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9 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Matt Gaetz's new lawyer Marc Mukasey was an advisor to Giuliani's failed 2008 presidential bid and followed him to 2 law firms until 2019. Mukasey's prior clients include Roger Ailes, Psy-Group founder Joel Zamel, and Trump Org and Trump Foundation
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Father Michael Mukasey "met Giuliani when they both worked together as federal prosecutors and became close friends"

Michael Mukasey was US attorney general for George W. Bush 2007-2009

A client of son Marc Mukasey was Halliburton

news.yahoo.com/marc-mukasey-l…
Matt Gaetz's lawyer Marc Mukasey's father represented Prevezon - the firm accused of being part of fraud exposed by Sergei Magnitsky

Michael Mukasey appeared in court to represent Prevezon on Jun 9, the day Natalia Veselnitskaya met Don Jr at Trump Tower

buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Michael Mukasey and Rudy Giuliani represented Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab against criminal charges related to engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions for Iran’s government and Iranian entities from 2010-2015 to evade US sanctions

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Michael Mukasey and Rudy Giuliani spent years giving paid speeches and writing newspaper op-eds for the Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) - a group the State Department had designated as a foreign terrorist organization until 2012

nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
As noted by @MountainsStars Rudy Giuliani, Michael Mukasey, William Barr and John Ashcroft served on the Republican National Lawyers Association Board of Visitors together.

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7 Apr
Wow - the Salvator Mundi painting that was sold by Dmitry Rybolovlev at Sotheby's in Nov 2017 for a record-breaking $450 million to Saudi Crown Prince MBS can't be confirmed as an authentic da Vinci painting, per experts at the Louvre

HT @Matthew_Shadle

theartnewspaper.com/news/salvator-…
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I started following this story before the auction, when ironically there was speculation the painting bought by Rybolovlev for $127.5 million might sell for $100mil

Dmitry Rybolovlev bought a FL mansion from Trump in '08 for $95mil, double what Trump paid
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3 Apr
Inside a stealth persuasion machine promising Republican victories in 2022 - John Tillman, CEO of Illinois Policy Institute is now chairman of American Culture Project which seeks to raise $24mil & flip senate & house in 2022 midterms, by @isaacstanbecker

washingtonpost.com/politics/repub…
This story by @Simon_Schuster provides more detail on Tillman and the many financial and media links among orgs he's involved with

An investigation by MCFN reveals the nonprofits are closely tied and often align in messaging.
mcfn.org/node/7395/surr…
Here's the letter sent out by the American Culture Project that describes their 'Reclaiming the Public Narrative' strategy to fundraise and swing 2022 midterms
washingtonpost.com/context/reclai…
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31 Mar
Rebekah Mercer has new UK company Dynamo Recoveries Limited, inc Mar 4 '21 by Terence William Donal Blaney, purpose isn't clear

Blaney ran Young Britons’ Foundation/YBF sister org of Mercer funded YAF

Blaney associate Matt Richardson is involved w/Parler
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/132461…
This is Mercer's 2nd UK company & has 3 shared with Emerdata (final Cambridge Analytica co): Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, Jacquelyn James-Varga

Donal Blaney is no longer a director

As @carolecadwalla noted Emerdata's address is Blaney's law firm Griffin

In 2015 Terence William Donal Blaney set up Conservative Way Forward Limited with Paul Thomas Abbott (both resigned as directors later that year)

Paul Thomas Abbott was previously a director at Right Angle Campaigns with close associates of Dmitry Firtash
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27 Mar
Court docs in Canada show Catalyst agreed to pay up to $11 million to Black Cube for scheme to discredit Ontario judge and new links for Black Cube & Psy Group - noting “Arik” from Psy-Group e-mailed “Guy” from Black Cube and discussed the sting operation
theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
This case caught my attention a few years ago because it was notable that both Black Cube and Psy Group were hired for the same sting operation - now the recent court docs describe new coordination between the two
“On Sept.18, 2017, the same day as the dinner, “Arik” from Psy-Group e-mailed “Guy” from Black Cube and discussed the sting operation, according to the court documents writing: “Basically we’re trying to prove that he’s a racist, a depraved anti-Semite...”
theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
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17 Mar
Russian couple expected to plead guilty in NC murder-for-hire scheme - Leonid & Tatyana Teyf are accused of money laundering & $150 million kickback scheme w/Russian military. Leonid Teyf has reported links to Putin's chef Yevgeny Prigozhin HT DDulany
wral.com/russian-expect…
After the indictment in NC Leonid Teyf was indicted in a different scheme in Utah involving trucking companies and over $1 million in bribes

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16 Mar
From report declassified by DNI Haines

"We assess that Putin had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach"

Reminder: Andy Kuchma (Artemenko) & Nabil Bader worked for Derkach per Apr '20 FARA

Kuchma company Airtrans LLC is part of Erik Prince's FRG

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
Politico originally broke the story last April that Andrii Artemenko, who renamed himself Kuchma runs Airtrans LLC which is part of Erik Prince's Frontier Resources Group - but there has been little coverage of this connection since

The 2020 FARA related to Andrii Derkach - whose activities Putin had purview over per DNI report - was for consultancy services from Global Management Association, majority owned by Oksana Kuchma, wife of Andrii Artemenko aka Kuchma

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