Martin Shkreli - who was convicted of securities fraud, spent 6 years in jail, and fined $70 million - claims that he and Barron Trump are responsible for a mysterious Trump-branded meme cryptocurrency called Trump Coin
There's no proof Barron was involved - but an interesting item in @zachxbt thread
Someone potentially involved in Trump Coin/DJT with initials CWR aka Cameron Roxborough went to school with Barron and his dad was supposedly the pilot for Jeffrey Epstein
@zachxbt @NFTethics This story started when media outlet Pirate Wires tweeted that “per conversations” Barron Trump would spearhead an official Donald Trump token.
Pirate Wires is led by Michael Solana, Chief Marketing Officer of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund
@zachxbt @NFTethics Martin "Shkreli and Bo Loudon — one of Barron Trump’s best friends — joined yet another Space where Loudon stated, 'Barron [Trump] is confirmed partially behind this.' "
On the topic of Andrew Tate - Nigel Farage, who is leading the Reform UK Party (former Brexit party) and expected to win a seat in Parliament - has praised Tate in past interviews as an important voice for the emasculated and for giving boys confidence
Former Trump associate Felix Sater tells NY jury he wasn’t bothered by ‘dirty’ money
Sater is accused of helping a Kazakh man Ilyas Khrapunov launder money through US real estate including Trump SoHo condos. Sater allegedly made millions in the process.
Felix Sater on Tuesday told a federal jury in Manhattan that he knowingly lied when he helped the wealthy Kazakh, Ilyas Khrapunov, conceal his role in the lucrative deals to dodge a worldwide freezing order that tied up his family’s assets.
The suit was filed by the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and BTA Bank. They claim Felix Sater helped Khrapunov launder a portion of $6 billion allegedly looted from BTA by Ilyas Khrapunov's father-in-law, former BTA Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov.
Red Curve Solutions run by PAC treasurer Bradley Crate and Campaign Inbox co-founded by an ex-Cambridge Analytica exec each received $17+ million from Trump PACs
My analysis of Trump PAC spending 2023 to Apr 2024
How the largest Trump PACs are spending money: big recipients include Red Curve Solutions run by PAC treasurer Bradley Crate and Campaign Inbox co-founded by an ex-Cambridge Analytica executive
Omeed Malik fundraises for Trump and invests in ‘patriotic’ ‘anti-woke’ businesses including one with Cambridge Analytica funder Rebekah Mercer that funded Tucker Carlson
In April Omeed Malik dined with Trump, Rebekah & Robert Mercer and co-chaired a Trump fundraiser
Malik, Rebekah Mercer and Christopher Buskirk launched 1789 Capital and lead a $15 million seed round for Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel’s new media company newstracs.com/trump-donor-om…
Malik founded Colombier Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which merged with PublicSquare (PSQ Holding) in 2023.
This year PublicSquare (a right-wing ‘patriotic’ version of Amazon) acquired firearms financing company Credova. newstracs.com/trump-donor-om…
US exposes attempted sanctions evasion scheme involving Oleg Deripaska's frozen shares in Austrian co Strabag worth $1.5 bil
Treasury sanctions Russian national Dmitrii Beloglazov, his 2 companies Iliadis & Titul and Deripaska company Rasperia Trading Ltd home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
In 2023 Deripaska coordinated with Dmitrii Beloglazov owner of Russian financial firm Titul which created subsidiary Iliadis. Iliadis acquired Derpiaska's Rasperia Trading Ltd which holds frozen Strabag shares worth $1.5 bill, in scheme to evade sanctions. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
I've been following this story for a while - Austria's Raiffeisen Bank was planning to buy Oleg Deripaska's stake in Strabag and the US has pressured RBI to drop plans to buy the stake. Raiffeisen originally financed Deripaska's investment in Strabag.
Trial began Tues for Bruce Garelick - charged with enabling his boss Michael Shvartsman at Rocket One and others to make millions illegally on inside info that acquisition firm DWAC was taking Trump Media public
WaPo reported on earlier probe of investors including Russian born FL businessman Anton Postolnikov who sold most of his stake in DWAC days after Trump/DWAC announcement sent stock soaring, per FBI search warrant he made $22 million (and was not charged)
An April SEC filing for Trump Media reveals new details on early investors in Trump’s company - including ex FL AG Pam Bondi who owns 100,000+ shares worth several million dollars and her brother advised on the deal. My latest newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
A new name in the Trump Media Apr S-1 Registration Statement is lawyer Michael Milkersen with 300,000+ shares (and several hundred thousand founder and ARC shares) making him one of the largest investors. It's not clear how he became involved in the deal. newstracs.com/april-sec-fili…
A new name in the alternative financing group is 'Washington Muse Investments SPC' which has a Cayman Islands address and owns 4,166,666 shares and 1,388,888 warrants, making it one of the top owners - but there is almost no public info on this company.