Thread by @RealNateWalker

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Back in May of this year, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested three Atlanta-area residents on wire fraud and money laundering charges.
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This was officially the first chip away at a block of a much larger network that appears engaged in illicit activity, and within its orbit highlights a massive nationwide effort to not only influence elections, but also to bury any attempts in court to expose it in an aptly named process known as lawfare.
>source: 2021 Democracy Fund Form 990

Before this news, in February, the @FreeBeacon reported that Stacey Abrams' former charity, New Georgia Project, had error-ridden tax filings that drew into question over $500,000 for 2021 alone.
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The filings were entered just following New Georgia Project firing its CEO, Nsé Ufot, who Abrams hand-picked. Ufot goes back to her childhood when she paged for Abrams in the Georgia State House of Representatives, as I've covered perviously (here: ).

The Georgia State Election Board referred 35 cases of election-law violations in the weeks before the 2020 general election. Among these were New Georgia Project and Coalition for the People's Agenda. The Coalition secured $10K in 2020 and $25K in 2021 from the Democracy Fund, and New Georgia Project raked in 100,000 in 2020 and $175,000 in 2021 themselves.

As made evident by these investigations, voter registrations can be illegally obtained and/or submitted, which opens all kinds of avenues to manipulating state voter rolls which also happened to be associated with Nsé Ufot through her activities on the board at Democrat voter database juggernaut Catalist (here: )

In a public enterprise like elections, voter registrations and mail-in ballots are the "currency," which makes signatures the metaphorical "gold backing" of the currency.

Let's dive in...👇👇👇fox5atlanta.com/news/3-arreste…

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Using this graphic as a guide, it's easy to see the orbit of big money feeding these local and state-run programs in an effort to sway influence over elections and even the free exchange of information...

A group of environmental protestors have been fervently opposed to a training facility for Atlanta police and first responders, sparking outrage and protests beginning as far back as the facility was formally announced in 2020.

Known as "Cop City," the movement gained national attention after an environmental protestor was shot and killed earlier this year, known by the nickname "Tortugita."
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One of the spearheads of the Atlanta movement was Black Voters Matter, a national organization with its own fund to help mobilize and sign up Black Americans to vote. They are a part of the Action Network, linked to other activist programs throughout the U.S.

The landing page for their part of the initiative blatantly offers to sign up and entire business to be a literal "SIGNATURE HUB." The bottom of the page features "For more information" by clicking the link which refers to .
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By clicking "Join the Movement," the page redirects (here: ) to a page with pointers on what actions to take, targeting local officials, national corporations, and grassroots activists.

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Stop Cop City Solidarity (here: ) is another page dedicated to mobilizing activists against the project. It features a "target map" on its landing page, various video game-like "quests" to get active in opposition to the facility, and a "donate" button that links directly to the nationwide fundraiser ActBlue.

Stop Cop City Solidarity is linked directly to Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which is admittedly a project of Network for Strong Communities, a 501 (c3) nonprofit in Atlanta, GA (EIN: 85-2889531).
>stopcopcitysolidarity.org

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Atlanta Solidarity Fund/Network for Strong Communities is run by none other than Adele MacLean, who was rolled up on wire fraud and money laundering charges earlier this year, as I mentioned before.

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In 2021, Black Voters Matter shamelessly bragged of the fruits of their apparently corrupted work on their website.

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Black Voters Matter wasn't the only group linked to questionable activities in its associations to Act Blue, who self-reports to have given to all Fair Fight, New Georgia Project, and the mothership of Tides in 2020 and 2021 alone.

Black Male Initiative, led by Nsé Ufot's relative Edima (or Dema) Ufot (more: ), was called out directly by the @FreeBeacon for their own error-laden tax filings.

A quick search of officers for "Nse Ufot" on reveals the common link between the entire Ufot family - 55 _____side Dr. SE, Atlanta, GA.

This has been the address of Enobong (William/Eno), Mfon (Mfonobong?), Edima (Dema), and Itoro, at the least.

