@clearing_fog@TeresaCCarter2@escapedacult Saudi spymaster Saad Aljabri🇸🇦 <thread>: 1/ "The previously secret Interpol statements surfaced in a lawsuit filed Thursday [Aug 6, 2020] in a federal district court in Washington by Saad Aljabri, a former top Saudi intelligence official. (con't) washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-s…
@clearing_fog@TeresaCCarter2@escapedacult 2/ ...Aljabri was the closest adviser to MBS’s chief rival, former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, known as MBN. After the Saudis’ extradition request to Interpol and other escalating pressure tactics had failed, the suit alleges, MBS sent a 'Tiger Squad' team to kill Aljabri...
Recap thread: h/t @unclenate
Dec 3, 2020: 1/ "The U.S. president-elect and his top advisors have made the fight against dirty money one of their early priorities."
"Biden, who as vice president spearheaded the Obama administration’s fight against corruption and kleptocracy...
2/ ...has repeatedly vowed to make it a focus as president. Two years ago, Biden and his former advisor @mikercarpenter warned in Politico about the threat posed by foreign money of unknown origins to the integrity of U.S. elections."
Nov 27, 2018: (more) politico.com/magazine/story…
3/ "The lack of transparency in our campaign finance system combined with extensive foreign money laundering creates a significant vulnerability for our democracy. We don’t know how much illicit money enters the United States from abroad... (con't)
@DrDenaGrayson@LincolnsBible@JoeBiden Mother Jones, Mar 15, 2017 (see next tweet for link): 1/ Angela "Chen, who also goes by the names 👉Xiao Yan Chen👈 and Chen Yu, purchased the 4-bedroom condo in the Trump Park Avenue building in New York City on February 21 [2017]. (con't)
@DrDenaGrayson@LincolnsBible@JoeBiden 2/ ...As Mother Jones first reported, Chen runs a business consulting firm, Global Alliance Associates, which specializes in linking US businesses seeking deals in China🇨🇳 with the country’s top power brokers. ... (con't)
@DrDenaGrayson@LincolnsBible@JoeBiden 3/ ...'As counselors in consummating the right relationships—quite simply—we provide access,' Chen’s firm boasts on its website. But Chen has another job: She chairs the US arm of a nonprofit called the China Arts Foundation, which was founded in 2006... (con't)
@LittleWashita@loonyberg@ThomasS4217@SullivanMonty 2/ ACB's father, Deacon Mike Coney:
"Most of my legal career was spent as an attorney with Shell in New Orleans."
Her father apparently left Shell when he was transferred to Houston, but "Later Shell rehired me with the promotion... (con't) scschurch.com/deaconmike
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217 <Thread>
Last week:
Sep 8
Former top DHS official Brian Murphy files complaint w/House Homeland Security Cmte [HHSC] vs DHS
Sep 9
HHSC makes complaint public
Sep 10
Chad Wolf nominated for DHS sec'y
Sep 11
HHSC subpoenas Chad Wolf, whose response is⤵️ 1/
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217 2/ How *convenient* for Chad Wolf to be nominated as DHS secretary *one day* after HHSC releases damning whistleblower complaint, and then one day after that uses Wolf's DHS nomination as excuse for not complying w/HHSC subpoena. (more) h/t @BaddCompani
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217@BaddCompani 3/ "The WH sent Wolf's nomination to serve as full Homeland Security secretary to the Senate on Thursday" [Sep 10, 2020] one day before Wolf's subpoena was issued.
"In a Friday [Sep 11, 2020] letter...Assistant DHS Secretary Beth Spivey told the [HHSC] chairman... (con't)