Trump also granted clemency to Michael Flynn and Lil Wayne.
The boat, the Lady May, is owned by Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted fugitives, who is wanted in Beijing on fraud, blackmail and bribery charges, according to the Washington Post.
“I have 60 custom-made Brioni suits and handmade Louis Vuitton shoes. I don’t care about things. I’m a Buddhist,” said Guo, wearing a $3,000 tie and sitting below a Roy Lichtenstein canvas in his mahogany-paneled office.
Guo Wengui (Chinese: 郭文贵; born May 10, 1970—self claim[2] or October 5, 1968[3]), also known under the names Guo Wen Gui, Guo Haoyun (郭浩云), Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok,[4] is an exiled Chinese billionaire businessman who became a political activist and controls Beijing
Zenith Holdings (via proxies Li Lin and Jiang Yuehua),[5] and other assets.
The main front company for JMWAVE was "Zenith Technical Enterprises, Inc."Under Ted Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the
organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia
JMWAVE underwent its first major development when it was established as the operations center for Task Force W, the CIA's unit dedicated to "Operation Mongoose"
In the early 1960s, Shackley's work included being station chief in Miami, during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose), which he directed. He was also said to be the director of the "Phoenix Program" during the
Vietnam War, as well as the CIA station chief in Laos between 1966–1968, and Saigon station chief from 1968 through February 1972. In 1976, he was appointed Associate Deputy Director for Operations, second in charge of CIA covert operations.
in a US$ 33 million house once owned by Lachlan Murdoch. He is the son of Rupert Murdoch. The house has amazing views, a pool, an elevator, and a car turntable to easy maneuver cars. It is located in Point Piper, Sidney.
The 151’6” Lady May was built by the Dutch builder
Feadship in 2014 and originally launched as Como. The yacht was originally owned by New Zealand businessman Neville Crichton. The boat features a raised pilothouse. She can accommodate ten guests across five cabins as well as eight crew.
The yacht holds 13,473 US gallons of fuel.
Yesterday, gas at the Mamaroneck boat dock was $3.69/gallon. That’s about $50K to gas up.
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Feinstein — who was Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time — was reportedly mortified when the FBI told her she’d been infiltrated.
SAN FRANCISCO—In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling—and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings.
In 1974, the students of Nishtar Medical College had an altercation with Ahmadis at the Rabwah Railway Station. This event turned into a massive and violent anti-Ahmadiyya riot resulting in many casualties among en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Anti…
Ahmadis and destruction to Ahmadiyya property. During the extremist Islamism of Zia-ul-Haq, a more strict anti-Ahmadiyya law was passed known as Ordinance XX. Ahmadi life became more persecuted and strict.
This law does not allow Ahmadi Muslims to call themselves Muslim or
to "pose as Muslims", which are crimes punishable by three years in prison. This Ordinance and the 1974 amendment in the constitution effectively gave the state of Pakistan, the exclusive right to determine the meaning of the term "Muslim". After the formation of Pakistan on
Nearly a century ago, in 1913, the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City almost single-handedly created American tropical medicine research. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Simultaneous funding for The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, new institutions of public health at Johns Hopkins and Harvard University, and overseas research and educational institutions in Brazil and China further created an infrastructure by which American
tropical disease research and development was supported and sustained. In an extraordinary two-year burst of activity, vast amounts of new private and federal funds were infused into what the late Kenneth Warren of the Rockefeller Foundation often referred to as ‘the great
All ambassadors and high commissioners from the United Kingdom are formally accredited from the court—not the United Kingdom—as they are representatives of the Crown.[1]
Master of the Ceremonies), who acts as the link between the British monarch and foreign diplomatic missions, is permanently based at St James's Palace. The office was created as recently as 1920 to replace the former Master of the Ceremonies, an office dating from c.1620. Before
1920, the Vice-Marshal was known as the Marshal of the Ceremonies.[2]
The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps is, along with the Queen's Equerry, expected to walk backwards discreetly when leaving the presence of the monarch.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International - Wikipedia
BCCI's founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, established the bank in 1972. Abedi, a prolific banker, had previously set up the United Bank Limited in Pakistan in 1959 sponsored by Saigols. Preceding the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_C…
nationalization of the United Bank in 1974, he sought to create a new supranational banking entity. BCCI was created with capital of which 25% was from the Bank of America and the remaining 75% from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab
Emirates. In 1991, Robert Mueller declared the government had been investigating BCCI since 1986 resulting in intense media coverage.[22]
In 1992, United States Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown became the co-authors of a report on BCCI, which was delivered to the Committee
George Bush: Dirty Secrets of Vice President – Rolling Stone
On October 5th, 1986, one of Rodriguez’s cargo planes, a Southern Air Transport C-123K, loaded with 10,000 pounds of ammunition, failed to return from a scheduled drop in Nicaragua. Fearing rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
the worst, Rodriguez made a series of phone calls to Washington that evening. What was unusual was that Rodriguez did not notify anyone at the Defense Department or the CIA but rather attempted to get word about the missing plane to Donald Gregg, the national-security adviser for
Vice President George Bush. This earlier operation, known as Black Eagle, went on for three years, overlapping North’s operation.