@Agenthades1 HBRK Associates has the same address as one of Epstein's NY addresses in this 401K filing. Epstein housed girlfriends, associates, and employees in some of the 150 units at 301 East 66th St. 401k-lookup.com/Company401k/co….
@Agenthades1 An Epstein charity, Gratitude America, Ltd., was launched in 2012. Richard Kahn, who served on Epstein’s previous nonprofit ventures, is the president of Gratitude America and heads HBRK Associates where Emad Hanna was one of 5 employees. thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstei…
@Agenthades1 Emad Hanna's CV shows he worked for A-val Architectural Metal III LLC for 6 months in 2012. A-val filed a Chapter 7 voluntary petition in 2016. Frank Zustovich, the owner of A-Val, was arrested for allegedly stealing more than $50,000 from Bloomberg L.P. nypost.com/2018/09/18/two…
@Agenthades1 In a letter dated March 2, 2015, NYAG Eric Schneiderman’s Charities Bureau asked Epstein’s lawyer Darren Indyke to explain why Epstein’s fndn, Gratitude America Ltd, incorporated in the U.S. Virgin Islands, should be considered exempt from New York law. reuters.com/article/us-eps…
@Agenthades1 A contractor mistook Indyke's Manhattan law office for a foundation office and put the information online. When Schneiderman's office became aware the charity was based in NYC, Gratitude America was asked to register in NYC. Indyke said it was based in US Virgin Islands.
Donald Trump Jr is a partner in Omeed Malik's VC firm, 1789 Capital. Malik, who is Jr's boss, was born in New Jersey to Iranian and Pakistani immigrants. A Mar-a-Lago member, he's been backed by Republican mega-donor Rebekah Mercer. Blake Masters sits on the board of 1789.
After leaving Emory, Malik worked as an associate at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York. In mid June 2023, WG&M became the third law firm to represent VTB Capital since the Russian state-owned bank was sanctioned following the invasion of Ukraine.
The New York Times published emails from a longtime business associate of Trump called Felix Sater, who boasted that he had lined up financing for a Trump Tower in Moscow with VTB Bank, which is under US sanctions. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/m…
Garantex crypto exchange disrupted in international operation
Since April 2019, Garantex has processed at least $96 billion in crypto transactions, allegedly facilitated money laundering by transnational criminal organizations — and sanctions violations. justice.gov/opa/pr/garante…
Between 2019 and 2025, Aleksej Besciokov, 46, a Lithuanian national and Russian resident, and Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national, allegedly controlled and operated Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Moscow.
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Between March 2019 and March 2024, Garantex conducted at least tens of thousands of cryptocurrency transactions with U.S.-based exchanges, including 16,600 transactions in bitcoin alone with one of them.
It's known that exiled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad lives with his wife and children, Hafez, Karim, and Zein, in a comfortable central Moscow apartment. According to reports by Western and Russian media and NGO, Global Witness, Assad's maternal relatives, the Makhloufs,
owned 19 apartments, total value about $40 million. They obtained them as revenue shares from major investments in Neva Towers, formerly the Renaissance Moscow Towers project (struck by a drone July 30 2023).
Known as H6, the Chinese man was invited to the royal's birthday party in 2020, and was told by Andrew's aide Dominic Hampshire that he could help in potential dealings with Chinese investors.
The Chinese national was excluded from the UK in July 2023 after MI5 concluded he was an agent who had engaged in “covert or deceptive activity” for the Chinese Communist Party. He has now lost an appeal over the decision to ban him from Britain on national security grounds.
Putin supporter Calin Georgescu was almost unknown in Romania until he won the first round in the presidential elections two weeks ago. Romanian intelligence says his sudden, surprise popularity surge is attributable to a highly organised social media campaign.
Georgescu told the BBC that he would end all support for Ukraine if elected. "They are afraid," is how Georgescu brushed away evidence that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent pushing campaign content for him, breaking both Romanian election law and TikTok's own rules.
The vessel, named Hurry Up, was produced by Plymouth-based Princess Yachts in 2024 and imported to Russia through a foundation allegedly linked to Medvedev, Foundation for the Support of National Maritime Programs. themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/29/dmi…
Although the foundation received 2.3 billion rubles ($21.2 million) in donations in 2023, its most publicized initiative was providing kayaking equipment to a youth organization in Ukraine’s Kherson region.
The Insider's investigation identified new companies linked to Medvedev’s university friend, Ilya Yeliseyev, as well as other “nominal” owners holding assets on behalf of the Kremlin official. Medvedev’s proxies are profiting from patriotic video games and livestock farming.