Chinese businessman with links to Steve Bannon is behind sprawling disinformation network - Guo Wengui is at the center of a digital web pushing election and covid falsehoods per @Graphika_NYC research
Last year after Bannon was arrested on Guo’s yacht
An Ex-Blackwater Employee Tied To Erik Prince Provided Security For Rudy Giuliani In Ukraine - The newly surfaced connection between Prince and Giuliani comes as feds are investigating the Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine by @ChristopherJM HT @SandySkipper1 buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Per sources in late 2019/early 2020, Prince was looking into purchasing 3 aviation companies: Motor Sich, a privately owned jet & helicopter engine maker, and the Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company and Antonov - both state-run aircraft producers buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Here's 2019 WSJ story about Erik Prince's interest in Motor Sich
Great @carmichaelstack@OCCRP story on Poroshenko's secret control of offshore firms that banked at Austria’s Raiffeisen
Thread on more Raiffeisen customers: Trump Toronto, Firtash, Deripaska, RZB was reputed front for Russian mafia boss Semion Mogilevich occrp.org/en/investigati…
In March 2007 the $310 million construction loan for Trump Toronto’s developer Talon (led by Alex Shnaider & Val Levitan) came from Raiffeisen Bank/RZB
A non-interest-bearing loan was extended a dozen times & in 2015 Talon defaulted on the loan.
In 2004 Russia’s Gazprom formed a 50/50 partnership with RosUkrEnergo (RUE) controlled by Raiffeisen to sell gas from Turkmenistan to Ukraine’s Naftogaz.
In 2006 NYT reported that RUE was owned by Centregas, Dmitry Firtash owned 90% and Ivan Fursin 10%
Judge rules Kushner Companies violated multiple laws in massive tenant dispute - Kushner-owned company Westminster Management charged deceptive fees to thousands of MD tenants, lawsuit filed after @propublica found widespread problems, by @AlecMacGillis propublica.org/article/kushne…
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh brought the consumer-protection case against Kushner Co's Westminster Management in 2019 following a 2017 article by ProPublica and The NYT Magazine on treatment of tenants in 15 housing complexes in the Baltimore area propublica.org/article/kushne…
Judge Daneker's ruling on Kushner Cos Westminster Management described over 15,000 instances of charging more than the state-maximum $25 rental application fee and over 28,000 instances assessing "spurious" $12 "agent fee" on court filings against tenants propublica.org/article/kushne…
A few weeks ago Erik Prince resigned as Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of Frontier Services Group Limited - the majority Chinese-state owned company he founded
Turns out a few days later his close associate Dorian Barak became an FSG director
NEW: Did Cambridge Analytica Collude With Russia's Intelligence Services to interfere in US elections? New details & ?s about CA/SCL contractor Sam Patten & Konstantin Kilimnik who shared campaign data with Russian intelligence, my latest via @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2021/04/20/did…
Patten & Kilimnik's financial links & communications during the 2016 election have new significance with news that Kilimnik communicated with Russian intelligence
They earned $1,000,000 & Patten knew extensive details on Kilimnik's discussions w/Manafort
2014 Cambridge Analytica hired Kogan to harvest FB data & in 2015 he received grants from Russian govt. In 2014 Patten started contracting for CA/SCL, Kilimnik reportedly advised CA/SCL on focus groups on Putin/Russia, Patten & Kilimnik launched co in 2015 bylinetimes.com/2021/04/20/did…