RNC's highest-paid vendor of the 2020 election: A mystery company formed nine months ago - Digital Consulting Group made $42 million in eight months for media and marketing services. But who's behind it? by @SollenbergerRC

salon.com/2020/12/04/rnc…
The address for Digital Consulting Group LLC is 1000 N. West Street Suite 1200 Wilmington DE 19801 - the address of a Regus virtual office, used by many different businesses, so as @SollenbergerRC noted it's nearly impossible to track who is behind the company with that location
I wonder if Digital Consulting Group pays or links to OPN Sesame run by Gary Coby, Trump campaign digital dir, ex-RNC ad dir & Gerrit Lansing ex-WH Chief Digital Officer, ex-RNC

OPN Sesame was paid $4 milion by RNC in 2019 but around $50,000 in 2020

opensecrets.org/campaign-expen…
In November OPN Sesame was linked to unmarked texts that were sent out urging vote protests in Philadelphia - the texts were sent from phone numbers leased by OPN Sesame (however it is not known who the client was or if it was the RNC)

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Digital Consulting Group, LLC Delaware filing shared by @ILMSaltLyfe - authorized person is James K. Pickle

(there's a lawyer by that name in AL at Maynard Cooper law firm, HT @visionsurreal)

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4 Dec
Billionaire San Francisco real estate developer Sanford Diller, enlisted the help of Elliott Broidy & lawyer Abbe Lowell in securing clemency for Berkeley psychologist Hugh Baras, who received 30-month prison sentence for tax evasion & improperly claiming Social Security benefits
Elliott Broidy's network of criminal associates is endless

But I totally missed the mark on this one

Details here:

Trump Associates Said to Have Been Scrutinized in Suspected Pardon Scheme - San Francisco billionaire sought clemency for psychologist convicted of monetary crimes, republican donor Elliott Broidy and lawyer for Jared Kushner were enlisted
nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/…
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2 Dec
Redacted docs in investigation of possible criminal bribery scheme for presidential pardon displays short name of someone convicted, appears to end in 's'

...on behalf of [_]' clemency petition

...in service of [_]' legal case

(Gates? Nicki Lum Davis?)

dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/file…
Some suggest Parnas but he's been pro-Biden anti-Trump so it would be surprising

It's too early to tell but Gates went from cooperating witness to less cooperative and he wants a pardon

He knows about Manafort, Firtash & was hired by Broidy and Barrack
businessinsider.com/exclusive-inte…
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28 Nov
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…
Read 6 tweets
19 Nov
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

Another @annmarlowe story reported Vincent Tchenguiz once invested in Zander Group, where Dmitry Firtash was largest owner

David Rowland also links to Firtash

Rowland is director of Brooksford Overseas Ltd, a lender on Firtash's Brompton Road property

Read 4 tweets
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
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… Image
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

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Read 6 tweets
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
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…
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