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2 fbi raids on casinos in Saipan - Trump protege Mark Brown ran the place until late 17 - James Woolsey, Haley Barbour, Louis Freeh and Ed Rendell connected to it.March 2017:
Imperial Pacific has attracted broad attention in the gaming industry for the volumes being recorded at its Saipan casino, which are far larger on a per-table basis than those at the grandest resorts in Macau.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/saipan-casino-operator-is-said-to-be-raided-by-u-s-agents
March 2018, raided again:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/fbi-agents-visit-office-of-saipan-casino-run-by-trump-protege
May 2017:
FBI raided the Strategic Campaign Group, a Republican fundraising and campaign consulting firm in Maryland last May:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/332991-fbi-raids-office-of-gop-consulting-firm-in-maryland
DUer MelissaB posted killer info on this bust May of 2017:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029050332
May 23 this year:
FBI agents armed with a court order have seized control of a key server in the Kremlins global botnet of 500,000 hacked routers, The Daily Beast has learned. The move positions the bureau to build a comprehensive list of victims of the attack, and short-circuits Moscows ability to reinfect its targets.
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On Tuesday, FBI agents in Pittsburg asked federal Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan in Pittsburgh for an order directing the domain registration firm Verisign to hand the ToKnowAll[.]com address over to the FBI, in order to further the investigation, disrupt the ongoing criminal activity involving the establishment and use of the botnet, and assist in the remediation efforts, according to court records. Lenihan agreed, and on Wednesday the bureau took control of the domain.
https://amp.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-fbi-seizes-control-of-russian-botnet
Hacker Yevgeny Nikulin - hacked LinkedIn, DropBox and Formspring https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/yevgeniy-nikulin-appears-us-court-following-extradition. Has pleaded not guilty, but I cant find when his next hearing is, dammit
Yevgeny Nikulin
Mark Carrolo - Former Trump team legal spokesperson Mark Corallo had concerns that White House communications director Hope Hicks could be considering obstructing justice after a comment she reportedly made about emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Russians...Hicks allegedly told President Donald Trump on a conference call that the Trump Jr. emails "will never get out," and Corallo plans to share the conversation with special counsel Robert Mueller, the Times reported Wednesday night, citing three people with knowledge of his interview request.
Mark Carallo
Viktor F. Vekselberg - electronics seized at airport, questioned by Muellers team
Appears to be connected to Michael Cohen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/us/politics/michael-cohen-viktor-vekselberg-trump-tower.html
Viktor Vekselberg
Don't forget Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda saying Don Jr should be "very concerned" about wiretaps of his meetings w Putin crony Alexander Torshin (also NRA's contact in Russia). Grinda turned those wiretaps over to FBI.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-jr-should-be-concerned-over-putin-allys-wiretapped-calls-spanish-945753
Jose Grinda
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of President Donald Trumps campaign, has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort-exclusive/exclusive-manaforts-former-son-in-law-cuts-plea-deal-to-cooperate-with-government-sources-idUSKCN1II2YM
Jeffrey Yohai
A Kushner pal is looking like a player:
Richard Gerson, a hedge-fund manager in New York, was in the Seychelles in January 2017, less than two weeks before President Donald Trump's inauguration and around the time Trump associate Erik Prince secretly met with Russian and United Arab Emirates officials, including Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, four of the people said.
While in the remote Indian Ocean island nation, Gerson met with Prince Mohammed also known by his initials as MBZ and communicated with a Lebanese-American businessman with close ties to the UAE, George Nader, who had organized the Erik Prince meeting, according to text messages Gerson sent at the time and a person familiar with the meeting.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/jared-kushner-close-friend-rick-gerson-now-under-scrutiny-mueller-n876361
Richard Gerson
Tom Barrack, interviewed by Mr. Mueller & Co. last December:
Most of the media focus so far has been on the arrest of Paul Manafort and George Papadopoulos, with Rick Gatess arrest getting much less attention. Within the administration, however, things are a bit different.
Some White House advisers are unhappy with Thomas J. Barrack Jr., Trumps longtime friend and chair of his inauguration, whom they hold responsible for keeping Gates in the Trump orbit long after Manafort resigned as campaign chairman in August 2016, according to people familiar with the situation. Barrack has been Gatess patron of late, steering political work to him and, until Monday, employing him as director of the Washington office of his real estate investment company.
