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Regurgitating this Koch Connection ICYMI Originally brought in by Steven Mnuchin, the Koch brothers are now helping finance Hollywood’s biggest films salon.com/2017/08/09/the…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Divests Stake in RatPac-Dune Entertainment👉 Mnuchin promised he'd sell his stake in the firm, which he co-owned with filmmaker Brett Ratner and billionaire Len Blavatnik hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/treas…
Billionaire Len Blavatnik Buys Warner Music Group For $3.3 Billion 👉 FORBES and other news outlets reported that billionaire Len Blavatnik‘s Access Industries was on the verge of purchasing Warner Music Group. forbes.com/sites/zackomal…
Access Industries👉 an American privately held multinational industrial group.[1] It was founded in 1986 by businessman Leonard "Len" Blavatnik, who is also its chairman. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_In…

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How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns.👉This column originally published December 15, 2017. New allegations about $500k in payments from a Russian oligarch made to Trump attorney Michael Cohen have placed it back in the news. dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
THE KOCH BROTHERS
HELPED PAYFOR 'WONDER WOMAN' WITH BILL GATES: REPORT👉The way the story goes ... Steven Mnuchin roped Charles Koch, David Koch and Gates intoa production company he helped start to finance movies like 'WW,' "Dunkirk," and Spielberg's upcoming "Ready Player One."
The Ukraine-born billionaire owner of Warner Music is not only a backer of films who has looked at buying a Hollywood studio, he’s also reportedly on the fringe of the Mueller probe thanks to generous GOP giving and links to oligarchs with ties to Putin. hollywoodreporter.com/amp/features/w…
Nikki Haley blasted Russia at an event sponsored by a Russia-linked oligarch👉 Haley, long seen as the Trump administration’s most vocal Kremlin critic, received the conservative Hudson Institute’s 2018 Global Leadership Award at a New York gala. qz.com/1483682/nikki-…
Edit to prior tweet, should be Vekselberg. Too many crooks on my mind :/ Firm linked to Russian mogul paid $500,000 to Trump attorney Michael Cohen
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
NOREX PETROLEUM LIMITED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ACCESS INDUSTRIES, INC., Renova, Inc., Leonard Blavatnik, Victor Vekselberg, Alfa Group Consortium, Crown Finance Foundation, CTF Holdings👉 caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit…
Ltd., Alfa Finance Holdings, S.A., Crown Luxembourg Holdings, S.A., Elliot Spitz, Tyumen Oil Company, Simon Kukes, Joseph Bakaleynik, LT Enterprises Limited, Sandwell Enterprises Limited, Eastmount Properties Limited and Aston Trustees Limited, Defendants-Appellees.
Koch Bromance with Russia Needs Investigating; Koch Funding Behind Nunes-Gowdy Attempts to Scuttle Russia Investigation?👉 In a complaint, NOREX alleges an improper takeover of TNK, which involved Alfa Group. miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/koc…

