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@SollenbergerRC
Apr 12 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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The chair & chief legal officer of Rep. Cory Mills' arms company—Joseph Schmitz—is a Pentagon IG who left amid a contract scandal in 2005 to become COO & general counsel of Erik Prince's Blackwater mercenary group. He was in that role during the Iraq massacre. But there's more...
In 2020 Prince tapped Schmitz as potential foreign agent to lobby for his $10B plan to put a private army in Ukraine. Schmitz was with Mills' company—PACEM—at the time. PACEM sold arms to Ukraine while Mills was in Congress, including a state-owned company Image
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Schmitz was a 2016 Trump campaign adviser, which resurfaced his Pentagon scandal—including alleged antisemitic boasts about firing Jews & Holocaust denial, like "Ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews." (Schmitz denies.) Mills hired him 2 years later. timesofisrael.com/trump-adviser-…Image
In 2021 Schmitz made another newsworthy contribution to US history when he sent Jim Jordan a legal presentation arguing that Mike Pence had the authority to reject certified election results. Jordan passed that to Mark Meadows on Jan. 5. (Again, Schmitz was working for Mills.) Image
Today, Schmitz also works for the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025. The New York Times reported Project 2025 was floating Schmitz as a potential Trump pick for Pentagon General Counsel, a position currently filled by an acting official nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/…Image
With that in mind, here's more on the federal contracting scandal that forced Schmitz's 2005 resignation — featuring GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
newsweek.com/donald-trump-j… Image
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Here's a fun little grab bag on Schmitz, courtesy The New Republic ... newrepublic.com/article/136326…Image
Why'd Cory Mills hire an allegedly antisemitic disgraced DOD official & Erik Prince ally? Was Mills in on Prince's Ukraine army plan? Is he still tied to Prince? How'd Mills get millions in Ukraine arms contracts while in Congress? Here are Mills' committee assignments. Lunacy. Image
(Here's a neat timeline of Schmitz's employment history via the good folks at OpenSecrets) opensecrets.org/revolving-door…Image

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Aug 4
Imagine calling yourself a “congressman” while using your own official government website to promote your own secret charity that you have never disclosed, as required by federal law Image
And imagine calling yourself anyone at all and @ing someone in a tweet who you have blocked
@ING Imagine calling yourself a “congressman” and using the official House insignia on your oversized promotional *personal* checks. Wonder what ethics rules say about that
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Jul 14
SCOOP: Rep. Cory Mills is being evicted for failure to pay months of rent at his D.C. penthouse. Owner claims Mills owes $85,000. He was served with notice for failure to pay in January. Ledger shows he paid late nearly every month since moving in, missing several months entirely Image
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When Mills was served in January, the owner notified him that he had until Feb 26 to pay. On Feb 20, his girlfriend reported him to the police for assaulting her at that penthouse, which she later recanted apnews.com/article/cory-m…Image
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Mills' company has also failed to pay its debts. They got bad news earlier this month, when its lender told investors that the investment fund supporting his company had failed and would be shut down
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Apr 24
I think I found the Syrian plane that secretly helped Assad regime leaders escape to Benghazi. I found it because two congressmen—one of them an active global arms dealer & Foreign Affairs Committee member—posed with it on Instagram. The plane is currently under US sanctions. Image
Why’d a weapons maker—rife with conflicts of interest in the region & completely soaked in undisclosed foreign debt—go to Syria with a newly madeover nonprofit advocating for lifting sanctions on a gov we haven’t recognized that’s run by former Al Qaeda & is on our terror list? Image
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And why is this same congressional arms dealer doing this while his weapons company’s chief legal counsel—who has close ties with notorious US mercenary Erik Prince—lobbies on behalf of Libyan allies of Assad? Let’s find out!
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Apr 22
NEW: In 2014, Mohamed Al-Hanooti—Hamas fundraiser & unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing—was back at Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, as the DC-area mufti, or top Islamic cleric.

That year, he presided over Rep Cory Mills’ marriage in a religious ceremony. 1/X
Here’s the marriage certificate. Fairfax County confirmed to me the info on this document matches their official records. For officiant address, Hanooti, who died in 2015, listed Dar al-Hijrah mosque, where he also previously served as imam. Anwar Al-Awlaki was also a DAH imam. Image
If you want to know what Republicans like to say about this particular mosque, Hanooti, and people who associate with them, google away. Or you can just ask GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, pictured here with Mills and GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson last June. Image
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Apr 21
NEW: Rep Cory Mills said on his Bronze Star papers he saved this man's life. Troops in the battle told me it's a lie. Yet here he is months after his star—after taking $2000 from the man's dad. If the claims I have are true, Mills lied about his war heroics. Did he have help? 1/X Image
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The Daytona News-Journal investigated Mills' Bronze Star last year. It led to this headline, seemingly confirming it was settled & Mills' claims checked out. But his claims *don't* check out. He got re-elected & currently sits on Armed Services. news-journalonline.com/story/news/loc…Image
The officer who awarded medals for the events—Col. Shannon E. Nielsen—told me Mills wasn't involved, barely recalled him. Statements from troops who lived the events—in a complaint filed with the Ofc of Cong Ethics—say Mills wasn't there. Here's one from a man Mills said he saved Image
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Apr 20
Rep. Cory Mills went to Syria with another Congressman. But only Mills met with Syria's foreign minister & president about lifting sanctions. Mills runs an arms company, whose current & longtime general counsel, Joe Schmitz, has been working for the pro-Assad Libyan Parliament Image
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Schmitz is working as a subcontractor for the Vogel group, which landed the Libya contract in Oct. 2023, per DOJ foreign agent filings. It seems a great deal of the payments have been going to Schmitz. Image
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Schmitz's work for Libyan Parliament includes legislator outreach. Last Feb, they requested a meeting with Cory Mills' own congressional general counsel. Libya has a divided government, and the head of Parliament claimed command of the Libyan army as recently as November. Image
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