Treasury Sanctions Russia - including implementation of new prohibitions on certain dealings in Russian sovereign debt & sanctions on tech companies that support Russian Intelligence Services’ efforts to carry out malicious cyber activities against US home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
Treasury Escalates Sanctions Against Russian Government’s Attempts to Influence US Elections
16 entities and 16 individuals are listed, including more people/entities linked to Yevgeniy Prigozhin and Konstantin Kilimnik (Manafort's business partner)
Treasury Sanctions Russian Persons in the Crimea Region of Ukraine - five individuals and three entities related to Russia’s occupation of the Crimea region of Ukraine and its severe human rights abuses against the local population.
Sanctions against Russian govt attempts to influence US elections include Alexander Malkevich (designated in 2018 for directing USAReally) and Foundation for National Values Protection(FZNC) & targets related to Yevgeniy Prigozhin's network in Africa home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
Treasury targets enablers of Prigozhin's Internet Research Agency - Pakistan-based Second Eye Solution and front-companies Fresh Air Farm House, Like Wise, MK Softtech & Mohsin Raza, Mujtaba Raza, Syed Hasnain, Muhammad Hayat, Syed Raza, Shahzad Ahmed home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
The US is also expelling ten personnel from the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington, DC. The personnel include representatives of Russian intelligence services.
Agree - sanctions seem sweeping in some ways with more definitive details and people/entities identified - but still seems to be focused on network close to the Kremlin vs more expanded oligarch network that used cutouts to interact with Trump circle & GOP
NEW: Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022. He also sent $10.8M to a firm named Eleven Ventures LLC. New reporting shows a firm with that name is linked to Eric and Don Jr.'s new business partners, my latest: newstracs.com/news-on-russia…
Russian-American financier loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022 and sent $10.8M to firm that may link to Don Jr & Eric Trump
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Last year The Guardian reported Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov, nephew of an ally of Russian President Putin, provided $8 million in loans to Trump’s social media company in late 2021 and early 2022 and $10.8M to Eleven Ventures LLC newstracs.com/news-on-russia…
At mtg: US Sect of State Rubio, nat'l security adviser Mike Waltz, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, nat'l security adviser Musaed al Alban apnews.com/article/russia…
It is so on brand that the Trump administration's first meeting with Russia about a Ukraine peace plan not only excluded Ukraine, it did not include any European officials and did include two officials from Saudi Arabia who hosted the meeting.
Rumors have been swirling that Elon Musk may donate $100 million to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party - in a small scoop, I report Musk has just incorporated X. AI London Ltd, showing he is 'reaching across the pond' on multiple fronts, my latest: newstracs.com/elon-musk-may-…
Last week Musk met with Nigel Farage and Reform’s party treasurer Nick Candy at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Filings on UK Companies House show that this month Musk also incorporated X . AI London Ltd
Earlier this year I reported the first $6bil funding round for xAI included $400 million from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud and Kingdom Holding (per June 2024 financial statement). That amount has likely increased with the latest financing round. newstracs.com/elon-musk-may-…
SEC charged Cantor Fitzgerald, led by Trump’s Commerce pick Howard Lutnick, with breaking securities laws re: disclosures by blank-check companies before they raised money from the public. Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to settle and pay $6.75mil civil penalty. cnbc.com/2024/12/12/sec…
Here's SEC filing re: Cantor Fitzgerald - concerning materially false and misleading statements made by two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) controlled by Cantor Fitzgerald - re: CFAC II merger w/View, Inc. and CFAC V merger w/Satellogic Inc. sec.gov/files/litigati…
Cantor’s settlement echoes $18mil settlement Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) agreed to pay SEC in July 2023 after charges of fraud for failing to disclose to investors DWAC had merger discussions with Trump’s then-private company Trump Media cnbc.com/2024/12/12/sec…
Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix beats £16M ($20.4mil) claim over business collapse and convinced judge he is owed $12mil
London judge rejects claims by Cambridge Analytica companies Emerdata & Dynamo Recoveries (led by Rebekah Mercer) against Nix law360.com/articles/22703…
Link below to 115pg Approved judgement on 2 cases between Dynamo Recoveries Ltd, Emerdata Ltd v Alexander Nix, and between Nix v Emerdata
Claims against Nix were dismissed and Nix's claim for $12 million of outstanding debts from Emerdata has succeeded maitlandchambers.com/images/uploads…
A central part of the case against Alexander Nix made by Emerdata & Dynamo, led by Rebekah Mercer, was that Nix allegedly breached his duty by pitching prospective customer (an undercover Channel 4 reporter) use of entrapment, honeytraps, bribery to discredit political opponents
@hrw Here's my 2022 chart showing Saudi Arabian funding Saudi Arabia funding of Donald Trump and Jared Kushner – the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and LIV Golf