“After a while, Rudy Giuliani started to cause a commotion. He was telling other guests that he had come up with a strategy for Trump & was trying to get into the president’s private quarters to tell him about it. Some people thought Giuliani may have been drinking too much.”
Guy nicknamed Turd Blossom feeds TFG a load of BS after Fox called Arizona for Biden.
Et tu, Esper?
“He had confidence that they were serious, stable people who cared deeply about showing up national security. Esper couldn’t say the same about Trump.”
Naturalized American citizen Yuri Vanetik is suing Pavel Fuks of Ukraine (NYT spells it Fuchs) for a cool $252 MILLION dollars in damages, and another $84 MILLION in relief. This seems ambitious and perhaps ill-advised, to say the least.
Vanetik goes to great lengths to describe Mr. Fuks in the most unflattering of terms, as he complains that his business and reputation have suffered harm, and he fears for his life. Mr. Fuks is widely thought to have ties to transnational organized crime in Russia, Ukraine.
I’m scratching around the #CouncilForNationalPolicy roster and was looking for an entity that’s got low web presence when I found this month-old letter to Texas governor Abbot on voting suppression.
Its signatories are a veritable CNP who’s who.
Edwin Meese III is listed on the letter as Attorney General to Ronald Reagan from 1985-88. At the #CNP, of which he has a been a member he serves on the CNP Senior Executive Committee and is currently an honorary member (one of 6).
The Heritage Foundation, where he is the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy, is the sister entity to Heritage Action, which has been introducing hundreds of voter suppression bills to state legislatures.
Time for a little thread on SolarWinds $SWI which has been hacked by Russia’s FSB, APT P29, commonly known as Cozy Bear.
The hackers embedded code that allows access to databases of the many clients SolarWinds sells to, including USG & 425 of the Fortune 500.
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Sunday, Arapaho was kind enough to tag me in on the breaking development.
I’ll share her great thread, then dive into some breaking news, then wrap with a bit of info from investor analysts.
Today is a good day to start a thread about Mount Airy Casino Resort. It may take a while to cover all the territory.
Let’s start with some ancient history.
In 2008, the Feds got a mobster to roll over on the resort.
“The reputed boss of a northeastern Pennsylvania crime family could get time knocked off his prison sentence because he is cooperating with authorities in their prosecution of a casino owner.”