Susan Collins wrote legislation while on a key Senate committee that appears to have helped her husband Thomas Daffron's lobbying firm Jefferson Consulting earn tens of millions in federal contracts from 2006-2016, by @SollenbergerRC HT @summer7570
Exclusive: Susan Collins' plight gets worse with new corruption allegation, possible ethics probe - Ethics watchdog accuses Maine senator of "blatant corruption" after GOP tax bill sweetened husband's investments
Dems Take Aim At Susan Collins’ Lobbyist Husband As Maine Race Heats Up - The senator backed policies that benefited her husband’s consulting business. Republicans target Sara Gideon’s husband in attack ads too huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
In 2013 the year after Susan Collins left the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, her husband Thomas Daffron's firm Jefferson Consulting won a $49 million contract with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) salon.com/2020/10/12/sus…
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Maybe MSM journalists can ask Trump admin why a business partner with Burisma was suggested to join Naftogaz board if associating with Burisma is so problematic...
I heard Robert Bensh was appointed in March 2020 through @ktskts11
This September article said Dmitry Rybolovlev was in talks with Greek Development Ministry for the creation of a battery factory and 200 million-euro investment for "production of high-standard batteries by Innolith, a company majority owned by Rybolovlev" ekathimerini.com/257445/article…
When Rybolovlev's Swiss based Alevo's NC battery plant went bankrupt Innolith bought some assets including a GridBank unit that had been hooked up to the PJM network in MD - a regional transmission org that manages grid reliability for 65 million+ people
Great @ktskts11 catch in Senate Intel Russia report
Darren Blanton - founded Colt Ventures, worked w/Michael Flynn, Jon Iadonisis, Tim Newberry - emailed Flynn & Peter Thiel re: Big League Truth Team set-up Oct '16 to push Trump campaign messaging
Trump engineered sudden windfall in 2016 as campaign funds dwindled - Tax records expose over $21mil in unusual payments from Las Vegas hotel Trump owns w/Phil Ruffin, routed through Trump cos and paid out in cash, by @susannecraig@mmcintire@russbuettner nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"The bulk of the money went through a company called Trump Las Vegas Sales and Marketing that had little previous income, no clear business purpose and no employees. The Trump-Ruffin joint venture wrote it all off as a business expense."
Tax records show Trump Las Vegas Sales and Marketing had little income, with profits of $54,924 in 2007 & $420,756 in 2008. Then, in 2016, came a payment of $13,756,623
Ethics filing said company had a deal with a subsidiary of but no other details given
Elliott Broidy (ex RNC finance cmte co-chair w/Steve Wynn, Michael Cohen, Louis DeJoy) charged for lobbying and getting paid millions to pressure DOJ to drop 1MDB charges against Malaysian financier Jho Low and trying to extradite Guo Wengui to China