The Washington Post reported yesterday,

The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump’s political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement.

Orbis Business Intelligence in London owned by Chis Burrows and Christopher Steele.

The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts.

While Trump has derided the dossier as “fake news” compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation.

Also see, FBI reimbursed some expenses of dossier author, CNN, 28 February 2017

US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier, CNN, 10 February 2017