I know ZERO about cigarette smuggling, and why the mob is so involved, but a couple of reminders (not implying Djukanovic is linked or involved, just FWIW):
Cigarette smuggling in #Montenegro🇲🇪.
May 8, 2018
Jan 6, 2010:
"Rothschild... bought $40million of Glencore bonds convertible into shares." (con't) archive.li/s3M4z
@JETconsul@ThomasS4217@ellyn_gesell@20committee@LouiseMensch@LincolnsBible@kelly2277 8/ Rothschild is "also buying $100 million of stock in United Co. Rusal, the Russian aluminum producer controlled by Oleg Deripaska, which is planning an IPO this month."
"Glencore also sold convertible bonds to investors including BlackRock Inc.... (con't)
@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."
(1/4) Pete Sessions (R-TX32), Waco-born, son of former FBI director William Steele Sessions, said this on Jun23:
"a big-time guy in Highland Park... killed his wife, just gunned her down. And that was because the judge was unfair, and the woman was unfair" talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/top-house-r…
(2/4) This son of former FBI Director WilliamSessions "did vote against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, joining a majority of Republicans who opposed the bill... b/c of new provisions that would allow Native American tribes to prosecute non-tribal members."
(3/4) As a reminder, former FBI Director William Steele Sessions was Vice Chairman of Neil Livingstone's Executive Action LLC's Senior Advisory Board: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Sess…