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Seth Hettena

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2 years

Breaking: Fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who joined forces with Steve Bannon and financed the social media site Gettr, has filed for bankruptcy.

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I’m hearing that the situation with Geoffrey Berman and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan isn’t about Rudy, it’s about Trump.

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Breaking: A judge in San Diego has dismissed @OANN 's $10 million libel claim against Rachel Maddow for her comments on her show last year that "the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda."

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Hundreds of sealed exhibits have been filed on the docket today in NY Supreme Court in People v. The Trump Organization. Statements of financial condition, loan documents, emails, transcripts. Docket number: 451685/2020

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Hearing reports that the new leadership Trump recently installed at the Pentagon has awarded Erik Prince a large classified contract for mercenary operations in Africa. My DMs are open if you know more.

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Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Mafia underboss who confessed to 19 murders, explains in 1993 how he would "reach" Donald Trump.

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Update on the court-ordered review of Rudy Giuliani's cell phones seized in April in an FBI raid: Of the more than 28,800 chats and messages found on seven of Rudy's devices, 43 are being withheld as privileged. The rest were released to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.

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Rudy Giuliani's former assistant, Noelle Dunphy, who accused the former NY mayor of sexual abuse, harassment and wage theft, has filed a series of transcripts of audio files and ... wow.

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FEC asks Trump’s Save America leadership PAC, a subject of yesterday’s 1/6 Committee hearing, for details about money owed to three LLCs: Elections, Matchpoint Strategies, and Oceanfront Advisors

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The FBI has released a file I requested years ago on Tamir Sapir, (center), a Georgian developer who financed the construction of Trump Soho in 2008. The file shows Sapir was under FBI investigation for links to organized crime . #FOIA

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Here's an update on my #FOIA lawsuit for FBI files that link @realDonaldTrump to the investigation of Vyacheslav Ivankov, a major Russian gangster arrested in the US. I'm represented by @MarkSZaidEsq and @BradMossEsq . The case is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in DC. 1/

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Fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who joined forces with Steve Bannon and financed the social media site Gettr, is threatening to leave the US after a New York judge issued a scathing opinion ordering Wengui to pay $134 million within five days or face arrest.

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It’s taken 20 years to confirm what everyone suspected: the man who met two 9/11 hijackers, brought them to San Diego, filmed them, and co-signed their lease was a Saudi spy

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A newly declassified FBI report from 2017 reveals that Omar al-Bayoumi was a "cooptee" of Saudi intelligence and was paid monthly by then Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar. Al-Bayoumi spied on persons of interest in the Saudi community in LA and SD.

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"Because there is no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow’s statement, the complaint is dismissed with prejudice," Judge Cynthia Bashant writes in her opinion. NBC may file a motion to have OAN cover its attorneys fees.

Order on Motion to Strike – #30 in Herring Networks, INC v. Maddow (S.D. Cal., 3:19-cv-01713) –...

ORDER Granting Defendant's Special Motion to Strike (ECF No. 18 ). The court denies Plaintiff's ex parte motion (ECF No. 21 ). Defendants may file a motion for attorney's fees and costs. The motion...

www.courtlistener.com

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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:

Trump / Russia: A Definitive History

www.amazon.com

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My latest: A Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Russia was involved in a false-flag effort to have locals paint swastikas on buildings in Kharkiv before the invasion, sources say.

Exclusive: Sources Say Oligarch Funded Scheme to Paint Swastikas in Ukraine

A Ukrainian businessman offered payouts for an aimed at bolstering Putin's claim that Ukraine was a Nazis hotbed, sources tell Rolling Stone

www.rollingstone.com

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The US government releases the name of 28 of the 50 Russian oligarchs and political figures who are US “priorities” for asset seizure and enforcement.

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This is big: A derivatives panel has formally ruled that Russia defaulted on its sovereign debt.

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So the thing everyone was waiting for to happen finally happened.

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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.)

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In a bankruptcy petition filed today in Connecticut, Guo stated that he has between $50,000-$100,000 in assets and owes between $100 million-$500 million in "litigation expenses, claims, and judgments."

