WASHINGTON—The technology executive who helped gather data on Donald Trump and Russia in 2016 sent some of the data to the FBI as a confidential source, an FBI agent revealed in federal court on May 25.
Rodney Joffe, the executive, also had his lawyer take the data separately to FBI lawyer James Baker, according to prosecutors.
Joffe approached Thomas Grasso, an FBI special agent, in October 2016 with information he said pointed to Trump having a secret communications channel with a Russian bank, Grasso said on the stand in the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington.
The same claims were passed just days earlier to Baker by Michael Sussmann, who was representing both Joffe and the Hillary Clinton campaign at the time….