Tag: Russian oligarch

  • The ‘Deep State,’ Palm Beach, & Donald Trump

    The ‘Deep State,’ Palm Beach, & Donald Trump

    an excerpt from “Gangster Planet” The “deep state” is supposed to be sinister, according to Donald Trump. But its hard to look sinister in sunny Palm Beach Florida. Before the first ballot had been cast in 2016 Donald Trump was worrying out loud that ‘they’— the deep state—were going to steal the election. Sinister. But…

  • What You Should Know About Oleg Deripaska

    What You Should Know About Oleg Deripaska

    Oleg Deripaska is a name you should know. He’s Paul Manafort Olig-Daddy, tried to turn Montenegro into a Russian colony; is suing the Associated Press, and is a Russian Mobster pretending to be a philanthropist. When Donald Trump shoved a fellow head of state at last week’s NATO Summit, it was probably not just because…

  • Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel

    Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel

    New evidence indicates that Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009, has been in business since 2004 in Guyana with a politically powerful crime family involved in international drug trafficking whose most famous member is a drug pilot who had also been the chief pilot of…

  • Oleg & Me

    Oleg & Me

    Publishing a story called “Oleg & Me” the day after the “Oleg” in question runs a half-page ad in the New York Times ad offering to sue the Associated Press is probably a little foolhardy for someone who’s not even—you know—associated. But it has to be done.