Great overview of Erik Prince's history, work for repressive regimes, new questions on a mercenary fiasco in Libya, efforts to revive Blackwater and new info on Prince's work w/Roger Stone to suppress black voter turnout in 2016 election, by @seth_hettena
Erik Prince claim he acted as a private citizen & not on behalf of Trump admin is ludicrous
In 2nd Seychelles mtg w/Dmitriev he said Libya was off the table - US didn't need help from Russia on Libya
He wants us to believe he told Russia what to do without okay from Trump team?
Ex-Army paratrooper and former private military contractor Sean McFate on Erik Prince:
“He’s an attention-seeking Kardashian who’s largely despised...On top of that, he’s a failure as a mercenary … He doesn’t have any successful operations.”
New @seth_hettena scoop on Erik Prince and Roger Stone effort to suppress the black vote - Prince emailed contacts to raise $, effort involved Danney Williams who claims to be Bill Clinton's illegitimate son
“We do not need to make major gains among African American voters, we merely need to dampen turn out and make it difficult for black Democratic elected officials in Hillary’s pocket [to] turn out black voters at Obama-like levels.”
I wonder how Erik Prince's work with Roger Stone on "Project Clintonson" that aimed to dampen Black voter turnout aligned with the ‘Deterrence’ work of the Trump digital team in 2016 that was recently revealed by @Channel4News
Oct 2016 Bannon introduced Bruce Carter to Darren Blanton, founder of Colt Ventures, to help raise $
Blanton's name appeared recently - listed as a director, along with Bannon, of Guo Wengui's GTV Media, which is being investigated by federal authorities
It surprised me to see China's CEFC in the new Hunter Biden conspiracy
Since 2017 I've tweeted 50+ times on huge deals CEFC pursued with Russia - w/Deripaska's EN+ and a Rosneft deal that fell thru when CEFC corruption was exposed
In 2017 CEFC and Rosneft announced an agreement for CEFC to invest over $8 billion in Rosneft - which would have been the largest Chinese investment in Russia in a decade
The deal fell through when CEFC was investigated for corruption
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) sanctioned since 2013 has 3 websites w/videos hosted in US by Webzilla part of XBT - the first foreign co allowed to operate servers in Russia & reported to host porn sites & Methbot adv scams, by @KevinGHall
Webzilla appears indirectly in FinCEN Files in a Barclays Bank filing about Ukrainian Maxim Polyakov who grew wealthy off adult websites owned by Alcuda Ltd - a regulatory filing cited suspicious wire transfers & possible fraud on the adult-dating sites miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
Last year WSJ reported that Max Polyakov was one of two people the Trump administration approached about possibly acquiring Ukrainian aerospace manufacturer Motor Sich to prevent China from buying the firm, the other person approached was Erik Prince
"Even before he reaches into his trousers, Giuliani does not appear to acquit himself especially impressively during the encounter. Flattered and flirtatious, he drinks scotch, coughs" & "agrees–in theory at least–to eat a bat with his interviewer"
As Trump and senate republicans cry foul over Hunter Biden - who never worked in the WH - and his business deals in China, taxes reveal China is one of 3 foreign countries where Trump has a bank account and paid taxes @mmcintire@susannecraig@russbuettner nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/…
The foreign accts don't appear on Trump’s public financial disclosures which lists personal assets because they're held under corporate names
The Chinese acct controlled by Trump International Hotels Management LLC paid $188,561 taxes in China 2015-2016
Ex-Trump fundraiser & RNC finance co-chair Elliott Broidy agrees to forfeit $6.6 million as part of guilty plea
This plea deal relates to Malaysia and China - but Broidy earned hundreds of millions in other deals worldwide while leveraging WH ties, this is a drop in the bucket
Elliott Broidy's private security company Circinus LLC (listed under global vendor name Threat Deterrence Capital LLC) secured at least $800 million in foreign defense contracts since Trump took office
In 2009 Elliott Broidy pleaded guilty in pay-to-play scheme - & paid $1mil in gifts to NY pension fund officials in exchange for $250mil for his Markstone fund to manage
Braidy Industries - KY company that accepted $15 million investment from the state and Oleg Deripaska's Rusal had pledged a $200 million investment - has changed their name to Unity Aluminum and have new leadership in place (after another turnover in Jan)
In January 2020 there was some drama at Braidy Industries when the board removed Chairman and CEO Craig Bouchard (who declined to step down) and finally the new CEO Tom Modrowski took over
Deripaska's Rusal invested $65 million in KY mill in 2019
Per Aug story Rusal, 40% owner of Braidy Atlas Mill & chief raw product supplier, contributed $75mil in 4-months before pausing late 2019 until Braidy put in $300mil, Rusal then took back $10 mil