Explains how the extractive industries with the help of the corruption services industries established corrupt regimes in Kazakhstan while politicians & the CIA tried to keep FBI & DOJ at bay.
Like most of the global Swamps, the one in Kazhakstan was started by western extractive industries. Drilling, mining, lumber, & fishing companies bribe repressive politicians for permission to extract natural resources.
When FBI & DOJ went after the corruption, Nazarbayev appealed to Cheney for protection. Leading Giffen's lawyers to admit CIA knew about the corruption & years of 'legal wrangling' over state secrets like corruption.
But Naz knew he could be brought down if CIA didn't fight 4 him
If you have followed me for long, you know that I suspect that there was still classified authorization to the CIA to control the former Soviet Republics by using corruption to create puppets who would let their nation's resources be drained off for the profit of US companies.
So now the power struggle over who controls Kazakhstan & it's wealth is escalating.
A color revolution failed, I suspect because Massimov tried to go through Hunter Biden (& the FBI) instead of the people at CIA & State who run real color revolutions...
So after 2 decades of FBI & DOJ being told to drop cases because "he's with intelligence" the FBI infiltrated it's own assets into the Swamp networks to drain them. It's why the oligarchs, politicians & dictators started getting indicted in 2014...
So why is a country like Kazakhstan so important?
It produces 40% of the worlds uranium & a deal between Nazarbayev & Clinton let Uranium One secure mining rights Putin wanted...
So then the Clinton Foundation donors sold the company to Russia!
Like most of these countries, corruption comes to light when someone tries to get away with their cash or someone elses. But they are usually lying to claim they are the victim. Which is why they hire guys like Chris Steele to write dossiers for their court cases...
So just like many corrupt American politicians, Nazarbayev made deals with foreign oligarchs who could not pose a risk as political rivals in his country.
To keep the spice flowing they use repression & hire Swampy law firms & PR firms to blame the problem on someone else.
The corruption services industry calls this "reputation management"
As Titus said if Tom Hanks punched a nun, your first question would be "What did the nun do?"
Putin doesn't want to lose that uranium supply he bought from the Clintons' friends.
But I suspect sending in Russian troops to protect Nazarbayev & his puppet president will backfire in making them look like Putin's lackeys & a return to Moscow's control...
So now the regime's players are all jumbled & trying to maintain their positions & take out their rivals. While western 'consultants' guide them
Which means they will be using their blackmail material to expose the corruption of their rivals. Which gives us more of the #Receipts!
As that chaos increases, no one will know who is on their side & they may have to rely upon advice from those corruption services industry partners motivated only my mercenary greed...
Orbis Business Intelligence (Chris Steele) made a lot of money providing 'reports' for attorneys who were running oligarchs cases in western courts.
Suing rivals to take back assets by accusing them of corruption. With a 'dodgy dossier' to back up the allegations.
Then comes this claim (threat?) If these power struggles don't stop Kazhastan might start releasing the #Receipts exposing the West's consultants, lobbyists, private spies & PR firms that enabled the corruption.
Notice the reporter's source omitted politicians & lobbyists? Weird!
Oh look, FT's source is a "former intelligence officer" in the region, the "ex-spy" & "others who know the regime" (those PR specialists) tell them the corruption will remain, you better stay on Nazarbayev's & his accomplices good side.
Is the ex-spy Steele?
Giffen began working to open the Soviet Union to US businesses in the 1970s. Working for a consortium of many large US companies to "negotiate entry into the Soviet market". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gif…
After what was then the largest foreign corruption investigation in FBI & DOJ history, Giffen & his CIA classified documents, got almost all of the charges dropped. Pleading guilty to a misdemeanor tax offense & a $25 fine for an $80m bribery case! foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/19/was…
Giffin's lawyers spent 7 years fighting DOJ on the grounds that if Kazakhstan wants to make bribery of it's government officials legal, it has the right to do that. Plus the CIA authorized him to do it to further US national security...
I wonder if the DOJ's arrest of Giffin in 2003 may have contributed to the CIA efforts to blame Bush for their WMD intelligence failure in Iraq? Maybe they would have done that CYA anyway...
The local CIA officers in Kazakhstan knew nothing about his efforts. Giffin was meeting with people at CIA HQ in Arlington...
Was it a mission from the top that the local agents didn't have a need to know about?
The judge (who was given access to the CIA's docs before sentencing) seems to believe Giffin's service was real & not just a cover up for corruption. But the 2 go hand in hand.
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Another swampy state employees pension fund was making investments in shady companies...
Oregon pension fund officials approved their investment firm buy NSO Group spyware company that has been used around the world to spy on people & abuse human rights.
So taxpayer dollars poured into state employee pension funds were supporting both Francisco Partners who owned NSO first & then Novalpina who bought them...
Bad publicity about spying & human rights violations were just "noise" when there were Swampy deals to be made....
I wonder if state investment funds were being guided to funds & companies that did dirty deeds for the Swampy politicians who approved the deals?
I'll have to go find the original documents, (thanks to my Patreon supporters who fund my research including on paid databases like PACER).
DOJ sentencing documents G. Nader plead guilty to funneling $3.5M into Hillary's 2016 election efforts from U.A.E. theintercept.com/2022/01/16/uae…
How do we know Hillary had criminal intent & knowledge that Nader was illegally funneling money into her campaign? FBI gave her a defensive briefing, which opened her up to criminal charges for knowingly colluding with U.A.E. for illegal donations.
Of course the liberals will all share this article about DOJ confirming that Hillary was guilty of colluding with a foreign power for cash.
Why? Because the spin includes a claim that Nader gave money to Trump's inauguration.
Audit of Swampy FirstEnergy finds the $150M per year grid modernization fee they fleeced customers for with Swampy regulator approval of the fee.
It wasn't spent on the grid & may have been used for lobbying Swampy politicians. #ButNothingsHappening
The first audit was much more severe & the now fired CEO bragged about blocking that audit report being released to get this more watered down version written.
In July of 2021, FirstEnergy agreed to flip on the Swamp creatures that they purchased in state & federal government to help them overbill their customers.
Former Acting IG for DHS pleads guilty for illegally accessing & stealing confidential information & software on DHS & USPS system. Worked at DHS OIG from 2008-2013 & previously USPS OIG
Was accessing that info from at least 2015-2017.
Very interesting!
Delta Business Solutions Inc. let it’s incorporation expire or closed it in either late 2018 or early 2018.
Then in time for the 2020 election he reincorporated in Feb. 2020…
I believe his access to these OIG Case Management software would have allowed him to identify any investigations by OIG at DHS & USPS. Be able to identify the agents working the cases, their PII & the evidence they had gathered. The holy grail to obstruct OIG investigations.
Swedbank's former CEO is indicted for fraud for statements in 2018-19 trying to cover up the banks role in laundering money for Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs through Estonia & into the European Union & the US.
What transactions triggered the investigations & regulatory interest in Swedbank's money laundering?
Following money laundered to Paul Manafort by oligarchs through Swedbank's Estonian branch...
Swedbank laundered between $6-10B for 50 oligarchs from 2007-2017. Their laundromat was shutdown in May 2017 as Mueller began his investigation into who Manafort was working for & how they were paying him.
A guy whose business offerings included “Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) emulation” where he would pretend to be a specific hacking group & target your network in penetration tests.
Wonder if they posed as Fancy Bear & Cozy Bear... #ButNothingsHappening justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/rus…
After Vladislav Klyushin was arrested in Switzerland, the Russians tried very hard to get him extradited to Russia & away from the DOJ.
But the Swiss finally shipped him to us in December... swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/s…