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The bankruptcy filing comes after a judge in New York ordered Guo to pay $134 million in five days or face possible arrest. Guo is appealing.

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Fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, who joined forces with Steve Bannon and financed the social media site Gettr, is threatening to leave the US after a New York judge issued a scathing opinion ordering Wengui to pay $134 million within five days or face arrest.

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"While working with Ms. Dunphy, Giuliani would look to Ms. Dunphy, point to his erect penis, and tell her that he could not do any work until 'you take care of this.'" More stunning allegations against "America's Mayor" were filed today by a former assistant.

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Great reporting by @WRashbaum and @benprotess reveals that Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch described by US prosecutors as an “upper-echelon” associate of Russian organized crime, paid Rudy Giuliani’s travel bills in 2019.

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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou says he was told Rudy Giuliani could help him secure a pardon for $2 million. Kiriakou rejected the offer, but an associate, fearing that Giuliani was illegally selling pardons, alerted the FBI.

Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump (Published 2021)

The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons.

www.nytimes.com

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Five years ago today.

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Forgot to say CONTENT WARNING

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Guo's largest creditors are almost all people who are suing him. The Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund, loaned Guo $30 million in 2008. He never repaid the loan and now owes Pacific Alliance $254 million.

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New: A San Diego judge has ruled that the right-wing TV network OAN must pay Rachel @maddow ’s attorneys $247,667.50 for their work on a now-dismissed libel case. OAN had sued Maddow for $10 million for saying the news outlet “literally is paid Russian propaganda."

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New: OAN, which has to pay Rachel Maddow’s attorneys in a now-dismissed libel case, tells the court that the fee request is unreasonable, pointing to the “astronomical” $1,525 hourly billing rate for @BoutrousTed among others.

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“If you took the fact out that he is the president of the United States and look at the conduct of the call, it tracks the communication you might see in any drug case or organized crime case,” said Michael J. Moore, the former US attorney for Georgia.

Atlanta Prosecutor Appears to Move Closer to Trump Inquiry (Published 2021)

The Fulton County district attorney is weighing an inquiry into possible election interference and is said to be considering hiring an outside counsel.

www.nytimes.com

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@JaneMayerNYer Timing is interesting. Trump's PAC gave $1m to Meadows' nonprofit on July 26, weeks after the 1/6 committee was formed.

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Prosecutors announce that they are moving to seize $5.3 million in a US bank account that belongs to sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.

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Worth noting that these documents are 25 years old and were produced between Ivankov's US arrival in 1992 and his 1995 arrest. During that time, he was spotted at Trump's Taj Mahal casino. The FBI found Trump Org and Trump Tower personal residence numbers in his address book.

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Loving this line in @ryanbort 's writeup for Rolling Stone.

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Time for another update on my #FOIA lawsuit for FBI files that link @realDonaldTrump to the investigation of Vyacheslav Ivankov, a top Russian gangster arrested in the US. I'm represented by @MarkSZaidEsq & @BradMossEsq . The case is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in DC. 1/

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Wow.

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Trump's DNI @RichardGrenell did consulting work in 2016 for Moldovan politician Vladimir Plahotniuc. The US and UK sanctioned Plahotniuc in 2022 for corruption. A week ago, Plahotniuc was named in a Russian plot to topple the Moldovan government.

Moldova's president outlines alleged Russian plot to topple government

Moldova’s president has outlined what she says is Moscow’s plot to overthrow the Moldovan government and 'put our country at the disposal of Russia.'

www.latimes.com

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Listen as Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, the Mafia underboss who confessed to 19 murders, tells the Senate in 1993 how he would "reach" Donald Trump.

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Looks like a Gang of Eight briefing. Something big is happening.

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Pelosi, Schiff, McCarthy and burns are going to the SCIF with @CIA dir burns.

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Trump's impeachment response to the "Unites States Senate"

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We appear to be in a fight over whether revealing Trump's name or his businesses in the FBI files of a Russian vor (top-level gangster) would infringe on his privacy rights. 2/

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Erik Prince has long had an intense interest in Africa. Please read my recent feature for Rolling Stone, which found his fingerprints on a botched mercenary operation in Libya.

