Per audited financial statements submitted in a NYS Supreme Court case, Madison Avenue Diamonds LLC dba Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry incurred cumulative losses of $19 million bet its inception in '07 & '12. In '12 alone, the business lost $1.8m....
...In '12, Ivanka & her business partner & close friend, Moshe Lax, replaced the ITFJ president w Geoffrey Hess who had no prior experience in the retail or jewelry industries. In fact, Hess was a former partner in Giuliani Partners per LinkedIn...
...Coincidentally (or not), 2012 was the same year Jared Kushner entered into a real estate partnership w Raz Steinmetz, nephew of convicted diamond dealer, Beny Steinmetz per the NYT....
...Geoffrey Hess had previously worked w Raz Steinmetz & his father, Daniel, in '07 in connection w a deal bet a company owned the Steinmetz family, Sage Capital & Giuliani Partners per the WSJ...
...As many as my followers know, the DOJ under AG Sessions filed a civil complaint against Moshe Lax, his wife & sister in July '18, charging them w evading $62 million in taxes. The case is ongoing....
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@DerWouter Just found out the list of new M-A-L members in '16 & '17 provided by a follower came from a Feb '17 NYT story. Very exclusive - Avi Greenbaum & Steven Michael, Hudson Holdings principals, made the cut... nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/…
...You have to wonder why, if Andrew "Avi" Greenbaum wanted to delineate his business interests from those of the Galbut family's, he stuck w "Hudson" since he & the Galbuts were once members of Hudson Capital, LLC....
...If you're just tuning in, Steven Michael, Avi Greenbaum's partner in Hudson Holdings LLC, a "real estate development" firm, formerly located in Delray Beach, married a young woman from Ukraine who posed for a pic w Trump at M-A-L...
Looks like I have to apologize to Thomas Gucciardi. I phoned the FL Dept of Financial Licenses which provided his FL insurance advisor license number. The person I spoke to has no idea why I couldn't access info about him via a name search....
...Of the 84 insurance companies Thomas Gucciardi has represented since 1983, 11 are active appointments. Of the 11 active appointments, 7 were issued in 2019 or later. Four active appointments expire on July 31 2021....
...10 of the 11 active appointments issued to Mr Gucciardi are for life insurance & one is for health insurance. He sells at least some life & health insurance policies thru his company, Imaginary Concepts which is registered at sunbiz.org...
April's come & gone & I forgot to retweet my favorite NYT story dated April 1, 1939 about a huge shipment of gold shipped from either Nazi Germany or England secretly unloaded at a NYC pier less than five months after Kristallnacht.... nytimes.com/1939/04/01/arc…
..I first came across the story more than a decade ago & I've since posted about it on Twitter several times in hope one of the historians here could tell me more about it...
@DerWouter Read the DOJ tax evasion case filed against Roger & Nydia Stone yesterday & have some comments. One, Roger Stone can't claim he's being persecuted by the Biden DOJ since we already knew the IRS was actively looking into his case in Nov 2020....
...Russell Harris, the mortgagee for the condo Roger & Nydia Stone purchased, is name as a party to the suit since he has an interest in the property to the tune of a $393k balloon mortgage w no fixed payment schedule...
...Russell D Harris owns more than one property in Broward County & elsewhere in S FL but, as memory serves me, the properties were transferred from Robert C Harris & Russell hadn't entered into any other agreements similar to the one w the Stones...
@ThomasS4217 Hang on. Samuel Armes worked w Greenberg to set up a bitcoin operation in the Seminole Tax Office. Per sunbiz.org, Armes is now partners w Jason Holloway in BITACTION PAC, LLC. Holloway apparently is a candidate for FL office..... floridapolitics.com/archives/40325…
...Be somewhat amusing if the company named Three Gates LLC by Greenberg's pal, Samuel Armes, is a play on Matt G's name...
...LinkedIn profile of Joel Greenberg's bitcoin associate, Samuel Armes, in case it disappears....
More on Chris Dorworth, Matt & Joel's pal who is a managing partner at Ballard Partners. Brian Ballard, founder, was linked to Lev Parnas & Igor Fruman....