Itoro Ufot was listed as an officer with Freda Cheng from Austin, TX suburb Pflugerville in Transportation Logistics Specialists, Inc. in 2008.

The thing here is that Mfon Ufot has used the address as far back as 2000 for Nigerian Youth Alliance, where she was an officer at least through 2010, when she founded it alongside her (presumed) daughter, Nséabasi, or Nsé.

The 2010 time marker is used here as the Georgia Secretary of State did not have business listing available online between 2006 and 2010, and for the next piece of this thread...

In 2000, Mfon Ufot also co-founded a group with Dayo Keshi, the wife of the Secretary-General of the Nigerian Consulate in Atlanta, Joe Keshi, called the Nigerian Women Association of Georgia.

More on that here:

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The names Itoro and Ufot both appeared in connection to the Nigerian Youth Alliance, but not in the same name Itoro Ufot, but as Itoro Mbaba and Edima-Ekong Ufot.

Both Itoro and Edima-Ekong were celebrated in 2006 by a Nigerian Youth Alliance Community Graduation and Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Consulate of Nigeria, the Alliance's Advisory Board, Mfon Ufot's Nigerian Women Association of Georgia, and Itoro Mbaba's father's Africa's Children's Youth Fund.

Africa's Children's Youth Fund was organized and is run by Victor Mbaba, who in 2012 signed with Itoro to convert their COMPAS International, Inc. into an LLC, but it was administratively dissolved (lapsed) in 2015.

Itoro Ufot was listed as the sole officer of Ufot International, established in 2020 before it, too was dissolved - or lapsed.

The peculiar part is the address used on to register Ufot International is the same address that SS Income Tax Service, LLC changed their registration to reflect in 2019.

This period of time, 2020-2021 is the very time that Edima Ufot, New Georgia Project, and ActBlue-linked activists are all either under investigation or charged with money laundering or fraud-related crimes...

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Karli Swift, member of the DeKalb County Elections Board was named as a governor of New South Super PAC six months later in Washington, DC.

As recently as March of 2022, Swift lobbied vehemently against the GBI's involvement in investigating election claims and "conspiracy theories"...

...like the supposed laundering of signatures to be used on registrations and mail-in ballots.
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At , there is a personal webpage for Albert Udoukpong, where it shows his daughter, Itauma, also later referred to in the website as Itauma Ufot.

The webpage makes apparent that Itauma is Albert Udoukpong's daughter with Ket, Ita Ufot who is listed in Atlanta metro business listings with Albert.
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Through deductive reasoning, this indicates that Atlanta-based Itauma Udoukpong likely married Udom (now share an address: ) who attended Georgia State University, as did Enobong (Eno) Ufot very shortly after (here: ), Eno who also shares an address with Mfon and daughter Nséabasi.

Itauma Ufot is an accountant in the Austin, Texas suburb of Pflugerville, the same area from which Freda Cheng and the mysterious Itoro Ufot appeared on Transportation Logistic Specialists together...

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Briefly going back to the , we see Itauma - the Spelman College graduate - and her name with both Albert and Udoukpong, all separated by commas, but also with another name, Emmanuel.

Itauma Ufot was the former Assistant Secretary (and accountant of some sort) of the Association of Nigerian Women in Austin, TX and in 2008, when Itoro Ufot's name popped up in filings that included Freda Cheng from Georgetown, TX (here: ).

The name Dr. Emmanuel Ukpong came back as a Nigerian medical doctor with 45 years of experience (here: ), and as the Chairman of the Elders Forum of the People's Democratic Party in Etim Ekpo, Nigeria.

Albert/Emmanuel/Udoukpong's friend or family member labeled simply, "Mrs. E. Ekanem," was also on their family website (here: ).

Her nametag displays the label "NSA CALABAR 2001," the NSA of which isn't the usual suspect, but the Nigerian Society of Anesthesiologists, who had their annual conference in Calabar, Nigeria in 2001 (here: ).

