Washington (CNN) The former Trump campaign adviser whose ties to Russia were at the heart of the investigation into that country's interference in the 2016 US election is suing the Democratic National Committee and a prominent law firm that had dug up some of the allegations against him. Carter Page, a businessmen who served on President Donald Trump's campaign foreign-policy team, filed the lawsuit in Illinois federal court Thursday against the DNC and the law firm Perkins Coie, accusing them of defamation and "effectively destroying his once-private life." The defendants "used false information, misrepresentations and other misconduct to direct the power of the international intelligence apparatus and the media industry against a private individual, Plaintiff Carter Page, to further their political agenda," the suit says. While some of the unverified intelligence in the dossier has been confirmed by US authorities, other elements have proved incorrect or have yet to be corroborated. Page has denied allegations brought up in the dossier about meetings in Russia with high-level officials, although special counsel Robert Mueller found that he did discuss sales of a state-owned energy company with an executive there.

Source: CNN January 30, 2020 21:25 UTC