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In a 2013 lawsuit Vincent Tchenguiz’s lawyers claim their client played a prominent role in founding stages of private intelligence agency Black Cube - at the same time he was largest shareholder in Cambridge Analytica parent company SCL, HT @profcarroll timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
More on Tchenguiz and Black Cube in this thread
After it was founded Black Cube sent weekly reports to Tchenguiz describing projects & hours for all activities, not only those related to him, and per the lawsuit every Sunday Black Cube founders Zorella & Yanus spoke by phone with Tchenguiz or his rep
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
Tchenguiz also helped Black Cube apply for a grant for developing dual-use military and civilian technologies for commercial export (it's not known if grant was approved)
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
Sample pages of Black Cube report to Tchenguiz include names in the news now, including Icelandic law firm Logos, whose managing partner Gunnar Sturluson was a board member at FL Group, a company that invested through Bayrock in several Trump projects
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
Here's a link to a page of Black Cube's weekly report to Tchenguiz
drive.google.com/file/d/18-Wdiv…
it's always funny when I'm tweeting as I read through the article and then see my name :) the article mentions the chart I created with @annmarlowe
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
Per @chrisinsilico testimony when Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon created Cambridge Analytica they didn't like Tchenguiz's sketchy background and got rid of him.
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
UK Companies House filings reveal that Tchenguiz was for a time an investor in a company in which Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who is wanted in the US for bribery and other allegations, was also an investor, as described by journalist @annmarlowe
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
A statement from Vincent Tchenguiz’s Consensus Business Group on SCL says they weren't involved in day to day management or operations of SCL - they fail to mention that Julian Wheatland, one of Tchenguiz's employees at Consensus Group, became SCL Chairman
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
"In recent years, a shadowy spy-for-hire industry has sprung up in Israel, Dr. Avner Barnea, chairman of the Israeli Forum of Competitive Intelligence" said, "and it is giving legitimate Israeli companies a bad reputation."
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
A fascinating item from @profcarroll
Seems to be the day for Black Cube news, a story related to their work targeting @ColinKahl & @brhodes in efforts to undermine the Iran deal and a related memo that circulated in 2017 with the Trump NSC
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"the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign."
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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"
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