I cannot verify the matching identities of any of these, but does at last place both Itauma Ufot's orbit and Mfon Ufot's orbits squarely within the NGO-Nigerian private-government cooperative sphere.udoukpong.com/family

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A safeguard any mafia hideout, attack dogs are a staple among the underworld crime circles. In this case, not the canine type, but the breed of attorneys from law firms like Perkins Coie, specifically Marc Elias.

Along with now-Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (more: ), Elias helped to construct a Marxist-inspired election system, helped train judges through numerous nonprofits, foundations, and conferences, while his firm Perkins Coie represented groups like Microsoft and Black Lives Matter, and at the same time benefitted from a purported "FBI workstation" inside the firm's office.
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Atlanta has been a honeyhole for Perkins Coie and Marc Elias, though Elias parted ways with the firm in 2021, but the firm kept his namesake Elias Law Group in what has been a strangely murky split since.

Since 2021, Nsé Ufot has left New Georgia Project, Elias has left Perkins Coie, and three people connected to wrong filings or outright criminal charges for financial crime fall within just this immediate orbit of funding that does include Perkins Coie and Marc Elias to a very considerable degree.

By Marc Elias' and Stacey Abrams' alliance through the nonprofit Fair Fight Action, they stand to gain from the combined independent thinktanks of not one, two, or three serious legal powerhouses, but FOUR: Perkins Coie, Elias Law Group, Lawrence & Bundy, and Marc Elias with Democracy Docket, himself.

This played into a legal strategy designed to overwhelm the opponent in time constraints, necessary manpower, and legal fees, known colloquially as "lawfare."

Pierre Omidyar and Democracy Fund financed the Brookings Institute to the tune of $810K in 2020 and $850K in 2021. The Institute received $200,000 specifically for its Lawfare Institute program each year.
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In addition to these contributions to Brookings, Democracy Fund also filtered $310,000 through Tides Foundation in 2020, and $235,000 in 2021, labeled for "POPVOX LegisDash" in publicly available Form 990s. (There will be a folder of all of these 990 filings at the end of this thread)

Democracy Fund contributed $210,000 to Arabella Advisors-managed Hopewell Fund in 2020 along with $1.5M earmarked for Marc Elias' Democracy Docket, followed by another $1M to Hopewell Fund in 2021.

Clearly, Democracy Fund had a clear objective to provide legal cover for any challenges to its soon-to-be-apparent activities.

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As if Marc Elias alone wasn't enough, before exiting Perkins Coie and while receiving money for Democracy Docket from Democracy Fund, Perkins Coie raked in $9.6 million in independent contracting expenses from Hopewell in 2020 alone.

Upon Elias' departure from Perkins Coie as a partner in 2021, Hopewell Fund reported a stunning $8.3 million to Perkins Coie AND an additional $2.37 million to Elias Law Group in 2021.

There was an additional reporting of $105,989 to Perkins Coie in the itemized "grants and other assistance" section of the Hopewell Fund 2021 Form 990.

Along with funding all of this on the legal front, Democracy Fund also injected money into controlling the news narratives by funding newsrooms and news-related nonprofits.

In 2020 (blue), Democracy Fund allocated over $2.1M for a "Vibrant and Diverse Public Square Program," and in 2021 (green), just under $2.1 million.

So to wrap this together, Democracy Fund and Hopewell Fund were essentially funding the legal arm of this particular political network. At the same time, the same two were also dumping loads of cash into the Tides Network.

In 2020, Democracy Fund and Hopewell combined for $1.49 million to the Tides Network, and in 2021, combined for $362,865, according to 990s.

Hopewell's other contributions would filter back through the same network with $3.8 million to the Sixteen Thirty Fund in 2020, and $3.1 million in 2021...

