1/ From amazing Twitter sleuth @ThomasS4217#GeoGroup
Article from Nov 15, 2016:
"Bracewell & Giuliani represented Cornell Companies, a private prison operator that later merged with GEO Group. Giuliani never personally registered as a lobbyist." (con't)
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2/ "Giuliani Security & Safety provided security advice to a Singapore gambling project on behalf of a partnership that included a tycoon close to the North Korean regime who is considered an organized crime figure by the U.S."
(More in next tweet from source article...)
3/ Nov 21, 2007:
In Sep 2006 "Giuliani appeared in Singapore🇸🇬 to help a Las Vegas developer make a pitch for a $3.5 billion casino resort." Giuliani Security & Safety had a 10-year agreement to provide security for the resort. (con't) articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-11-21/new…
3/ This collaboration "drew Giuliani into a complex partnership with the family of a controversial Hong Kong billionaire who has ties to the regime of North Korea's🇰🇵 Kim Jong Il and has been linked to international crime by the U.S. government." (con't)
4/ "Although Stanley Ho has never been charged with a crime, the U.S. government's 2000 Int'l Crime Threat Assessment described him as a 'reported organized crime figure.' A 2007 State Dept. narcotics and law enforcement report noted links between Stanley Ho and organized crime."
5/ Back to @politico article:
Giuliani Security & Safety "advised Qatar's state-run oil company on security at a natural gas plant... Qatar is a U.S. ally that hosts a major American military base but once stifled an attempt to arrest Khalid Sheikh Mohammad... (con't)
6/ ...who went on to mastermind the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the 9/11 commission report."
"Giuliani Partners also advised TransCanada, which sought to build the Keystone XL pipeline that President Barack Obama rejected but Trump has said he wants to approve." (con't)
7/ "And Giuliani helped the maker of the OxyContin painkiller, Purdue Pharma, settle a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation with a fine."
More on Purdue Pharma:
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8/ "The Houston-based law firm Giuliani joined as a named partner in 2005 lobbied in Texas for Citgo, the U.S. subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company then controlled by President Hugo Chavez..."
"The firm also did work for Saudi Arabia's oil ministry."
9/ "The law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, lobbied at the federal level during Giuliani's time there for energy companies including Southern Company, Duke Energy, Energy Future Holdings, Arch Coal, Chesapeake Energy and NuStar Energy..."
10/ And of course, Giuliani as Zelig, this time with #PuertoRico and #HurricaneMaria☹️.
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@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 2/ Conveniently enough, Congress is "working" to keep the gov't open with "a 'continuing resolution' that would fund federal agencies through Dec. 7. ICE asked Congress to include the $1 billion increase in the continuing resolution." (more...)
@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 3/ "... immigration officials said they need the extra money to cover rising costs associated with arrests and deportations. Officials say this year they’ve detained an average of 43,000 immigrants a day, slightly more than Congress authorized in the current budget. (con't)
@ninaandtito@dwinfrey72@Peaceful_411@ThomasS4217@MsMariaT@BenWinslow 3/ "One witness stated that Defendant Jacob Kingston said that if the government moved to arrest and prosecute him, he would flee to Turkey. This witness also heard that Defendant Jacob Kingston built a home in Turkey. (con't)
3/ At this outdoor photo-op, @RepJeffDenham said "Congress is looking at one agency, one decision," and "called the state’s water conservation proposal a 'disastrous plan to flush water from valley rivers to the ocean,' foreshadowing twitterfingers-in-chief Aug 5th tweet.
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 This 7.10.14 article shows *how* tight Sheriff Israel is w/ Roger Stone.
<thread> 1/ Despite being sentenced to 1 yr in prison in '02, Suereth served 60 days house arrest & 5 yrs probation. Also in '02, Suereth married Thorne (who became Sheriff Israel's AsstChiefOfStaff in '14).
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 2/ In 2002, "Thorne was already working for Stone and Suereth and his son Andrew Miller would soon join the political operative's coterie."
Thorne was officially referred for the BSO job by Israel's campaign strategist, Ron Gunzburger, a close friend and associate of Stone's...
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 3/ … whom Israel installed at BSO as his $205,000-a-year general counsel. Not including Gunzburger, Thorne is one of at least three Stone cohorts whom Israel hired on the public payroll after the election."