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Warner Bros. Declines to Renew Brett Ratner's Financing Deal 👉 Ratner partnered with James Packer, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as well as silent investors like the Koch brothers and Bill Gates, Len Blavatnik hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/warne…
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Did Warner Bros. Overpay With Its RatPac-Dune Deal?👉 Little has been known about the investors, although Mnuchin had enlisted the Koch brothers as well as Bill Gates as backers. hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/did-w…
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The Hollywood Connection Between Trump’s Treasury Pick and Billionaire at Center of Netanyahu Scandal
Steven Mnuchin is the business partner of James Packer, whose gifts to the Netanyahu family are being probed by the Israel Police. (2016) haaretz.com/amp/israel-new…
Mnuchin Says Deripaska and Family Are Minority Rusal Owners👉 Mnuchin said that Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and his family together own less than a majority of shares in United Co. Rusal bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
Tangled Rusal Ownership Thwarts Easy End to Sanctions: QuickTake bloombergquint.com/quicktakes/tan…
US Senate Majority Leader McConnell May Be On The Dole For Russian Monies Via US Companies👉 Len Blavatnik, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen grondamorin.com/2018/12/10/us-…
ICYMI 2010 Icon won't comment on Weinstein-Blavatnik reports😐The deal between Blavatnik and Harvey Weinstein’s TWC is said to call for the creation of a credit facility that would be used to fund a number of $5m-$20m films over a period of several years. screendaily.com/icon-wont-comm…
ICYMI 2010 Blavatnik & Till’s Icon to Co-Finance Movies With Weinstein 😐 Harvey has nine lives and new deep pockets: Lev Blavatnik will fund movies budgetted up to $20 million with a $100 million rolling credit facility. thewrap.com/blavatnik-till…
The Weinstein Company’s Doubtful Future: Bankruptcy or Sale cassmape.com/the-weinstein-…
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Abuse Victims Might Be Battling Banks on Weinstein Co. Payouts variety.com/2018/biz/news/…
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04/24/18 Weinstein Co. executives cashed in ahead of bankruptcy filing, records show👉Additionally, Weinstein Co. paid nearly $2 million to service a debt Weinstein personally guaranteed, which was owed to a company controlled by billionaire Len Blavatnik. marketwatch.com/story/weinstei…
Police recommended indicting Netanyahu over accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer. apnews.com/af91f7095bb447…
Adding to thread/ Blavatnik/ 09/01/19 Aposense unit to raise $20m from Len Blavatnik 👉 Sirvir will develop treatments for infectious diseases in the respiratory system.🤔 en.globes.co.il/en/article-apo…
Harvey Weinstein to settle New York sexual misconduct lawsuits for $19M
Plaintiffs' lawyers say 'sellout' deal doesn't require ex-mogul to accept responsibility cbc.ca/amp/1.5633904
Adding/ Warner Music Group Files For IPO For Up To $1.82 Billion: Shares To Trade On Nasdaq Under Symbol WMG/Billionaire investor and Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries and other stockholders are the ones selling the shares — uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/warner…
Adding/ Kevin Mayer, Former Top Disney And TikTok Exec, Joins Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries In Advisory Role deadline.com/2020/11/kevin-…
Adding/ Business Executives Offer Large Donations to Fight Covid-19
barrons.com/amp/articles/b…
Adding/12/10/20 Is Saudi Arabia looking to buy Warner Music Group?( Blavatnik) sources suggested that the country’s Public Investment Fund was looking to the music giant after purchasing a $500 million stake in Live Nation.
routenote.com/blog/is-saudi-…
Adding/ ICYMI Two Billionaires Allegedly Ordered The Takeover Of A Russian Oil Company With AK-47s assets.businessinsider.com/norex-petroleu…
27/06/14 New York's top state court reinstated Canadian oil company Norex Petroleum Ltd's $1 billion lawsuit claiming that two billionaires used armed soldiers and corrupted Russian court proceedings to gain control of a Siberian oilfield.
Blavatnik/Vekselberg
Tuck/ICYMI Billionaire industrialist Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Industries and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the country’s biggest pension fund, are part of investor group led by Energy Capital.

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Tuck/ THE TRUTH ABOUT TIME MAGAZINE’S SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS
Can the long-glorious weekly survive the digital wars? /2017
“It's hard to imagine that the Koch brothers are investing in Time to make a profit. That wouldn't be a very strategic investment. vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/t…
Kavanaugh co-founded Relativity Media in 2003or 2004 w/entertainment executive Lynwood Spinks. Spinks had a relationship w/Warner Bros.that opened opportunity for Kavanaugh to broker deal between film studio and a hedge fund to finance Warner Bros. films. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Kava…
Hill+Knowlton Strategies, a firm whose clients include Saudi Arabia, confirmed its work for Blavatnik’s company and foundation. The firm maintains both entities are American.

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Hill+Knowlton-one of number of firms engaged by fracking interests in recent years/1970s co-founded Asbestos Info Association/involved in similar practices concerning lead, vinyl chloride & CFC/many operations Hill+Knowlton worked w/ Fred Singer/GMU Koch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%2BKn…
Add/ Accused of:
Illegal enrichment at the expense of Russian taxpayers due to his close relations to the Kremlin; corruption of the Western elites in the interests of the Putin regime.

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Add, see thread /Linda Yaccarino(MuskX) worked for Turner Entertainment for close to 20 years. Turner Entertainment has become an in-name-only subsidiary of Warner Bros.
How Russia’s Oligarchs Laundered Their Reputations in the West Sanctions haven’t touched their face-saving philanthropy.

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Blavatnik - Ukrainian-born, worked alongside a number of oligarchs currently sanctioned by the EU or the U.S. for their ties to the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Amid the war in Ukraine, PR firms defend Russian-tied clients
Wealthy businessmen rely on the firms to avoid an “oligarch” label. /Blavatnik, etc.

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