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A brief thread on a few Erik Prince deals to watch:

Dec '19 Prince's Frontier Services Group & CITIC Capital invested $50mil in Frontier Strategic Resources Fund run by Prince pals Dorian Barak & J. David Whittingham

Prince invested in Agent Vi w/Dorian Barak, KuangChi Science
As @RYP__ tweeted in Dec 2019 Frontier Strategic Resources Fund was created

In Jan 2020, Frontier Services Group, founded by Erik Prince and now majority owned by Chinese state-owned CITIC, announced that FSG and CITIC Capital Holdings each committed $25 million and each own 50% of Frontier Strategic Resources Fund.

fsgroup.com/en/news/show-5…
Per their LinkedIn pages, the two founders of Frontier Strategic Capital which includes Frontier Strategic Resources (private equity fund) are Dorian Barak and J. David Whittingham, both associates of Erik Prince

If appears that Dorian Barak is still closely involved with Erik Prince since Barak is managing a new fund created in Dec 2019, that is co-owned by Prince-founded Frontier Services Group and CITIC

Dorian Barak lists on his LinkedIn that he is a director of Agent Video Intelligence (aka Agent Vi) a global provider of video analytics in over 30 countries

linkedin.com/in/dorian-bara…
A 2017 Haeertz article said Erik Prince had invested in Israeli companies Agent Vi, as well as NowForce (security) through a venture capital fund called Indigo Strategic Capital -- run then by Dorian Barak and former Netanyahu Chief of Staff Ari Harow

haaretz.com/israel-news/re…
A 2020 filing for Agent Video Intelligence, incorporated in Florida in 2007, lists Dorian Barak as director, as well as Ji Chunlin, one of the founders of KuangChi Science

opencorporates.com/companies/us_f…

search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corpor…
Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi) (investors include Dorian Barak, Erik Prince, KuangChi Science) signed MOU with Huawei Jul 2017 for partnership to develop video cloud solution for Safe City Market, connected to city surveillance cameras and video feeds
agentvi.com/2017/07/05/hua…
I had included KuangChi Science on this (now outdated) chart of new Cambridge Analytica company Emerdata, because it had two directors - Dorian Barak and Johnson Chun Shun Ko - who are both closely linked to Erik Prince

medium.com/@wsiegelman/ch…
Here's the 2016 press release announcing KuangChi Science invested $4.3 million in video analytics company Agent Vi

prnewswire.com/in/news-releas…
Dorian Barak's LinkedIn profile lists co-founder of the Gulf-Israel Business Council since Mar 2020

The first tweet from a 'Gulf-Israel Business Council' twitter account created in August was about Trump announcement of normalized relations

Not clear (yet) if they are linked
Prince associate Dorian Barak creating the Gulf-Israel Business Council is interesting - when I heard about the Israel-UAE agreement, the first question I had was - which companies will benefit from investment discussions as part of the deal
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Nice catch by @stevebenen on USPS head DeJoy

In 2017, the RNC announced 4 national finance chairs: Steve Wynn (accused of sexual misconduct), Elliott Broidy (under investigation), Michael Cohen (guilty & served time) & Louis DeJoy (dismantling USPS)

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I was recently reminded about this 2017 tweet on the Mercer's Reclaim New York with board director Leonard Leo

Since then we've seen Leo's massive influence picking judicial appointments

So here are a few new findings and old references on Leo / thread

To start, for anyone who needs some background, here’s a great thread by @emlas from 2018 on Leonard Leo and his many ties to dark money groups
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In 2017 Rebekah Mercer was Chairman & Treasurer, Brandon Muir Exec Director, Jennifer Mercer Dir & Sect, and Leonard Leo was Director
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