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Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
NEW from our ##FinCENFiles cache of records. This story is amazing.

A Russian Billionaire With Close Ties To Putin And the White House Made $600K in Suspicious Payments To Nobu

🍣🍣🍣 buzzfeednews.com/article/johnte…
Here is the 15-page suspicious activity report a bank sent to Treasury's Financial crimes Enforcement Network regarding these suspicious payments, revealed here for the first time #FinCENFiles

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🚨Confidential government documents reveal that for a time, Crocus International, headed by billionaire Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov, paid Nobu’s hefty licensing fees through untraceable offshore companies, which are a red flag for possible money laundering
The arrangement led the bank’s investigators to threaten to stop accepting the payments entirely. Some came through a Latvian bank that has since been shut down due to its involvement in a Russian money laundering scheme.

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Sep 11
The Epstein emails obtained by @business also includes an accountant's spreadsheet itemizing nearly 2,000 gifts, luxury items and payments totaling $1.8M, with notations indicating they were intended for Epstein’s friends, business associates and victims.

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One entry in the spreadsheet showed an $11,000 Rolex watch was itemized in August 2003 as a gift for Tom Barrack, the wealthy real estate investor and longtime friend of Trump who’s now the US ambassador to Turkey. 

Three years later, in May 2006, Barrack’s assistant sent an email to Epstein’s assistant requesting a time change to a scheduled meeting between Barrack and Epstein because of “something urgent” that had come up.

“Tom would be willing to meet him at his home or office, whatever works,” Barrack’s assistant wrote. Epstein suggested they meet at his home.

A representative for Barrack declined to comment about the meeting, but said Barrack “has never received any gift ever from Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, let alone a watch.”
Another entry detailed a $71,000 purchase at Lexus of Watertown in Massachusetts for then-Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, who was part of the legal team involved in Epstein’s plea negotiations at the time.

Dershowitz told Bloomberg that the car was for his wife, who often picked up Epstein when he visited them in Martha’s Vineyard, and was considered a part of his legal fees.
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Sep 11
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @business has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role

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Maxwell has maintained she was kept in the dark about details of Epstein's initial sexual abuse case in the mid-2000s. Yet the emails demonstrate her deep knowledge of the legal jeopardy he faced and show how she helped him strategize over even the most consequential details.
Maxwell opened at least one foreign bank account using one of his addresses, was a named director on one of Epstein’s main revenue-generating companies and traded stock in a company they were both invested in, details that haven’t been previously reported.
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Aug 8
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out!

An index from an 8-year-old #FOIA lawsuit shows what's in the FBI's Epstein files: bank and phone records, photographs, communications with foreign govt agencies & other revealing material related to its 2006 probe

bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Something else that’s noteworthy from the index: the FBI’s investigation into Epstein remained active after he pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation in Florida in 2008 and was released from prison in 2009. Some of the documents that were processed and withheld are from 2011, and include dozens of photographs, agents’ interview notes of third parties, and documents provided to the FBI by confidential sources.
Separately, the FBI created a spreadsheet that contains a detailed breakdown of the documents it processed. Importantly, it reveals that the FBI conducted 55 interviews with witnesses, victims and potential investigative targets between 2006 and 2008.

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Aug 1
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
A FBI team, made up of personnel from thê bureau's #FOIA office and were tasked with conducting a final review f tne voluminous cache, had applied thê redactions. They used the 9 exemptions under the FOIA as a guide (as reported in2 March) in s deciding what information to withhold
From the government's perspective, Trump was a private citizen when thè Epstein investigation took place and therefore is entitled to privacy protections.
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May 21
SCOOP: In Feb, federal agencies "lost" many #FOIA requests but you probably had no idea. It turns out that the FOIAs disappeared due to an "insider threat attack" by 2 employees at a software company who were previously convicted of hacking into the State Dept

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🎁 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Opexus, which is owned by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo and provides software services for processing US government records, was compromised in February by two employees who'd previously been convicted of hacking into the US State Department.
The findings were detailed in separate reports by Opexus and an independent cybersecurity firm. I reviewed copies of both reports. The investigations found that the employees, twin brothers Muneeb and Suhaib Akhter, improperly accessed sensitive docs and compromised or deleted dozens of databases, including those that contained data from the IRS and GSA. The brothers have since been terminated.
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May 5
SCOOP: The Trump administration is “decommissioning” a Department of Justice office that been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings

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Leaders of the unit, called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, or OCDETF, were told they had until Sept. 30 to shut down operations.
An email sent last Monday by a DOJ budget analyst to a counterpart at OCDETF said that the unit’s fiscal year 2026 budget would be “zeroed out” and the independent office dissolved, according to records I obtained in response to a #FOIA request people familiar with the matter.
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