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Aug 25, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
“SerhiyGorbatyuk, Ukraine’s special prosecutor high-level corruption cases, pointed to MilltownCorpServices Ltd., which played a central role in the state’s purchase of two oil derricks for $785 million, or about double what they were said to be worth” nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/deutsc… Cc @ninaandtito do you have anything on MilltownCorpServices? This is Manafort-Yanukovych linked company
Aug 23, 2018 26 tweets 8 min read
“the National Crime Agency — Britain’s FBI — said it is “aware of allegations relating to the company structures identified”, but said it does not “routinely confirm nor deny the existence of investigations”

Cc @ninaandtito @JamesFourM @LincolnsBible buzzfeed.com/janebradley/sh… “It is not known if the companies in the network actively operate together, but they share common characteristics...all of the companies are limited liability partnerships registered 2one of 4 UK addresses — sleepy office parks and industrial estates on the outskirts of London”
Aug 20, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
How Trump got Giuliani to help his scheme but McCain & Coumo said nope 👎

“it became clear as the agency reviewed Trump’s application that he was “trying to shift millions in federal funds meant for affordable housing into his own profits.” washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m… “Trump never got over Cuomo blocking the scheme, even threatening a run for Governor against Cuomo in 2014,” Glaser said. “It was all personal payback...He titled this chapter of his book, “Sometimes You Have to Hold a Grudge.”
Aug 16, 2018 4 tweets 4 min read
Aug 15, 2018 7 tweets 3 min read
“the government began reading my e-mails and text messages and monitoring my phone calls as early as 2016.

I believe that I, like Carter Page and Paul Manafort, was subject to an illegal FISA warrant in 2016”
@LouiseMensch @LouiseBagshawe dailycaller.com/2018/08/13/rog… “A whistleblower has told my lawyers where my name and the fact that application had been made for a FISA warrant on me was redacted from the stunning Carter Page FISA warrant application released by the FBI last week”
Aug 10, 2018 5 tweets 3 min read
Funny how that blocked phone number calling Collins in 2016 can be compared to blocked number TrumpJr called re: TrumpTower mtg. 🤔

@MingGao26 @TundraEatsYou
@thespybrief usatoday.com/story/news/pol… “The New York Republican is the main congressional liaison between the House and Mr. Trump’s transition team, which is charged with staffing political jobs in the executive branch”

How many backs got scratched here?

wsj.com/articles/want-…
Aug 5, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
Who could possibly have a grudge with that guy?

@thespybrief Several devices, wow, that’s coordinated

Aug 4, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
Wow. Go down with this ship, eh?

“RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel circulated a memo to donors to distance themselves from the (Koch) billionaire mega donors”

@thespybrief @counterchekist businessinsider.com/the-rnc-distan… Irony...

McDaniel wrote in a memo to high-profile donors. "Second, some groups who claim to support conservatives forgo their commitment when they decide their business interests are more important than those of the country or Party. This is unacceptable."
Aug 2, 2018 21 tweets 6 min read
"Manhattan prosecutors allege pair spent 3yrs, 2015-2018, flying women from Russia 2 NY City. The couple & 3rd defendant, Arkady Bashkatov, housed the female sex workers in Brooklyn while booking them hotel rooms & hiring drivers"

@ninaandtito @SaysDana
miaminewtimes.com/news/russian-p… Hat tip to @AnnaBan50011605 for the article :)
Aug 1, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
Aug 1, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
“Hudson’s Bay Company—acknowledged a data breach impacting more than five million credit and debit card numbers. The culprits? The same group that's spent the last few years pulling off data heists from Omni Hotels & Resorts, Trump Hotels...”

wired.com/story/fin7-car… “researchers regard Fin7 as a particularly professional and disciplined organization. The group—which often appears to be Russian-speaking, but hasn't been tied to a home country”
Aug 1, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
“Where did he go wrong,”

“mom thinks the power went to his head”

“with Ukraine”

“Right…that it has turned him into a moral-less ethic-less person”

“he is just power crazed…controling. obsessive.”

