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Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia underboss who confessed to 19 murders, explains in 1993 how he would "reach" Donald Trump.
Wow, I guess people didn't really grasp the extent of Donald Trump's underworld connections.
My book explains how Trump graduated from the Mafia to Russian organized crime to grow his business.
Please check it out:
amazon.com/Trump-Russia-D…
My book explains how Trump graduated from the Mafia to Russian organized crime to grow his business.
Please check it out:
amazon.com/Trump-Russia-D…
Here, Mafia underboss Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, testifying before the Senate in 1993, explains how he would talk about boxing and construction with Donald Trump. (The "John" he references is his boss, John Gotti.)
Short thread to put the drone attack at Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq facility in some perspective. 
Abqaiq, located in eastern Saudi Arabia, is the largest crude oil processing facility in the world.
In 2018, it processed roughly half of all of Saudi’s 10.3 million barrels per day (BPD), according to Aramco’s prospectus. That’s roughly 5 million barrels per day, or one in every 20 barrels of oil used worldwide.
New: Photos of Evgeny Shmykov, the former Russian GRU general who worked with Felix Sater in the failed 2015-16 Trump Tower Moscow project and other ventures, help explain why Sater was such a valuable counter-terrorist source to the FBI and CIA.
Sater confirmed the photos are legit, but declined to say if that's him as indicated. The guy Shmykov stands shoulder-to-shoulder with was Ahmad Shah Massoud, the anti-Taliban leader assassinated right before the 9/11 attacks.
Can any of the Russian speakers out there help with translation on this?
Duncan Hunter, in Italy with his family, texts his chief of staff to say that the women here are way hotter than Germany where they all suck. "And tell the navy to go fuck themselves."
The context: Hunter was trying to arrange a visit to a Navy base in Naples to justify his 2015 family vacation paid for with $14k in campaign funds.
Prosecutors: "But in the end, it appears the Hunter family was having too much fun in Italy to rearrange their itinerary around a base visit, even for the purpose of generating a pretext for their embezzlement of $14,000 in campaign funds."
Oleg Deripaska was a client of USG, a London security firm run by Walter Soriano, the target of a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena, according to a court filing by Israeli investigative journalist Raviv Drucker. the7eye.org.il/327991
Roman Ambramovich was also a client. According to Drucker, USG provided them with services in legal disputes with other businessmen or when they were under criminal investigation.
At times, Drucker claims, this work was done through subcontractors, while carrying out "sophisticated surveillance, information gathering and data acquisition by various technological means, such as eavesdropping, hacking, and so on."
Thread: There's a lot of news breaking today about Deutsche Bank and its connections to both Trump and Russia. 1/
First, the @nytimes reported that Deutsche Bank had turned down a request from Trump for a loan in early 2016. 2/ nytimes.com/2019/02/02/bus…
Two sources told the @nytimes that the Trump Organization had been seeking to borrow against its Miami resort to pay for work on a golf property in Turnberry, Scotland. 3/
Theory busted: The calls Don Jr. made to blocked numbers before the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting were to business associates, not his dad. cnn.it/2Sm4T9K
The calls to blocked numbers, which came on June 6, and after the meeting on June 9, were between Trump Jr.’s cell phone and two family friends -- NASCAR CEO Brian France and real estate developer Howard Lorber, according to the sources.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/block…
abcnews.go.com/Politics/block…
Howard Lorber, one of Trump's self-professed "best friends" accompanied Trump on his 1996 trip to Moscow.
Huge story in Denmark that hasn't gotten much attention in the US yet: Vladimir Putin's family involved in massive money laundering scandal at Danish bank. business.dk/finans/whistle…
Lantana Trade LLP, a UK-registered firm, was named in a report by a whistleblower into suspicious activity at Danske Bank's Estonian branch. The real owner of Lantana Trade is alleged to be the president's cousin, Igor Putin. (see photo).
This matters because it sheds light on Vladimir Putin became what many consider to be the richest man in the world. fortune.com/2017/07/29/vla…
