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The untold story of how hundreds of rogue honorary consuls, including alleged terror financiers and criminals, have undermined a little-known system of global diplomacy.
A judge gave @NewYorkStateAG green light to have independent watchdog oversee Trump Organization’s finances and enjoined Trump Org from moving 2021 assets without notice pending outcome of $250 million civil suit over fraudulent practices, by @jruss_jruss
My overview of the @NewYorkStateAG suit against Trump, his oldest three kids, Trump Org and others has a detailed section showing all of the 2021 assets with links to the scheme detail associated with many of the assets within the prior 10 year period
At hearing Judge Engoron noted an appraiser valued one Trump building w/rent-controlled units at $750,000 but Trump's statement of financial condition reported $50 million value
Case boiled down to: “when does a reasonable disagreement become a fraud?”
Steve Bannon associate Timothy Shea convicted in We Build the Wall fraud case - a previous jury deadlocked with a lone holdout in July, leading to a mistrial
Bannon is awaiting trial next year on similar case with Manhattan DA, by @KlasfeldReports
Steve Bannon, Timothy Shea, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato were charged with conspiring to defraud donors in the crowdfunding We Build the Wall scheme and of laundering the money
Trump pardoned Bannon, while Kolfage and Badolato pleaded guilty
My chart on Steve Bannon has a section on Andy Badolato, part of the We Build the Wall scheme, and his ties to Jonathan Curshen who in the late 1990s tried to help list Russian mafia boss Mogilevich's company YBM Magnex in the US (the effort failed)
Vermont Regulators Didn't Use the Word, but I Will: Celsius Was a Ponzi - Alex Mashinsky always had plenty to say about Celsius’ finances. Most of it, a new filing claims, wasn’t true.
Russian oligarch wealth obscured by secretive offshore network thru Isle of Man firm Bridgewaters
Silicon Valley firm Quanergy Systems went public in Feb, raised $175 mil from Rising Tide V fund backed by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, by @rob_barry
The Isle of Man Bridgewaters network has been used by relatives of Andrei Skoch, a member of Russia’s parliament, Sergei Chemezov, a former KGB associate of Putin whose companies sell arms to the Russian military, Dmitry Peskov and Kremlin-backed VTB Bank
If convicted Trump Org and subsidiary Trump Payroll Corp could face combined $1.6 million in fines. Trump was not charged and no individual can be sent to prison from these two corp charges.
CFO Allan Weisselberg separately pleaded guilty in Aug to 15 counts tied to alleged fraud scheme within the organization - he was promised a sentence of five months in jail if he testifies against the company. He had been facing up to 15 years in prison.