New York Prosecutors Investigating Trump’s Manhattan Properties - Officials are investigating $280 mil in loans the former president took on four buildings, including flagship Trump Tower - all loans were made by Ladder Capital, by @coryramey@EmilyGlazer
A chart I created in Dec 2017 showing Trump loans from both Ladder Capital and Deutsche Bank was referenced in Cy Vance appellate brief related to the Manhattan DA Trump criminal tax fraud investigation
I wrote then "The mainstream media has reported on Deutsche Bank, but has barely covered Ladder Capital Finance", maybe now it will get more coverage including fact that Trump Org CFO Weisselberg's son works at Ladder wsiegelman.medium.com/trump-creditor…
Today's article says focus of prosecutors on Ladder isn’t known but they may "be looking for discrepancies between loan documents and financial information submitted elsewhere by Mr. Trump, such as that on tax returns or submitted to an insurance company"
While the original loans from Ladder Capital to Trump for 4 NYC properties were approx $282 million, per recent reporting by @DanAlexander21 the loans have been paid down to approx $257 million (40 Wall paid down from $160 to $138 million)
David Correia sentenced to one year in prison in fraud case involving ex-Giuliani associate Lev Parnas
Correia sentenced for defrauding investors of Fraud Guarantee, which paid Giuliani hundreds of thousands for consulting work while he was Trump's lawyer washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Correia also admitted he lied to FEC about source of $325,000 donation made to pro-Trump super PAC, prosecutors say money came from mortgage loan obtained by Igor Fruman (not from gas business)
In addition to the prison sentence noted above for Correia, the SEC recently filed a lawsuit against Lev Parnas and David Correia for allegedly ripping off investors of Fraud Guarantee
I included Questionardo Ltd in an August 2020 chart of companies set up by ex Cambridge Analytica employees
Google displayed brief info on Questionardo: AI and crowdsource powered survey— website powered by Auspex (co created by Al Khatib & Mark Turnbull) wsiegelman.medium.com/chart-scl-and-…
Here's piece from 2018 on Erik Prince's business partner Johnson Chun Shun Ko who was a director of the new Cambridge Analytica company Emerdata along with director Ahmad Al Khatib starting Jan '18 & Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer became directors in Mar '18 wsiegelman.medium.com/cambridge-anal…
Schumer is Sen Majority Leader but all Senate committees are still led by Republicans
Story👇notes some discussions may be finalized after impeachment trial
Has anyone seen reporting on how long McConnell can stall & keep GOP in charge of Sen committees? thehill.com/homenews/senat…
I feel like it should be a bigger story that Rs still chair all senate committees
If anyone has seen reporting on whether there's a time limit on when Schumer and McConnell need to agree on rules to pass over committee control or other options to force the transfer, please share
Here's one of the last articles I have seen on the status of discussions between Schumer and McConnell
The Latinos for Trump website currently displays Exec Dir and VP Ozzy Perez Cerezal who per article above👆posed multiple times in a Proud Boys shirt, and current Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is listed under Board of Directors as "Chief of Staff"
The 'Freedom Rally Jan 6' tab on the Latinos for Trump website displays this image with the title "Operation Occupy The Capitol" and 1776 and we are the storm hashtags
Thread from @mjluxmoore showing some of the estimated 65 protests across Russia calling for Navalny’s release - at many the crowds are chanting Putin’s a thief
This quote from Rebekah Mercer in a Nov 2020 article is crazy🤦♀️
“The ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords demands that someone lead the fight against data mining, and for the protection of free speech online. That someone is Parler"
In 2018 @JaneMayerNYer reported Rebekah Mercer & friends played a parlor game called the Machine Learning President, with a race to the oval office - players had cash to push their agendas, which could include “algorithmic policing” & “mass deportation”