Just Rudy Giuliani and Pete Sessions meeting with two Venezuelans indicted for money laundering, nothing to see here... washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Two idiots - Giuliani and Pete Sessions - taken in by the trappings of wealthy criminals on the run from the @TheJusticeDept, again, this time in Venezuela: Rudy and Alexander Betancourt, Pete Sessions and Raul Gorrin Belisario: 
.@PeteSessions met with a man who is accused of bribery, money laundering, currency exchange scams...sweet! You good with this @GOP ? 🤦🏽♀️
OMG, the guy Pete Sessions met with...ICE wants him 🤦🏽♀️ SMDH.
"Venezuelan TV magnate indicted in Miami for....bribery/ money laundering
Raul Gorrin, the owner of Globovision, is accused of paying $160M to top Venezuelan gov't officials in return for allowing him to operate a #FCPA scheme"
Pete Sessions chose HIM.
univision.com/univision-news…
Raul Gorrin, the owner of Globovision, is accused of paying $160M to top Venezuelan gov't officials in return for allowing him to operate a #FCPA scheme"
Pete Sessions chose HIM.
univision.com/univision-news…
"Between 2008 - 2013, Gorrin used a company in PANAMA to pay $160M in bribes to several unnamed senior gov't officials, including two high level Treasury Ministry officials, in order to protect a corrupt foreign currency scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars..."
"Discussions to arrange the bribes were held in So Florida and some of the payments were made from accounts in Switzerland to banks in the South Florida and New York, it adds, making the payments a crime under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act."
Washed in Panama, huh? Weird.
Washed in Panama, huh? Weird.
"Gorrin...co-owner of the pro-gov Venezuelan TV network Globovision, allegedly used the money to buy three jets, a yacht, multiple champion horses, and numerous high-end watches in the So FL and So TX, also intended as bribes and paid w/ wire transfers from Swiss bank accounts."
"The conspiracy involved Gorrin’s personal bank acct at HSBC as well as a bank in the Dominican Republic. Other payments included purchase of a $1 million home security system in Caracas..."
Weird, this is *exactly* the same lick Manafort did! LOL.
Weird, this is *exactly* the same lick Manafort did! LOL.
"...home improvements and veterinary services including the transportation of horses in Wellington, Florida, a wealthy community in Palm Beach County known for its horse farms.
The indictment includes a list of 24 seized properties in South Florida and New York."
The indictment includes a list of 24 seized properties in South Florida and New York."
"U.S. prosectors have likely missed their opportunity to arrest Gorrin, who owns a mansion in the wealthy Cocoplum neighborhood of Miami where he also keeps a yacht."
Ooh, ooh, Ask the president's lawyer and Pete Sessions, they might know his whereabouts!
Ooh, ooh, Ask the president's lawyer and Pete Sessions, they might know his whereabouts!
For yrs prosecutors were frustrated by concerns that the massive evidence of Venezuelan bribery and corruption was beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. Their chief legal weapon, the #FCPA does not apply to foreign nat'ls unless they can be tied to U.S. entities....
Did I mention that Harry Sargeant III, is caught up in this one, too?
"...Harry Sargeant III, CEO of a FL-based global energy and shipping company who has worked extensively in the country, began encouraging negotiations to ease Maduro out of office."
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
"...Harry Sargeant III, CEO of a FL-based global energy and shipping company who has worked extensively in the country, began encouraging negotiations to ease Maduro out of office."
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Wasn't Rudy caught on camera recently meeting with a young Ukrainian who was pushing a global shipping app?
Weird!
tmz.com/2019/12/29/rud…
Weird!
tmz.com/2019/12/29/rud…
"The US government is basically saying enough is enough,” said one Miami lawyer familiar with the case. "They are sending a message with this case that they have come to the conclusion that this is all money laundering and the proceeds of corruption.”
"Many of the alleged money laundering activities involved meetings with alleged conspirators in Miami, as well as investments in FL real estate and other assets...."
