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28 Nov, 6 tweets, 4 min read
Great @OCCRP story on Monarch Air's past Russian org crime links & later US govt contracts w/DoD & US Marshal service witness protection

But disappointing Lily Dobrovolskaya doesn't mention @patrickLSimpson broke part of the story - Monarch witness protection scoop - in May 2019
This @OCCRP is full of great info about Monarch Air's former/current investors Jacob & David Gitman, Anatoly Golubchik, Vadim Trincher - latter 2 jailed for running gambling ring in Trump Tower
occrp.org/en/investigati…

Here's @patrickLSimpson's 2019 story
thesternfacts.com/under-trump-wi…
A fascinating detail in the OCCRP story is that Boruch “Bob” Freedman, who joined Monarch Air in 2011, is nephew of Alexander Mashkevich - who w/Patokh Chodiev, Alijan Ibragimov (aka The Trio) founded ENRC, & invested in Bayrock - a Trump Soho partner

occrp.org/en/investigati…
As @patrickLSimpson noted, in Oct 2017 Curt Weldon joined board of advisors for Monarch Air

Weldon was involved in Ukraine peace plan with Michael Cohen, Andrey Artemenko, Felix Sater

Artemenko (who now goes by Andy Kuchma) has links to Gitman

thesternfacts.com/under-trump-wi…
This thread has more on Artemenko (aka Kuchma) links to Trincher and Golubchik and other

Artemenko who changed his name to Andy Kuchma, has an airline with Yan Aronov called Airtrans LLC - which is part of Erik Prince's Frontier Resources Group

(there's no known direct link to Monarch Air, but Artemenko has links to people at Monarch)

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17 Nov
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
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30 Oct
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
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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

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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…
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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

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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.”

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