This businessman is close to Alexei Gromov, a senior official in the Russian presidential administration, considered "the person in charge of the Kremlin's control of the media" and placed under US sanctions two months ago.
Klyushin is said to be the creator of a powerful media monitoring system used by Russian services. Currently detained in Sion, he opposes his extradition to the United States.
The information emerges from a judgment of the Federal Court (TF) made public just days before the meeting of Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva on 16 June.
Is Gromov Russian Press Secretary-1 from the Danchenko indictment?
5 June 2019
It may be that the orders came from a man who has served Putin for nearly 20yrs: Alexey Gromov, Putin’s old press secretary & now first deputy head of the presidential admin
[2006-14] "PR Executive-1 served as a lead consultant during that project and frequently interacted with senior Russian Federation leadership whose names would later appear in the Company Reports, including the...
Press Secretary of the Russian Presidential Administration ("Russian Press Secretary-1"), the Deputy Press Secretary ("Russian Deputy Press Secretary-1"), and others in the Russian Presidential Press Department."
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A consulting firm asked AG Eric Holder to investigate computer hacking involving an ousted sheikh, which the firm says could compromise "sensitive information relating to U.S. and Iranian security issues."
Jason Kinney, head of California Strategies, made the request to Holder and the U.S. attorney's office last week after it appeared hackers had accessed the Sacramento consulting firm's computer files relating to their client, Sheikh Khalid bin Saqr Al Qasimi.
Kinney and two other leading Democratic strategists, former White House spokesman Chris Lehane and Peter Ragone, the former spokesman for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, represent the royal client.
EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES has brought new meaning to the concept of the “corporate state” by mustering what is arguably the world’s first corporate army, is again at war, only this one is of words, fought in the arena of public opinion.
It is six years since Executive Outcomes emerged as a mercenary force to be reckoned with in Africa. Even now, as Zaire threatens to implode, there is speculation (denied by the company) that their mercenaries are moving in to shore up the crumbling rule of President Mobutu.
A “UK Eyes Alpha” (“top secret”) British intelligence report records that “Executive Outcomes was registered in the UK on September 1993 by Anthony (Tony) Buckingham, a British businessman and Simon Mann, a former British officer”.
Andy Martin, a political gadfly who ran for President Obama’s former Senate seat in 2010, announced Wednesday in New Hampshire that he will run for the Republican nomination for president on a “birther” platform.
“I’m going to have a tremendous impact on the presidential election, not because I’m the frontrunner. Clearly I’m not,” he said. “But I’ll be driving the agenda in the Republican Party.”
The so-called “birther” movement already had a serious impact in the political landscape in the 2010 elections, Martin said, because “when you doubt the legitimacy of the leader, it undermines the Democratic Party.”
Lloyd Shearer, a Hollywood fixture whose Personality Parade column in Parade magazine reached as many as 50 million readers in its heyday, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
Personality Parade, which Mr. Shearer wrote under the name Walter Scott from 1958 to 1991
Mr. Shearer, whose nickname was Skip and who favored Hawaiian shirts and drove a turquoise 1955 Bel Air convertible, was also known for having a journalistic salon of sorts.
A lawyer who advised the Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond department on the legality of transactions testified Monday that information about improper or illegal activity was withheld from him.
The lawyer, Craig Cogut, said however that the information was withheld by Michael Milken’s brother, Lowell. Cogut said he never discussed the questionable transactions, involving Storer Communications warrants, with Milken.
The hearings are being held to help U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood determine if Milken committed more than the six felonies he pleaded guilty to in April. The judge will take the evidence into account when she decides Milken’s sentence, which could be up to 28 years in prison.