- The Justice Department inspector general concluded that Joseph Mifsud was not working for the FBI when he made contact with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in 2016.Â
- It is unclear whether the report addresses the other conspiracy theory about Mifsud: that he was a Russian agent.Â
- Mifsud told Papadopoulos during a meeting in London on April 26, 2016 that he had learned that the Russian government had âdirtâ on Hillary Clinton in the form of âthousandsâ of her emails.Â
- The special counselâs team ultimately found no evidence that Papadopoulos or anyone else on the Trump team conspired with Russia to obtain Clintonâs emails.Â
The Justice Departmentâs inspector general has reportedly concluded that a Maltese professor who established contact in 2016 with former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos was not an FBI informant, as some Trump allies have theorized.
The reports about the inspector generalâs findings do not say whether Inspector General Michael Horowitz found evidence to support a competing conspiracy theory about Joseph Mifsud: that he was a Russian agent. The special counselâs team suggested in court filings and in its final report that Mifsud was suspected of working on behalf of Russians when he made contact with Papadopoulos in 2016.
Two U.S. officials said Horowitz scrutinized Mifsudâs activities in 2016 as part of an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, according to The Washington Post. Horowitz determined that Mifsud was not working for the FBI when he made contact in 2016 with Papadopoulos, The New York Times reported.
Horowitz is expected to release the highly anticipated report on Dec. 9. Sources said Horowitz found evidence that an FBI attorney altered documents that were used to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page, another former Trump campaign aide, the Times and Post also reported. The lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, interviewed Papadopoulos in February 2017.