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How Giuliani got involved in back-channel talks with Maduro - in Sept 2018 Giuliani and then-Rep Pete Sessions (TX) had a previously unreported phone call with Maduro as part of a shadow diplomatic effort (that also included Lev Parnas and Harry Sargeant)
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This summer Venezuelan energy exec Alejandro Betancourt López, Chmn/CEO of Derwick Associates, hired Giuliani to help argue he should not be charged in a $1.2 billion money laundering case in Florida related to Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Former TX Rep Pete Seesions (who will be running again in 2020), who was involved with Giuliani and Parnas in shadow diplomacy in Ukraine & Venezuela - is the son of ex FBI director William Sessions who represented Russian mafia boss Semion Mogilevich
2007 WSJ story described how Pete Sessions father William Sessions represented Mogilevich and talks with DOJ were brokered by Washington security expert Neil Livingstone

Neil Livingstone unsuccessfully ran for governor of Montana in 2012 w/Ryan Zinke

wsj.com/articles/SB117…
And @annmarlowe reported that Neil Livingstone - who was involved with William Sessions in 2007 discussions between DOJ & Semion Mogilevich - set up a company in 2018 w/ex Trump campaign advisor Walid Phares and Libyan general Hafter's son Okba Hafter
@annmarlowe Per recent story by @VickyPJWard Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman's associate David Correia used Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Walid Phares to set up 2018 mtg w/Okba Haftar, son of Libyan general Khalifa Haftar re: doing business in Libya
@annmarlowe @VickyPJWard In 07 ex FBI dir William Sessions repped Mogilevich, Neil Livingstone brokered DOJ talks

Now W. Sessions son ex-rep Pete Sessions is involved w/Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman in Urkaine & Venezuela and David Correia was in touch w/Livingstone's biz partners Walid Phares, Okba Haftar
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@maddow The cynic in me expected another Felix Sater or Lanny Davis interview😴 but this is🔥
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A new name in the Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman, Firtash saga: Dmitry Torner - Torner is a Firtash executive who was an aspiring Ukrainian politician, later accused by Ukrainian authorities of escaping incarceration in Moldova and living under a new name
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Never think it can't get more thuggish...
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