We love it when a plan like this falls apart.  “A British judge ruled Wednesday that Christopher Steele violated a data privacy law by failing to check the accuracy of the information in his infamous dossier, ordering the former spy’s firm to pay damages to two businessmen he wrongly accused of making illicit payments in Russia.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-judge-orders-christopher-steele-pay-damages-russian-bankers-over-dossier-lies