Thread by @WendySiegelman

💥BREAKING: I found two Rick Gates companies not in the Mueller indictment - BCAS Europe Limited & Skyton Limited - apparently they weren't part of the scheme, but they were created in UK 2 months after Pompolo Ltd which is in the indictment - thread /1
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4386…

A search on the UK Companies House site for Richard Gates (born 1972) shows three results: Skyton Limited, BCAS Europe Limited, Pompolo Limited. Both Skyton and BCAS Europe were created on June 4, 2013, two months after Pompolo Ltd created April 2013 /2
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/JhHH1…

The address for Rick Gates appointment to Skyton and BCAS Europe is 515 Madison Avenue Floor 29, New York, USA, 10022 /3

Per SEC Filing, 515 Madison Ave, 29th Floor, is address Rick Gates used when he was a Director for ID Watchdog (later sold to Equifax), and the same address used by ID Watchdog Director Arthur Cohen (Trump friend & Manafort partner in Drake Hotel deal) /4
sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

Here's the announcement on the acquisition of ID Watchdog by Equifax in August 2017 /5
investor.equifax.com/news-and-event…

Rick Gates resigned from the board of ID Watchdog in November 2016, a few months before it was acquired by Equifax in 2016, he had joined the board in 2011 /6
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Arthur Cohen, who served on the Board of ID Watchdog with Rick Gates and had same 515 Madison Ave address as Gates 2 UK companies, was also a partner with Manafort & Brad Zackson in failed deal to buy the Drake Hotel with funding from Dmitry Firtash /7
medium.com/@wsiegelman/tr…

It's interesting that Gates established these two companies, not mentioned in the Mueller indictment scheme, but at the same address with Cohen who was involved in other deals with Manafort and during time Gates & Cohen served on ID Watchdog board / END

Adding on - thanks to research by @brazencapital - 2012 proxy info for ID Watchdog shows that Rick Gates was Managing Partner in Pericles (company in middle of Deripaska's lawsuit with Gates & Manafort), & he held almost 16 million shares
sedar.com/GetFile.do?lan…

Of 15,872,394 shares Rick Gates held in ID Watchdog, per footnote 6 - 5,950,000 Ordinary Shares owned by Jupiter Holdings Management, LLC, 330,554 Ordinary Shares owned by Vulcan Properties, Inc & 9,591,850 ordinary shares owned by Jupiter Venture Partners, LLC

Jupiter Holdings Management, part owner of ID Watchdog, is mentioned in Rick Gates Superseding Criminal Information
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4386…

While there's no indication Rick Gates' UK companies Skyton Limited and BCAS Europe Limited connect to the Mueller investigation, they have the same address Gates used with ID Watchdog, part owned by Jupiter Holdings Mgmt which is part of the investigation

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