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Sep 18, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Trump’s Turkish Bromance: Oligarchs, Crooks & Multi-Million$ Deals

In Jan '17 Turkey’s foreign minister Çavuşoğlu met w/Mübariz Mansimov (now on trial on terrorism charges), lobbyist Brian Ballard & middleman Lev Parnas

by @AubreyBelford @KlasfeldReports
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Lev Parnas was introduced to Mübariz Mansimov--a Turkish-Azerbaijani shipping magnate who bragged about close ties to Erdoğan and is now on trial in Turkey on terrorism charges--by Igor Fruman in Dec 2016, at Fruman's Buddha Bar in Kyiv

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After Jan '17 meeting Brian Ballard signed lobbying contracts including $125,000 per month deal representing Halkbank, Parnas was paid $45,000

The lobbying contracts were established with help of Parnas, Mansimov and Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov

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May 11 2017 days before a notorious incident in which Erdoğan’s bodyguards beat protesters in D.C. Ballard Partners signed its first Turkey-related lobbying contract

Video below of bodyguards beating protesters while Ballard made $
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In 2017 Lev Parnas and David Correia tried to get $100mil from Farkhad Akhmedov to finance the purchase and renovation of the 100-year-old historic St. Louis Railway exchange

Here's a thread I did on Buddha Bar, Igor Fruman and his brother who managed Buddha Bar London for a short time frame

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Mar 25
I've been following Trump $ for years - OGE filings, real estate deals, loans, NYAG fraud case, DWAC and Trump Media & Technology Group merger, etc

Subscribe for emails when I publish, all content is free and donate to support this ongoing work here 👉 👈 newstracs.com
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Quick 🧵 of my recent pieces

Trump has over half a billion dollars in legal penalties – a review of nine+ years of Trump’s cash spreadsheets reveals new information and raises new questions

newstracs.com/trumps-cash-ba…
Update on recent investments made by Jared Kushner’s multi-billion-dollar Saudi-backed Affinity Partners and how the firm links to the Abraham Accords Peace Institute nonprofit Kushner created

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Mar 22
The merger of Trump's media company and DWAC was approved and may trade next week under the stock symbol DJT

The deal will pump $300 million into Trump Media and support Truth Social

Trump’s stake could be worth up to $3 billion

Hang on to your seats
nytimes.com/2024/03/22/bus…
Merger of Trump's TMTG and DWAC approved today - Trump Media will trade under symbol DJT as early as next week and may be worth billions to Trump

There's a 6 month lock up period, but info in article below on how Trump could access the $ or loans earlier
Digital World Acquisition Corp Form 8-K with info on stockholder approval of the merger of DWAC and Trump Media & Technology Group



And the press release with quotes from Eric Swider, CEO of Digital World and TMTG CEO Devin Nunes

sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
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Mar 21
A lot of people asking how Trump will pay over half a billion are missing this story

Trump’s social media company TMTG is set to go public as early as Monday. He could borrow against the value of his stake - which may go up $3 billion

by @MattGoldstein26
nytimes.com/2024/03/21/bus…
Trump's TMTG is merging with Digital World Acquisition Corporation.

DWAC shareholders are expected to approve the merger Friday - and the company could trade under stock symbol DJT by Monday.

Trump’s 79 million shares will be worth more than $3 billion.
nytimes.com/2024/03/21/bus…
"But it is hard to predict how shares of Trump Media will trade, given that it is losing tens of millions of dollars and generated just $3.3 million in advertising revenue over the first nine months of last year."

nytimes.com/2024/03/21/bus…
Read 9 tweets
Mar 18
Trump has $500+ million in penalties

The media asks how he'll pay but few looked into NYAG fraud case exhibits on his past cash balances. So I did.

I compiled data on Trump's cash/short term investments 2013-2021 to reveal new info, insights & questions

newstracs.com/trumps-cash-ba…
To understand Trump's cash position I compiled new info on his cash and short term investments based on docs available in the NYAG fraud case exhibits 

There's a lot of new info - I'll thread some details and highlights below, please read and share 

newstracs.com/trumps-cash-ba…
Trump’s cash and short-term investments ranged from $75mil to almost $340mil from 2011-2021

As might be expected his cash declined ahead of the 2016 election, then jumped from $92mil in 2020 to $293mil in 2021

There is much more detail in the accounts...
newstracs.com/trumps-cash-ba…
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Mar 15
Jared Kushner’s Firm Eyes Billion-Dollar Deals in the Balkans - his Affinity Partners plans to transform Albania’s Sazan Island into a luxury Aman branded eco-resort community

Firm also looking into renewable energy, data centers, AI

HT @JelenaRadojici7
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jared Kushner researched potential deals in the Balkans for his firm Affinity Partners "with his friends Ric Grenell, who served as US Ambassador to Germany during the Trump administration, and Asher Abehsera"

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Jared Kushner said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in Albania and Serbia.

These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with foreign governments.

HT @StringwallApp
nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/…
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Mar 12
'Enough is enough' says Ukrainian oligarch charged 10 years ago in mysterious Chicago bribe case

The media (in this case the ABC7 I-Team) doing the work of indicted oligarch Dmitry Firtash and his legal team by parroting their words as a 'news' story Image
Dmitry (aka Dmytro) Firtash has had ties to the Kremlin, Gazprom & reputed Russian mafia ties

Reminder that Firtash hired Trump aligned lawyers Toensing & diGenova and paid Lev Parnas while they were all hunting for dirt on Biden ahead of 2020 election

In 2023 Firtash was suspected of embezzlement in Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine/SBU said Firtash and managers of his companies were served with "notices of suspicion" of embezzlement of up to $484 million in Ukraine gas transit system scheme

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