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ICIJ with a big set of articles on the Odebrecht Swampy corruption investigation. This has already affected more than a dozen countries, with Presidents & Prime Ministers being prosecuted. But also leads to the US where much of the money was laundered.
#ButNothingsHappening
#ButNothingsHappening
Some of my previous threads on this issue include Draining the Swamp in Mexico. Comey haters will be surprised to learn that this all goes back to Comey's FBI sharing corruption data with Brazilian prosecutors to drain Swamps across the entire hemisphere. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1123397…
The Brazilian investigations spurred by the FBI & DOJ have lead to corruption cases involving most of the #ButNothingsHappening sectors. Healthcare fraud by major corporations, money laundering, currency trading manipulation by major banks & much more.
The companies involved overlap with so many scandals, Johnson & Johnson bribing Brazilian officials for healthcare contracts while hiring Rep. Cummings wife as a consultant. Citigroup, Deutschebank & many others involved in dirty financial deals.
Even now indicted Clinton & Obama lawyer Greg Craig's old firm Skaaden Arps makes an appearance, buying part of Odebrecht for a Singapore based sovereign wealth fund.
If you still haven't figured out WHY we saw efforts to spy upon the candidates & rig the election in 2016, you should look into Operation Car Wash. Where Comey & Lynch flipped a bunch of Swiss banks on the Swamp & gave Brazil the evidence to drain theirs!
Spygate was about getting a President who could stop those investigations. One corrupt enough to fire Comey & Lynch & promote dirty cops to run those agencies. Maybe even Deputy FBI Director McCabe & Deputy AG Yates...
But don't worry the investigations did not just happen in Brazil. Those investigations were used to gather evidence to bring back to the US to prosecute the same companies & force them to cooperate & flip on their co-conspirators. They got the #receipts
Even BBC took notices that they were going after top politicians in many countries. When will people figure out that starting at the bottom, meant the Presidents of more than a dozen small to medium sized countries. Then going up from their!
Fortunately, the DOJ flipped Odebrecht & got their receipts. Which can be pretty efficient when the company actually created a division to handle the processing & payment of bribes. ICIJ call it the Bribery Division.
icij.org/investigations…
icij.org/investigations…
Odebrecht called it the Division of Structured Operations. I like to think of it as the Bribes Payable Division, as that is what it really was set up to do. But now those receipts are being put to good use, by the Trump DOJ! #ButNothingsHappening
