Interesting, the raid on Rep. Cuellar is not just related to domestic Swamp activity. But to crooks for Azerbaijan & US businessmen who must be the go betweens.
Cuellar was the Chair of the House Azerbaijan Caucus!
#ButNothingsHappening
Hillary's oppo research man Cody Shearer tried to claim that Trump took a $10M bribe in Baku & became the middleman who arranged trips by members of Congress to meet oligarchs in Azerbaijan!
This was the dossier passed by Blumenthal/ Winer/Steele to FBI
Who were the lobbyists working the Swamp for these Azerbaijanis? The Podesta Group.
Even the New York Times (sarcasm) fell victim to this fake news pushed by the Swamp for Azerbaijan....
There have been criminal investigations in Germany & other countries related to these efforts by Azerbaijan to bribe politicians in their Swamps...
I'm guessing Rep. Cuellar was on those Congressional Delegations
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The anti-money laundering team that Comey created at HSBC detected corruption & money laundering between Azerbaijani officials & French oil company Total.
Led to raids on the commodity traders who served as the middleman.
The commodity trader got caught paying off Bank of China with money it owed to HSBC & forging documents.
It borrowed money from HSBC to buy Azeri oil, then paid Bank of China the money from the oil instead of paying back HSBC...
The Azerbaijan officials also were bribing Hungarian officials & a Belgian Senator to the EU Parliament...
Azerbaijan was a money laundering hub for the Iranians too, with money going from Iran to Baku & then onto Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs.
You can see why Azerbaijan was such an important hub between Iran & Russia. It is literally between them.
But they had lots of donors flying members of Congress to Baku to educate them about oil & other things...
Baku was such a problem for global corruption, money laundering, sanctions violations & Iranian WMD proliferation networks.
That the FBI had to send their very best undercover asset to Baku to identify the networks for them!
Real justice takes time, but it is so sweet when it arrives!
@OCCRP named Azerbaijan's President their most corrupt person of the year for 2012!
@OCCRP For the past 5 years, the European banks from Danske Bank to Swedbank & Deutsche Bank have been getting rolled & flipped for laundering this money from Azerbaijan & through Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs & politicians.
One of the people involved in illegally funding these Congressional Junkets was arrested in 2018 to face DOJ charges.
Perjury to hide that extractive industry money was behind giving $100s of thousands in gifts to 9 members of Congress & 32 staffers.
This even ties in to the disappearance & death of former FBI agent Bob Levinson. CIA's Directorate of Intel, illegally sent Bob to investigate Iranian money laundering because they did not trust the information CIA's Directorate of Operations was providing
Rep. Cueller made 'historic' partnerships between Texas A&M & Azerbaijan as part of his deals...
Higher Ed Swamp connected to the Political Swamp connected to the Oligarch Swamp connected to the Oil Swamp. Can't wait to see the indictments
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@BabeWictor The deepest Swamps are always bipartisan...
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