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NEW: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina & Saul Anuzis the Michigan GOP operative who met Butina several times and who is linked to the NRA, RNC, Robert Mercer & Cambridge Analytica - my latest with @camelcitysquid
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A few highlights on Saul Anuzis who met with Maria Butina -
2005–2009 Anuzis was Michigan GOP chair after Betsy DeVos
2012 timeframe Anuzis led the RNC technology committee and focused on digital ads and microtargeting, work similar to Cambridge Analytica
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Since 2012 Saul Anuzis has been on the NRA Board's Public Affairs Committee - here's a photo from his instagram account from a January 2015 meeting he attended showing someone back right who resembles Maria Butina
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In 2014 Saul Anuzis set up a super PAC called the US Jobs Council and then approached Robert Mercer who funded $200K which mostly went to a candidate in the Eastern Long Island district where Mercer lives
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After setting up a PAC for Mercer in 2014, in 2015 Saul Anuzis worked on presidential campaign for candidate Ted Cruz who Mercer supported, and his son Matas Anuzis started working for Cambridge Analytica as a project manager on the Cruz campaign
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In 2016 Cambridge Analytica worked with The Herald Group on the NRA's Trigger the Vote drive
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Oct 2017 Sen. Feinstein sent a letter to Cambridge Analytica requesting communication with several people including Maria Butina, Alexander Torshin and Paul Erickson - it's not yet clear why Feinstein was interested in Butina related to Cambridge Analytica
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My latest👆🏼@annmarlowe @ZarinaZabrisky @dcpoll @carolecadwalla @profcarroll @brexit_sham @peterjukes @J_amesp @EmmaLBriant @RVAwonk @leahmcelrath @WriteSmitty @funder @grantstern @Delavegalaw @NatashaBertrand @maddow @submergingmkt @dfriedman33 @KevinGHall
And a shout out to @camelcitysquid who found that Saul Anuzis who had met several times with Maria Butina, is the father of Matas Anuzis who worked at Cambridge Analytica
After leaving Cambridge Analytica, Saul's son Matas went to work at WPA Intelligence, which has worked closely with Aggregate IQ, which worked closely with Cambridge Analytica...
More on WPA from @VickerySec
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Both Paul Manafort & Rick Gates gave data to Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring 2016 - some data was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign - Manafort asked Gates to tell Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg Deripaska, HT @painter_nancy nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Manafort and Gates passed polling data to Kilimnik to be sent to Putin ally Oleg Deripaska

Kilimnik also worked with Sam Patten who consulted for Cambridge Analytica

One of the services provided by Cambridge Analytica was polling
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Manafort may have shared US campaign polling data w/Kilimnik

Manafort filing is not properly redacted & one section mentions:

"the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign."
Kilimnik not only worked with Manafort, he also formed a company in 2015 with Sam Patten, who was a contractor for Cambridge Analytica

There's no evidence Kilimnik worked with Cambridge Analytica, but why would Kilimnik review US election polling data?...
Another redacted section of the filing notes "Manafort “conceded” that he discussed or may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan with Mr. Kilimnik on more than one occasion"
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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No news yet, but we may soon learn more about the mystery Mueller case...
The Supreme Court ruled against the mystery company fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation that is identified as a foreign financial institution
DC Circuit's opinion affirming the contempt order in the mystery Mueller-related grand jury case against a foreign financial institution
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There's always more >> Accused spy Maria #Butina turned on her Russian charm to secure Russian jet fuel deal with David Keene, NRA president & prominent leader of the conservative movement, his lobbyist wife, & her boyfriend Erickson — The New York Times nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/…
THREAD on sloppy NYT piece on #Butina. See @john_sipher who says she's not a professional spy but an 'access agent teeing up fools for Russia to compromise.' She develops access & provides targeting information to the professionals, so they know who's vulnerable, who to go after.
@john_sipher There are spies and there are spies. Russia has a dizzying array of intelligence agents, special services & proxies, formal professionals & informal agents like Maria #Butina. @KirkseniyaSF reviews some of the nuances in @KyivPost kyivpost.com/article/opinio… cc @SethAbramson @nytimes
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"Bannon is pushing for Rosenstein to be fired in the next 72 hours. Now would be a good time for the entire internet, all news organizations, social media, to be focused on the Bannon, Mercer, Kushner, Parscale, Cambridge Analytica, Wikileaks, Putin-Trump Conspiracy." 🔖ALERT
“If he doesn’t do it in 72 hours, he’s fired. I’d fire him.”
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“The Mercers funded Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign, and the pro-Trump news outlet Breitbart. The Trump campaign, in turn, hired Cambridge Analytica. Bannon served at Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and in the White House.”
vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/t…
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🚩NEW: Accused Russian agent Maria Butina exchanged over $300,000 in suspicious bank transactions with a Republican operative, @BuzzFeedNews reveals buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
A $45,000 payment to an undisclosed law firm. A cash withdrawal for $14,000. Almost $90,000 sent to or from a Russian bank. These and other bank transactions totaling nearly $300,000, none of which have been made public, --
offer the first detailed look at how an accused foreign agent and a Republican operative financed what prosecutors say was a Russian campaign to influence American politics.
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🤮#PutinPimp🤮

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in the public news conference afterward, toshove it in Putin’s face and look strong doing it...

He did the exact opposite.”

An agreement to hand over Assange to the UK is close.
🤮#PutinPimp🤮

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NEW: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina pleaded not guilty to the charges today, and a federal magistrate judge ordered her held without bond pending trial, finding there were no release conditions that would ensure her return to court. More soon. Earlier: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Butina did not speak at the hearing. Just before the hearing her lawyers had asked that she be allowed to appear in court in civilian clothes, but she was wearing an orange prison uniform (she was not shackled though)
Maria Butina's lawyer Robert Driscoll gave a statement to reporters after the hearing, saying they disagreed with judge's decision to detain her: "She is not an agent of the Russian government ... She is innocent of the charges brought against her"
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🔥In the charging documents for accused #Russian🇷🇺agent Maria Butina, the unnamed “US Person 1” — who established a “VERY private line of communication btwn the Kremlin & key [@GOP] leaders through, of all conduits, the #NRA” — appears to be #GOP consultant Paul Erickson. 1/
💣BOOM💣

Note that #DOJ says that “US Person 1” arranged the secret backchannel btwn the Kremlin and **key @GOP leaders** (not just Team Trump).🔥

How many people in the #GOP freaked out when they read that Butina got busted⁉️ 2/

#RICO
#ComplicitGOP

Mueller is investigating the alleged flow of ILLEGAL foreign (#Russian🇷🇺) money for @GOP campaigns via the #NRA.

Don’t think for a moment that at least some #Republicans didn’t know where the #NRA’s sudden influx of cash came from.🙄 3/

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