Thread by @EricLiptonNYT

JUST POSTED: In its final days, Trump's Treasury Dept quietly rollback sanctions imposed in 2017 on billionaire Israeli businessman Dan Gertler for what Treasury itself called "corrupt mining & oil deals" in Africa. Dershowitz served as his lobbyist nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/…

Here is the key document, which was turned up by @TheSentry_Org, a group that "follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers" int.nyt.com/data/documentt…

So what did Gertler do to get himself on this sanctions list? Just ask TRUMP's own Treasury Department, which imposed the sanctions in the first place, before this last-minute move to roll them back, after lobbyists intervened.

And I thought I was going to get the weekend off, finally.

Here is the lobbying registration by Dershowitz, who was eventually joined in this effort by Louis Freeh, the former FBI director, and a former federal prosecutor Gregory ​Paw