Bruce Genesoke Ohr is a former United States Department of Justice official.
19 Facts About Bruce Ohr
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Bruce Ohr is an expert on transnational organized crime and has spent most of his career overseeing gang and racketeering-related prosecutions, including Russian organized crime.
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Bruce Ohr was little-known until 2018, when he became the subject of scrutiny when he was involved in the start of the Russian interference in the 2016 election probe.
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Bruce Ohr was criticized by President Donald Trump, who accused Ohr of abusing his access to sensitive information.
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On September 30,2020, Bruce Ohr retired from his position at DOJ "after his counsel was informed that a final decision on a disciplinary review being conducted by Department senior career officials was imminent".
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Bruce Ohr is of Korean heritage, being the child of Korean immigrants.
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Bruce Ohr graduated from Harvard College in 1984 with a degree in physics and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1987.
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Bruce Ohr worked for a law firm in San Francisco before becoming a career civil servant at the US Department of Justice, ultimately rising to the rank of associate deputy attorney general.
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Bruce Ohr was an assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1991 to 1999, and was head of the office's Violent Gangs Unit before joining the Justice Department's Washington headquarters as the head of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Criminal Division, where Ohr managed teams investigating and prosecuting crime syndicates in Russia and eastern Europe.
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In 2006, Bruce Ohr was one of a number of US government officials who made the decision to revoke the visa of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin ally.
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In 2010, Bruce Ohr moved to a new position as counsel for international relations in DOJ's Transnational organized crime and international affairs section.
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Bruce Ohr later became associate deputy attorney general, but lost that position in late 2017, although he remained director of OCDETF for a time.
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Bruce Ohr was later demoted by the Department of Justice amid the Senate Intelligence Committee's discovery of his meetings with Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.
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Rosenstein stated that Bruce Ohr "appeared to be serving as an 'intermediary' with Steele".
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Nellie Bruce Ohr, according to a Republican-led investigation, conducted "research and analysis" of Donald Trump for Fusion GPS.
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Bruce Ohr, himself, documented the contacts in 63 pages of unclassified notes and emails.
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The Nunes memo, which focused on the Justice Department's process for obtaining a FISA warrant to wiretap Trump associate Carter Page in October 2016, said that Bruce Ohr was aware of Steele's bias against Trump in September 2016.
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In 2018, Bruce Ohr became the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories which alleged that he played an important role in starting the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has stated that as far as he knew, Bruce Ohr was not involved with the Russia investigation, and told the House Judiciary Committee that Bruce Ohr had "no role" in the investigation.