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24 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
On Friday Falcon Peak Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) withdrew plans for $250 million IPO

Barrack partnered on Falcon w/TI Capital Management founder Ziad Ghandour

Matthew Grimes, indicted w/Barrack, is president of Falcon

finance.yahoo.com/news/billionai…
Here's the March 2021 registration statement for Barrack's Falcon Acquisition Corp.

A business deal that seems worth further scrutiny is huge pivot by Tom Barrack's Colony Capital in 2019, with plans to sell 90% of their property holdings to buy data centers, mobile phone towers, fiber with FL company Digital Bridge founded by Marc Ganzi

Barrack's Colony Capital and Ganzi's Digital Bridge created Digital Colony fund and in 2018 raised a record $4.1 billion exceeding original $3bil target

Various state pension, retirement funds are invested, as well as Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
datacenterknowledge.com/investing/colo…

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25 Jul
Thread on reporting on who is behind some efforts to discredit vaccine

Story in @Fact_N_Furious by @PaiPLe9483 @TonioDaoust about Fazze, a subsidiary of AdNow International founded by Vladimir Bashkin, tried to get influencers to discredit Pfizer vaccine

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Meet The Murky Russian Network Behind An Anti-Pfizer Disinformation Drive In Europe

Yulia Serebryanskaya, a veteran of political campaigns/events for ruling United Russia party, owned Russian AdNow until 2018

by @kromark @Mike_Eckel @pustota @CarlSchreck
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24 Jul
A story most media are missing is that while Tom Barrack headed Trump's inaugural and helped the UAE influence the WH, his company Colony Capital was part of a housing grab squeezing and evicting renters

Much of his wealth & influence came at the expense of ordinary citizens
More and consistent coverage is needed on how corrupt business people and kleptocrats earn their $

“Tom Barrack is a real estate mogul. And he’s the kind of real estate mogul who has always made his money by profiting off of other people’s pain.”

Barrack's first break came when he was an attorney at the firm of Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon’s personal lawyer, and went to work on a project in Saudi Arabia

Kalmbach was an alleged bagman during Watergate and went to prison for illegal political fundraising
Read 5 tweets
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20 Jul
Re-upping this Trump/Brexit link in light of Tom Barrack indictment today

Barrack's Colony Capital was in business with Quidnet Capital 2014-2018

Quidnet CEO Richard Tice co-founded pro-Brexit lobbying group LeaveEU with Arron Banks

(thanks for the reminder @carolecadwalla :)
More in this thread on Barrack and Tice business deal

Re-upping piece I published on Erik Prince and the UAE with a timeline spanning 2010-2018 that highlights Trump admin and UAE events

From the Seychelles to the White House to Cambridge Analytica, Erik Prince and the UAE are key parts of the Trump story

wsiegelman.medium.com/from-the-seych…
Read 5 tweets
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20 Jul
Trump friend Tom Barrack arrested for illegally lobbying then-president for UAE

HT @Matthew_Shadle

cnbc.com/2021/07/20/tho…
Charged with the 74-old Barrack are Matthew Grimes, 27, of Aspen, Colorado, and a UAE national, Rashid Sultan Rashid Al Malik. Grimes was arrested in California on Tuesday.

cnbc.com/2021/07/20/tho…
Former Advisor to Presidential Candidate Among 3 Defendants Charged with Acting as Agents of a Foreign Government

Thomas Joseph Barrack of CA
Matthew Grimes of CO
Rashid Sultan Rashid Al Malik Alshahhi, aka Rashid Al Malik, Rashid Al‑Malik a UAE national

justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
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19 Jul
With recent NSO news a reminder that Erik Prince is a director of Eitanium Ltd with two directors who have links to NSO

Website describes Eitanium Cyber Solutions:

"Unlock any device to access important information with an ingenious EITANIUM system..."

wsiegelman.medium.com/eitanium-ltd-c…
Thread on Eitanium Ltd, first found by @ktskts11

There's no indication that Eitanium Ltd has any direct connection to NSO, however directors have either worked with NSO or with NSO execs in the past, and Erik Prince has invested in Wickr and Agent Video Intelligence (secure messaging and video intel cos)
Read 5 tweets
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17 Jul
NEW: Who Murdered Billionaire Epstein pal Les Wexner's lawyer?

Some questions about Epstein's activities in the 1990s may be answered by what an unsolved murder investigation reveals about Wexner's business before he met Epstein

From me & @WillBredderman
thedailybeast.com/who-murdered-a…
In 1985 a day before lawyer Arthur Shapiro was set to testify before a grand jury for dodging taxes he was murdered

Bob Fitrakis published findings of a 1991 police report that said Shapiro worked on The Limited account and looked at Wexner associates
thedailybeast.com/who-murdered-a…
A suspect was identified, Wexner isn't accused of any involvement in the murder

The memo shows links from Wexner associates to others allegedly involved w/organized crime

New research shows Epstein named in 1990s dissolution docs for 2 companies in memo

thedailybeast.com/who-murdered-a…
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