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31 Aug, 13 tweets, 6 min read
@davetroy And it’s all connected to the Reza Zarrab/Turkey/cash-for-gold/Halkbank/Aktif Bank/Iranian sanctions evasion scheme, the gray market/black market for Iranian oil, and the transaction laundering/narcotics smuggling/human trafficking trade associated therewith.
@davetroy For more on all of that, see these threads:
@davetroy Note also that Viet Dinh (partner at Kirkland and Ellis, counsel to Alfa Bank) not only directed Brian Benczkowski (who worked on behalf of Alfa Bank, while at Kirkland and Ellis) to kill the data transfer investigation but also represented Reza Zarrab.
@davetroy Note also that Billy Barr (who is also former Kirkland and Ellis) tried to fire Geoffrey Berman at SDNY for prosecuting Turkish Halkbank over the Zarrab Iranian sanctions evasion scheme.
@davetroy And - @davetroy you will appreciate this - it also is directly related to the the entire Qanon operation through Thomas Schoenberger and his relationships with Nasser Kazeminy, Bijan Kian, and Mike Flynn.
@davetroy These are not separate independent stories. They’re all related.
1. The Khawaja/Nader prepaid gift card op was a quid pro quo w/the Trump campaign to back out of the Iran nuke deal & reimpose sanctions.
2. Those sanctions led to the Zarrab cash-for-gold sanctions evasion scheme.
@davetroy 3. The sanctions evasion scheme opened the door to a massive smuggling & money laundering operation involving Turkish banks and Turkish government officials.
4. When they got caught, they embarked upon a large lobbying effort to kill the investigation & protect Turkish interests.
@davetroy 5. This lobbying effort involved Mike Flynn, Bijan Kian, James Woolsey, players associated with The Nowruz Commission.
6. Kazeminy and Kian both have relationships with Schoenberger who was an alleged content creator for the origins of Qanon.
@davetroy 7. And Schoenberger’s operation eventually merged with Robert David Steele and his associates to form the operation that we recognize as Qanon.
@davetroy 8. And the mysterious data transfers between Trump Org, Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health, and Heartland Payment Systems in the summer of 2016 were the Khawaja/Nader prepaid gift card operation playing out in real time.
@davetroy 9. And the Qanon operation was responsible for the biggest story of our lifetimes: The attempted violent overthrow of American democracy by proxy forces on January 6, 2021. And this insurrection is still ongoing!
@davetroy Just a quick clarification, because my original phrasing is bugging me. The Reza Zarrab cash-for-gold Iranian sanctions evasion scheme started circa 2008.
@davetroy Which more or less corresponds with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737 targeting Iran’s energy sector circa 2006.

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