Musatov had been getting ready to travel to Athens to attend a court session regarding the appeal on the Greek Supreme Court’s decision to extradite Vinnik to France - when he died in an accident, HT @willjordan
SEC charged Cantor Fitzgerald, led by Trump’s Commerce pick Howard Lutnick, with breaking securities laws re: disclosures by blank-check companies before they raised money from the public. Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to settle and pay $6.75mil civil penalty. cnbc.com/2024/12/12/sec…
Here's SEC filing re: Cantor Fitzgerald - concerning materially false and misleading statements made by two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) controlled by Cantor Fitzgerald - re: CFAC II merger w/View, Inc. and CFAC V merger w/Satellogic Inc. sec.gov/files/litigati…
Cantor’s settlement echoes $18mil settlement Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) agreed to pay SEC in July 2023 after charges of fraud for failing to disclose to investors DWAC had merger discussions with Trump’s then-private company Trump Media cnbc.com/2024/12/12/sec…
Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix beats £16M ($20.4mil) claim over business collapse and convinced judge he is owed $12mil
London judge rejects claims by Cambridge Analytica companies Emerdata & Dynamo Recoveries (led by Rebekah Mercer) against Nix law360.com/articles/22703…
Link below to 115pg Approved judgement on 2 cases between Dynamo Recoveries Ltd, Emerdata Ltd v Alexander Nix, and between Nix v Emerdata
Claims against Nix were dismissed and Nix's claim for $12 million of outstanding debts from Emerdata has succeeded maitlandchambers.com/images/uploads…
A central part of the case against Alexander Nix made by Emerdata & Dynamo, led by Rebekah Mercer, was that Nix allegedly breached his duty by pitching prospective customer (an undercover Channel 4 reporter) use of entrapment, honeytraps, bribery to discredit political opponents
@hrw Here's my 2022 chart showing Saudi Arabian funding Saudi Arabia funding of Donald Trump and Jared Kushner – the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and LIV Golf
A🧵on Ryan Girdusky (banned by CNN for racist remark inciting violence) and financial links to Leonard Leo
In 2022 a nonprofit closely linked to Leo called The Concord Fund gave $270K to Girdusky's nonprofit and Leo's Marble Trust paid $888K to a firm run by Girdusky's relatives
In 2022 the Concord Fund (formerly JCN) run by Ann Corkery gave $270,000 to Ryan Girdusky's 1776 Education Project. Ann & husband Neil are tied closely to Leonard Leo. Neil is CFO of Leo's for profit CRC Advisors which The Concord Fund has paid over $20mil projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…
Ryan Girdusky's 1776 Education Project nonprofit filing for 2022 shows total contributions of $210,000 - less than $270,000 in The Concord Fund filing (perhaps due payment timing) but it appears the Leo-linked fund may fully support Girdusky's nonprofit
NEW: Elon Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC has spent $144 million and over 40% went to Phil Cox - I analyzed FEC filings and found that $61.7 million was paid to firms linked to former GOP and DeSantis operative Phil Cox, who helps run America PAC, my latest: newstracs.com/musks-america-…
America PAC received $140 million and Musk funded $118.5 million
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s former Secretary of Education and sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, donated $250,000 and with 6 members of the DeVos family provided $2 million to Musk’s PAC
America PAC has made $144 million in payments - of those $136 million are independent expenditures - payments to influence a federal election that support or oppose specific candidates
88% of expenditures were to support Trump or oppose Harris or Biden
Today @RepRaskin & @RonWyden urge DOJ to appoint special counsel to investigate FARA violations by Jared Kushner
Kushner Acted as a Shadow Diplomat & Political Adviser to Crown Prince MBS Who Directed Billions in Saudi $ to Kushner-Owned Affinity Partners oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-rel…
Here's 8pg letter from @RepRaskin & @RonWyden to AG Merrick Garland urging DOJ to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”) by Trump’s son-in-law and former senior WH adviser, Jared Kushner oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…
@RepRaskin @RonWyden Here's my latest piece on how Jared Kushner’s Saudi-funded Affinity Partners has invested over $1 billion – including in an obscure deal with WeWork’s ex-CEO Adam Neumann