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Hey @MichaelRCaputo You didn't know the Russian guy before May right? Then why are your businesses registered in the same tiny little mailing service building in North Miami? 
Why did "Greenberg" register a company days before "meeting" you? Why did he scrub his name from business records in 2017? Why did you change your public relations firm's address 6 days ago?
Wasn't joking about it literally being 6 days ago:
6 weeks ago, on April 20 I unveiled that @seanhannity was behind the dozens of shell companies starting with "SPMK".
Two days after I asked for comment from the registered agent, he set up another shell company, literally just rearranging the letters. "MKSP 1 LH, LLC"
Two days after I asked for comment from the registered agent, he set up another shell company, literally just rearranging the letters. "MKSP 1 LH, LLC"
If Hannity wants to continue to hide behind shell companies, he's going to have to be a little more creative.
I'm not sure what this new shell company does, but I'm looking into it.
Tonight @maddow ran a segment about the Paul Manafort defense fund and its completely anonymous website. It isn't anonymous anymore. I have receipts.
A little background: The website was registered with GoDaddy in December 2017. The registrant used a proxy to mask who was behind the website. However, when using GoDaddy, it is required to provide your info to the domain-hosting website. I have that original filing.
Manafort's real estate lawyer Bruce Baldinger set up the Paul Manafort defense fund website. Some of Baldinger's activities for Manafort are... under investigation by the FBI.
Re-reading BuzzFeed's comprehensive report on Trump Tower Moscow. Cohen was planning on going to Moscow up through late July 2016. This confirms another part of the dossier.
“[Cohen] said, ‘We’ll go [to Russia] after Cleveland,’” Sater said, referring to the Republican convention. “So I figured that’s what we’d do. buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier…
Dossier: "these meeting/s were originally scheduled for COHEN in Moscow but shifted to what was considered an operationally “soft” EU country when it was judged too compromising for him to travel to the Russian capital."
Joel Zamel of Psy Group, the Israeli intelligence firm, met with Donald Trump Jr. on August 3, 2016. Zamel's previous clients include Oleg Deripaska. Guess whose private jet landed in Newark at 2:21 AM and took off at 6:40 PM on August 3, 2016? Oleg Deripaska.
The other Russian client of Zamel? Dmitry Rybolovlev. Where was his private plane at the same time (August 1-9)? The Hamptons in NY when Kushner, Cohen, Ivanka were there.
Three days later (August 12), Rybolovlev's jet and yacht appear in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Where did Jared and Ivanka show up on August 12? Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Spoke with an expert on Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) who has more than a decade experience in the banking sector. The Michael Cohen report tonight in the New Yorker is a huge deal.
"Farrow's reporting is explosive because of the FinCen database and while very important, Michael Cohen can't be feeling too good right now knowing that not only did First Republic Bank catch his suspicious activity, so did others without the power of subpoena."
"Robert Mueller and his team on the Special Counsel have likely already uncovered the details of such suspicious transactions by their power to go to any bank within the US financial system to collect the bank records and piece together the potential scheme."
"TRUMP's business dealings in China and other emerging markets...were substantial and involved the payment of large bribes and kickbacks which, were they to become public, would be potentially very damaging to their campaign."
"Suggestion from source close to TRUMP and MANAFORT that Republican campaign team happy to have Russia as media bogeyman to mask more extensive corrupt business ties to China and other emerging countries."
I've acquired documents from the Hungarian company that wired Cohen $10,980 according to @MichaelAvenatti. It's a bizarre situation. This will be a quick thread about what I've found thus far.
The company is called "KOBE EVA KERESKEDELMI." It is registered to a tiny office building in the outskirts of Budapest.
The group- according to business documents and their website - is both a wedding/event planning company and travel agency.
Trump funneling money thru a law firm in small increments to avoid detection would be legally catastrophic, according to a financial expert I just spoke to.
“If, according to Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Trump through his law firm structured payments to avoid reporting of disbursements $10,000 or greater, it would be against federal law, specifically the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).”
“Financial institutions have a legal obligation to report such disbursements and have programs in place to identify such attempts to avoid the reporting."
Contrary to recent reporting, Michael Cohen's father-in-law Fima Shusterman (who was convicted of a money laundering and tax fraud scheme in the '90s) owns not 1 condo in Trump World Tower. He doesn't own 2 or 3 either. He owns 4.
From 2001-2005, Shusterman purchased the 4 units from 2 entities controlled by the Trump Organization (845 UN Limited Partnership and Trump 845 UN GP LLC) for a total of nearly $9M.
The pattern was the same for each unit: Shusterman buys the condo from Trump Org entities and immediately takes out a huge mortgage, usually worth 60-70% of the sale price.
Breaking: Sergey Lavrov has just stated that Trump invited Putin to Washington, D.C.
More: Lavrov says that Putin is ready to meet Trump in Washington. Trump "would be happy" to make reciprocal trip to Moscow.
Lavrov: In a phone with Putin, President Trump "sent such an invitation, said that he would be happy to see [Putin] in the White House, then he would be happy to meet as part of the return visit [to Russia]. And he returned to this topic a couple of times."
This will be a thread about the origins of the developer Trump chose to partner with on the advice of Felix Sater during the 2016 election. All indications are that IC Expert is a Russian-government connected entity, not a private enterprise.
As of late 2008, ownership records show that IC Expert was 99% owned by Colinsen Trading Limited, a shell company located in Cyprus. This LLC was in turn owned by Diagoras Nominees Limited.
