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I find Andrew Yang an interesting candidate - but wasn’t aware of Russia link noted by @JuneCasagrande - Bernie Sucher - a board director of Yang’s Venture for America, co-founded Russia’s Troika Dialog, headed a subsidiary of Alfa Bank and was a former colleague of Carter Page
Bernie Sucher was Director of JKX Oil 2016-2017, where longest serving Director (1997-2016) was Raymond Asquith who is on supervisory council of Dmitry Firtash's Group DF
Bernie Sucher is now CEO of Tikun Olam USA, a joint venture with an Israeli medical cannabis company and was an original seed investor in NationBuilder
nationbuilder.com/major_investme…
And Tad Devine, who worked with Paul Manafort to elect Yanukovych president of Ukraine in 2010 before becoming Bernie Sanders chief strategist, just joined Yang’s team in November
Should clarify that Tad Devine’s firm is working for Yang politico.com/news/2019/11/0…
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Never think it can't get more thuggish...
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