believe, based on your prior testimony. Does that sound about right?
A Yeah. So I think what I said was that we began the work in September or October of 2015, and it began to wind down in the spring as the primaries began to wind down. And the financial records, there's some lag time in financial records, so I don't -- I can't say what they show.
Q Do you keep copies of all the reports you provide to your clients?
A It depends on the case. Sometimes we -- I mean, the work product is the property of the client. So we frequently are asked to hand over all of our copies or certify that they've been disposed of.
Q Mr. Simpson, you mentioned earlier that you did not incorporate what has become known as the Steele dossier, that you did not incorporate that into your reports, as is your normal practice. ls that -- am I understanding correctly?
A Yes. Yes, that's what I said.
Q So did that -- those raw reports, I'll call it the Steele dossier, did that product go to your client, Perkins Coie?
A I can't answer that, if it did.
Q Would you have provided -- let me step back.
Is it fair to say that in the course of your Trump research for Perkins Coie, that research included work separate from what Chris Steele conducted?
A A large amount of work.
Q Moving to a slightly different topic. In the course of your work for both the Washington Free Beacon and Perkins Coie, what other individuals associated with President Trump came up in your research who would have been a concern?
A There were a large number of other individuals that we looked at that were seriously concerning. And we -- there were numerous Italian organized
UNCLASSIFIED, COMMITTEE SENSITIVE
