I wonder if Nellie was hired for her expertise as a translator, or for her connection to the FBI through her husband.
I suspect the latter.
A particularly devious move would be for Steele to have written all of the dossier himself, and had it translated into Russian for Nellie to translate back into English. That would be really cute... if she was hired primarily as a backdoor, she had to be given something plausible to do.
Hannity only had a few minutes to begin discussing the following today, because Fox went to the Trump rally, but what was being said by Solomon, Carter & Jarrett (from memory) sounded like this has become a major investigation on multiple fronts:
6 Sept: Washington Examiner: Grand jury impaneled to probe fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe: Report
by Naomi Lim
Federal prosecutors in Washington are using a grand jury to investigate whether fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe purposely misled government officials over his role in an unauthorized disclosure to a newspaper in 2016, according to a report.
The grand jury, impaneled for months, has summoned more than one witness who may be required to testify if McCabe is charged and the matter goes to trial, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia declined to comment to the Post...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/grand-jury-investigate-fired-andrew-mccabe-report
Good analysis, Pearl. Makes sense.