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Oct 11 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The Globetrotting Con Man and Suspected Spy

Tao Liu’s criminal odyssey took him from money laundering in MX to a massive scam in China to Trump’s exclusive NJ golf club.

It is believed he may have infiltrated US politics as part of a Chinese intel op. propublica.org/article/liu-ta…
In July 2018, Trump met at his NJ golf club with a Chinese businessman who should have never gotten anywhere near the most powerful man in the world.

Tao Liu had recently rented a luxurious apartment in Trump Tower in NY & boasted of joining the Trump’s Golf Club in Bedminster.
Liu was also a “fugitive” from Chinese justice.

Media reports published overseas three years before the meeting had described him as the mastermind of a conspiracy that defrauded thousands of investors.
He had ties to Chinese and Latin American organized crime.

Perhaps most worrisome, the FBI was monitoring him because of suspicions that he was working with Chinese spies on a covert operation to buy access to U.S. political figures.

#ButHunterBidenFangFang
Oh Lookee here!

2017: A senior executive of an investment firm linked to (Bannon’s pal) Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui was jailed for more than two years for fraud.

Lu Tao worked for Beijing Pangu Investment Firm.

hongkongfp.com/2017/06/16/chi…
Guo Wengui directed Lu and others “to apply for loans from the bank with fake contracts, stamps and financial statements, which disturbed financial management order and threatened financial security”, the court said.

hongkongfp.com/2017/06/16/chi…
Yang Ying, Lu Tao and Xie Honglin, who worked at Guo's Beijing Pangu Investment Co., stood trial at the Dalian Xigang District People's Court in the northeastern province of Liaoning in 2017.

rfa.org/english/news/c…
Guo Wengui is a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Is he also a communist spy?

miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
Remember this? Casino magnate Steve Wynn, a longtime Trump confidant with biz interests in China, reportedly hand-delivered Trump a letter from the Chinese gov’t ...
#1MDB
We are seeing the contours of the Chinese money laundering pipeline & Trump cronies politico.com/story/2019/06/…
With Bannon's help, Guo Wengui has become a prominent Chinese-language media figure in the U.S.

Guo has been using his media platforms to carry out disinformation campaigns targeting democracy activists in the Chinese diaspora and even Joe Biden's son.

npr.org/2020/12/26/950…
Update re Elliot Broidy, Jho Low & Guo Wengui & 1MDB

💰Guo Wengui 💰
TeamTrump relentlessly pushed disinformation about Covid
Bannon - Giuliani - Guo Wengui

How a 'shoddy' Bannon-backed paper on coronavirus origins made its way to an audience of millions

cnn.com/2020/10/21/pol…

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Sep 25
Virtual vacation time!

Please enjoy the beauty of Chateau Chantilly, Chantilly, France.

Attached below is a number of photographs in two versions, one color, and the 2nd tweaked B&W “infrared” effect.

I took these when there in 2019, thanks to @Geurtie’s suggestion.

Enjoy!
In the distance is the Chantilly Horse Museum.

Chantilly is about one hour north of Paris via train. We caught the D train at the huge Gare du Nord — it took a bit to find our way, but we did.

From the train station we caught a taxi to the chateau.

chateaudechantilly.fr/en/great-stabl…
Chateau Chantilly is immense and is surrounded by miles of pools, ponds, garden pathways and horse trails and the interior is filled with period furnishings, a huge collection of 15th and 16th century art works, second only to the Louvre.

chateaudechantilly.fr/en/collections/
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Sep 21
Diamond magnate Lev Leviev was served with a summons by police Tuesday night upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport from Russia, as he is wanted for questioning in relation to the multimillion-dollar “Black Diamond” fraud investigation that began in 2018. timesofisrael.com/diamond-tycoon…
Lev Leviev, the Israeli Billionaire With Ties to Jared Kushner and Putin
Leviev is best known for having cracked the world diamond market monopoly of the De Beers cartel in the 1980s, and for real estate holdings and construction deals.

haaretz.com/us-news/2017-0…
Leviev-Sofiev has been pictured hanging out with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, while her dad Lev Leviev is said to be friends with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

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Aug 31
The share-trading scandal known as "cum-ex", which has blighted German political and financial circles for several years, has cost taxpayers billions of euros.

Government officials say the investigation involves some 100 banks on four continents and at least 1,000 suspects.
“The robbery of the century,”

“The biggest tax theft in the history of Europe.”

From 2006 to 2011 hundreds of bankers, lawyers and investors made off with a staggering $60 billion, all of it siphoned from the state coffers of European countries.

nytimes.com/2020/01/23/bus…
The scheme was built around “cum-ex trading” (“with-without”): a monetary maneuver to avoid double taxation of investment profits that plays out like high finance’s answer to a David Copperfield stage illusion.

nytimes.com/2020/01/23/bus…
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Jul 19
🤗Timeline Cleanser

Portland’s Japanese Garden is huge and spectacular and not to be missed if you are in the area. Also, the adjacent rose test garden is amazing as well.
Portland’s Japanese Garden website: japanesegarden.org

Portland’s Washington Park International Rose Test Garden: portland.gov/parks/washingt…
The greenery is so calming.
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Jul 19
Employees at Rocket One Capital, had learned of the pending deal long before it was announced.

Rocket One officials at the time talked about ways to profit off the soon-to-be-announced transaction with Trump Media & Technology Group by investing in the SPAC.
Federal prosecutors and regulators are now investigating the merger between Digital World and Trump Media, including the frenzied trading in the SPAC’s warrants, according to people familiar with the investigation and public disclosures.
Digital World said in a recent regulatory filing that a federal grand jury in Manhattan had issued subpoenas seeking information about Rocket One, among other things.
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2017: Alexander Dugin and Steve Bannon's Ideological Ties to Vladimir Putin's Russia newsweek.com/2017/05/05/ste…
Alexander Dugin - The one Russian linking Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan

independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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“That’s how the trip became effective,” Pekin said. “We knew what we said went directly to Putin.”

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