Ex-Fugees member Pras Michel rules out plea deal related to charges that he conspired with fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, at center of 1MDB case, to illegally funnel foreign campaign contributions into 2012 US presidential election, by @hsu_spencer washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
A civil forfeiture complaint last year alleged Michel & an ex-Justice dept official moved $ to support lobbying effort to end 1MDB investigation. Former RNC finance co-chair Elliott Broidy, aka Individual No 1, was involved, but has not been charged. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
I'm amazed Elliott Broidy hasn't been charged related to lobbying on behalf of Jho Low and 1MDB. He and his wife's law firm received millions for work they did related to the case. Perhaps he's cooperating or working on a plea deal?
Thread on Nov 2018 case involving ex DOJ official George Higginbotham who worked with Pras Michel to move $ related efforts to lobby to get 1MDB case dropped and efforts to extradite Guo Wengui from US to China. Elliott Broidy is Individual No. 1
Gery Shalon was arrested in 2015 for hacking JPMorgan. He flipped and became a star cooperator for the FBI. New evidence suggests while helping FBI he ran Tradologic and a massive fraud empire in Europe, by @SimonaWeinglass @MichaelRileyDC @JasonLeopold
After Gery Shalon was arrested in 2015 for a an infamous hack of JPMorgan and then flipped - he informed on Russian hacker Peter Levashov who ran the Kelihos botnet used by cyber criminals
Gery Shalon also informed on long-time partner Andrei Tyurin
Per Bloomberg Tyurin knew that Shalon had been arrested by the FBI but Shalon convinced Tyurin to meet in Georgia where Tyurin was arrested and extradited to the US to serve a 12 year sentence
Martin Shkreli - who was convicted of securities fraud, spent 6 years in jail, and fined $70 million - claims that he and Barron Trump are responsible for a mysterious Trump-branded meme cryptocurrency called Trump Coin
There's no proof Barron was involved - but an interesting item in @zachxbt thread
Someone potentially involved in Trump Coin/DJT with initials CWR aka Cameron Roxborough went to school with Barron and his dad was supposedly the pilot for Jeffrey Epstein
Former Trump associate Felix Sater tells NY jury he wasn’t bothered by ‘dirty’ money
Sater is accused of helping a Kazakh man Ilyas Khrapunov launder money through US real estate including Trump SoHo condos. Sater allegedly made millions in the process.
Felix Sater on Tuesday told a federal jury in Manhattan that he knowingly lied when he helped the wealthy Kazakh, Ilyas Khrapunov, conceal his role in the lucrative deals to dodge a worldwide freezing order that tied up his family’s assets.
The suit was filed by the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and BTA Bank. They claim Felix Sater helped Khrapunov launder a portion of $6 billion allegedly looted from BTA by Ilyas Khrapunov's father-in-law, former BTA Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov.
Red Curve Solutions run by PAC treasurer Bradley Crate and Campaign Inbox co-founded by an ex-Cambridge Analytica exec each received $17+ million from Trump PACs
My analysis of Trump PAC spending 2023 to Apr 2024
How the largest Trump PACs are spending money: big recipients include Red Curve Solutions run by PAC treasurer Bradley Crate and Campaign Inbox co-founded by an ex-Cambridge Analytica executive
Omeed Malik fundraises for Trump and invests in ‘patriotic’ ‘anti-woke’ businesses including one with Cambridge Analytica funder Rebekah Mercer that funded Tucker Carlson
In April Omeed Malik dined with Trump, Rebekah & Robert Mercer and co-chaired a Trump fundraiser
Malik, Rebekah Mercer and Christopher Buskirk launched 1789 Capital and lead a $15 million seed round for Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel’s new media company newstracs.com/trump-donor-om…
Malik founded Colombier Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which merged with PublicSquare (PSQ Holding) in 2023.
This year PublicSquare (a right-wing ‘patriotic’ version of Amazon) acquired firearms financing company Credova. newstracs.com/trump-donor-om…
US exposes attempted sanctions evasion scheme involving Oleg Deripaska's frozen shares in Austrian co Strabag worth $1.5 bil
Treasury sanctions Russian national Dmitrii Beloglazov, his 2 companies Iliadis & Titul and Deripaska company Rasperia Trading Ltd home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
In 2023 Deripaska coordinated with Dmitrii Beloglazov owner of Russian financial firm Titul which created subsidiary Iliadis. Iliadis acquired Derpiaska's Rasperia Trading Ltd which holds frozen Strabag shares worth $1.5 bill, in scheme to evade sanctions. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
I've been following this story for a while - Austria's Raiffeisen Bank was planning to buy Oleg Deripaska's stake in Strabag and the US has pressured RBI to drop plans to buy the stake. Raiffeisen originally financed Deripaska's investment in Strabag.