Overstock’s founder and former CEO Patrick Byrne said that he allegedly received “fishy” orders from former FBI official Peter Strzok, Fox News reported.
According to Byrne, who has now resigned from his post, he had helped in federal investigations twice before, for which he said he was “helping them take down people on Wall Street.”
Strzok contacted with Byrne in 2016, several years after the last communication between him and the government.
“I was given some fishy orders and I carried them out in 2015-2016, thinking I was conducting law enforcement,” he said.
He claimed people who he characterized as “the Men in Black” came to him and asked him “for this third favor.”
Byrne clarified to host Martha MacCallum that FBI rank-and-file were “barely involved” in what he alleged transpired.
“I didn’t know who sent the orders, but I did them. Last summer, watching television and some congressional hearings, I figured out where these orders came from. They came from a guy named Peter Strzok,” Byrne said. Byrne also named other individuals, with MacCallum reminding him those officials or former officials worked at the FBI.
Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation over anti- Trump text messages he traded with his mistress, Lisa Page. He was fired from the FBI in August of 2018.
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