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30 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Revealed: Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow runs the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) which has donated $3.3 million to a Russian evangelical org with close Kremlin ties, an @openDemocracy and @MotherJones investigation reveals, by @tahovhannisyan
opendemocracy.net/en/5050/reveal…
ACLJ filings show it has sent hundreds of thousands $ a year to Moscow-based Slavic Center of Law and Justice (SCLJ), founded by ACLJ in the 1990s & led by Vladimir Ryakhovsky, a Russian lawyer who serves on Putin’s controversial human rights council

opendemocracy.net/en/5050/reveal…
This 2017 WaPo story revealed that Sekulow’s charities raised nearly $230 million in donations from 2011 to 2015 and of that $28.5 million went to Sekulow’s family or their companies
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
It's so on brand that Trump has asked Giuliani and Sekulow to oversee post election-related legal issues

thedailybeast.com/trump-taps-rud…
I wouldn't discount Giuliani - he may be incompetent as a lawyer, but he's well networked with shady characters who know how to fight dirty, not to mention having a direct line to known Russian agents...

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29 Oct
Yesterday @KlasfeldReports announced pending guilty plea, here's his thread on David Correia who has pleaded guilty to two counts false statements to the FEC and the Fraud Guarantee scheme.

David Correia ran Fraud Guarantee with Lev Parnas and paid Rudy Giuliani $500,000
David Correia agrees to forfeiture and to repay over $2.3 million to victims of the Fraud Guarantee scheme

Important note by @benbwieder - David Correia is not cooperating with the government

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28 Oct
Around 2010 before Trump defaulted on Chicago tower payments, Fortress expected over $300 million - $130 million in principal and roughly $185 million in interest and fees

Fortress & partners (including Mnuchin's Dune) settled for $48 million

nytimes.com/2020/10/27/bus…
Last year I had caught this from a description of the Fortress loan in a 2008 WSJ article which noted the loan of $130 million with the exit fee and interest could end up costing up to $360 million

NYT notes in 2014 Deutsche loaned Trump more $ due 2024 for total of $69mil and by May 2016 he repaid $24mil

Article doesn't mention that day after the election, there was a partial release of $53.7mil

@davidenrich @susannecraig @russbuettner @mmcintire
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25 Oct
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

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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.”

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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23 Oct
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

CEFC's activity has been odd for years
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

Oleg Deripaska's EN+ listed on London Stock Exchange and raised $500 million from CEFC through subsidiary AnAn Group

EN+ was Russia's largest global IPO after they were sanctioned for Crimea, and an important test of raising $ through public offerings

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21 Oct
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

miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
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

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21 Oct
omg

"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"

theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/…
The personal lawyer for the president of the United States🤦‍♀️

Thx @BoratSagdiyev

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