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“Republicans around Trump initially thought the raid could help him politically, but they are now bracing for revelations that could be damaging…”

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This is why Putin can’t be trusted. Even as he said this, his hackers were deep inside US government networks.

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Putin is sending an unusual open proposal on cyber security to the U.S., which includes possible "guarantees of non-intervention into internal affairs of each other, including into electoral processes"

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This passage from @JaneMayerNYer ’s 1988 book Landslide, where the Reagan White House discussed applying the 25th amendment to an inattentive president who just wanted to watch TV, seems pretty relevant.

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The judge found that Guo showed "utter contempt for this Court and the judicial process" by defying the court's orders and moving his his superyacht to the Bahamas. Bannon was on the the yacht when he was arrested in 2020 for defrauding donors of the We Build a Wall charity.

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The government filed a motion for summary judgement last week, arguing that 150 pages were properly withheld from me under various #FOIA exemptions. Notably, the DOJ is silent on the issue of whether Trump's name appears in the file. 3/

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New: Supporting data the Trump Org provided for a grossly inflated $291 million valuation of the Seven Springs Estate in Westchester, NY included conversations with Eric Trump. Eric repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when asked how he arrived at the valuation.

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This photo of Eddie Gallagher with Michael Flynn appeared on Gallagher’s Facebook page yesterday.

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Marcy Wheeler (⁦ @emptywheel ⁩) is the closest thing we have to IF Stone, a journalist who found stories in the things reporters overlooked.

BREAKING (WaPo's Stenography): Prosecutors Are Asking about Rudy Giuliani's Ties to Militias -...

In an article asking whether prosecutors are investigating Trump, the Washington Post buried evidence that prosecutors believe Rudy has ties to the militias who organized the event in paragraph 30.

www.emptywheel.net

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This is Kremlin propaganda running on OAN, Trump's favorite network. The voice is that of Kristian Rouz, who also worked for Sputnik, Russia's official propaganda outlet.

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YIKES! OAN ran a segment last night on "mounting evidence of a globalist conspiracy" by the Clintons, Soros, Gates, Fauci, & Chinese gov't to use coronavirus "to establish sweeping population control" by backing remdesvir over hydroxychlorquine. It cites Plandemic's Mikovits!

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Lordy, there are tapes. "In addition to his sexual demands, Giuliani went on alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks, which made the work environment unbearable. Many of these comments were recorded."

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@TimInHonolulu has uploaded the court filing listing all the documents filed today. Most of the documents are sealed.

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Link to the document entries regarding the documents filed in NY AG suit vs Trump Organization. Just descriptions. Physical documents are not linked. Some are sealed.

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"Trump may have been the victim of occasionally errant reporting. But he was no victim of a hoax or a media witch hunt. He helped an adversary sabotage an American election. The true media failure is that Trump got away with it," @DavidCornDC writes.

Columbia Journalism Review's big fail: It published 24,000 words on Russiagate and missed the point

The magazine's attempted takedown of the media's coverage bolsters Trump's phony narrative.

www.motherjones.com

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Sedition: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.

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Louie Gohmert on Newsmax: "But if bottom line is, the court is saying, 'We're not going to touch this. You have no remedy' -- basically, in effect, the ruling would be that you gotta go the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM."

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After foreign government information, the #FOIA exemption cited most often on the 150 withheld pages involved "names and identifying information of third parties who were of investigative interest to the FBI." 4/

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NYTimes: Allen Weisselberg to admit to all 15 felonies Thursday and testify about his role in a scheme to avoid paying taxes on lavish corporate perks.

Plea Deal Requires Weisselberg to Testify at Trump Organization Trial (Published 2022)

The chief financial officer of the former president’s business is expected to admit to 15 felonies on Thursday and to take the stand at the company’s trial.

www.nytimes.com

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It would be a nice touch if the sanctions on Putin listed his address as the Black Sea palace that Alexei Navalny exposed.

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In this clip, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano explains how he used a brother-in-law of singer Jimmy Roselli to "reach" Trump about a boxing fight.

