"The koi plunged into the wind and the bird flew in the waves"
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Nov 15 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
23 Aug 2022
Stephen Alford, 62, was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to a $25M extortion plot targeting the father of Rep. Matt Gaetz in a scheme to secure a presidential pardon for Rep. Gaetz
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Alford was alleged to have approached Rep. Gaetz and his father, Don Gaetz, a wealthy businessman who served as president of the Florida Senate, about getting a pardon for allegedly having sex with an underage girl and paying her for it
Oct 4, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
21 Sept 2020
In a witness statement read out in court, Wikileaks supporter Cassandra Fairbanks claimed she had been told by Arthur Schwartz, a Republican party supporter close to Trump, about plans for Julian Assange’s arrest months before it happened
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30 Oct 2018
Schwartz phoned Fairbanks “Arthur Schwartz was extremely angry,” she said. He told her that people would have been able to overlook her previous support of WikiLeaks, but they would not be so forgiving now that she was “more informed”
Jul 11, 2023 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
14 April 2023
James Woolsey's name came up repeatedly last week in a Utah federal courtroom during a series of sentencing hearings connected to Washakie Renewable Energy's $511M biofuel fraud tied to the Armenian underworld
What do Bill Clinton and Oliver North have in common, along with the Arkansas State Police and the CIA? All probably wish they had never heard of Mena, Arkansas
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Clintion was asked about if a base in Mena was "set up by Oliver North and the CIA" in the 1980s and used to "bring in planeload after planeload of cocaine" for sale in the US, with the profits then used to buy weapons for the Contras. Was he told as Arkansas governor?
Jun 29, 2023 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
Giuliani sat for voluntary interview with J6 investigators
Prosecutors working for Mr. Smith asked Mr. Giuliani about a plan to create fake slates of pro-Trump electors
They focused specifically on the role played in that effort by John Eastman, another lawyer who advised Mr. Trump about ways to stay in office after his defeat
Jun 17, 2023 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
12 April 2017
20 Feb - 26 March 2014
Crimea annexed
22 Feb
Euromaidan protests oust Yanukovich
11 March
Ukrainian lawyer asks BNP Paribas to close accounts belonging to 2 companies controlled by Mykola Zlochevsky and transfer $23M to Cyprus
20 May 2014
SFO investigator Richard Gould wanted evidence from Ukraine, so he wrote to the head of the international department of the general prosecutors’ office, Vitaly Kasko, in Kiev
Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
8 June 2023
Nov 2022
Prosecutors trying to gain the cooperation of Walt Nauta called his lawyer Stanley Woodward and summoned him to a meeting at DoJ HQ for an urgent matter that they were reluctant to discuss over the phone
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Woodward arrived and was seated across from several prosecutors working on the investigation, including the chief of the counterintelligence section, Jay Bratt, who explained that they wanted Nauta to cooperate with the government against Trump
Jun 15, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
15 Sept 2018
Mueller found that Manafort hatched a plan to tar a senior Obama official w/ claims of anti-Semitism
Planted stories of alleged murder plots by Yulia Tymoshenko, opponent of his pro-Russian client Viktor Yanukovich, then Ukraine's president
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Manafort hired a host of top tier lobbying and law firms, including:
Mercury Public Affairs
Podesta Group
Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Manafort paid 6 firms $11M as he promoted Yanukovich
Jun 14, 2023 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
10 June 2023
Times of London
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The mice were monitored in their cages over two weeks. The results were shocking. The mutant virus that fused WIV1 with SHC014 killed 75% of the rodents and was three times as lethal as the original WIV1
Jun 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
16 May 2014
The former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski sits on Burisma's board with Hunter Biden
The remaining board members include two Americans, two Cypriots and 4 young Ukrainians, almost all of whom spent time in Russia during their careers
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The bulk of Burisma's management was replaced in 2013, and Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Industry Research Center in Kyiv, says this may indicate a change in ownership. "It simply wasn't reported," he told DW
Jun 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
2 March 2001
A lawsuit filed by three international companies reveals Marc Rich was doing business, last summer, just months before his pardon, with known Russian mobsters
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"In the aluminum industry the level of ruthlessness was unmatched," says Jonathan Winer, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. "You cannot find another sector in Russia where more people per transaction wound up dead."
Jun 7, 2023 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
A few Council for National Policy (CNP) members
Richard Art Viguerie, "the Wizard of Direct-Mail Fund-Raising" pioneered the use of direct-mail computer systems
Israeli professor Gal Luft, who is wanted by US authorities for arms dealing, has gone missing in Cyprus after a Larnaca court had released him on bail, Cypriot website Philenews reported
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Luft had been arrested at Larnaca International Airport, in southern Cyprus, after Interpol issued an arrest warrant against him on suspicion of arms trafficking to Libya and China. He was then slated for extradition to the US
NSO was losing hackers and found they had all gone to Cyprus. They worked at a facility owned by a company affiliated w/ DarkMatter
DarkMatter had another office in Singapore that was managed by Israelis
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Did these Israelis working for a UAE intelligence agency get the required clearances from Israel’s Defense Ministry?
The ministry declined to give a decisive answer
Apr 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
19 April 2023
At about 16:15 on Monday, the Federal Protective Service raided the offices of Brian Sulc, executive director of the Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center at DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis
In the early summer of 1984, a wealthy Nicaraguan exile invited two representatives of the contras to her Miami home. Her aim was to broker a deal with a Colombian businessman that would help fill the rebels' empty coffers
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The hostess was Marta Healy, and the businessman was George Morales, a champion powerboat racer, socialite and big-league drug trafficker under indictment in the US
1984
A bomb exploded at a contra camp in southern Nicaragua, close to the Costa Rican border. The explosion was apparently aimed at eliminating the then-leader of the Costa Rica-based contras, Eden Pastora
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A civil lawsuit now before a federal court in Miami alleges there is a connection between the bombing, in which 8 people died, and some members of the covert network currently being investigated by the congressional Iran-contra committee and the special prosecutor
Apr 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
18 April 1987
Champion speedboat driver George Morales, who fueled his passion for racing with cash from a sophisticated drug-smuggling operation, was sentenced to 16 years
12 yachts and high-performance racing boats, including the cigarette boat Bounty Hunter and the Cougar racing boat Fayva Racing Team
Apr 14, 2023 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
31 Aug 2014
Pras had two buckets of ice water dumped on his head along Pyongyang’s Taedong River, much to the surprise and bewilderment and laughter of North Koreans out for a stroll or some fishing on their day off.
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He said he passed on the challenge to four people, including former bandmate Lauryn Hill and Britain’s Prince Harry
Pras, who is in North Korea to watch a pro wrestling exhibition and “explore,” said he is working on several projects, including Sweet Mickey for Prezidan
