Interesting, the raid on Rep. Cuellar is not just related to domestic Swamp activity. But to crooks for Azerbaijan & US businessmen who must be the go betweens.
Cuellar was the Chair of the House Azerbaijan Caucus!
Hillary's oppo research man Cody Shearer tried to claim that Trump took a $10M bribe in Baku & became the middleman who arranged trips by members of Congress to meet oligarchs in Azerbaijan!
This was the dossier passed by Blumenthal/ Winer/Steele to FBI
The anti-money laundering team that Comey created at HSBC detected corruption & money laundering between Azerbaijani officials & French oil company Total.
Led to raids on the commodity traders who served as the middleman.
The commodity trader got caught paying off Bank of China with money it owed to HSBC & forging documents.
It borrowed money from HSBC to buy Azeri oil, then paid Bank of China the money from the oil instead of paying back HSBC...
The Azerbaijan officials also were bribing Hungarian officials & a Belgian Senator to the EU Parliament...
You can see why Azerbaijan was such an important hub between Iran & Russia. It is literally between them.
But they had lots of donors flying members of Congress to Baku to educate them about oil & other things...
Baku was such a problem for global corruption, money laundering, sanctions violations & Iranian WMD proliferation networks.
That the FBI had to send their very best undercover asset to Baku to identify the networks for them!
@OCCRP For the past 5 years, the European banks from Danske Bank to Swedbank & Deutsche Bank have been getting rolled & flipped for laundering this money from Azerbaijan & through Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs & politicians.
One of the people involved in illegally funding these Congressional Junkets was arrested in 2018 to face DOJ charges.
Perjury to hide that extractive industry money was behind giving $100s of thousands in gifts to 9 members of Congress & 32 staffers.
This even ties in to the disappearance & death of former FBI agent Bob Levinson. CIA's Directorate of Intel, illegally sent Bob to investigate Iranian money laundering because they did not trust the information CIA's Directorate of Operations was providing
Rep. Cueller made 'historic' partnerships between Texas A&M & Azerbaijan as part of his deals...
Higher Ed Swamp connected to the Political Swamp connected to the Oligarch Swamp connected to the Oil Swamp. Can't wait to see the indictments
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Gone are the days of German leaders from East Germany, weakening NATO by not spending their agreed upon defense budget.
Gone are the days fo German politicians buying energy from Russia & taking Swampy deals & well paid seats on Russian company boards.
Credit Suisse pleads guilty & flips for helping 475 US account holders hide billions from the IRS in off-shore accounts.
They have also signed a deferred prosecution agreement for other crimes & agreed to cooperate!
Crimes from 2010-2021!
#ButNothingsHappening
Credit Suisse will pay $510M in fines & penalties in addition to the guilty plea.
After corrupt bankers collapsed Credit Suisse, UBS bought them & are now also forced to comply with the cooperation agreement!
It's a 2 for 1 special!
The reason for the requirement to plead guilty is likely because when they committed these crimes, they were under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement signed in 2014 that required their cooperation.
They didn't think DOJ would hold them to it!
How long before people realize that Trump sets up cases to get precedents set in court?
Once the exact parameters & processes for using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 are confirmed deporting Tren de Aragua, how long does Trump wait to use it on China's 1000 Talents spy program?
It would be very easy to prove in court by the precedents set at this time that the 1000 Talents program is a predatory incursion against the United States by the Chinese government.