People Tied to Project Veritas Scrutinized in Theft of Diary From Biden’s Daughter - FBI carried out search warrants in NY as part of SDNY investigation into how pages from Ashley Biden’s journal were disclosed days before ’20 election HT @GreggSmith0351 nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/…
"Federal agents in New York conducted the court-ordered searches on Thursday — one in New York City and one in suburban Westchester County — at places linked to people who had worked with the group and its leader, James O’Keefe"
Reminder that per 2019 reporting in the Intercept in 2015 or early 2016 Erik Prince arranged for James O’Keefe and "Project Veritas to receive training in intelligence and elicitation techniques from a retired military intelligence operative"
Project Veritas once worked w/ex British spy Richard Seddon to train operatives in espionage tactics
Flyover Media which owns website that published diary pages is registered to the same WY address as Seddon’s company Branch Six Consulting International
The FBI is investigating 2019 failed mercenary plot related to civil war in Libya and what role, if any, Erik Prince had in attempted sale of Jordanian military equipment to help self-declared Libyan leader Khalifa Hifter, per six sources, by @matthewacole theintercept.com/2021/10/30/fbi…
"In particular, FBI agents from the Washington Field Office have inquired into Prince’s role in creating and then trying to market a modified crop duster as a military aircraft for use in conflicts around the world." theintercept.com/2021/10/30/fbi…
The Intercept previously reported on Prince’s effort to develop and sell crop dusters modified into military aircraft and confirms👇reporting FBI agents traveled to Cyrpus to inspect a modified American-manufactured crop duster related to investigation
Trump’s social media deal partner took advice from ARC Group run by execs who had 3 companies sued by SEC to block their IPO - execs were a no show at hearings & received rare stop-order, only 5 have been issued by SEC since ARC @DEER_ECHO_@readkrystalhu reuters.com/article/usa-tr…
I tweeted the information about ARC execs SEC stop order a week ago - the Reuters story is the first detailed coverage I've seen and has important details, but does not mention that Trump's new partner Patrick Orlando was advised by ARC on 4 SPAC deals
ARC execs not only advised Trump's partner Orlando on 4 SPAC deals, @ktskts11 found 1st SEC filing for Orlando's firm Benessere Capital was subscription agmt which sold 2,875,000 shares to ARC Global Investments for $25k & signator was Hoyos (Arc Capital)
Trump’s new partner Patrick Orlando is CEO of another publicly listed special acquisition purpose corp (not linked to Trump) Yunhong International based in China
Yuhong and Giga Energy announced $7 billion deal in May but in September deal was cancelled
A quick clarification on "Luis Orleans-Braganza, a royal prince from Brazil" - Brazil does not have a ruling monarchy, but he is often referred to as a prince and is a member of the former imperial family
Not sure if this is related but this October 2019 Bloomberg story described raid on Oleg Deripaska-Linked real estate company Terra Services Ltd, US prosecutors were seeking filings in criminal probe, laundering investigation grew out of Mueller's work
The FBI are at Oleg Deripaska's DC mansion which WaPo story is owned by Hestia International and operated by Gracetown Inc - the chief exec of Gracetown is Graham Bonham-Carter who worked for Terra Services
Thread on Paolo Zampolli, a close friend of the Trumps who managed Melania's modeling career and claims he introduced her to Donald
Zampolli has links to Trump's real estate business including Trump Soho and an interesting link to Icelandic group that financed Trump & Bayrock
Paolo Zampolli was a partner at modeling agency Metropolitan Models and secured a work visa for Melania Knauss (Trump) in the 1990s cbsnews.com/news/former-mo…
Zampolli says he introduced Melania to Donald and, per this NY Times article, after the modeling business Zampolli entered the real estate business as Trump's director of international development before Zampolli went on to found Paramount Group
Pandora Papers: An offshore data tsunami
The Pandora Papers’s 11.9 million records arrived from 14 different offshore services firms in a jumble of files and formats – even ink-on-paper – presenting a massive data-management challenge