...Sixteen Thirty Fund also dumped about half each time back into Tides themselves [$2,245,700 (2020); $1,815,000 (2021)]

That means that Perkins Coie and Mark Elias were paid nearly $22 million over two years (2020-2021) to protect (among other things) investments through Tides that totaled about $5,913,565 within a fund that controlled a BILLION dollars in assets in 2020 alone.

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Another major recipient of Tides Foundation money is again Marc Elias and his ventures through Fair Fight Action with Stacey Abrams, who founded New Georgia Project, who we started this thread with.

In 2020, Fair Fight and New Georgia Project together garnered a reported $1,544,500 between themselves, and raised $221,000 from Tides in 2021.

The Abrams-Elias tandem received from Sixteen Thirty Fund $2,494,000 in 2020, and $225,000 from Sixteen Thirty in 2021.

Remember Hopewell sent $3.8M and Sixteen Thirty refunded Tides $2.25M all in 2020.
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Tides also funded ACLU entities $346,007 in 2020 and $29,000 in 2021, the ACLU who was behind a lawsuit against Brad Raffensperger from Black Voters Matter.
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Black Voters Matter was mentioned earlier in this thread in their connections to Stop Cop City and its "signature drives."
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Now, "The Machine" has finally decided to push to settle an old score with @TrueTheVote in Atlanta court, alleging that somehow, their activities in monitoring public drop boxes, speaking freely, and their pursuit to clean voter rolls is somehow racist in their emotionally charged originally filing from 2020.

Among the claims in the December 2020 complaint is that True The Vote questioning the eligibility of 364,000 voters somehow intimidated voters and suppressed voting engagement in the leadup to the runoffs.

Catherine Engelbrecht has now sworn in an affidavit of a conversation with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who allegedly confirmed the miskept voter rolls and mentioned the stress on their office in keeping up with already ongoing Fair Fight lawsuits.

>See this here:

One of these lawsuits was filed on the very same day as an amended Fair Fight complaint, and the parallel, unrelated filing even cited the Fair Fight complaint!

That means that from within the funding network, and targeted against the very same entities - Brad Raffensperger and the Secretary of State - there is an endless pot of funding and a revolving door of attorneys on call to clog up the system and cripple any real attention being paid to election mal-administration.

These were not GOP-led lawsuits. These were all from hard-left, communist-captured activist groups who are all controlled by the very same financial structures that bankroll its protection...

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In 2018, Fair Fight Action sued GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for using signature verification and using voting machines; Raffensperger, who in turn moved to dismiss the case based on a lack of standing, generally.

Fair Fight's defense of their lawsuit in this case was simply to call the voting laws "unconstitutional" and explain that the rules were too strict to verify every voter and excluded voters - but nothing about CITIZENS.

Further, they go on to allege that Raffensperger performing his official duties by applying the duly elected government's interpretation of the law was somehow punitive to entire groups of people, thus giving their nonprofit networks standing to through their resources behind it - a useful fundraising and publicity stunt.

The Secretary of State is only responsible for carrying out the orders of the Governor according to State legislation - not the interpretation of activist lawyers.

This case should have been waged as a challenge to the law, not the authority of the person administrating elections - I digress.

Another example of hindsight in 2023, Fair Fight argued against:

"...use of technology that is vulnerable to hacking and manipulation, overseeing an election system dependent on unreliable voting machines, promoting the moving and closing of precincts and polling places, maintaining inaccurate voter registration rolls, not providing adequate resources to polling places, and inadequately overseeing and training election officials on provisional and absentee ballots."

Ironically, a year and a half later and just before the 2020 general election, a deposition was made in another, 2017 left-lobbed lawsuit, Curling v. Raffensperger, where the original complaint alleged that,

"Georgia’s DRE-Based Voting System could not be used safely and accurately by electors voting in the Runoff because Georgia’s DRE-Based Voting System is demonstrably vulnerable to undetectable malfunctions and malicious manipulation that cannot be corrected on a timely or reasonable basis."

