Former Congressman arrested for serving as an unregistered foreign agent for Venezuela.
Attempted to lobby Senator Marco Rubia & used an unnamed White House aide to arrange a meeting between VP Pence and his Venezuelan employers. #ButNothingsHappening cbsnews.com/miami/news/fed…
CBS has posted a link to the indictment for former US Congressman & former Florida Representative David Rivera.
Also indicted is Esther Nuhfer, a GOPe fundraiser also based in Florida.
They received $50M to illegally influence the Trump Admin & Congress. scribd.com/document/61250…
Earlier this year, Rivera lost a 5 year fight to throw out a $456k FEC fine for illegally funding a Democratic candidate in 2012.
He funded a Dem primary opponent in an effort to damage his opponent for the general election.
He still lost... floridabulldog.org/2022/03/ex-con…
This case has been percolating through the system for about 2 1/2 years since the Miami Herald investigative reporting exposed some of these connections.
Congressman Sessions was convinced to fly to Venezuela & secretly meet with President Maduro to help prevent Trump from placing sanctions on Venezuelan oil.
Sessions didn't invite Trump State Dept. to observe his meeting with the socialist dictator either. cbsnews.com/dfw/news/texas…
Rivera & Nuhler were also sued by the Venezeulan opposition who was paying them to hold Maduro accountable, while they secretly worked with Mado to undermine sanctions against Venezuela.
This case has massive connections to many of the #ButNothingsHappening cases. Iran, Russia, Angola, Swiss banks, & billions of dollars being looted from Venezuela to make Swamp creatures all over the world rich.
One case to keep watch for is a lobbying effort by Fusion GPS for Venezuela.
A campaign that convinced the US Treasury Dept from adding Venezuela to the watch list for money laundering countries. That is now under investigation by the Treasury OIG!
The Venezuelan corruption also leads to Glencore, the Swampy commodities trading firm. It's founder & former CEO Marc Rich required a last minute pardon from President Clinton to shut down investigations into other cases...
I identified Esther Nuhler & Congressman Pete Sessions as likely participants the day after the original stories broke. She is indicted along with former Congressman Rivera.
Still waiting on Pete Sessions to get his day in court...
Congressman Sessions was also identified as Congressman 1 in the SDNY indictment of Parnas & Fruman. Two individuals convicted using the #receipts that Rudy Guiliani gathered for DOJ.
Pete's father William Sessions was a former federal judge appointed by Reagan in 1987 to become the FBI Director.
AG Barr arranged to engineer Sessions firing (completed by AG Reno who had no choice with the case Barr made).
In 1992, Sessions had backed the CIA & helped undermine the GHW Bush Administration & the DOJ to block the FBI's case against BCCI, a CIA connected bank connected to corruption around the globe.
Prior to Sessions role in #Spygate1992 & protecting BCCI, an FBI asset named Robert Trump, had helped the FBI bring down BCCI & other subsidiaries for laundering money for illegal arms sales including WMD components for Saddam.
The BCCI case started because of mafia prosecutions where Donald & Robert Trump had helped FBI against the mob. The mobsters being prosecuted by Rudy, Comey & Mueller were using many of the same money launderers that the CIA used in illegal operations.
It is still speculation at this point, but I believe that this may have been an effort to frame Trump for colluding with Venezuela to trigger an impeachment as the Russia Hoax was losing steam in late spring of 2017...
Then with another attempt involving Ukraine 2 years later...
The GOPe tried to blame the BCCI scandal on President Reagan (maybe hoping Reps would rally around him & protect the GOPe in the process.)
Investigations revealed that the BCCI operations had been set up in the 70s by SoS Kissinger & CIA Director GHW Bush.
Of course when these GOPe/CIA elements wanted dirty deeds done in the Swamp they often turned to some of their favorite GOPe operatives: Davis, Manafort, & Stone.
Let's head back to former FBI Director William Sessions.
In 2007, he was hired by Semion Mogilevich, considered the boss of bosses in the Russian mob, to get the DOJ to drop charges against him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S…
In 2009, FBI added Mogilevich to the 10 Most Wanted List & the lobbying by a disgraced former FBI Director turned to getting him removed from the list which happened a few years later.
In addition, former FBI Director Louis Freeh went to work for Mogilevich associate or front man, Mikhail Fridman.
Freeh works for Fridman & other oligarchs lobbying against criminal prosecution of his clients.
Mogilevich made billions off laundering money between the Bank of New York & his bank Inkombank.
Money used to buy up the USSR's assets & consilidate them into the hands of Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs like Mogilevich & his associates. nypost.com/1999/08/21/ban…
Who served as the middleman for many of these Russia oligarchs & the money laundering?
Marc Rich, of Glencore, the guy Clinton felt he had to pardon on his last day in office over the objections of the Department of Justice.
On September 8th, 1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin colludes with President Clinto to obstruct this money laundering investigation to help Gore & Putin win the 2000 elections.
By having FBI Director Freeh shut down the cases.