“He has no moral or legal compass” spectator.us/2018/07/has-mo… “It is a matter of record that Manafort went into business with Trump’s adviser Roger Stone in 1980. Stone, Trump, and Trump’s lawyer Roy Cohn were then fixtures on the bacchanalian Manhattan party scene.”
Jul 31, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
Important move:

"Mueller referred a collection of cases to NY federal prosecutors concerning whether several high-profile American lobbyists and operatives failed to register their work as foreign agents"

cnn.com/2018/07/31/pol… "Mueller has referred matters to SDNY involving longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his work for his former firm, the Podesta Group, and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and his work for Mercury Public Affairs"
Jul 26, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
Jul 19, 2018 4 tweets 3 min read
How many men in Brexit/CambAnal/Trump/Russia scandals taken in by female agents?

Maria Butina
Wendy Deng (now Putins' girlfriend & ex-Murdoch wife)
Ekatarina Paderina (Bank's wife)
*Let's include nonexistant? wife of Veruscript's GlebCheglakov though he's Ruso
@LouiseMensch I forgot:

Casandra Fairbanks
Elaine Chao? (can I please include her here? Mitch is no catch)
Victoria Rakhimbayeva (Lesin's questionable girlfriend now in Moscow)

help me out, here, peeps, who am I missing?
@JamesFourM @ninaandtito @kelly2277 @MsMariaT @SaysDana @20committee
Jul 19, 2018 8 tweets 2 min read
think Doug needs some time in the barrel, peeps

"As recently as a year ago, the current leader, Doug Burleigh, was predicting alliance between [President Donald] Trump and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. He predicted that that at a Russian prayer breakfast.” "If intl dignitaries view PrayerBreakfast as a reliable means of unofficial access, some Presidents—notably Clinton—have been more accommodating than others. “Bill and Hillary got it,” says DougBurleigh, Coe’s son-in-law & a key figure in the Fellowship."
newyorker.com/magazine/2010/…
Jul 18, 2018 5 tweets 1 min read
Butina’s major U.S. political contact – and apparent lover – allegedly “visited a U-Haul truck rental facility” the day before her arrest, suggesting for the first time a rationale for the timing of her arrest” thedailybeast.com/maria-butina-w… “FBI surveillance over the past week has confirmed that Butina has access to funds and an intention to move money outside of the United States,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.”
Jul 18, 2018 8 tweets 4 min read
HEADS UP: Robert Driscoll is the Washington lawyer representing Maria Butina. And check out his Professional Affiliations:
***Federalist Society***

@LouiseMensch @JamesFourM @CheriJacobus @20committee @counterchekist @traciemac_Bmore
mcglinchey.com/robert-driscol… And look who else he's rep'd:
"the sheriff's Washington-D.C. lawyer, Robert Driscoll, who's representing Arpaio in the DOJ's investigation into allegations that deputies have committed racial profiling, also spoke at the news conference"

cc @ericgarland
phoenixnewtimes.com/news/robert-dr…
Jul 17, 2018 17 tweets 6 min read
Yes, Maria Butina is the new Anna Chapman.
Butina studied cyber security at AmericanUniversity
Anna was also into computers:
Note that AnnaChapman had a large network that took years to build, then came tumbling down. Expect many more of Butina's co-conspirators to get rounded up

Jul 17, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
When you can't come up with a pair of balls
no matter how many Congressional Republicans
you put in the room....

@thespybrief @20committee

msn.com/en-us/news/pol… why impeach a traitor when you can pass a "resolution" that says "we're not with him"

what's the other name for a cat?
Jul 17, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
"In 2015, Butina met privately with a political candidate. She also discussed a plan for Torshin to buy a plane ticket for a US congressman to visit Moscow."

oh, Dana, where are you? @DanaRohrabacher

cnn.com/2018/07/16/pol… Well, GOP can't deny this since it just happened!
And now they must be cringing 🤣

"Later, following the 2016 presidential election, Butina and the Russian official discussed a possible pro-Russian converence that US members of Congress could attend, according to the documents"