Seems a 'little' suspicious that a British oligarchs daughter would accidentally shoot the top cop in Belize, where her husband runs an elite resort...
Guess he won't be able to testify in any corruption cases....
Businessman, pollster & politician, seems like a trifecta of Swamp. Was Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party in the UK, equivalent to the DNC & RNC swamps.
Was appointed as a peer in the House of Lords in 2000, promising he would end his status as a tax evader, but he didn't.
When he was appointed, a DEA intel specialist leaked information on his ties to drug money laundering that DEA never got around to investigating....
Wonder if it ties into this OIG investigation that found DEA concealing illegal money laundering operations by it's agents. Including a habit of only investigating a small percentage of the crooks & leaving large well connected ones off the radar...
It seems that 10 years after being appointed to the House of Lords, that he pretended to change his status on taxes to avoid being kicked out of Parlament. But the #ParadisePapers leaks showed it was a sham & he kept his off-shore money & Belize residence...
Ashcroft was accused of buying his peerage & seat in the House of Lords from the Conservative Party, by loaning money to the party. A loophole used by several parties to avoid reporting of donations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-…
Looks like his donations to the Swamp in Belize worked...
Looks like he found friends to support in Australia's Swamp too!
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Credit Suisse pleads guilty & flips for helping 475 US account holders hide billions from the IRS in off-shore accounts.
They have also signed a deferred prosecution agreement for other crimes & agreed to cooperate!
Crimes from 2010-2021!
#ButNothingsHappening
Credit Suisse will pay $510M in fines & penalties in addition to the guilty plea.
After corrupt bankers collapsed Credit Suisse, UBS bought them & are now also forced to comply with the cooperation agreement!
It's a 2 for 1 special!
The reason for the requirement to plead guilty is likely because when they committed these crimes, they were under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement signed in 2014 that required their cooperation.
They didn't think DOJ would hold them to it!
How long before people realize that Trump sets up cases to get precedents set in court?
Once the exact parameters & processes for using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 are confirmed deporting Tren de Aragua, how long does Trump wait to use it on China's 1000 Talents spy program?
It would be very easy to prove in court by the precedents set at this time that the 1000 Talents program is a predatory incursion against the United States by the Chinese government.
Let's look at how President Trump tricked Putin into a far greater Russian defeat in Ukraine!
Trump learned the Rope-A-Dope from his friend Mohammed Ali!
Please excuse my poor 'artwork' replacing Ali & Fraser with Trump & Putin!
#ButNothingsHappening
Rope-a-dope is a boxing technique in which one contender leans against the ropes of the ring & draws non-injuring offensive punches, letting the opponent tire themself out. This gives the former the opportunity then to execute devastating offensive punches to help them win.
So while Putin & his fake news brag about Russia having Ukraine on the ropes, he is wasting what little is left of Russia's military, economy, & manpower to make ineffective attacks on wheat fields in the middle of nowhere.
While Ukraine's counterpunches are crushing Russia.