Where it gets really interesting is two people Louis Freeh tried to partner with to lobby the Obama & Trump Administrations for his clients.
Rudy Giuliani & Hunter Biden, 2 lawyers who both received emails from Freeh that he marked as attorney client privileged...
But by FBI seizing Hunter's laptop & 18 of Rudy's electronic devices, a DOJ filter team or a Special Master got to review all of those emails to see if they were really attorney client privileged, or if Freeh just titled them that to shield them from law enforcement!
In 2016, Freeh illegally donated money to the trust fund for Beau Biden's children to butter up Hunter who was running the fund.
Working for the PM of Malaysia later convicted in the 1MDB case at the time!
As you can see, Freeh marked his emails to Hunter as Attorney Client Privileged & Attorney Client Work Product Privileged information. Even though they would not qualify as such.
Both Hunter & Rudy were almost certainly collecting evidence as assets for the FBI.
While everyone believed the fake news that FBI & DOJ were out to get Rudy, DOJ was telling everyone that the targets were Rudy's (& Freeh's?) clients!
Another company connected to Freeh is being prosecuted for Chinese linked money laundering thru a casino in the Marianas Islands.
Freeh, Gov. Rendel & Clinton CIA Director Woolsey sat on their advisory board to give them advice on lobbying Washington...
Which also gets interesting because before hiring those Dems to help them in DC, the Northern Marianas were involved in hiring Jack Abramoff & a bunch of GOPe members of Congress in the 90s.
Ukrainian politician Andrii Derkach was indicted yesterday for violating US sanctions.
I have to give a hat tip to @emptywheel who noticed that he is being prosecuted by 2 members of Special Counsel Durham's team.
Which may be very important! justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/r…
Why is he in violation of US sanctions?
Because the Trump Administration sanctioned Derkach in Sept of 2020 for election interference by providing falsified documents & audio of Joe Biden in an attempt to frame Biden for colluding with Ukrainians.
Two of Durham's team have indicted (for other crimes) a Ukrainian politician who provided Trump's lawyer & oppo research team fake evidence against Biden that Rudy then gave to FBI & DOJ with the 'intent' of triggering a collusion investigation against Biden before the election.
That 1MBD case that Louis Freeh was working on when he was failing to get the Obama Admin to help obstruct the investigation was a $5B fraud that stole money from the taxpayers of Malaysia & was coordinated by Goldman Sachs & Deutsche Bank.
This case is global & connects to the Swamps in the US, China, UK, German, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia & so many more. With Hillary's defeat, the 1MDB defendants switched to trying to convince Trump to obstruct the FBI investigation.
The exposure started in 2018 with the indictment of DOJ attorney assigned to assist Congress, his name George Higginbotham.
He was busted for a faield attempt to bribe Trump for a bunch of Hillary donors to obstruct the 1MBD investigation.
It's like the prosecutors created this defense for the Trump Org.
The prosecutors got Weisselberg to plead guilty for doing it on his own & set the entire strategy for exonerating Trump.
Me thinks the counsel doth protest too much! #ButNothingsHappening
The Manhattan prosecutors are also complaining that the guy they gave immunity to get him to testify is telling the truth & not what they want him to tell the jury!
Almost like they gave him immunity to let him muddy the waters for the jury...
But the prosecutors have to keep the jurors in the dark.
There is no way they can tell the jurors that the Trump Organization has served as an FBI honeytrap for decades. That the prosecutors are just trying to make the case go away without explaining why!
So Rodney Joffe's front company TrustCor Systems is getting booted by the internet browsers because of revelations that it has the same officers as Packet Forensics...
@Whataboutthene1 Their service is supposed to guarantee that a website is genuine & who it says it is. But as we have noticed with other branches of Neustar, there have been questions about access by pretending to be on a network...
@Whataboutthene1 Packet Forensics came into focus during the Durham indictment of Hillary's lawyer Michael Sussmann. They were involved in data collection & spying against then candidate Trump & later President Trump.
For all those people watching the #FTXScandal who also complained about hiring 87,000 IRS agents, which side are you on?
Why'd the Swamp want you mad t that IRS for expanding its “digital asset monitoring and compliance activities".
Wonder why the crypto markets are melting down as the IRS is going into "beast mode" going after people who evaded taxes by putting money into crypto in the first place!
So for 2021, IRS askes a simple question.
Did you receive, sell, exchange or dispose of any interest in virtual currency?
If they lied & said no, they just won a free IRS financial colonoscopy...
What a dirtbag. Stole $100k from a nonprofit theater/performing arts center for autistic & other students.
Married one of the teachers then burned up $30k on her dad's credit card.
He first got 'caught' when the organizations' checks started bouncing. But he convinced them that the bank lost donor checks, so they switched banks & let him do it again.
He ran up $143k on his father-in-law's credit card that his wife had access to.
Then had the Kaiser's room pay his wife back $30k of it claiming it was used for purchases for the non-profit. He impersonated the group's treasurer to get them to pay his wife back.