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The FBI had been watching Lev Parnas for weeks, with agents trailing him around the world as he worked on Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine investigation. So why did the FBI wait until Parnas became a key witness in Trump’s impeachment to arrest him?

How the Trump Team Tried to Silence Lev Parnas

He was a key impeachment witness with testimony Congress wanted. What followed reveals a lot about modern American justice and Democracy

www.rollingstone.com

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"Release of the identities of these individuals to the public could subject them to harassment or embarrassment, as well as undue public attention," the DOJ says. 5/

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The DOJ wants to submit a short declaration for Judge Jackson's eyes only. The declaration will provide additional support for withholding under #FOIA exemption 7(E) -- "highly sensitive law enforcement techniques and procedures." 6/

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Anthony Pratt, the Australian billionaire who says Trump revealed to him sensitive information about submarines, reportedly paid Rudy Giuliani "about a million bucks" to attend Pratt’s birthday party.

‘Being rich is my superpower’: Tapes reveal Pratt’s pursuit of the powerful

Recordings expose billionaire Anthony Pratt’s dealings with Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and King Charles.

www.smh.com.au

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NEW: With help from ⁦ @AndyKroll ⁩, I was able to report in my Rolling Stone feature on Erik Prince can that the founder of Blackwater was involved in a Roger Stone project to suppress the black vote in 2016. It was called “Project Clintonson”

Erik Prince’s Private Wars

Blackwater founder Erik Prince wantsTrump's help to bring back his glory days. But he's facing questions about a mercenary fiasco in Libya.

www.rollingstone.com

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Wow. "Four separate sources told me – on the record — that Jeffrey’s dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the Israelis," @VickyPJWard reports in @RollingStone .

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Aren’t you?

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I appreciate the thoroughness, but the 7(E) exemption doesn't appear to be germane. It applies to 5 pages released in part that don't mention Trump. 7/

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The $291 million valuation was based on nine "non-existent" luxury homes, according to the NY AG's filing.

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Former board member of Signature Bank:

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Signature Bank was closed by New York state financial regulators on Sunday

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Giuliani liked getting blowjobs while on the phone with then President Trump and others because it made him "feel like Bill Clinton."

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The FBI photo taken in the "45 Office" at Mar-a-Lago shows six documents were stamped HCS—HUMINT Control System. This is the sensitive compartmented information system designed to protect information from clandestine human sources. Three classified documents were in Trump's desk.

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Just spoke to a Ukrainian-American fighting Russian forces near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second biggest city. He asked me to pass along a message: the US needs to send more weapons. Javelins, ammunition, more Stingers. "Just give us something to resist this evil," he says.

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It appears that Giuliani gave Noelle Dunphy access to 23,000 of his emails to President Trump and others:

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Marine Le Pen's party is still paying off a 9.4 million Euro loan to a Russian bank, the First Czech-Russian Bank, that was organized by a sanctioned Russian official, Alexander Babakov.

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The European Union has joined the US and the UK in sanctioning Yevgeniy Prigozhin and unequivocally calls him "the funder and unofficial head of the Wagner Group," the mercenary group active in Ukraine that's been accused of atrocities.

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This is big news. Charles McGonigal, former FBI agent in charge of the NY FBI's counterintelligence division, was indicted for working for the sanctioned Kremlin-connected oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.

Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Charged With...

www.justice.gov

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In other news, Twitter has also suspended the account of the enigmatic Trump/Russia figure, Sergei Millian.

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This is the ruling from one pissed-off judge:

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OMG.

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@dominique6138 @willjordan Not a coincidence.

The Real-Life Mob Families of ‘The Irishman’? Donald Trump Knew Them

Trump and his associates — including Roger Stone — have long histories with the mafia figures who populate Scorsese's film.

www.rollingstone.com

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A memo in the file from 1998 states that the FBI's Russian Organized Crime squad in New York was investigating Sapir for money laundering and extortion.

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A Wyoming reporter does what Erik Prince’s lawyers should have done — fact-checked a sworn legal declaration — and finds that Prince lied to a federal judge about his ties to the state.

