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1/ 💡Was #UkrainePerryGate a reboot of business model that worked so well for "war profiteer" Harry Sargeant III during Iraq War? (more)
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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1180616244174540800

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 2/ No footnote cited in Wikipedia entry for Harry Sargeant III, but:
"A Pentagon audit has found that the federal gov't overpaid Harry Sargeant III by as much as $200 million on several military contracts worth nearly $2.7 billion. (con't)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Sar…

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 3/ ...The audit by the Defense Dept's inspector general, which was posted on the Pentagon's Web site this week [❓], estimated that the department paid the oilman '$160 [million] to $204 million more for fuel than could be supported by price or cost analysis.'" (more...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 4/ The study also reported that the three contracts were awarded 👉under conditions that effectively eliminated the other bidders👈."
Sounds like Harry Sargeant III had himself a sweet business model during the Iraq🇮🇶 War. (more...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 5/ So Sargeant thinks: reboot business model w/Ukraine🇺🇦, staring w/a (front) company to corner the market on transporting LNG from the US to Ukraine🇺🇦.
"Their plan was to...steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies..."
Oct 7, 2019:
apnews.com/d7440cffba4940…

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 6/ In addition to setting up a front company to accept contract awards from Naftogaz🇺🇦, Harry Sargeant III's reboot plan required new people in these positions:
✅US Ambassador to Ukraine🇺🇦
❌Naftogaz🇺🇦 CEO and advisory board members (more...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 7/ AP reports that at a Houston energy conference in 👉early Mar 2019👈, Sargeant/Fruman/Parnas told Naftogaz🇺🇦 exec Andrew Favorov they would like him [Favorov] to replace current Naftogaz CEO, saying Trump approved. Favorov considered this offer to be a "shakedown." more...

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 8/ At early Mar 2019 meeting, "Favorov said Parnas told him Trump planned to remove US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and replace her w/someone more open to aiding their business interests."
Yovanovitch was recalled on May 7, effective May 20, 2019: (more)
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 9/ AP reports that while in Kiev🇺🇦 for Zelensky's May 20, 2019 inauguration, DOE Perry, EU🇪🇺 Ambassador Gordon Sondland and former Ukraine🇺🇦 special envoy Kurt Volker met w/Ukrainian "officials & energy sector ppl" and demanded Naftogaz🇺🇦 CEO & advisory board be replaced. (more)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 10/ AP: Giuliani "did describe Sergeant as a friend and referred to Parnas and Fruman as his clients in a tweet in May."
Oct 8, 2019, h/t @Agenthades1:
"Trump directed Sec'y of Energy Rick Perry and 2 top State Dept officials to deal w/...Rudy Giuliani...

https://twitter.com/Kyle_Feldscher/status/1181724833299783681

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 11/ ...when the Ukrainian🇺🇦 President sought to meet Trump, in a clear circumvention of official channels, according to two sources familiar with the conversation." (more from CNN...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 12/ "At the May 23 meeting, 👉Perry👈, US Ambassador to the European Union🇪🇺 Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, then the State Dept's special representative to Ukraine🇺🇦, were reporting back to Trump after they returned from Zelensky's inauguration." (more from CNN...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 13/ "Perry had led the delegation who attended Zelensky's🇺🇦 inauguration, and was 👉a central figure in the May meeting with Trump👈."
"Perry acknowledged speaking to Giuliani, according to an Energy Department spokesperson." (more...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 14/ Politico reported on Saturday, Oct 5:
"Perry floated for potential new [Naftogaz🇺🇦] board members...Robert Bensh, a Houston oil executive currently with Pelicourt LLC, as well as Michael Bleyzer*, head of a private equity firm based in Houston."
*Also a Perry donor, per AP

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 15/ Back to Harry Sargeant III, who basically had the kleptocracy baton passed to him from Cheney's Halliburton:
"Dem chairman of a House investigative cmte presented documents to the Pentagon on Thu charging that a top Republican fund-raiser
Oct 16, 2008:
nytimes.com/2008/10/17/wor…

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 16/ ...Harry Sargeant III, made tens of millions of dollars in profits over the last four years because his contracting company 👉vastly overcharged👈 for deliveries of fuel to American air bases in Iraq🇮🇶." (more...)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 17/ "Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates... uses e-mail messages, company documents, Pentagon reports and other information to make the case that Mr. Sargeant repeatedly received contracts... (con't)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 18/ ...to deliver the fuel even though his company was not the lowest bidder. In one case, the letter from Mr. Waxman, chairman of the House Cmte on Oversight and Govt Reform, asserts that Mr. Sargeant’s company submitted the highest of 6 bids, but received the contract anyway."

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 19/ "as a result, Mr Waxman’s letter says, the company has been paid $1.4 billion on 4 different contracts for the fuel deliveries and made a profit of $210 million after expenses."
“Mr Sargeant’s personal gain from these 4 contracts may have been $70 million or higher." (more..)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 20/ " Late in 2003 Mr. Waxman charged that Kellogg Brown & Root, then part of Halliburton, the company led by Dick Cheney before he became vice president, had been overcharging for fuel. Although the company strongly disputed allegations of overcharging... (con't)

@Agenthades1 @brazencapital @Peaceful_411 @SaysDana @LincolnsBible @MsMariaT @DerWouter @j2dumfounded @StacyJannis @modernhomesla @mrspanstreppon @PortlusGlam @ThomasS4217 @TheViewFromLL2 21/ ...the Pentagon eventually terminated fuel-delivery duties for KBR, which is the company’s name now that it has left Halliburton. When the work was divided up and re-bid, the I.O.T.C. [Sargeant's company] won 4 successive contracts to bring fuel through Jordan."/more tomorrow