If you have missed the decade of global swamp draining connected to the 1MDB case, you don't know what the Swamp is, how it works, or how it is being drained.
How serious? Like President Xi offering bribes to President Trump to obstruct the FBI serious...
I can't find anyone reporting the name of the 2 PetroSaud managers. My guesses would be the Obaid brothers, guys I call the Kevin Bacon's of global corruption. From them every Swamp creature on the planet is within 6 degrees of separation.
Some of this money was laundered through some Vatican slush funds in Switzerland. Funds that have been shut down by the Pope to take the money back from groups within the church who were helping organized crime launder money.
Nawaf Obaid developed connections with former CIA Director John Brennan while he was working in Saudi Arabia.
Of course Obaid worked for the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment that paid not only him but Stefan Halper.
ONA leaked Flynn's Kislyak calls
I've been following this case for years, but one of the first cases that I tagged with #ButNothingsHappening was the indictment of Michael Higginbotham. A DOJ lawyer assigned to help Congress who was part of the effort to bribe Trump to kill the 1MDB case.
From 2009-2019 one of the largest tobacco companies in the world used their Singapore subsidiary to sell tobacco to North Korea in violation of sanctions & launder the proceeds of the sales.
Plead guilty & agreed to cooperate with the feds.
3 individuals involved have also been indicted but have not yet been captured. One is a North Korean banker & the other 2 are Chinese facilitators.
Part of a larger scheme of tobacco related corruption used by the North Korean government to fund other activities including their nuclear weapons program.
The indictment of 40+ Chinese MPS officers is now online.
Very interesting how closely the trolling tactics mirror the techniques we run into with various groups of trolls. Both the Tuesday Trolls of this era & the Cleetuses of a few years ago... justice.gov/d9/2023-04/squ…
This is from a meme they shared internally.
I'm sure we can find some way to use it on the CCP agents pretending to be MAGA or UltraMAGA or DarkMAGA or whatever the CCP wants to rebrand as...
Those accounts trying to tell people that President Xi is secretly on Trump's side & that MAGA should like him...
This is an expansion on a investigation of agents working for Chinese Ministry of Public Security.
Note: at the beginning of this thread I suspected that the agent was working at Webex, but as I not later in that thread it was Zoom that was compromised.
Since the 70s, judges & justices havee ignored federal ethics laws. But because they exempted themselves from compliance with reporting gifts they allowed this process to continue.
Wish someone would give me a free $500,000 vacation...
Firtash was also behind the CEO of Wirecard, the corrupt financial services company that was stealing billions & working with hostile intelligence agencies.
That CEO was once involved in a plot to by spyware like the stuff Biden just banned by EO.
Money & crypto processing app designer stabbed to death in San Francisco. No real details yet. cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/n…
A short seller investment research firm (not a reliable source of information as they sometimes manipulate investments to cover short bets) Claimed Cash App was enabling rampant fraud & criminal activity. cnbc.com/2023/03/24/rep…
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lost a half a billion dollars in a day when the short seller released their claims...
As Jack said, It's a trap! thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/jack-d…