"Now former H. Brooks employees say their employer stole money from them, including wages, health care premiums & contributions to retirement accounts."
Employees, former owners left in lurch after major Twin Cities produce company folds under new owner strib.mn/3z814q2
May 7, 2021
"Two years after a private equity firm acquired 2 iconic Twin Cities’ fresh produce operations, bankruptcy appears imminent as bills go unpaid & lawsuits accumulate."
"Gretchen Peters, who runs the Center on Illicit Networks & Transnational Organized Crime, was part of a 2012 US delegation to London to 'beg' [them] to take [it] seriously."
"This report confirms Britain’s ongoing role as a ‘laundromat’ for dirty money & reputations and has major national security implications. Action needs to be taken urgently to root out illicit wealth & nefarious influence."
"For example, Hambali and his subordinates met with at least two of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in Malaysia as far back as January 2000, officials here say."
"Another investigation was conducted by Aleksandr Litvinenko...who worked with historian Yury Felshtinsky & published their conclusions in 2001, in Novaya Gazeta."
2 Decades On, Smoldering Questions About The Russian President's Vault To Power rferl.org/a/putin-russia…
"Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks of ‘Judaization of Jerusalem,’ mentions US withdrawal from Afghanistan, but not Taliban takeover — suggesting the footage may not be recent."
"Egyptian Jihad leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who later became Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, roamed the world from April 1995 until Dec. 1996, when Russia arrested him as he tried to enter Chechnya...to scope it out as a possible sanctuary for his cause."
"...imprisoned for 6 months. He emerged...weaker than ever...no choice but to join Bin Laden, who had returned to Afghanistan after the Sudanese adventure.
From 1996 onwards, he made US & Western interests the jihadist group’s number one priority."
"Prosecutors have begun an investigation into allegations that Russian businessmen paid a bribe to President Alejandro Giammattei to obtain a dock in one of the country’s main ports."
Guatemala probes President Giammattel over alleged Russian bribes fcced.com/?p=184424
September 3, 2021
"...ending any chance that he will soon return to Guatemala and resume his former work investigating the country’s highest-profile graft cases."