[PJ] Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo says "a Russian national FBI informant" offered to give him dirt on Hillary Clinton in May of 2016, but no one, including DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Huber, seems interested in hearing about it.Caputo says that he forgot to mention a couple of suspicious episodes when the House and Senate Intelligence Committees first asked him if any Russians had offered him dirt on Clinton.
It wasn't until the New York Times published a bombshell story in May of 2018, disclosing that the FBI had indeed used informants in its "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation in 2016, that Caputo says a "light bulb" went off in his head.
He says he went back and shared the information with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees as soon as he remembered.
Not long after that, Caputo was interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team. He told PJ Media that he expected to be there until nightfall. As it turned out, he was done by 3 p.m.
He said the prosecutor who interviewed him -- Aaron Zelinsky -- was keenly interested in hearing more about the Russian who had offered him dirt on Clinton because Caputo had at first forgotten to mention it during his House and Senate interviews. Now, in retrospect, he thinks they were going to try to ensnare him in a "1001" process crime.