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K Street lobbyist Michael Esposito's home and office raided by FBI

The FBI is investigating to see if Esposito may have defrauded his clients or engaged in any other type of financial fraud, the people said. washingtonpost.com/business/econo…
Esposito has landed top-dollar Ukrainian clients last year and collecting $1.65 million from Chinese tech giant Huawei 

In all, Esposito’s firm, Federal Advocates, pulled in five times as much money in 2018 as it did in the year before Trump took office

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The firm has high level connections within the Republican Party. Esposito is a member of the Trump Victory Finance Committee and an adviser to President Trump and Ronna Romney McDaniel, the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman.

whistleblower.org/in-the-news/th…
“Michael Esposito is the only D.C. lobbyist who worked for Mr. Trump,”
Esposito had helpedTrump, son Eric & Kushner with real estate deals.

“No other D.C. lobbying firm enjoys a previous working relationship with both Trump & his immediate family.”
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In June, Federal Advocates, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm with close ties to Trump and his family, hired Hassan Nasser Fawaz, a Lebanese banker, to introduce the firm’s lobbyists to potential clients who had been sanctioned by the USTD
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Before Fawaz became Federal Advocates’ Senior Director of International Affairs Fawaz had stints at sanctioned institutions which, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, were used by Hezbollah and a notorious drug trafficker.
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Interesting connections especially in light of what is happening today...
📌There a web of connections around the late Ahmad Chalabi, known as “the man who pushed America to war” in Iraq.

📌But before Fawaz connected with the Chalabi network, he worked for Halawi Investment Trust S.A.L., a Lebanese money transfer company.💰💦

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The Halawi exchange house was used by sanctioned drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa.

Joumaa allegedly laundered money for Hezbollah & also allegedly laundered proceeds of Colombian cocaine sales whose shipment to the US he coordinated w/ MX’s brutal Zetas cartel

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🔑In 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department called Halawi a financial institution “of prime money laundering concern.”

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After Halawi, Fawaz joined another sanctioned money launderer, al-Bilad Islamic Bank in Iraq, which now goes by Al-Ataa Islamic Bank.

Fawaz was a director of al-Bilad Bank’s now dissolved offshoot in London, al-Bilad for Investments & Finance P.S.C Ltd.

thedailybeast.com/through-hassan…
📌Al-Bilad Bank is run by Aras Habib, a former Fawaz family friend and sanctioned financier who was the intelligence chief for the Iraqi National Congress.

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🔑That’s the Iraqi dissident group run by Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi banker and politician known for feeding media and intelligence agencies fake sources on Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq War. #WMD

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Today Habib is secretary general of the Iraqi National Congress and a member of Iraq’s parliament. 

Habib is allegedly connected to Iranian intelligence.

The CIA believed Habib was a paid agent of Iran.

thedailybeast.com/through-hassan…
Habib fled Baghdad for Tehran for a time after an Iraqi arrest warrant was issued in 2004 over allegations of torture, theft and blackmail.

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The FBI also opened an investigation into whether Habib was the source of a leak of classified information to Iran that the U.S. had cracked the country’s secret codes.

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This “distancing” is interesting too:
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Trump Distances Himself From 'Man Named Michael Esposito'

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Thursday morning the FBI raided the home and office of lobbyist Michael Esposito who is close to Trump and his family and searched for evidence of possible fraud
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