...much further in the article:
This must have seemed like a great idea to Barrack, as he could make two good friends happy at the same time. What he almost definitely didnt then realize is that Manafort had an ulterior motive and was a desperate man.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/31/what-did-thomas-barrack-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/
Tom Barrack
Dutch intelligence watched the DNC as it got hacked by Cozy Bear...and subsequently shared their info with the FBI:
In the Summer of 2015, Dutch intelligence services were the first to alert their American counterparts about the cyberintrusion of the Democratic National Committee by Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be tied to the Russian government. Intelligence hackers from Dutch AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) had penetrated the Cozy Bear computer servers as well as a security camera at the entrance of their working space, located in a university building adjacent to the Red Square in Moscow.
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2213767-dutch-intelligence-first-to-alert-u-s-about-russian-hack-of-democratic-party.html
Federal prosecutors subpoenaed records from the National Enquirer as part of a probe into President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/20/media/national-enquirer-michael-cohen-subpoena/index.html
Barrack and Elliot Broidy slipped major $$$ to Rick Gates in 2017:
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates was paid tens of thousands of dollars in 2017 by a company headed by a leading Republican fundraiser and a firm headed by Donald Trump's inaugural committee chairman for help navigating the new administration, even as Gates was under criminal investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, a new report says.
The New York Times article raises questions of why the two men, Elliott Broidy and Thomas Barrack, each of whom had close ties to the Republican Party and, in Barrack's case, to the president himself, were paying a lobbyist like Gates for guidance on how to deal with the new administration.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/broidy-barrack-paid-gates-for-advice-on-trump-administration-report.html
Elliot Broidy
Rick Gates
Dust off your ostrich jackets, DU -
Manafort trial resumes, 1pm tomorrow...ENJOY!!!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I'd like to see Eliot Broidy have to testify. He seemed to be dealing a whole lot of influence, like to the Malaysian crooks.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)2naSalit
(86,751 posts)assembling this helpful summary!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Its getting hard to keep up.
triron
(22,011 posts)Remember this?
https://patribotics.blog/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/
Nikulin connection can be found therein.
Also this:
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article207514139.html
Of course you report he has pled not guilty since his extradition.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)thrilled when he finally got extradited...but dont know where his case stands at this point...hes still in the clinker, far as I know - but if he was to flip? YUM!!!
triron
(22,011 posts)triron
(22,011 posts)Something awfully fishy about the connections between the Kremlin and the NRA.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)her - good times!
czarjak
(11,287 posts)Whats the hope?
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)In the meantime, his lawyer seems to be concerned that he has met with Russians -- without his lawyers being present.
That seems curious.
Also, it's curious that he hasn't been cooperating with his lawyers.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/yevgeniy-nikulin-russian-hacker-linked-refuses-to-cooperate-with-lawyers/
Nikulin is refusing to speak substantively about his own criminal defense, detainment or mental health, according to Valery Nechay, a lawyer on his defense team. He was placed in solitary confinement after an alleged escape attempt and multiple physical confrontations with U.S. Marshals.
He is currently on suicide watch largely due to his non-cooperation, his lawyer explained.
The defense is actively exploring a full psychiatric examination. Nechay said she cant tell if Nikulins refusal to cooperate is a result of mental internal problems or an intentional tactic.
While Nikulin refuses to have conversations more substantial than the weather or favorite color with his lawyers, he met privately last month with Russian government representatives without his lawyers present, Nechay said.
SNIP
Another of Nikulins lawyers, Arkady Bukh, previously told CyberScoop that the Russian government was extremely active and that they try to know anything and everything about Nikulin.
According to Nechay, two representatives from the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. showed up unannounced at the lawyers office on June 7. After being repeatedly told Nechay was unavailable, the Russians had to be escorted off the premises.
SNIP
triron
(22,011 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)then actual *Russians* show up to intimidate his lawyers?!?
According to Nechay, two representatives from the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. showed up unannounced at the lawyers office on June 7. After being repeatedly told Nechay was unavailable, the Russians had to be escorted off the premises.
I am not sure what their motivations were, but these types of intimidation tactics are unacceptable and do not work with me, Nechay told CyberScoop.
?!?!! On American soil no less - !!!?
I wonder if Lavrov has demanded that Pompeo release Nikulin along with Butina (I have yet to read a statement by Pompeo rejecting Lavrovs demand) -
Again, many thanks to you!
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)but hadn't seen anything in a while. This time I tried harder.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)THANKS!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec