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May 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
These visits raise important questions about what exactly was being discussed in those meetings in the last months of the Trump administration: Was it purely about government business or was it personal? nytimes.com/2022/05/22/bus…
One of the frustrations of covering corruption is that so much of it happens in plain sight. Everybody knew that, after the election, in the final months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin were spending huge amounts of time in the Middle East.
Everybody knew that, and everybody knows that Kushner and Mnuchin have both gotten investments of very large amounts of money from funds in the Middle East, particularly the Saudis.
Everybody knows about what Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin have been up to in the Middle East.

So why—on May 23, 2022—are we still talking about it and nothing has been done?
Later today, I’ll have a new interview up on my Substack with former White House ethics czar Richard Painter (@RWPUSA) about all of this.

Subscribe now to get it in your inbox as soon as it's published: vickyward.substack.com

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May 20
You may not have connected three stories that broke recently, but you should.

There's a link between the FBI suit against Steve Wynn, the superseding indictment against Tom Barrack, and the guilty plea by former Pakistan and UAE ambassador Richard Olson. vickyward.substack.com/p/is-the-swamp…
Regarding Wynn: The FBI doesn’t bring suits like this very often, so this is one to watch.
And as for Olson: My sources say that his plea might mean that he has information to offer the government in exchange for that plea.
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Apr 27
Last week, I wrote about why MBS might want to invest $2 billion in Jared Kushner’s new fund. I will be staying on that, so stay tuned.

In the meanwhile, I received a document that raises questions about a different president’s relative: Hunter Biden. vickyward.substack.com/p/exclusive-ol…
This document appears to show that, in 2012, Hunter Biden and, separately, someone unnamed but apparently affiliated with Rosemont Realty—a real estate company Biden consulted for—was scheduled to meet with the still-unsanctioned Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov.
Yevtushenkov owns RTI, a key Russian defense contractor, and is the brother-in-law and frequent business partner of Elena Baturina, who was an investor in Rosemont Realty at the time of the scheduled meeting with Yevtushenkov, according to two people with direct knowledge.
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Apr 20
NEW: Text messages show the critical role the Trump White House had in giving MBS his job. vickyward.substack.com/p/text-message…
I've published text messages between Saad Aljabri, MBN’s right-hand aide who is suing MBS for attempted murder, and Abdulaziz al-Huwairini, then the head of Saudi state security. They show the series of events leading to MBN’s 2017 downfall—& the U.S.’s critical influence in it.
On May 16, 2017, Aljabri shows al-Huwairini the statement filed by Trump-friendly lobbyist Robert Stryk, announcing his new representation of Mohammed bin Nayef and stressing the importance of MBN’s brave role in fighting counterterrorism and as a moderator against extremists.
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Apr 16
The two-billion-dollar question is: Why would MBS invest in Jared Kushner? 

Here’s my answer, according to three very well-placed sources with direct knowledge. vickyward.substack.com/p/exclusive-th…
Earlier this week, I wrote about the staggering sum of $2 billion entrusted by the Saudi investment fund PIF to Jared Kushner’s new fund, Affinity Partners—reportedly at the behest of MBS over objections by a panel of financial advisers. vickyward.substack.com/p/is-the-saudi…
Remember: Jared Kushner has zero track record as an investor. Before going into politics, he was in real estate, and, as I wrote in KUSHNER, INC., he wasn’t very good at that.
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Apr 11
Yale Law School is especially critical in the larger culture wars, and, in the lead-up to a controversial Federalist Society event this week, already the saucepan is simmering dangerously hot. vickyward.substack.com/p/yale-law-sch…
Last week, 1,400 conservative lawmakers and public figures wrote a letter to Heather Gerken, the dean of Yale Law School, asking for the March 10 protesters to be punished and the school to amend its original statement saying that the event had not been seriously disrupted.
The letter to Dean Gerken includes signatures from Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, as well as nine members of the House of Representatives and the governors of Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
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Apr 6
A good explainer by @mmcintire on why it's so hard to clearly connect Putin to his rumored riches: nytimes.com/2022/04/06/wor…
The yacht Olympus is "one of many extravagant assets long speculated to be Putin’s that actually are owned or controlled by the state, showing how much the private interests of the president & his inner circle have merged with those of the gov't he has dominated for two decades."
"The US & its allies have created a multinational task force to track and seize assets of at least 50 wealthy Russians, including Putin. But some analysts question whether it will have much impact on [Putin], who has never been found to personally own much worth confiscating."
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