress, the Justice Department opted not to bring charges, prompting Sen. Chuck Grassley to decry “deeply disturbing political bias.”
• The memo’s release has renewed scrutiny of Fusion GPS’s role in the Steele dossier and Congress’s oversight of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe.