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The Wolves of Wall Street
The most interesting character among the players of the Sarasota ‘hyena pack’—it’s a professional designation used by law enforcement and financial fraud specialists— is Ramy El Batrawi. Plus, he’s still active. Ramy El-Batrawi has been around major cocaine transactions for decades, yet he appears to have emerged unscathed. He is untouchable and knows it. He…
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The Jeffrey Epstein Social Network Mega Meta scandal
The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is a ‘meta’ scandal that smaller scandals fit into like Russian dolls. “Meta” means about the thing itself. “Meta news” is news about the news. It reveals the higher network workings of lesser scandals, like the “Container Ship Crime Wave!” scandal, which fits into it neatly. Names in Jeffrey Epstein’s little…
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Gangster Planet 1: The Return of ‘Red Eye’
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THE OLIVER NORTH OF RUSSIAGATE
Oleg Deripaska is the Oliver North of Russiagate. He’s the one Russian oligarch whose name you need to know. Oleg The Oligarch. Vladimir Putin’s go-to guy. A brutal history, a mysterious past Where Putin is concerned, Deripaska will do anything to please. He’s a big-time player in Russiagate. And the millions he paid out to Paul…
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Jerome Corsi & the alt-right’s Russian hackers
Alt-right “author” and scummy disinformation specialist Jerome Corsi’s wild roller-coaster week may have another dip left. Corsi, InfoWars’s DC bureau chief, as well as the man many think invented the alt-right, was riding high earlier this week, after USA Today, the country’s highest-circulating paper, published an opinion piece he wrote. Then, yesterday, he was kicked off…
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KNOW YOUR RUSSIAN MOBSTERS
Because of Donald Trump, its important for all concerned Americans to “Know your Russian Mobsters.” Today we’ll meet two. FIRST: Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia’s fertilizer king. How Dmitry got to be the Russian fertilizer king. THEN: Pavel Vrublevsky, the first Russian accused by the FBI of attempting to sway the election in Trump’s favor. You’re watching…
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EXCLUSIVE: “8th Man was part of Putin-Bush ‘Oligarch’s Ball’
When Russian Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze became the eighth and last participant identified last week attending Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower, many wondered if there might be a reason he’d been fingered last. Turns out, there is. His “legend,” or cover story, cannot withstand close scrutiny. Kaveladze’s lawyer Scott Balber…
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘8th Man’ in mystery purchase of U.S. Mining Co.
It’s been widely reported that Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze, the “8th man” who attended the June 2016 meeting where Donald Trump Jr. was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, had years earlier laundered $800 million through Citibank. What’s remained unknown until now is that Citibank ALSO loaned the exact same amount, $800 million, to Kaveladze’s Russian oligarch…
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GOP operative soliciting Russian hackers was bagman for ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’
The GOP operative leading a team looking for Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails—the same ones Donald Trump had publicly implored Russia to find—was active as a Republican bagman in what Hillary Clinton famously called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” during the Bill Clinton-era Troopergate sex scandals. Chicago financier and leading GOP donor Peter W. Smith…