Freedom Caucus member Mark Meadows says he is considering issuing criminal referrals against members of Fusion GPS for perjury.
This would be the second set of criminal referrals that Meadows has sent to the FBI, although he did not name the ones he was referring, one of them is sure to be Fusion founder Glenn Simpson, who has been exposed as a liar by several other witnesses. Nellie Ohr is a second possibility. He will send the referrals to AG ill Barr, who will investigate and decide whether to prosecute or not.
The answer should be yes.
Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows said Tuesday that House Republicans plan to submit criminal referrals to the Justice Department against two or three individuals associated with Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the anti-Trump Steele dossier.
“I can tell you that there are two or three individuals that we believe could have potentially given false testimony to Congress. We have been looking at that, reviewing not only the Mueller report, but comparing those to transcribed interviews that might have happened in Congress,” Meadows said at an event hosted by The Washington Post.
The Republican, who is a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, declined to identify the targets of the referrals, but he indicated to moderator Bob Costa that they were related to Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier.
“I do have great concerns on the role, not just Fusion GPS, but those associated with it played early on, and how was that used or not used as it relates to this investigation,” Meadows said.