Steele's Dossier Report About Alfa Bank -- Part 2

Part 1

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For the sake of convenience, I will use the expression "the Alfa Bank suspicion" for the idea that there was some communications between Alfa Bank and Donald Trump in relation to the 2016 Presidential election race.

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In relation to the Alfa Bank suspicion, here are some key dates:

About September 9, 2016
Sergei Millian’s Russian-American Chamber of Commerce used the Alfa Bank server (Pages 274-275; Page 119, Footnote 259)

September 14, 2016
Christopher Steele completed Dossier Report 112

September 19, 2016
The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane team officially received its first Dossier reports (80, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102) (Page 100)

September 19, 2016
Michael Sussman briefed FBI General Counsel James Baker

September 23, 2016
Steele briefed DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr (Page 274)

October 11, 2016
Steele briefed State Department Assistant Secretary Kathleen Kavalec (Page 117)

November 2, 2016
The FBI thought there could be an innocuous explanation (Foer)

November 6, 2016
The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane team received Report 112 from Baker, who had received it from a Mother Jones journalist (Page 119, Footnote 259)

Early February 2017
The FBI concluded that there were no links between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank

The Horowitz report summarized Steele's September 23 briefing of Ohr as follows (Pages 274-275; Page 119, Footnote 259):

... Steele also discussed allegations that an Alfa Bank server in the United States was a link between Russia and the Trump campaign; that Person 1's Russian/American organization [Sergei Millian’s Russian-American Chamber of Commerce] in the United States had used the Alfa Bank server [two weeks] earlier in September [i.e., on about September 9] ...

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Among Steele's Dossier reports that are available to the public, only Report 112 mentions Alfa Bank. Report 112 does not say anything at all about the US election, in particular about Trump, or about a Russian/American organization using an Alfa Bank server.

Here is the end of the series of Dossier reports that are available to the public:

Report 101, dated August 10, 2016

Report 102, dated August 10, 2016

Report 105, dated August 22, 2016

Report 111, dated September 14, 2016

Report 112, dated September 14, 2016

Report 113, dated September 14, 2016

Report 130, dated October 12, 2016

Report 134, dated October 18, 2016

Report 135, dated October 19, 2016

Report 136, dated October 20, 2016

There is a significant gap between Report 105 (August 22) and Report 111 (September 14). Within that gap, on about September 9, Millian’s Russian-American Chamber of Commerce used the Alfa Bank server.

There is another significant gap between Report 113 (September 14) and Report 130 (October 12). Within that gap, Steele told Ohr on September 23 that the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce had used the Alfa Bank server.

During both those gaps, Steele surely wrote more Dossier reports about the Alfa Bank suspicion, and all such reports were delivered promptly to the FBI Counterintelligence Chief.

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Continued in Part 3