Some background - James Solages is from Jacmel, a town on the southern coast of Haiti known as arts & culture center including a well known film school. At one time, Michael Capponi of Capponi Construction, planned to build a resort complex there... prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
...I have the only 990 filed by James Junior Solages' not-for-profit but I don't want to list the names of the other board members at the moment. The charity only raised $11k, most of which was spent on the celebration of women in Jacmel on Int'l Women's Day....
...No idea what this short by Milot Berquin is about but he is from Jacmel too....
...More on Jacmel's recovery after the earthquake. Curious about the relationship bet President President Jovenel Moise & the Jacmel Advisory Council... theculturetrip.com/caribbean/hait…
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Read this story by @joshgerstein re Ruben Verastigui, 27, pleading guilty to a child pornography charge. I tweeted about how the GOP maneuvered him into a think tank spot but I didn't know about the case against Adam Hageman... politico.com/news/2021/07/0…
...March 5 '21 story by @caitlinoprysko about Adam Hageman being held since Nov 12 '20 on porn charges. Sounds like his arrest was delayed until after the election & news of it along w the existence of a GOP child porn ring was suppressed for months... politico.com/news/2021/03/0…
...The state of Arizona was looking to press charges against both Verastigui & Hageman who was w TPUSA, headquartered in Phoenix. Hageman who is from Arenzville Illinois previously managed the TPUSA Southern Illinois U chapter per FB...
Kevin Roberts, Texas Public Policy Foundation Executive Director, who strongly defended the cancellation of a talk at the Bullock Museum about a book that reexamines the Alamo myth, blocked me yesterday. Speaking of those TPPF 990s....#ForgetTheAlamo
...Took a look at the independent contractors @TPPF paid in '18 & '19 & Allen West's name popped out. West was paid $126k in '18 for "policy consulting". Working my through the list of other names...
Re allen.weisselberg@chevychasebank.net - This email account appears to be active. I don't know if it belongs to Trump's CFO, but here's what I do know about Trump's relationship w Capital One, Chevy Chase Bank & Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc....
...Per Trump's '15 financial disclosure, he had a $50m+ mortgage on 40 Wall St w Capital One, incurred in '05 & due in '17. He also had a $5m-$25m mortgage on Trump National DC w Chevy Chase Trust Holding Inc incurred in '09 & due in '29....
...At the end of his term in office, Trump still maintained a Capital One checking account w a balance of $5m-$25m. The 40 Wall St mortgage was refinanced by Ladder Capital in '15 & the terms of the Trump National DC w Chevy Chase Trust remained unchanged...
ItalyGate Update: Leaning heavily towards Curt Weldon's involvement in this nefarious scheme to undermine an election & Americans' faith in government. Here's the Black Star Holding Inc registration filed w the Nevada SoS in '07 & revoked in '09...
...I know who Curt Weldon, Michele Ballarin aka Michele Roosevelt Edwards & Perry Fulbright Davis are but I don't who William R. Newland is. Per his LinkedIn profile, Davis was w Special Forces for 22 years...
...Looks like Perry Davis has an ongoing business relationship w Michele R. Edwards/Ballarin since he has a WOW Air email address & two databases list an address on Lee Hwy in Warrenton VA for him which is the same address as several of Ballarin's companies...
Sticking w ItalyGate for awhile. Taking a closer look at the "members" of Americans For Intelligence Reform per the site. Members in quotes bc the the only members listed on the corporate registration & the 990s are Bradley C Johnson, Kayleigh Long & Brent D Jostad...
...First, an update on what Michele Roosevelt Edwards aka Michele Ballarin aka Michele Golden aka Amira Ballarin has been up to. On June 22 '21, she filed a change of registered agent w the VA SoS. More on that later...
...Next up on the Americans For Intelligence Reform roster after Bradley C Johnson is Richard T Higgins who was the subject of an Aug '17 Atlantic article by @RosieGray after McMaster fired him... theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Thinking about movies in NYC in the '70s set me off on a search for an article I had read about bombings in NYC. Not the one I was looking for but this one from @atlasobscura reminded me NYC was bombed 370 times in an 18-month stretch bet '69 & '70... atlasobscura.com/articles/the-y…
...Maybe time for a "Where are they now?" series. In 1981, the FBI described Croation-American nationalists as "the most violent terrorist group in the United States" after the arrest of nine of them... nytimes.com/1981/07/23/us/…
...Just posting articles for now. Names of the eight Croation-American nationalists indicted in 1981 (one was 1arrested in Ontario).... nytimes.com/1981/06/26/us/…