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- Special counsel John Durham's team reportedly opened up a criminal probe into Trump's financial dealings.
- New details of the investigation came to light in a New York Times report.
- It is not clear what happened to the probe, which started as a result of a tip by Italian officials.
In 2019, then-Attorney General Bill Barr sought to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation in hopes of proving it was a "witch hunt," but his efforts took an unexpected turn, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Instead, a tip from Italian officials led the Justice Department to quietly open a probe into shady financial deals linked to then-President Donald Trump.