Fusion GPS co-founder pleads the Fifth following House GOP subpoena
By Olivia Beavers - 10/16/18 12:00 PM EDT
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson on Tuesday pleaded the Fifth following a GOP-issued subpoena to testify behind closed doors before two House committees.
Joshua Levy, a lawyer representing Simpson and the opposition research firm behind the “Steele dossier," said his client would not be participating in the Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s joint investigation, calling it a smear campaign that aims to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
Simpson's attorney said the Republican-led Judiciary committee has turned a blind eye to “White House efforts to influence and interfere with the Justice Department’s investigation in this administration,†noting that it has gone after whistleblowers and Mueller.
Levy compared their efforts to McCarthyism.
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