Cyber Company Asked by Clinton-Connected Executive to Dig Deep on Trump Associates: Owner

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Request came from Rodney Joffe, who has said he was promised a position in a Clinton administration

WASHINGTONโ€”A technology executive who hoped to get a position in the government if Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election tasked a cyber company with compiling a report on about half a dozen Donald Trump associates and their families, the man asked to put the report together testified in federal court on May 24.

Rodney Joffe, the executive, approached Jared Novick, the CEO and part-owner of BitVoyant, in August 2016 with the request.

Novick recounted receiving a document that had the names of about six individuals, their spouses, their personal emails, and their addresses, along with other information.

The first name was Carter Page, the Trump campaign associate that was spied on by the U.S. government despite being an asset for the CIA.

Richard Burt, a lobbyist, was another name, Novick said.

According to a court filing, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, two other Trump associates, were also listed.

The request was โ€œextremely uncommon,โ€ Novick told the court.

โ€œThe whole thing felt to me like opposition research,โ€ he said. โ€œIt made me feel very uncomfortable.โ€

Novick went to Victor Oppleman, a friend who, like Joffe, was on BitVoyantโ€™s board, and aired his concerns. While Oppleman also was displeased with the request, Novick ultimately moved forward with compiling the report, assigning three analysts to it.

The project was dubbed Crimson Rhino.

โ€œThe last thing I wanted was Donald Trumpโ€™s nameโ€ on BitVoyantโ€™s tasking board so that everybody could see, Novick said. He restricted knowledge of the project to employees who had connections with Joffe. โ€œI told them to hopefully do it quickly and get rid of it,โ€ he said.

Joffe asked the company to โ€œcast a large netโ€ in the operation. He handed over Domain Name System data from the White House and Trumpโ€™s residencesย that he accruedย through his own company, Neustar, to help with the project. The goal was โ€œtoย go deep, as deeply as possible, go wide, not look through a soda straw but look at everywhere for things relatedโ€ to the Russian Alfa Bank, Novick said.

Some of what turned up may not be related to Alfa Bank, Joffe said.

Byย John Haugheyย andย Zachary Stieber

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