Erik Prince has resigned as Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of Frontier Services Group Limited - the majority Chinese-state owned company he founded
Per this announcement Prince resigned "due to his other business engagements"
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.
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
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
The real reason why the Salvator Mundi didn't make it into the Louvre's Leonardo show - a film by Antoine Vitkine, screening next week in France, sheds new light on the political machinations surrounding the world's most controversial painting, by theartnewspaper.com/news/salvator-…
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
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
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…
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…