@MaryPatFlynn1 Brad Crate - Red Curve Solutions - veteran of Romney’s two presidential campaigns and stint as gov of Massachusetts. Crate headed Romney’s joint FR committee in 2012, Romney Victory, administering accounts that spent an estimated $1 billion. politico.com/story/2016/05/…
Custodian of Records and Treasurer, Bradley T. Crate.
Bank: Chain Bridge Bank, Mclean, Virginia - CEO and Director John J. Brough docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
Founder/Chairman of Chain Bridge Bank, N.A. and Chain Bridge Bancorp, Peter G. Fitzgerald was a U.S. Senator from Illinois (1999-2005) and a state Senator in the Illinois General Assembly (1993-1998). Prior to election to the Senate in 1998, he was GC of Suburban Bancorp, Inc.
For the 2020 election cycle, Red Curve Solutions has brought in total reported payments of $28,456,490 with $13,132,051 going to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, $6,827,822 to Donald J. Trump for President, and $3,778,001 to Trump Victory. opensecrets.org/campaign-expen…
Check the disbursements by the Make America Great Again PAC to a Delaware company, 2M Document Management and Imaging, LLC. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for "recount, research consulting". fec.gov/data/disbursem…
2M Document Management and Imaging LLC was incorporated in Delaware on March 24, 2021 and in Nevada on December 28, 2021. opencorporates.com/companies/us_n…
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Slovakia's PM Robert Fico shot outside government meeting, official says his condition is 'life-threatening' via @ABCaustraliaabc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…
"Embroiled in allegations of corruption he has always denied, Fico is brash and outspoken."
Robert Fico's politics theguardian.com/world/article/…
The PM’s official Facebook page stated: “He was shot multiple times and is currently in critical condition. The next few hours will be decisive.” Alleged shooter, Juraj Čintula, a 71 year old writer and supporter of opposition party Progressive Slovakia, was taken into custody.
Prague-based 'Voice for Europe' a Russian propaganda medium. "Some European politicians cooperating with the news site were paid from Russian funds that in some cases also covered their 2024 EU election campaign," according to online independent media platform, Denik N.
"The payments targeted politicians from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland, Denik N said, citing a Czech foreign ministry source.
It singled out the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as being involved."
Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala revealed that the Czech Security Information Service (BIS) has busted a Moscow-financed network that spread Russian propaganda and wielded influence across Europe, including in the European Parliament. themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/27/cze…
As @davetroy posted, Deripaska's Rusal quietly morphed to avoid sanctions and is now PerenniAL. On April 28, 2022, Brian Hesse and his business partner formed a new U.S. company through a MBO of Rusal America Corp to form PerenniAL. Hesse is President and CEO of PerenniAL.
Brian Hesse joined Rusal America in May 2019 as President/CEO. He was hired to lead the company's emergence from US Government sanctions. He has been a member of the foundation board of his alma mater, Northwest University since 2022. nwmissouri.edu/foundation/abo…
Northwest University is a Christian university affiliated with the Assemblies of God and is located in Kirkland, Washington.
Suspected Russian spies
Orlin Roussev, 45, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Bizer Dzhambazov, 41, of Harrow, north-west London
Katrin Ivanova, 31, of the same Harrow address bbc.com/news/uk-665043…
@StringwallApp Reza Zarrab intentionally visited the US and surrendered based on a plan, according to Amir Abbas Soltani, a fmr Iranian lawmaker and fmr member of the parliamentary committee tasked with pursuing the Babak Zanjani case. Zanjani is imprisoned and sentenced to death
in Iran for siphoning oil billions. Soltani claims Zarrab is “the black box” of Zanjani’s case. Soltani says that following Zanjani’s case in Iran, Zarrab thought he would be captured by Iranian officials if he stayed in Turkey.
According to Soltani, Zarrab knows there is no extradition agreement betw Iran and the US...the reason he decided to go to the US. "He’s waiting to see when it will all blow over to and what will happen to Zanjani.
Frank Schneider, who was under house arrest in France awaiting extradition to the US, has evaded authorities. He faces up to 40 years in jail on fraud and money laundering charges for his alleged role in a $4bn crypto scam. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Schneider is a former spy who headed the operations directorate of the Service de Renseignement de l'État Luxembourgeois (SREL), Luxembourg's intelligence agency.