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Incredible piece on Psy Group today. What stood out to me: "Zamel’s lawyers and Burstien declined to say how much of an ownership stake Zamel held in ioco, or to identify who else provided funding for the venture" newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
This is the heart of Mueller's interest in Psy Group. I've written about them ad nauseam. If you look at the ownership structure of the company, all you see is RUSSIAN finance: medium.com/@ScottMStedman…
In fact, one of IOCO (Psy Group)'s sister companies is controlled by a Russian billionaire. medium.com/@ScottMStedman…
From this piece we also learn that Nader is telling Mueller that Zamel bragged to him that Psy Group secretly helped Trump get elected.
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💣B O O M💣

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The servers at TT & Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health & Heartland PS, were communicating via DNS look ups, sharing packet data.

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Trump campaign aide Rick Gates sought proposals for social media manipulation (including creation of fake online personas) and opposition intelligence gathering from Psy Group, an Israeli intel firm

(Trump referred to as “the Lion” in proposals 🙄)

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nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
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