Prince Andrew Helped a Secretive Luxembourg Bank Woo Sketchy Clients - The embattled royal’s friendship w/financier David Rowland lent cachet to Banque Havilland - a criminal probe of the bank started in 2018 is still open, by @GavinFinchBBG@harrynwilson bloomberg.com/news/features/…
David Rowland created Banque Havilland after purchasing part of Iceland's Kaupthing Bank where the Tchenguiz brothers had been the largest clients
@annmarlowe reported Vincent Tchenguiz was largest shareholder of SCL Group/Cambridge Analytica until 2015
This story describes a plan prepared by Banque Havilland for the UAE to wage financial war against Gulf rival Qatar found in email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to US, and close Kushner associate, Yousef al-Otaiba
Pro-Trump Voter Integrity Fund run by Matt Braynard bought data on millions of PA GA WI MI AZ NV voters & is calling voters to find errors, federal chief information security officer Camilo Sandoval took leave to work with group by @EllieRushing@wbender99 inquirer.com/politics/penns…
Sandoval, ex director of data and voter contact ops on Trump’s 2016 campaign - when Sandoval was chief info officer at the VA in 2018, Dems called for his removal for allegations of harassment and rampant interpersonal conflicts among other reasons inquirer.com/politics/penns…
Fed govt’s chief information security officer is helping outside effort to hunt for alleged voter fraud
A spokeswoman for WH OMB where Sandoval works said he was on leave, but didn't respond when asked whether he was continuing to receive his govt salary
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
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…
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
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
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
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.”
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