There's a reason why I haven't reported this yet, even though these numbers have been available since February.
Nearly all the money Schusterman gave DMFI was spent BEFORE their recent blitz against Turner—so we can't say for sure she's the donor behind it, though she may be.
Assuming DMFI is a semi-annual filer with the FEC, we'll know for sure who funded their recent blitz on Nina Turner on 07/30.
I think @theintercept was a bit premature on this report because there's lots of new money that hasn't been accounted for yet.
So while they may wind up being vindicated, it could also wind up being that this story is at best incomplete.
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Lately I've been trying to just ignore all of the so called "in-fighting", keep my head in the research, and focus on what's important: the work.
But my patience has worn out.
If you come at me or my colleagues with bad faith attacks or outright lies, I will expose you.
It's so easy to sit around and creep @nikoCSFB or @Fiorella_im's timeline and disparage their work.
It's much more difficult to do some work of your own.
"Those who can't talk about those who can".
Challenge my reporting if you want but I don't report without receipts. I pride myself on it.
I don't need an entire team of researchers to write a "breaking" story about something that's been known for years, and I don't take credit for scoops that I didn't report first.
The mainstream media is going to keep Trump in the spotlight as long as they can—because he made them stars pulling record ratings.
You wont see the same veracity of reporting on Biden, because criticism of Democratic politicians in those circles will get you blacklisted.
Eventually, they'll have no choice but to put Biden in the spotlight. When that happens, much like with Obama, it will be milquetoast puff pieces full of softball questions.
Then their ratings will bottom out. Why? Because it's boring.
Then they'll invent their next boogeyman.
Don't forget the media's hubris helped push Trump to the forefront of politics, though their coverage was overwhelmingly negative—"Any press is good press".
Plus, he was good for business!
They'll repeat the cycle when they soon become attention starved from his absence.
This will be a catalog of the incoming Biden administration's financial disclosures and relevant data/stories—several of which were first reported by us here @McscNetwork.
Blinken also started a venture capital firm focused primarily on defense contractors—Pine Island Capital Partners—with Michéle Flournoy (future Defense Sec. Austin sat on the board).
BREAKING: Recent tax filings show @theintercept parent company, Pierre Omidyar’s @firstlookmedia, pulled in $28M+ in 2019.
$25M (over 88%) came from Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which receives funds from tech billionaires like Dustin Moskovitz and Jeff Skoll.
This total is slightly lower than 2018, where @firstlookmedia took $31M+ from Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which I reported on earlier this year.
SVCF's 2 yr total is $51M+, making up practically all of First Look's funding during that span.
A 2019 report on Dominion Voting Systems' "Democracy Suite" by Texas SOS determined numerous vulnerabilities and issues in the software and hardware—such as convoluted setup, lost adjudication results, incorrect prompts, and power failures.
Certification was recommended denied.
After the examination ended in the recommendation of not certifying Dominion Voting's "Democracy Suite", further reports by Texas State Dept. questioned whether it was "suitable for its intended purpose" and if it "operated efficiently and accurately".
Certification was denied.
Texas officials reviewed Dominion's "Democracy Suite" on at least 6 separate occasions, all of them resulting in recommendations of not certifying it for use.
In the interest of objectivity, I should point out that Mr. Paul seems to have a few things confused.
1. Feinstein's husband Richard Blum actually had ownership in Avid Technologies, a media company whose program intercepted vote tally wire data for news broadcasts.
2. Dominion Voting Systems is actually owned by Staple Street Capital, themselves and offshoot of mega investment firm The Carlyle Group, with ex-Obama officials sitting on the board of SSC, such as William Kennard.
3. Dominion Voting does have a relationship with Nancy Pelosi's ex-Chief of Staff Nadeam Elshami, but only in a lobbying capacity, being part of the Brownstein, Farber et. al. Team hired by Dominion last year. about.bgov.com/news/voting-ma…