🔥A federal probe into the overseas and business dealings of Rudy Giuliani has resumed after being stalled last year amid Giuliani’s prominent role helping Trump’s attempt to overturn the election.
“The full scope of the investigation is unclear, but it at least partly involves Giuliani’s Ukraine dealings, the officials said.”😎
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan pushed last year for a search warrant for records, including some of Giuliani’s communications, but officials in the Trump-era DOJ *refused* to sign off on the request.🤬
The DOJ “decided it was prudent to put it off until the dust settled, and the dust has settled now.”
Rudy better lawyer up.😎
Kenneth F. McCallion, a former federal prosecutor who represents Ukrainian clients (including former PM Yulia Tymoshenko) relevant to the inquiry has been in contact with federal authorities about the investigation.🧐
Rudy was central to Trump’s corrupt efforts to pressure #Ukraine to manufacture dirt against Joe Biden and to press Ukraine for an investigation into
Hunter Biden.🙄
Rudy also corruptly tried to undermine then-US ambassador to #Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was pushed out on Trump’s orders, and met several times with a Kremlin-backed Ukrainian lawmaker who released doctored recordings of Biden in an effort to smear him before the election.🤬
Federal prosecutors also have investigated Rudy as part of a criminal case brought against his former associates—Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, Soviet-born business partners who played key roles in Giuliani’s efforts in #Ukraine.🧐
🚨BREAKING: the @FBI has location, cellular and call record data revealing a call tying a Proud Boys member **to a person in the Trump White House** in the days just before the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol.
SHOCKER (not!): Separately, Enrique Tarrio—a Proud Boys leader—told the @nytimes that he called Roger Stone while at a protest in front of the home of Marco Rubio in the days before the Capitol assault & put Stone on speaker phone to address the gathering.
That’s at least 2 members of the Proud Boys who were in communication with people associated with the Trump WH, underscoring the access that violent TERRORISTS had to the White House and to people close to Trump.🤬
🚨BREAKING: @USDOT’s IG asked DOJ in December to CRIMINALLY investigate Elaine Chao’s alleged misuse of her office as transportation secretary to promote her family’s shipping business—run by her sister—that has extensive business ties with #China. nytimes.com/2021/03/03/us/…
The IG said DOJ’s criminal & public integrity divisions *both* declined to pursue it, even after the IG found REPEATED examples of Chao using her staff & office to benefit her family & their business and revealed that staff members at the agency had raised ethics concerns.🤬
The IG probe came after Chao’s grifting for her family was exposed–including a trip to China she'd planned to take in 2017 w/her father & sister. The IG confirmed that planning for the trip–which was canceled–raised ethics concerns among other officials.👇🏼 nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/…
‼️DAMNING @DeptofDefense IG report of Ronny Jackson while WH physician finds he made "sexual & denigrating" comments about a female subordinate, “recklessly drank” & took Ambien while on presidential trips—impairing his ability to provide medical care. cnn.com/2021/03/02/pol…
On @BarackObama’s presidential trip to Manila April 22-29, 2014, 4 witnesses said Jackson got DRUNK and made inappropriate comments about a female medical subordinate.
HE WAS ON DUTY TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT.🤬
Jackson began drinking in the Manila hotel lobby, then got into a car with a drink in his hand "to go out on the town." Another witness said he could smell alcohol on Jackson's breath later that evening.🙄
🔥NY State prosecutors—who are investigating Trump and Trump Org—are focusing on the long-serving CFO Allen Weisselberg, asking witnesses questions about his dealings at the company in an effort to FLIP HIM.😎
Prosecutors are examining, among other alleged CRIMES, whether Trump and Trump Org falsely manipulated property values to obtain loans and tax benefits—#BankFraud and #TaxFraud are serious FELONIES.
Michael Cohen testified under oath to Congress that Trump manipulated property values to evade taxes, collect larger loans, and scam insurance companies.
‼️Rebekah Mercer—whose family bankrolled Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica—is a founding investor of Parler & holds the majority stake. She also controls 2 of 3 board seats to which she packed with allies.
Parler—which came back online last week with Mercer’s new handpicked CEO (former tea party patriots leader, Mark Meckler)—is the latest in a long line of Mercer family schemes to create alternative media that pushes a spin of the news that fits with their right-wing agenda.🙄
Parler—while claiming it operated as a neutral tech platform—issued this news release Nov. 23:
“Social media publishers have also erroneously labeled Joe Biden as the president-elect, continuing the spread of misinformation concerning the outcome of the 2020 election.”🙄
⚠️ALARMING: Cases of the dangerous #COVID-linked multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) are rising, but only 1 #COVID19 vaccine is currently available for kids ≥16 yo.
This inflammatory syndrome in kids (MIS-C) appears similar to #KawasakiDisease and may be an "exaggerated cytokine storm" in kids a few weeks after #coronavirus infection.
Unlike adults, many of the kids do NOT manifest #COVID19 symptoms.