Just a lil note on timing. Something I’ve been thinking about.
August 14, 2020, this story is published. Breaks news: criminal referrals to DoJ from Senate Intel re possible perjury by Bannon, Don Jr, Kushner, Manafort, Hope Hicks. latimes.com/politics/story…
Referral made 3 months after 4/18/19, but before 7/26/19. So, call it sometime between 7/19/19-7/25/19 that the criminal referral is made by bipartisan Senate Intel, signed by Warner & Burr.
5 days after the criminal referral re perjury breaks, WSJ news division (the good side of WSJ, not the shit tier editorial side) breaks this:
“According to the superseding indictment, Xizhi Li, Jianxing Chen, Jiayu Chen, Eric Yong Woo, Jingyuan Li, Tao Liu, and others participated in a years’ long conspiracy to use casinos, front companies, foreign and domestic bank accounts, and bulk... justice.gov/opa/pr/united-…
... cash smuggling to launder money on behalf of drug trafficking organizations.”
“The superseding indictment also alleges that Tao Liu planned to bribe a U.S. Department of State official using wire transfers and cryptocurrency to create U.S. passports that he and his associates would use to enter the United States and engage in additional crimes, including..