A lawyer on Thursday confirmed that Washington-based communications executive Charles Dolan Jr. is the individual referred to as “PR Executive-1” in special counsel John Durham’s indictment against Russia analyst Igor Danchenko, which was unsealed earlier this week.
The grand jury indictment of Danchenko alleges that he lied when he told the FBI that he never communicated with a public relations executive who had been active in the Democratic Party about claims in a dossier issued by former UK spy Christopher Steele.
Although the public relations executive, or “PR Executive-1,” is never named in the indictment, Dolan’s lawyer Ralph Martin told The Epoch Times on Friday that his client is the person in question.
“Chuck understands and appreciates your interest,” Martin told The Epoch Times, confirming reports on Thursday about Dolan’s identity.
“I can confirm that he is ‘PR Executive-1’ in the indictment. As he is a witness in an ongoing case, it would not be appropriate for Chuck to comment further on the allegations in the indictment at this time,” he added.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Dolan is the senior vice president of Kglobal, although the company appeared to remove his biography in recent days, instead returning a “404” error page. An archived version of Kglobal’s website says that in the 1990s, Dolan appeared to serve as the state chairman of the Virginia presidential campaigns of President Bill Clinton, was also the former executive director of the Democratic Governors’ Association, and had served as an advisor to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2008.
A Twitter account, “chas dolan,” that had been linked via the now-deleted Kglobal biography on Dolan, had a bio saying he “worked in every Democratic Presidential Campaign since 1980.” His last activity on the social media platform was a re-tweet of a Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) post promoting a Democrat-backed infrastructure bill proposal.
Reports from the New York Times and CNBC, as well as other online biographies, said that he worked as an advisor to the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign, served as state chairman in Virginia for Bill Clinton’s two presidential campaigns, and was executive director for the Democratic Governors’ Association. Martin did not reply to questions about Dolan’s work for the Clinton campaigns.