Erik Prince: Wyoming businessman? - Powell Tribune

When a muckraking news site published a story alleging private security contractor and Blackwater founder Erik Prince had offered his services to a Russian mercenary firm, the connections to Wyoming...

www.powelltribune.com

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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."

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Did Ivankov plan his criminal conspiracy at the Taj Mahal? Did Ivankov’s gambling at the Taj Mahal result in scrutiny of the Trump Organization itself? We believe the answers are of considerable public interest. Please retweet if you agree. 6/

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My latest feature for Rolling Stone examines Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s ties to a botched mercenary assault in Libya, his work for the CIA, and his role in a previously unknown effort to suppress the black vote in 2016.

Erik Prince’s Private Wars

Blackwater founder Erik Prince wantsTrump's help to bring back his glory days. But he's facing questions about a mercenary fiasco in Libya.

www.rollingstone.com

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"It is believed that Sapir is used as a front for Russian organized crime money, including activity for the President of Tartarstan." The president of Tartarstan at the time was Mintimer Shaimiev, who co-founded Putin's United Russia party in 2001.

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NYTimes gets a UN report that confirms what we reported in Rolling Stone back in October.

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Jack Hanick, a founding producer who spent 15 years at Fox News, has been charged in NY with sanctions violations for his TV work for the sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.

TV Producer For Russian Oligarch Charged With Violating Crimea-Related Sanctions

www.justice.gov

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More than 80 pages were withheld in full on grounds of protecting confidential sources. This raises a question that @gregolear and others have asked: Was Donald Trump a confidential source for the FBI on Russian organized crime? 7/

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The ruling means holders of debt insurance (credit default swaps) on two sovereign Russian bonds are now entitled to billions of dollars in payments.

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Another FBI investigation involved Joy-Lud, a Manhattan electronics store that Sapir ran with Sam Kislin, a Ukrainian immigrant who was a major donor to Rudy Giuliani’s mayoral campaigns. Note the entry date: it was right after Giuliani was elected mayor in 1994. 👀

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The latest batch of Mueller Report documents @JasonLeopold & @BuzzFeedNews got unsealed has this tidbit that was news to me. Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of Russia's sovereign wealth fund who met Erik Prince in the Seychelles, bought real estate from Trump, @yuvalweber told the FBI.

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He was once the most popular politician in America, a hero admired around the world. Rolling Stone sent me to figure out how Rudy Giuliani fell so far.

What Happened to America’s Mayor?

Why Did Rudy Giuliani sacrifice his reputation and legacy in the service of Donald Trump?

www.rollingstone.com

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Guo then announced he was leaving the United States. h/t: @JMichaelWaller

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@seth_hettena

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Missed this from @BarackObama who suggested in an off-the-record comment to reporters that Russian investments in Trump properties were approved by the Kremlin. From a 1/18/2017 briefing released under FOIA to @JasonLeopold .

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Joy-Lud catered to a Soviet clientele—with one notable exception. Donald Trump purchased 200 televisions on credit from Sapir and Kislin's electronics store in the 1970s for his newly acquired Commodore Hotel.

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"Sapir is alleged to have paid a $5 million bribe to an employee of the New York Transit Authority."

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He may be bankrupt but that didn't stop exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui and his "New Federal State of China" from sponsoring @CPAC 's convention taking place this week in DC.

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Can confirm: I am a client. @MarkSZaidEsq and @BradMossEsq are helping me in my #FOIA lawsuit that seeks to force the release of the portions of an FBI file on a major Russian gangster that involve Donald Trump and/or his businesses. #TrumpRussia

Mark S. Zaid

@MarkSZaidEsq

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To all media in Twitter world: My law firm @MarkSZaidPC will rep you pro bono (FOR FREE, no legal fees, you pay minimal expenses) in #FOIA litigation relating to #nationalsecurity issues. We will also consider other topics. Please DM for further details.

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Sorry I didn't see this earlier. Giuliani was allegedly selling pardons for $2 million and splitting it with Trump.

John Davidson

@hoopsnut

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@seth_hettena @Timodc This seems...important

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We are in a fight with the DOJ over whether revealing Trump's name or his businesses in the FBI files of a Russian vor (top-level gangster) would infringe on his privacy rights. 2/

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