Let's look at the timing of William P. Barr's audition for the job of Trump's AG. Although he previously was known to Trump, Barr put forward his candidacy in a forceful way on June 8, 2018. That's the date of his unsolicited memo. /1 The memo, while admitting "I am in the dark about many facts," argues that there was no valid obstruction case regarding the decision to fire Comey. But why then? What had happened in the previous few days. int.nyt.com/data/documenth… /2

I have no evidence that RELX has done anything wrong. But as a hypothetical exercise, suppose a company LIKE that was conspiring with OC and, say, a corrupt hedge fund? cc @ninaandtito /1 RELX does a lot of scientific publishing. It also preovides a lot of big data, business analytics, anti-money laundering services to financial institutions. If you want to, let's say, evade AML, it would be great to know all the best AML methods /2

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The remarkable @ninaandtito posted some suggestive potential links between Mercer's RenTech and the Russian RenCap. A deeper dive on how firms of this nature might be linked, and where the scarce evidence might lie. /1

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She seems to know a lot about how hedge funds work. I think of them by analogy with the racetrack. That may give some people an easier way to think them. I never bet the horses, but I spent time at the track. Nevermind why. /2

A re-up on Flynn's friend, Svetlana Lokhova, who has indirect links to senior Russian leaders. h/t @SarahLSmith677 telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/0… 1 So who is Lokhova's Dad, a shipping executive? It might be Sergei Borisovich Lokhov, Director at Ocean Agencies Ltd. London