Left with numerous questions and few answers, awards consultants and publicists scrambled to dig up information that they could relay to clients.
One central issue was whether the F.B.I. gave the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sufficient information about the funding of Mr. Steele's research to understand that he had been commissioned to dig up information about Mr. Trump's links to Russia by someone with a political motive, even though he had been a neutral source in the past.
According to multiple sources, the FBI reportedly planned to pay Christopher Steele (the ex-MI6 spy who compiled that explosive dossier about Trump's alleged ties to Russia) to continue to dig up information on the then Republican presidential nominee, the Washington Post reports.
Janke also points to the SAP Community Network as a go-to resource to dig up information about current IT investments and learn about emerging technologies.
Harvey Weinstein hired a private investigation firm in 2016 to dig up information on journalists and women who were set to accuse him of sexual harassment, according to a report Monday in The New Yorker.
The intelligence firm hired Italian private investigators to dig up information on Gutierrez's sexual history, according to three individuals with knowledge of its work.
Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg reportedly asked communications staff to dig up information on George Soros' financial ties in response to the billionaire liberal donor's remarks against the social media giant, according to a New York Times report on Thursday.
The group's main work is getting hired to dig up information about private and public individuals.
However, because most employers keep salaries secret, employees are left to dig up information on their own — a task that often proves fairly challenging.
Two former senior employees, who requested anonymity because they still work in journalism, said they were asked to dig up information about her husband at the time, the actor Ross Kemp, whom she suspected of having an affair.
Over the last few months, the race has turned even stranger, with one candidate hiring private investigators to dig up information on an opponent, and accusations of votes being cast by dead people in the Democratic primary.
