@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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US seized oil tanker, Skipper, off Venezuela coast, on Wednesday. Skipper was built in 2005 and is currently sailing under the flag of Guyana. Registered Owner of Skipper (IMO 9304667) is Triton Navigation Corp. via @ABCaustraliaabc.net.au/news/2025-12-1…
@ABCaustralia Here's a breakdown of who's involved with Triton Navigation:
@ABCaustralia OFAC sanctioned Viktor Artemov and others in November 2022 as designated members of an international oil smuggling network that facilitated oil trades and generated revenue for Hizballah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
@LandlordLinks 3. Carlos Salinas de Gortari - Education: Harvard University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Harvard Kennedy School. During his presidential term, he aggressively privatized hundreds of Mexican state-run companies, including telecommunications, steel, and mining.
@LandlordLinks President Carlos Salinas de Gortari’s administration might have been behind the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo in Guadalajara in May 1993.
@LandlordLinks Allegations have continued to be investigated that the Cardinal was murdered by the Mexican Government to cover up collusion between Mexican drug cartels, human trafficking rings and senior politicians during Mexico's 90-yr long government of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Michael Charles Schena, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, a U.S. Department of State employee, was sentenced to 48 mths in jail for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he believed to be working for the PRC government. justice.gov/opa/pr/departm…
Michael Charles Schena has wide experience in working with Central Asian countries. Perhaps China was not this espionage agent's only client. ocamagazine.com/2020/07/29/fro…
Michael C. Schena served as an English teacher at a school in Shaoxing, PRC in 2005, and was accepted into a State Department internship program in 2006. From the internship he was hired in 2007 as a Foreign Affairs Officer.
Donald Trump Jr is a partner in Omeed Malik's VC firm, 1789 Capital. Malik, who is Jr's boss, was born in New Jersey to Iranian and Pakistani immigrants. A Mar-a-Lago member, he's been backed by Republican mega-donor Rebekah Mercer. Blake Masters sits on the board of 1789.
After leaving Emory, Malik worked as an associate at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York. In mid June 2023, WG&M became the third law firm to represent VTB Capital since the Russian state-owned bank was sanctioned following the invasion of Ukraine.
The New York Times published emails from a longtime business associate of Trump called Felix Sater, who boasted that he had lined up financing for a Trump Tower in Moscow with VTB Bank, which is under US sanctions. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/m…
Garantex crypto exchange disrupted in international operation
Since April 2019, Garantex has processed at least $96 billion in crypto transactions, allegedly facilitated money laundering by transnational criminal organizations — and sanctions violations. justice.gov/opa/pr/garante…
Between 2019 and 2025, Aleksej Besciokov, 46, a Lithuanian national and Russian resident, and Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national, allegedly controlled and operated Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Moscow.
.abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-se…
Between March 2019 and March 2024, Garantex conducted at least tens of thousands of cryptocurrency transactions with U.S.-based exchanges, including 16,600 transactions in bitcoin alone with one of them.
It's known that exiled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad lives with his wife and children, Hafez, Karim, and Zein, in a comfortable central Moscow apartment. According to reports by Western and Russian media and NGO, Global Witness, Assad's maternal relatives, the Makhloufs,
owned 19 apartments, total value about $40 million. They obtained them as revenue shares from major investments in Neva Towers, formerly the Renaissance Moscow Towers project (struck by a drone July 30 2023).