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22 Jun, 37 tweets, 19 min read
@clearing_fog Both Acosta and Starr are former Kirkland and Ellis attorneys.
@clearing_fog As was Billy Barr.
@clearing_fog Kirkland and Ellis, which grew to prominence thanks to the growth of private equity.
@clearing_fog Which the FBI has identified as a vehicle for criminal money laundering.
@clearing_fog Putin’s oligarchs are known to hire the best lawyers, auditors, bankers, and lobbyists to help them develop legal means to conceal and launder their funds.
@clearing_fog As part of the process through which the oligarchs assist the Kremlin with its foreign policy undertakings.
@clearing_fog Deutsche Bank was embroiled in a vast money-laundering operation…[in which] Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB, used the scheme between 2010 and 2014 to move money into the western financial system.

theguardian.com/business/2019/…
@clearing_fog Epstein…used his accounts with [Deutsche] bank to pay off co-conspirators, lawyers and even victims, according to the New York Department of Financial Services.

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
@clearing_fog Ok now do you really want to go for a wild ride? The Vatican Bank (aka Institute for Religious Works) has a long history of shady dealings and criminal money laundering. Theoretically, Pope Francis is ostensibly attempting to clean this up.

occrp.org/en/daily/10465…
@clearing_fog “The bank has been accused in the past of laundering money for the Sicilian mafia and the Gambino crime family as well as helping Croatia’s pro-Nazi wartime government steal the assets of Holocaust victims.”

foreignpolicy.com/2010/09/21/vat…
@clearing_fog The Institute of Religious Works (IOR) has had several intersections with Deutsche Bank, including in the early 1980s, when Pope John Paul II appointed former Nazi banker and Deutsche Bank chairman Hermann Abs as an adviser to IOR.

washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
@clearing_fog In 2014, another former chairman of Deutsche Bank, Clemens Boersig, was appointed to the IOR board. He resigned in 2019 over a dispute about how the bank should be managed.

reuters.com/article/uk-pop…
@clearing_fog But all of this also ties back to Kirkland and Ellis. But Kirkland and Ellis alumnus Billy Barr is a radical Catholic who attended the same St Catherine of Siena Catholic Church as convicted Russian spy Robert Hanssen, former DIRFBI Louis Freeh, and SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia.
@clearing_fog All of whom are also reputed Opus Dei members.
@clearing_fog Anyway, former Kirkland and Ellis lawyer Billy Barr served on the board of the Opus Dei Catholic Information Center (yes along Leonard Leo and Pat Cipollone).
@clearing_fog But Billy isn’t the only Kirkland connection to Opus Dei or CIC, because Kirkland and Ellis partner Thomas Yannucci also serves on the board at the Catholic Information Center.
@clearing_fog Remember how a few posts upthread, we mentioned that the Kremlin leverages its dependent oligarchs to further the Kremlin’s foreign policy undertakings?
@clearing_fog Well Alfa Bank is a Russian bank who is owned by oligarch German Khan and run by several close allies of Putin. They were accused in the Steele dossier of being tasked by the Kremlin to help interfere in the 2016 US election.
@clearing_fog And of course, they are represented by Kirkland and Ellis.

nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/…
@clearing_fog Reminder: The Kremlin’s dependent oligarchs hire the best lawyers, auditors, bankers, and lobbyists to help them develop legal means to conceal and launder their funds.
@clearing_fog “Criminal networks can be defined as sets of actors that are connected by ties which in some way or other support the commission of illegal acts”

organized-crime.de/criminalnetwor…
@clearing_fog So you might find it interesting that Jeffrey Epstein was represented by Kirkland and Ellis.

wsj.com/articles/docum…
@clearing_fog “Documents obtained through a public-records request provide new insight into how Mr. Epstein wielded influence within the criminal-justice system, as his lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis LLP tried to prevent the financier from having to report to New York City police regularly…
@clearing_fog …or appear in a public sex-offender database.”
@clearing_fog Does any of that make you somewhat suspicious of this?

kirkland.com/news/award/201…
@clearing_fog BTW, in case you are wondering if Kirkland and Ellis ever works for Deutsche Bank on private equity deals, the answer is yes.

kirkland.com/news/press-rel…
@clearing_fog They also work for the Catholic Church, like this case for the Archdiocese of Washington.

casemine.com/judgement/us/5…
@clearing_fog Do you know who else represents the Catholic Church? Jones Day.

buffalonews.com/business/dioce…
@clearing_fog As in the firm that helped Republicans blatantly attack the Democratic process in the 2020 election.

reuters.com/article/usa-el…
@clearing_fog Jones Day, as in the firm that hired at least 18 former Trump advisers, including Don McGahn.

ft.com/content/f4cb0a…
@clearing_fog You remember Don McGahn, right? And his uncle Patrick T “Paddy” McGahn who helped Donald Trump buy property from the mob?
@clearing_fog This thread is getting out of hand. But you might find this entertaining. Do you know who replaced Don McGahn as White House counsel? That would be Pat Cipollone. And yes, he is a former partner at Kirkland and Ellis.

yahoo.com/entertainment/…
@clearing_fog And an Opus Dei member who serves on the board of the Catholic Information Center with Billy Barr, Leonard Leo, and Thomas Yannucci.
@clearing_fog Here is the entertaining part:
“Fox News personality Laura Ingraham, a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, has credited Cipollone for helping inspire her decision to join the Catholic Church.” 🤔🤔
@clearing_fog Ok one last thing, and then I need to try to go do something productive. A few posts up, I mentioned the connection between Nazi banker Hermann Abs, Deutsche Bank, and the Vatican Bank (IOR).
@clearing_fog The Catholic Church also helped thousands of Nazis and Nazi collaborators escape to Latin America after WWII via “ratlines”.

dw.com/en/the-ratline…
@clearing_fog And you know the Opus Dei cult mentioned a few times within this thread. Yeah, they’re linked to the right wing Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco.

theguardian.com/world/2002/oct…

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