The deposition of Dominic Olomo was entered on September 4, 2020, where he all but admits to many of the gaping vulnerabilities of Fulton County' election processes. He was a Dominion Voting Systems employee before the deposition and was released and is now employed by Fulton County directly.

Also ironically, he is also from Nigeria.

I covered this at length in a separate thread here:

This letter to Brian Kemp was included as "Exhibit H" in that lawsuit. The next post in this thread is the continuation of the full letter. (These hard docs will be provided at the conclusion of this thread)

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In the Black Voters Matter lawsuit against Brad Raffensperger, which was filed the exact same day as an amended complaint from Fair Fight...

...the word signature curiously doesn't appear a single time in the entire filing - thus apparently making SIGNATURE VERIFICATION of either mail-in/absentee ballots or voter registrations a complete nonpoint to the group.

The very same day that Fair Fight sued True The Vote (December 23, 2020), their same law team, led by Marc Elias and Perkins Coie, filed suit against several Georgia county officials through Majority Forward.

This was another chapter of the story of tying up election officials with lawsuits to distract from their discovering issues in administration.

Lawfare in action.

But it gets even better...

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Not only did the December 3, 2020 ACLU-sponsored lawsuit that Marc Elias contributed to go so far as TO CITE HIS OTHER CASE (which was also amended the same day), but each of the cases intentionally burdened the election officials with too much work to sort through the issues with the actual elections themselves.

In the period between the December 3 pair of lawsuits and the December 23 pair of lawsuits, Catherine Engelbrecht had a meeting with GA SoS on December 16th, 2020. This meeting is where she alleges that - with stated witnesses - Raffensperger seemed to validate @TrueTheVote's general estimates of voter roll discrepancies.

From @onwardsocial affidavit (here: ):

5. I have at least two distinct recollections from this meeting. First, I recall that Ryan Germany described the process of challenging ineligible voter registrations as one that should be “easily managed”. In that regard, he suggested the following process:

a. Each county board would review submitted challenges and vote whether to accept it or to reject them. If the board accepted the challenges, the board would forward the challenge file to the state. The state would send the file to its database management vendor. The vendor would flag challenged records so the record status would be clearly visible to staff. The vendor would then produce and send a list of challenged records back to the county in a format that could be used for easy reference. I understood from his explanation this would be straightforward and not burdensome.

b. When a voter whose record happened to have been challenged voted in the January runoff election, he or she would be asked to show a current government issued ID matching the address shown on his or her voter registration record. If he or she did not have such a current ID at that time, he or she could vote provisionally and would be allotted a specified number of business days by which to come back to the county offices with such a current matching ID, and then the provisional vote would be added to the general vote count. If he or she did not come back to the county offices with the required ID within the prescribed period, then his or her provisional vote would not be added to the general vote count. (Georgia already requires voters to bring ID to the voting location, so this seemed to be a low bar).

c. Similarly, with mail-in ballots, the voter would be notified that their record had been flagged as challenged based on residency and the voter would be asked to provide a current government issued ID with an address matching the address on their voter registration record.

d. The process would not remove records from the official voter roll; nor would it turn anyone away on Election Day.

e. I was left with the impression that Georgia’s counties could manage the elector challenge process with limited difficulty.
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6. My second distinct recollection relates to my discussion with Secretary Raffensperger.

a. I told him the number of potential residency issues we’d identified, statewide, was over 364,000, down from over 500,000 permanent changes of address listed in the Postal Service’s National Change of Address (NCOA) records.

b. I explained how we had endeavored to remove from the list records corresponding with zip codes for military bases and college campuses, recognizing military personnel and students may have errantly filed a permanent change-of address form for general purposes when they moved away from home but that they still intended to return to their home county to vote.

c. We were highly concerned about the likely negative fall-out from public disclosure that there were so many inaccuracies in the official voting records. This concern was heightened because we had just emerged from a hotly-contested November 2020 General Election and control of the U.S. Senate hinged on the upcoming January 2021 run-off election.

d. Secretary Raffensperger took out his pen and grabbed a piece of paper, wrote for a few seconds, then said (and here I’m paraphrasing a bit from memory), "Yeah, it should be about that number. Lots of people move every year and they’ll still be on the rolls.” He went on to discuss how the Secretary’s office had been tied up by the Fair Fight lawsuit, lamented how difficult it is to remove ineligible records, and then said something to the effect of,

"Anyone can do these Elector Challenges.

