It also ties into a larger effort to frame Trump for Russian collusion based upon a scenario created by an Israeli intel firm. Whos subsidiaries then tried to get Trump to hire the Russian cybermercenaries linked to Putins disinformation campaign.
Looks like the 3 senior managers of this company have flipped. Accepting a deferred prosecution agreement to cooperate against the company that employed them!
Trained by the NSA & other agencies took their skills to work for a foreign nation against Americans.
It is likely the DPA also protects US intelligence hacking tools that were used part of this contract that would be exposed at trial.
I'll have to dig to find positive IDs on all the unnamed companies. But US Company One is almost certainly Project Raven or it's parent company.
This sounds remarkably like NSO's Pegasus exploit used on iPhones by countries all over the world...
Wanna see how long these cases take to make sure you get ALL the bad guys? FBI warned the smartphone maker in August 2017 that their phones were vulnerable to this exploit.
Very interesting Spygate time in August 2017 too!
A three year cooperation window started when they signed the deal on 9/7/21...
Looks like there are 5 companies involved according to their cooperation agreement. justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
It's almost like US Company One, who got a defense export license from Hillary Clinton in 2011, wanted to have plausible deniability for any actions the defendants took to hack things during the 2016 election year...
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This campaign to hack & intimidate US political officials goes back to at least 2010.
Wonder how much fake news was created using information cleaned from those hacks with false narratives added that half the population will always believe because it's the other party?
Targeting elected politicians, government officials, journalists & academics...
Looks like FBI successfully penetrated Advanced Persistent Threat group 31 to identify individual hackers. A few of them at least.
Confirmation that Rudy was working as a CHS for FBI & DOJ when approaching Ukrainians & Russian spies behind them.
FBI & DOJ used news articles about Rudy's activity in the warrant to collect the #receipts Rudy gathered. Didn't mention his CHS interviews! emptywheel.net/2023/12/29/rud…
As I have been pointing out for several years, Rudy was a witness not a target of that investigation.
#ButNothingsHappening
The FBI refused to provide Rudy's 302s (if they were 302s) with NY SAC William Sweeney.
Likely because sharing Rudy's status as a CHS would complicate the effort to have the NY FBI affiant sig the warrant affidavit. If the agent doesn't know Rudy's a CHS, he can't tell the court.
Johnny Doc, convicted on 60+ charges in racketeering trial!
Union leader whose brother helped steal 9 seats in Congress from the GOP. Let's see if they can get his brother (who received $ from these crimes) off the PA Supreme Court.
#ButNothingsHappening inquirer.com/news/live/john…
This is the 2nd of 3 trials for John Dougherty.
The first in 2021 resulted in his conviction for bribing a Philadelphia Councilman.
The 3rd trial is for extortion.
After decades of crimes, it all fell apart as the Swamp in Philly started draining! web.archive.org/web/2020112608…
Engineering Major League Baseball signings, shaking down childrens' hospitals, rigging elections, .
But the Philly Democratic Party Machine just whines that they will lose the corrupt people who get rich making corrupt things happen.
One of Glencore's main competitors in the commodities trading business has been indicted in Switzerland!
Commodity traders have been the middlemen in global corruption for half a century.
This Angola case connects all the big Swamp players!
#ButNothingsHappening
The corruption in Angola connects to Swamps in not jsut the US but the EU, Russia, former Soviet Republics, & Swamp creatures across the range of political parties.