DOJ Gave Bruce Ohr $28,000 Bonus in 2016

Bruce Ohr (C), a Justice Department official demoted from the posts of associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, leaves for a lunch break from a closed hearing with the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Aug. 28, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

• The Justice Department gave Bruce Ohr a $28,000 bonus in 2016, documents show.
• Ohr began meeting that year with Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier.
• Ohr’s 2016 bonus is double what he received in 2015.
• Tom Fitton, whose group Judicial Watch obtained the documents, said they indicate that Ohr “was rewarded for his role in the illicit targeting of President Trump.”

The Justice Department gave Bruce Ohr a $28,000 bonus in 2016, the same year he began serving as a middleman between the FBI and dossier author Christopher Steele.

The payment was nearly double Ohr’s 2015 payout, according to documents the watchdog group Judicial Watch released Friday.