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
Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation
George Papadopoulos, his wife Simona Mangiante and others are editorial board directors of Intelligencer, a growing source of news in rightwing circles, by @MattBernardini7
“You can literally sell s--- in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story's right, because people will buy it,” Herro said about crypto in a 2018
Trump's new crypto partner Chase Herro (aka Hero) tells the story of how he spent time in prison for dealing marijuana when he was a young man before getting rich through internet marketing in the early days of social media through “affiliate marketing”
The World Liberty Financial team includes "Chief Crypto Advocate" Donald Trump, Eric, Don Jr, and Barron is the project's "DeFi visionary"
Trump friend and property developer Steve Witkoff, his son Zach Witkoff and lawyer Alex Golubitsky are also involved coindesk.com/business/2024/…
Head of operations Zachary Folkman and data and strategies lead Chase Herro (aka Hero) reportedly built recently hacked Dough Finance and co-created Subify
Folkman under alias Zack Bauer formerly operated pick-up artist advice platform "Date Hotter Girls" coindesk.com/business/2024/…
Dimitri and Anastasia Simes charged - for allegedly conspiring to provide services to and launder over $1 million from sanctioned Russian broadcaster Channel One Russia; Anastasi allegedly provided art and antiques to sanctioned oligarch Aleksandr Udodov
The Armani-Designed NY Condo Where Connected Russians Have Bought Apartments: Aleksandr Udodov, brother-in-law of Russia’s new PM, bought 6 condos at 20 Pine St from Valentin Laskov, casino biz parter of Michael Cohen
Dimitri Simes the Russian-born president of the Center for the National Interest hosted an event in 2016 featuring Henry Kissinger and attended by Jared Kushner
Elon Musk’s Twitter investors have lost billions in value
This recent @faizsays story estimates the $33.5 billion equity stake at the time of the sale would be worth around $9.4 billion today based on an analysis of valuations from X shareholder Fidelity. HT @NFTethics
This story estimates that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (and Kingdom Holding Co.) had an investment of $1.89 billion at time of sale to Musk, and 2024 value is $529.2 million, a loss of -$1.36 billion