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