The G.O.P. should have been doing them all along." "

So then with this in mind, and in consideration of how much money covered in this thread, let's take a look at one more integral part of this weaponized chain of money and power...

Allegra J. Lawrence

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Well, here's the right pic that was supposed to fit into this thread somewhere. (at least I left the link, I guess)

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Allegra Lawrence-Hardy is an Atlanta-based attorney, a lifelong friend of Stacey Abrams, and was the chair of her 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

The hard-left Daily Beast reported in 2022:

"In 2019 and 2020, Fair Fight Action paid a total of $25 million in legal fees—mostly on a single case—with the largest amount going to Lawrence & Bundy.

The self-described boutique law firm, which received $9.4 million from Abrams’ non-profit, is run by Allegra Lawrence-Hardy and another partner.

Lawrence-Hardy is a close friend of Abrams who chaired her 2018 gubernatorial campaign as well as her current race to topple incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

[2018 is when Fair Fight effectively launched in its current form]

Lawrence served as lead counsel in the case Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, which ended last month when a judge ruled against the voting group’s claims."
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According to 2021 Fair Fight 990's, Lawrence Bundy LLC was paid out $4.44 million for the year alongside $4.29 million to Jenner Block, LLP.
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Here we have among this line of influence yet another of Abrams' cohorts that raised eyebrows for the amount of cash it raked in - comparable to that of Elias and Perkins Coie ventures together.

Also keen to note is that in the 2018 Fair Fight case against Raffensperger, Raphael Warnock's Ebenezer Baptist Church, too, has been accused of financial impropriety in the past.
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November 4, 2022, @FreeBeacon reported:

"Warnock’s church is also facing scrutiny in the final weeks before Election Day.

The Georgia Secretary of State’s Securities and Charities Division launched an investigation into a charity controlled by the church in mid-October to determine why it is operating in the state without registering with state authorities.

Ebenezer Baptist Church, which pays Warnock a $7,417-per-month housing allowance, owns 99 percent of a low-income apartment building through the charity that moved to evict residents during the pandemic for past-due rent as low as $28.55."

>Find the article here:

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New Georgia Project claimed that they mistakenly filed Senator Warnock as the CEO of New Georgia Project instead of Chairman of the Board...

...but it was apparently a mistake not caught since New Georgia Project began their lawfare racket - and since Warnock's associated groups have drawn ire, themselves in the same period.

The registration of New Georgia Project:

I would typically be one to not publish more of the same business' subsequent filings in a row, except that Warnock himself signed off on the registration in 2020...

...which was then changed to Nsé, the other person accused of strange filings, the next day (top).
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Next, to look at the universities that received funding from this same political donor network...and most of them I've conveniently covered ad naseum already, so thank God for thorough preparation!

***lifelong was supposed to have been deleted before sending.

I need an editor or some sort of system badly.

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Another strikingly overlooked piece of the puzzle is that Perkins Coie also has a vested interest in protecting one of its other major longtime clients - Microsoft.
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In 2009, Perkins Coie absorbed all of Microsoft piracy legal work, which presumably included Microsoft's business in China, where according to Chinese business listings, Microsoft has operated since 1995.
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Microsoft has also maintained a branch in Shanghai since 1996 - also the location of Microsoft Research Asia also with a location in Beijing. >

This Microsoft connection may not otherwise be worth noting if not for that Dominion Voting Systems run on a Microsoft Windows framework, as shown in the State of Pennsylvania's
"EXAMINATION RESULTS OF DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS DEMOCRACY SUITE 5.5A WITH IMAGECAST® X BALLOT MARKING DEVICE (ICX-BMD), IMAGECAST PRECINCT OPTICAL SCANNER (ICP), IMAGECAST CENTRAL STATION (ICC), AND DEMOCRACY SUITE EMS (EMS)"
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...or if it wasn't except for being discussed during the deposition of former Dominion Voting Systems employee Dominic Olomo, a Nigerian national, now employed directly by Fulton County Elections.

