Aside from business dealings with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Glenn Simpson was asked if he met with her in person "on other occasions besides court hearings."
"I think I attended a couple client dinners, and I think that's about it," Simpson responded.
"Do you recall when and where those would have been?" the committee staff attorney asked him.
"I recall some of the when and the where," Simpson responded. "There were a couple of dinners in New York and a couple of dinners in D.C. I don't remember when they started. I think probably 2015. And there was some in 2016 in both cities."
"Were any in June 2016?" the attorney asked.
"Yes, two," Simpson replied.
"Were those in New York or in D.C.?"
"I believe that one was in New York and one was in D.C.," Simpson said.
"Do you recall the specific date of either?" the attorney asked.
"I didn't until we tried to piece these things together, but June 8th, I think, was the dinner in New York, and I think the 10th was the dinner in D.C., something like that," Simpson said.
"And what were the purposes of these dinners?" the lawyer asked Simpson.
"Well, the first one was just an obligatory client dinner which, you know, when you work on a legal case you get invited to dinner with the clients. The one in D.C. was more of a social thing. It wasn't -- she was at it, but it wasn't really about the case. It was just a bunch of Mark Cymrot's friends." (Cymrot is a partner at Baker Hostetler, which did business with Fusion GPS.)
