Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa and installed himself as dictator, changing the name of the country back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On May 17 George Moose met Kabila in Kinshasa & US formally recognized the new DRC govt
Alloy, a voter data juggernaut built with a $35M seed investment led by Hoffman and Todd Park, the CTO of the US under Obama, says it intends to transfer the majority of it's IP to Civitech of Austin, TX
In Dem circles, there was a concern that Alloy, cofounded by Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck, intended to own and control the party’s voter data. This distrust and suspicion may have been a key factor in Alloy’s decision to cease operations
Alloy’s cofounders, who helped to build the US Digital Service, are both veterans of Obama’s campaign tech team starting back in 2009. They reconnected during the troubled launch of Healthcare .gov, when Dickerson took an unplanned hiatus from Google to help lead the turnaround
Stephen Alford, 62, was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to a $25M extortion plot targeting the father of Rep. Matt Gaetz in a scheme to secure a presidential pardon for Rep. Gaetz
Alford was alleged to have approached Rep. Gaetz and his father, Don Gaetz, a wealthy businessman who served as president of the Florida Senate, about getting a pardon for allegedly having sex with an underage girl and paying her for it
Alford later told investigators that he lied to the Gaetz’s about the pardon.The defendant’s plot also involved a bizarre scheme to secure the release of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran 15 years ago
In a witness statement read out in court, Wikileaks supporter Cassandra Fairbanks claimed she had been told by Arthur Schwartz, a Republican party supporter close to Trump, about plans for Julian Assange’s arrest months before it happened
30 Oct 2018
Schwartz phoned Fairbanks “Arthur Schwartz was extremely angry,” she said. He told her that people would have been able to overlook her previous support of WikiLeaks, but they would not be so forgiving now that she was “more informed”
“He brought up my 9yo child during these comments, which I perceived as an intimidation tactic,” she said in the witness statement. Schwartz repeatedly told Fairbanks to stop advocating for WikiLeaks and Assange, saying that “a pardon isn’t going to f***ing happen”
James Woolsey's name came up repeatedly last week in a Utah federal courtroom during a series of sentencing hearings connected to Washakie Renewable Energy's $511M biofuel fraud tied to the Armenian underworld
LA gas station giant Lev Dermen, a man prosecutors call the boss of the Armenian Mafia who goes by the nickname: the Lion, introduced Kingston and Korkmaz
Korkmaz helped Kingston and Dermen purchase:
Mardan Palace hotel
Borajet airline
An Istanbul villa
Queen Anne superyacht
What do Bill Clinton and Oliver North have in common, along with the Arkansas State Police and the CIA? All probably wish they had never heard of Mena, Arkansas
Clintion was asked about if a base in Mena was "set up by Oliver North and the CIA" in the 1980s and used to "bring in planeload after planeload of cocaine" for sale in the US, with the profits then used to buy weapons for the Contras. Was he told as Arkansas governor?
"No," Clinton replied, "they didn't tell me anything about it." The alleged events "were primarily a matter for federal jurisdiction. The state really had next to nothing to do with it."