During the deposition, it was revealed to him that the Dominion systems logged a "remote access" during the time period in question. (Read more here: )

For fear of getting lost in the weeds of some of the suits Perkins Coie has represented for Microsoft over the years, I will simply leave this 2020 appeal by Koninklijke Philips, N.V. against Google, LLC, Microsoft Corporation, and Microsoft Mobile, Inc., the latter of course represented by Perkins Coie.


Koninklijke Philips, N.V. has used technology I have covered previously, but will not venture into here. (more: )web.archive.org/web/2010050602…

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Microsoft is also important to this saga in relation to sworn testimony entered into the record on matters regarding Konnech, Pollchief, remote data access, etc.

I encourage you to read some of the statements made under oath regarding these Microsoft-based systems.
>Grant Bradley 1-pdf pg. 31:
>Peter McAlister-pdf pg. 18:
>Harry Haury-pdf pg. 40:

Konnech is a now-defunct election software company that was based in Okemos and East Lansing, Michigan, and had extremely close ties to Michigan State University.

Over the past year, I've covered the MSU's Spartan Chinese School (here: ; ), MSU's Computer Science and Engineering Department (here: ; ), the department's DoD-NIH-DARPA/IARPA-BigTech-funded ILLIDAN Lab (here: ), FBI-DoD-DoJ-funded CITeR Lab (here: )

...and how they have all interacted with Konnech's former CEO Eugene Yu's coincidental filings (here: ; ), and even those more compared against Chinese billionaire Jonathan Choi (here: ; .

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Wouldn't it be damning if this same funding network was funneling money into Michigan State University - a school riddled with collaborators of researchers connected to the People's Liberation Army?

Well, New Venture Fund, who received a combined $16,395,538 between the Sixteen Thirty Fund, North Fund, Tides, and Hopewell in 2020, donated $50,000 Michigan State University in 2021.

Of that, the 2020 North Fund donated $500,000 to New Venture Fund - another fund run by Arabella Advisors - while paying Perkins Coie $609,836 for legal services.

MSU also maintains direct conduits to the People's Republic of China through a major donor to the school - Hong Kong billionaire, Jonathan KS Choi.
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Chairman of Sunwah Group and a member of the Mainland's CPPCC, Jonathan Choi is a major centerpiece of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and Hong Kong's interactions and contributions toward and within it.
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China is one of four nation-states declared a threat to national cybersecurity by the ODNI in 2022.
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Even Microsoft has been forced to publicly acknowledge the threat posed by China, yet "competitive cooperation" continues with the repressive nation.
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But what other universities might be a part of this network?

Would it be coincidental for this same network to overlap other schools I've covered in the past, either connected to Michigan State, China, or leadership within the (mostly) Democrat Party's subversive network of nonprofits and NGO's?

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In 2020, Democracy Fund paid the University of California $287,056 in "consulting fees" alone.

In addition to that, schools including UW-Madison, Duke, Georgetown ($795K), NYU ($425K), UC-Riverside and Santa Barbara, CUNY, Ohio State ($295K), Virginia, Penn, MIT ($600K), Arizona, Maryland, UNC, Oregon, USC ($875K), Wayne State, West Virginia ($100K), and Yale all received their share of a total of $5,400,568 for the year.

Democracy Fund also approved $845K in future spending for several of these same universities for a total of $5,520,568 allocated to universities and colleges.

The Tides Foundation was a recipient of $310,000 from Democracy Fund, but also put forth their own contributions to universities. Some of those, too, landed within the university networks I researched before.