As far as I can tell based on months of research, Diagoras is a holding company used by hundreds of wealthy Russians and Ukrainians. Most notably, "Putin's banker" Sergei Pugachev allegedly used Diagoras to launder $200M of state money. rbc.ru/magazine/2016/…
Breaking: The Russian man who allegedly secretly met with Cohen in Prague was in New York days later, blocks from Trump Tower.
Late August/early September: Cohen allegedly meets with Konstantin Kosachev in Prague.
September 21: Kosachev is pictured in Lower Manhattan.
September 21: Kosachev is pictured in Lower Manhattan.
Kosachev's location: 45th Street
Trump Tower: 56th Street, approximately 1 mile away
Trump Tower: 56th Street, approximately 1 mile away
BREAKING: A former Russian intelligence officer helped negotiate Trump Tower Moscow buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/d…
This is a stunning twist. Trump/Cohen/Sater continued to work towards a Trump Tower Moscow deal AFTER the RNC. It appears that Michael Cohen has mislead Congress.
I've been researching Trump Tower Moscow for the better part of 6 months now. This story cannot be understated. I will summarize the key points in a thread here.
Goodnight. Here's a picture of Sheriff Clarke and his wife drinking in Moscow at a party thrown by Alexander Torshin.
"Welcome to Russia comrades" featuring: David Keene, Alexander Torshin, NRA President Pete Brownell, Maria Butina, and Sheriff Clarke.
Putin confidant Pavel Gusev, Sheriff Clarke, and major NRA donor Joe Gregory in Moscow.
Rupert Murdoch’s offices in London has been raided and documents and computer records have been seized telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/…
I'm just now realizing my terrible grammar, please give me some slack, I'm tweeting in class
Important to note that the raid was conducted by the European Commission which has the power to investigate "businesses suspected of abusing their dominance of a market or being involved in a price fixing cartel."
The year is 2014. Wilbur Ross is the Vice Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus. Two of the largest shareholders in the bank are Viktor Vekselberg (5.4%) and a Cypriot lawyer named Christodoulos Vassiliades (5.77%). All three of these people would reappear in Trump’s orbit in ‘16-‘17.
Ross of course is named as commerce secretary and is one of the few Trump appointees to have survived the first full 14 months of his presidency.
Vekselberg, through his cousin and close business partners, funnels huge sums of money to Trump’s inauguration and attends the event.
The evidence on Manafort is blatant and damning. If I can purchase documents for his Cyprus shell companies and find incriminating evidence, then it’s a slam dunk for prosecutors. It’s black and white. He’s going to prison for the rest of his life.
Whether or not he cooperates on the collusion aspect of the probe is pretty much irrelevant. He’s cooked on money laundering and tax fraud. Gates guilty plea has very minimal impact on Manafort. It’s a question of what kind of legacy Manafort wants to leave.
He can cooperate, grow old outside of prison, and spend his life running from the Russian mob or he can die in prison.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico tonight: CA/Bannon tested Trump slogans such as #DrainTheSwamp and #BuildTheWall in 2014.
Remember that in 2013, Trump/Cohen spent $1 million to explore a possible 2016 run. The narrative that Trump wasn’t strongly considering running until 2015 is nonsense.
Here’s a Trump tweet from 2014 talking about building a wall:
I’m pulling all of my hair out.
The bank was the Russian state bank, Sberbank. They are sanctioned by the US. It was related to Trump Tower Moscow. Sberbank gave the Moscow developer a 10.6 billion ruble line of credit 20 days after Trump signed the letter of intent. medium.com/p/df582c22eb72…
The money then essentially disappeared. It’s clear that by lending his name to the project, Trump knowingly or unknowingly facilitated large-scale fraud.
Breaking: Pavlo Yunko, the American spokesman for Nastya Rybka (Deripaska’s mistress) and Alex Lesley (her associate) says that the United States has been negotiating with Thai authorities and that the deportation of Rybka and Lesley to Russia has been suspended.
In a Facebook post, Yunko says that an America embassy official’s car was spotted at a Thai government facility and a conversation took place between the two sides. After this conversation, the imminent deportation of Rybka and Lesley was halted.
Yunko also claims that the FSB was directly responsible for their arrest. A Thai official tells Yunko, “the Russian intelligence agencies had officially ordered this operation.”
Erik Prince's House Intel testimony is remarkable. He has a terrible case of amnesia.
It's essentially "Steve Bannon once said something to me somewhere at some point"
Prince got a call from someone that said "His Highness would like to see you in the Seychelles," and he just... hopped on a plane to a remote island without knowing anything else?
Breaking: The Telegraph is reporting that one of Christopher Steele's employees is a longtime associate of the poisoned Russian double-agent. The Telegraph suspects that Colonel Skripal may have been involved in the Trump dossier. telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/0…
"If the Kremlin believed that Col Skripal might have helped with the compilation of the dossier, it could explain the motive for the assassination attempt"
This comes on the heels of Valery Morozov claiming that Colonel Skripal was still working as a double agent. “Every month [he was] going to the embassy to meet military intelligence officers." independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Throughout his career, Mueller has notoriously not put up with these kind of games. Nunberg will comply with the subpoena or he’ll be arrested.
This Nunberg interview with @KatyTurNBC is bananas. He is quite literally yelling about the subpoena. Enjoy jail, sir.
“I think it would be funny if they arrested me”