"They got too cocky. They were doing deals in Miami despite the risk of falling foul of US law. It was the height of arrogance. They got away with it for so long that they thought they were untouchable,” the lawyer said."
univision.com/univision-news…
univision.com/univision-news…
"'The indictment of Gorrin and the three other officials comes on the heels of another major indictment of Venezuelans accused in 7/18 of laundering $1.2B of embezzled public money through FL real estate...."
"...That case involved a senior executive at a Swiss bank in PANAMA, Matthias Krull, who pleaded guilty to his role in a laundering scheme involving the state-owned oil company PdVSA, on behalf of president Maduro and his three stepsons."
@PeteSessions When Rudy made that little comment to Laura Ingraham that he wants to "disrupt the world" - he's talking about disrupting supply chains/ networks.
They want to ship Venezuelan oil to Ukraine.
reuters.com/article/us-ven…
They want to ship Venezuelan oil to Ukraine.
reuters.com/article/us-ven…
Gorrin's indictment ( 8/16/18) happened the same month "Giuliani met in NY w/ Parnas and two American business executives with investments in Venezuela to discuss the effort, according to people familiar with the gathering."
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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"A Venezuelan billionaire [Raul Gorrin Belisario] who owns Globovision news network was charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for his role in a billion-dollar currency exchange and money laundering scheme...."
justice.gov/opa/pr/venezue…
Pete Sessions chose him. SMDH.
justice.gov/opa/pr/venezue…
Pete Sessions chose him. SMDH.
Rudy loses his job in 5/18...three months later he's meeting with Parnas and "U.S. execs with Venezuelan business interests..."
Weird!
Weird!
Rudy met and stayed with an unindicted co-conspirator in an alleged money laundering scheme, Alejandro Betancourt Lopez, at his Spanish palacio in Madrid in 8/3/19. Giuliani later lobbied the Justice Dept on Betancourt's behalf.
washingtonpost.com/politics/a-wea…
washingtonpost.com/politics/a-wea…
Sweet. 👍🏼
WANTED FOR VIOLATION OF FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT, MONEY LAUNDERING: Gorrin Belisario, Raul Antonio De La Santisima T #FCPA
ice.gov/most-wanted/be…
ice.gov/most-wanted/be…
This man is accused of laundering money through Panama, So FL, New York.
Maduros stepsons indicted for laundering money through RE in So FL...
Maduros stepsons indicted for laundering money through RE in So FL...
Via *MALTA* firm...
Stick a pin in MALTA.
Stick a pin in MALTA.
Via Mathias Krull. The man who pled guilty.
"According to US wire taps...Mathias Krull, a German national and PANAMA resident – “needed a...solution for 200M US Dollars held in European Financial Institution 1 [in MALTA] in the name of a straw owner”.
independent.com.mt/articles/2018-…
"According to US wire taps...Mathias Krull, a German national and PANAMA resident – “needed a...solution for 200M US Dollars held in European Financial Institution 1 [in MALTA] in the name of a straw owner”.
independent.com.mt/articles/2018-…
The same scheme that Pete Sessions friend is involved in (above):
Let's go back, here:
"The people said that rather than staying in a U.S. facility, Sessions stayed at Gorrín’s lavish, modernist, walled compound in a fashionable part of the capital."
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"The people said that rather than staying in a U.S. facility, Sessions stayed at Gorrín’s lavish, modernist, walled compound in a fashionable part of the capital."
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In 8/18, U.S. prosecutors charged Gorrín, Sessions’s host for the congressman’s Venezuela visit, w participating in a $1 billion money-laundering and bribery scheme. Prosecutors...said Gorrín is a fugitive...."
In 8/18, U.S. prosecutors charged Gorrín, Sessions’s host for the congressman’s Venezuela visit, w participating in a $1 billion money-laundering and bribery scheme. Prosecutors...said Gorrín is a fugitive...."