Schools including Arizona State ($175K), Cornell, Georgetown ($250K), Johns Hopkins, UC-Berkeley, Columbia ($1.62M), Central Georgia Technical College ($175,000), Caldwell Community College (NC) ($100,000), Northeastern Illinois ($22K), Illinois ($125K), Delaware ($100K), UNC, UC-SF ($170K), Oregon, South Carolina, UT-Austin, Washington, UW-Waukesha, and Yale raked in their portions of $6,087,244 given by Tides Foundation in 2020.

Most notably of all of these were Stacey Abrams' alma mater, Spelman College, receiving $80,000 from Tides Foundation. Abrams has contributed to the university in years past as well.

The Tides Foundation itself contributed $225,000 to Black Male Initiative between 2020 and 2021.

Another of Abram's former schools, Emory University, received $49,939 from Hopewell Fund, who is the conduit through which Marc Elias received $1.5M for Democracy Docket in 2020.

Also from Hopewell Fund, universities and colleges including Georgetown ($200K), Northeast Ohio Medical, Ohio State, MIT ($90K), Columbia ($100K), New Mexico ($260K), Yale ($175K) and Pitt all received their shares of $1,082,214 in 2020.

This may not seem important except for that many of these schools also support Chinese academics who have a high probability of sharing sensitive information with the PLA by way of the PRC.

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In 2020, Democracy Fund ($2.68M), North Fund ($500K), Hopewell Fund ($410K), Sixteen Thirty Fund ($8.23M), and Tides Foundation ($7.25M) all dumped a combined $19,074,083 into New Venture Fund, another monster political activist fund that keeps the bearings greased.

Sixteen thirty Fund also reported New Venture as its "payroll reporting agent" and reimburses New Venture for salaries and benefits, etc.

Those expenditures totaled a reported $1,009,410 for a difference of about $7.2 million in 2020 between Sixteen Thirty's contributions and New Ventures reported Part VII under Salaries and Benefits.

On top of all this New Venture Fund, a nearly-billion dollar fund itself, donated a lion's share to the very same colleges and universities in this network.

Included were: Arizona State ($282K), Carnegie Mellon ($89.5K), Duke ($513K), George Washington ($225K), Georgetown ($200K), Georgia State ($150K), Loyola, NYU ($218K), UC-Santa Cruz ($270K), Michigan ($263K), CUNY, Stanford ($8.35M), Princeton ($726K), UT-Austin ($180K), Boston ($270K), Columbia ($376K), Penn ($1.2M), Tufts ($125K)...

There are so many that I had to break the monotony...

UC-Berkeley ($245K), UC-Davis ($32K), UC-SF ($3M), New Mexico ($1.5M), Pitt ($1.2M), USC ($90K), University of the South ($173K), Utah ($80K), Washington ($90K), UW-Madison ($200K), Harvard ($1.35M)

This was a total university/college investment from New Venture Fund totaling roughly $23,968,834 in 2020 alone.

Knowing what's been covered about the funding into legal firms, with the intent to swat away prying eyes into these matters...this very same fund who receives from Hopewell (which is protected by Marc Elias) also sent back to Hopewell $1.8 million in 2020.

Could that have been toward what Perkins Coie was paid in their $9.5 million paycheck for 2020?

Does that mean Marc Elias and/or Perkins Coie are protecting secrets buried within the universities as well?

I have not addressed things like the University of Michigan and their involvement with Sequoia Capital through their Wolverine Venture Fund - which doubles as a course in the Ross School of Business.
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As recently as 2019, U-M committed $6.2M to two separate Sequoia venture funds.
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Sequoia Capital interacts directly with entities of the Chinese Communist Party.

In 2021, New Venture Fund granted $1,172,381 to the University of Michigan, who has historically harbored many academics who have interesting backgrounds in Mainland China. I hope to have more on that subject in particular soon...

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