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Dancing with Mr. ‘D’
Trump, RussiaGate & transnational organized crime In June of 2019 Federal authorities discovered twenty tons of cocaine at the Port of Philadelphia aboard a giant container ship, the “MSC Gayane.” The drugs were found in seven shipping containers. How they came to be aboard a giant 1000-foot long and ten-story high container ship, Bloomberg magazine…
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Gangster Planet 1: The Return of ‘Red Eye’
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RussiaGate happened on a Gangster Planet
The night before the Mueller Report comes out seems an appropriate time to summarize discoveries made during a decidedly unofficial investigation into RussiaGate. RussiaGate happened on a Gangster Planet… with all that entails. It’s not like they haven’t been hiding it in plain sight. The transnational criminal network exposed by the scandal is deeply…
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A Cliff Note’s version of what Mueller found
New York Mob affiliate Donald Trump made common cause with a Russian Mob Boss named Semion Mogilevich. On the U.S. side of the Russiagate equation were gangsters as well as Saudis led by Adnan Khashoggi. Trump’s links to Khashoggi take hours to fully detail. Both were part of Germany’s criminal Deutsche Bank’s money laundering operation…
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A Prime Minister, a Drug Pilot, an Oligarch, & RussiaGate
(WARNING: A long read…but worth it) RussiaGate is all about the Mob, says the current meme. Not ‘The’ Mob, or just one Mob, but a gamut of players— Russian, American, British, Israeli, Saudi—belonging to a global criminal network connecting the forces of transnational organized crime across nation-states, time-zones, and continents. ‘Transnational organized crime’ doesn’t have…
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We Get Letters
Because of Donald Trump, it has become important for concerned Americans to “Know your Russian Mobsters.” Because, who knows, they may be in charge. Protected in Moscow from being called to account, Pavel ‘Red Eye” Vrublevsky, Russia’s top hacker, was dripping with sarcasm when he got in touch about the new video “Know Your Russian Mobsters” posted…
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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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Russian in hacking probe linked to alt-right stock fraud
Pavel ‘Red Eye’ Vrublevsky, a Russian businessman under investigation in the FBI’s probe of Russian hacking in the 2016 Presidential election, shared a business address in John Gotti’s former stronghold of Howard Beach, Queens with a company led by a Tampa Mobster convicted in the “alt-right” stock fraud ring run by Sarasota’s own Andrew Badolato, business partner and Breitbart collaborator…