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26 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Another indictment in the PDVSA case for bribery & money laundering associated with Venezeula's state oil company.

Natalino D’Amato is indicted & DOJ orders seizure of $45M in illicit proceeds of the scheme. Crimes were disguised as contracts. #ButNothingsHappening
Press release says he laundered the cash into FLorida businesses that he owned. A quick search found these entities listed...
search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corpor…
Seems D'Amato took a cut of $45M on $160M being laundered through his businesses, passing on the rest to others not identified in the indictment. But at least some of it was used on behalf of Venezuelan officials, wonder if this was some of the cash donated to US politicians?
Looks like the seizure of the assets case started under seal in February of 2019. Looks like it took until Sept of 2019 until they could serve the papers on D'Amato...
They have unsealed much of the documents in the case.
courtlistener.com/docket/1696386…
Found one of his companies, it has several other offices listed in various roles. Looks like they let the corporation expire at the end of 2018. But the investigation was probably well under way by then.
I am not finding any direct connections to the 2017 PDVSA plot to illegally lobby Trump & Rubio. But it may involve the same players. A former member of Congress is under investigation by DOJ in that case for money laundering, FARA, & other crimes.

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24 Nov
Huge victory for the IRS over Coca Cola in case of off shoring IP ownership & transferring profit out of the US to the divisions owning the intellectual property to avoid US taxes on the profits. Coke now owes $3.4B in taxes for Coke!
#ButNothingsHappening
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo…
This is a common tax avoidance scheme, internally the company awards the intellectual property rights to a foreign division of the company. Then the US divisions pay royalties or profit shares to that foreign division, lowering their profits in the US.
It is a very common scheme.
Just as important, the IRS got a ruling that a Coca Cola friendly agreement with the IRS in 1996 covering prior years, does not bind the IRS to accepting the accounting formulas for every years since 1996. They avoided $3.4B in taxes they avoided by using that scheme...
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22 Nov
There is one main problem with this idea, too many of the Democrat base has been taught that not loving our country is the morally superior position. They stopped loving America long before Trump came along. Trump is just exposing this hypocrisy with his America First rhetoric.
When Reagan tied together patriotism & America's success, many Democratic Party voters were not yet anti-American. Some were there, but patriotic rhetoric from Reagan in the 80s called to many Democrat voters & won them over for his 1984 landslide.
Since that time, Dems have focused very hard on convincing their voters that a successful America is not the solution to their problems; but that America's success is a threat to them. That they are not part of America & will miss out on the fruits of American success.
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20 Nov
Chicago State U professor indicted for stealing $650k from 2011-2016 that was supposed to be funding minority representation in the pharma industry? Was it really meant to do that? Or was it just a slush fund disguised as a student group?
#ButNothingsHappening
There must have been a lot of money going through this student association (funded by Big Pharma I presume...)
Apparently she headed this group from 2004 and the began attempting to wrestle control of it from her in 2014 leading to law suits by the association which is the Student National Pharmaceutical Association.
chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/…
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17 Nov
PA Supreme Court rules 5-2 that not allowing election observers to observe the election doesn't violate Pennsylvania election laws.
But 3 of those 5: Donohue, Dogherty & Wecht were all elected in 2015 while Dems were stuffing ballot boxes in Philly.
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7330…
This isn't conjecture, election judge Domenick J. Demuro plead guilty to stuffing ballot boxes with votes for cash & then adjusting voting records to account for the extra votes in 2014, 2015 & 2016 for Democrats in judicial races. #ButNothingsHappening
Why are Philly election turn outs so high?

Because the election judges vote for the people who don't turn out to vote.
whyy.org/articles/phill…
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16 Nov
Interesting, we were talking about Brand & Zhao in May of 2019 but their case stayed below the radar...

Zhao was also paying for Harvard fencing team members to travel to China w his sons. Possibly giving Chinese intel a chance to gather info on them.
#ButNothingsHappening
Bought the coach a house...
Even implications that money was being donated to USA Fencing to be laundered to coaches too.
Zhao founded a telecom company to connect China & the US (I'm sure there was no spying going on there)!
He also played a role in getting Chinese involvement with the NBA using then NBA player Yao Ming & his foundations involved...
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13 Nov
NY state AG sues Sothebys for helping a client avoid millions of dollars of sales tax on art deals...

Interesting...
#ButNothingsHappening
I am really wondering who this 'collector' is. Described as a "he" resides outside the US but has apartments in NYC. Runs a successful shipping business, I know a few of my friends have dug into shipping companies but I don't know the players...
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His company Porsal Equities, LTD, was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands & looks like a typical shell company. The collector was the one listed as running the company. Southeby enabled him from 2010-2015.
The company paid a $10.5M penalty in November 2018.
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