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May 16, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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

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May 1
Trial began Tues for Bruce Garelick - charged with enabling his boss Michael Shvartsman at Rocket One and others to make millions illegally on inside info that acquisition firm DWAC was taking Trump Media public

Shvartsman and his brother pleaded guilty
cnbc.com/2024/05/01/tru…
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Trial started for Bruce Garelick, former director of DWAC, accused of sharing non-public info on plans for DWAC to merge w/Trump Media

Garelick made about $50,000 from DWAC trades, Michael Schvartsman made $18 million, Gerald Shvartsman made $5 million

cnbc.com/2024/05/01/tru…
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WaPo reported on earlier probe of investors including Russian born FL businessman Anton Postolnikov who sold most of his stake in DWAC days after Trump/DWAC announcement sent stock soaring, per FBI search warrant he made $22 million (and was not charged)

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Apr 29
Who invested in Trump Media?

An April SEC filing for Trump Media reveals new details on early investors in Trump’s company - including ex FL AG Pam Bondi who owns 100,000+ shares worth several million dollars and her brother advised on the deal. My latest
newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
A new name in the Trump Media Apr S-1 Registration Statement is lawyer Michael Milkersen with 300,000+ shares (and several hundred thousand founder and ARC shares) making him one of the largest investors. It's not clear how he became involved in the deal.
newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
A new name in the alternative financing group is 'Washington Muse Investments SPC' which has a Cayman Islands address and owns 4,166,666 shares and 1,388,888 warrants, making it one of the top owners - but there is almost no public info on this company.

newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
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Apr 25
As @MountainsStars notes two of the people indicted as AZ fake electors are closely tied to Charlie Kirk and Turning Point

Tyler Bowyer is Chief Operating Officer at Turning Point

Jake Hoffman had worked at TPUSA and runs 2 companies paid over $2.5 mil by TPUSA since 2020
Jake Hoffman AZ senator/fake elector founded Rally Forge & 1Ten LLC

TPUSA paid Rally Forge $531,198 (2020)
TP Action paid RF $102,704 (2020), $1,816,755 (2021)
TP Action paid 1Ten $128,000 (2022)

My piece on Charklie Kirk w/research by @MountainsStars
newstracs.com/charlie-kirks-…
AG Mayes announced indictments in ongoing investigation into AZ fake elector scheme

Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, Michael Ward

azag.gov/sites/default/…

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Apr 24
An April 9 filing listed Steve Bannon as a “Co-Conspirator” in a $1 billion fraud case

Prosecutors identified Bannon as part of a criminal conspiracy allegedly run by Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui

Bannon has not been charged in this case

by @dfriedman33

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…
Here's Apr 9 filing USA v Guo Wengui and Yanping Wang

"Distributions from the ACA Bank Account also demonstrate $10 million in transfers to William Je and his wife, and a $1 million transfer to a company associated with Steve Bannon, a co-conspirator."

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2460…

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Here's my piece from 2023 when Guo Wengui was arrested for $1 billion fraud – highlights of his partnership with Stephen Bannon since 2017

newstracs.com/guo-wengui-arr…
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Apr 18
Charlie Kirk's Turning Point nonprofits are growing quickly

At the age of 30 Kirk has spent 12 years expanding U.S. youth-led right-wing activism

Turning Point USA had $40 million in revenue in 2020 which doubled to $80 mil in 2022

🧵with highlights

newstracs.com/charlie-kirks-…
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point website says it has 350 part and full-time staff, 800+ chapters on 3,500 US campuses where they run events, recruit activists and register voters

Kirk meanwhile hosts shows espousing conspiracy theories and far-right views

newstracs.com/charlie-kirks-…
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA total assets grew from $7.3mil in 2020 to $26.8mil in 2022

There are 3 related nonprofits - Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action, Americas Turning Point Inc. and for profit TPUSA Merch LLC

newstracs.com/charlie-kirks-…
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Apr 3
Michael Shvartsman who pleaded guilty today to insider trading related to DWAC-Trump Media merger is friends w/Anton Postolnikov who used ES Family Trust to loan $8mil to Trump Media in 2022 per @hugolowell

There's another link from Shvartsman to ES Family Trust, see 🧵below
As @hugolowell reported the ES Family Trust
creation papers included a declaration that, if the original trustee – a Paxum employee named Angel Pacheco – stepped down from the role, his successor would be a certain individual named Michael Shvartsman

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…
@hugolowell After story about $8 million in loans made to Trump Media came through Paxum Bank and ES Family Trust, where Angel Pacheco was a trustee - researcher @braisincapital found Pacheco and Shvartsman were listed as managers of Foundation Card Services in 2019

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