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Around that time, Giuliani...began talks with individuals who were part of the back channel to Maduro. In 8/18, Giuliani met in NY w/ Parnas and two American business executives w/ investments in Venezuela to discuss the effort, according to people familiar with the gathering."
Around that time, Giuliani...began talks with individuals who were part of the back channel to Maduro. In 8/18, Giuliani met in NY w/ Parnas and two American business executives w/ investments in Venezuela to discuss the effort, according to people familiar with the gathering."
"The Phone Call
About a month later [so, 9/18] Maduro was on the phone w/ Sessions....
Giuliani was introduced at the beginning of the call but appeared mostly to listen as Maduro and Sessions spoke, Mackowiak said."
About a month later [so, 9/18] Maduro was on the phone w/ Sessions....
Giuliani was introduced at the beginning of the call but appeared mostly to listen as Maduro and Sessions spoke, Mackowiak said."
"In the nearly hour-long conversation, they reviewed the concessions that Maduro had agreed to make during Sessions’s visit months earlier, according to the person familiar with the call.
Admin officials said:
“We didn’t know why Rudy was involved at the time,”
Admin officials said:
“We didn’t know why Rudy was involved at the time,”
"Not long after the call, Giuliani told some of his associates that he had taken the idea of a soft landing for Maduro to Bolton, the president’s national security adviser. But he said the meeting had not gone well, according to people familiar with his account."
"...Among them was Gorrín, who played a key role in a failed effort to persuade the nation’s Supreme Court to recognize Guaidó over Maduro, part of an effort to curry favor with the Americans, as The Post has reported...."
I wonder if #Venezuelans in #Miami know that Giuliani and Pete Sessions used a man Most Wanted by ICE to help secure a smooth landing for #Maduro?
Just reminding you that at the exact same time these phone calls and meetings were occurring...Rudy Giulaini's biz partners (Parnas, Fruman, Correia, et al) were laundering foreign money from Russia, into the @GOP. Boop.
@GOP And payments flowing into Rudy's pals from a guy who allegedly appears to have gotten away with stealing from Russia's banks. Weird...
@GOP in 10/18, we start the Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian prisoner attempts and swaps. Reportedly Giuliani and the Tommy Hicks Jr was involved with these...
Lev Parnas claims he met with Devin Nunes in Vienna in late 11/18 or 12/18.
Where does Devin say he really was?
Malta (where the Venezuelan money laundering was abetted) and Libya (meeting with a Libyan, Russian backed general.)
Where does Devin say he really was?
Malta (where the Venezuelan money laundering was abetted) and Libya (meeting with a Libyan, Russian backed general.)
(I deleted/restated last tweet, because General Haftar is Libyan-American, not Turkish. Yet, he's *Russia-backed,* against Turkey.)
And here's Rudy's pals popping up with him. To discuss "doing business in Libya."
Here's Parnas associate David Correia, telling us he met with Firtash and Firtash's Dubai based attorney earlier this year. Remember, Firtash is one of Putin's oligarchs.
Someone smarter than me, is directing me here: The Venezuelan money laundering by Maduro's family, via a Malta/ Maltese firm:
I'm told financier Nicholas Camilleri - who facilitated the money laundering in Venezuela - via MALTA - he shares an office suite with Dmitry Firtash's Dubai-based lawyer (Isenneger).
"Anna Chapman, one of 10 suspected Russian spies charged in the US, in 2005 was the personal assistant of *Nicholas Camilleri,* chief executive of the Mayfair-based hedge fund company Navigator Asset Management Advisers,"
independent.com.mt/articles/2010-…
independent.com.mt/articles/2010-…
"Russian 'spy' worked for Maltese financial adviser in London
"She came across as having none of those sorts of spying-type aspirations, so I can't see how she developed them later" - Nicholas Camilleri"
timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
"She came across as having none of those sorts of spying-type aspirations, so I can't see how she developed them later" - Nicholas Camilleri"
timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
Prolly nothing.
I took the FB down until I can confirm that was the same Nicholas Camilleri of Malta, as it could be a common last name.
