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The others mentioned in the Bannon indictment are Timothy Shea, who in May was announced as the Acting Administrator of Drug Enforcement Administration, Brian Kolfage, a Iraq war veteran, and Andrew Badolato. https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1296447887216345089
May 2020 Attorney General Barr announces Timothy J. Shea as new Acting Administrator of Drug Enforcement Administration https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2020/05/19/attorney-general-barr-announces-timothy-j-shea-new-acting-administrator
Leaders Of ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Campaign Charged With Defrauding 100s Of 1,000 Of Donors
Defendants Alleged to Have Funneled 100s of 1,000 of Dollars From the Org; All Defendants Allegedly Profited From Their Roles in the Scheme https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leaders-we-build-wall-online-fundraising-campaign-charged-defrauding-hundreds-thousands
Defendants Alleged to Have Funneled 100s of 1,000 of Dollars From the Org; All Defendants Allegedly Profited From Their Roles in the Scheme https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leaders-we-build-wall-online-fundraising-campaign-charged-defrauding-hundreds-thousands
To conceal the payments to KOLFAGE from We Build the Wall, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA devised a scheme to route those payments from We Build the Wall to KOLFAGE indirectly through Non-Profit-1 and a shell company under SHEA’s control, among other avenues.
Stephen Bannon, one of the architects of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, was arrested over his involvement in an online fundraising group that raised more than $25 million to help fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-20/stephen-bannon-charged-with-fraud-by-new-york-prosecutor
“As alleged, the defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-20/stephen-bannon-charged-with-fraud-by-new-york-prosecutor
Bannon joined the group’s (We Build The Wall) board and Trump ally Kris Kobach became its general counsel. KOBACH is now seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Kansas. https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/2020/07/13/trump-rips-private-border-wall-built-valley-supporters/
The company that built the private section in January, North Dakota-based Fisher Industries, has since won a $1.3 billion border wall contract from the federal government, the largest award to date. https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/2020/07/13/trump-rips-private-border-wall-built-valley-supporters/
CORRECTION
Different Tim Shea
Amanda Shea and her husband Tim live in Castle Rock and said they helped create the GoFundMe with Kolfage.
According to Shea, she met Kolfage 3 years ago and eventually developed a conservative news website with him. https://twitter.com/bubbz_daddy_jim/status/1296452880673759238?s=21
Different Tim Shea Amanda Shea and her husband Tim live in Castle Rock and said they helped create the GoFundMe with Kolfage.
According to Shea, she met Kolfage 3 years ago and eventually developed a conservative news website with him. https://twitter.com/bubbz_daddy_jim/status/1296452880673759238?s=21
Background: Meanwhile, Kolfage's "We the People Will Fund the Wall" campaign has already attracted $18 million in commitments, plucking on heartstrings and plucking out wallets with sentiments like this:
HT @toppan_jane https://www.westword.com/news/build-the-wall-but-put-it-between-colorado-and-new-mexico-11081521
HT @toppan_jane https://www.westword.com/news/build-the-wall-but-put-it-between-colorado-and-new-mexico-11081521
https://twitter.com/sdnynews/status/1296438759198687232?s=21 https://twitter.com/sdnynews/status/1296438759198687232
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1296448542509338625?s=21 https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1296448542509338625
Hmmmm....did Kush get in on the grift too?
Nov 25, 2019
Jared Kushner’s new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump’s border wall
HT @geekgirlden https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushners-new-assignment-overseeing-the-construction-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/25/b175cad4-0d63-11ea-a49f-9066f51640f6_story.html
Nov 25, 2019
Jared Kushner’s new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump’s border wall
HT @geekgirlden https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushners-new-assignment-overseeing-the-construction-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/25/b175cad4-0d63-11ea-a49f-9066f51640f6_story.html
$1.3B Border Wall Contract Controversy Is Just the Latest for Fisher Sand & Gravel
ND contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. was resorting to personal pitches to Trump, to gain entry to the massive federal wall construction program along the U.S.-MX border. https://www.enr.com/articles/49444-13b-border-wall-contract-controversy-is-just-the-latest-for-fisher-sand-gravel
ND contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. was resorting to personal pitches to Trump, to gain entry to the massive federal wall construction program along the U.S.-MX border. https://www.enr.com/articles/49444-13b-border-wall-contract-controversy-is-just-the-latest-for-fisher-sand-gravel
Look who else is involved in the grift: Tommy Fisher, Sheriff David Alexander Clarke Jr., UKN, & Cong. @replouiegohmert (R-Texas) gather next to a completed portion of a privately-funded border barrier the firm built in July 2019 in Sunland Park, N.M.
Hmmmm.. @replouiegohmert has been all in on the “Build the Border Wall” grift since the beginning of the Trump Adm.
Did he personally profit in any way, shape or form?
11/11/16: “Rep. Gohmert: Congress will find the funds to pay for Trump's wall” https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-wall-congress-funds-louie-gohmert-231230
Did he personally profit in any way, shape or form?
11/11/16: “Rep. Gohmert: Congress will find the funds to pay for Trump's wall” https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-wall-congress-funds-louie-gohmert-231230
Sheriff David Clarke
We Build the Wall Telethon July 13, 2019
We Build the Wall Telethon July 13, 2019
PHOTOS: We Build The Wall rally at Hilton Netherland Plaza, March 12, 2019 https://www.cincinnati.com/picture-gallery/news/2019/03/12/steve-bannon-sheriff-david-clarke-cincinnati-we-build-wall-rally/3145995002/
WE BUILD THE WALL TEAM
The following individuals serve on the on the advisory board, and construction, finance, and or audit committees, operations, administration, PR, Media and ongoing fundraising: https://webuildthewall.us/team/
The following individuals serve on the on the advisory board, and construction, finance, and or audit committees, operations, administration, PR, Media and ongoing fundraising: https://webuildthewall.us/team/
Brian Kolfage
Stephen Bannon
John Daniel Moran, Jr.
Dr. Robert S. Spalding III
Erik Prince
Curt Schilling
Tom Tancredo
Sheriff” David Clarke Jr.
Kris Kobach
Mary Ann Mendoza
Steve Ronnebeck
Dustin Stockton
Tiffiny Ruegner
Jennifer Lawrence
Amanda Shea https://webuildthewall.us/team/
Stephen Bannon
John Daniel Moran, Jr.
Dr. Robert S. Spalding III
Erik Prince
Curt Schilling
Tom Tancredo
Sheriff” David Clarke Jr.
Kris Kobach
Mary Ann Mendoza
Steve Ronnebeck
Dustin Stockton
Tiffiny Ruegner
Jennifer Lawrence
Amanda Shea https://webuildthewall.us/team/
Bannon will be joined by former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke — & Kris Kobach
All three of these far-right figures will be attending a 'We Build the Wall' event on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Warren. https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/03/04/right-wing-radicals-steve-bannon-and-sheriff-clarke-coming-to-warren-for-we-build-the-wall-event
All three of these far-right figures will be attending a 'We Build the Wall' event on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Warren. https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/03/04/right-wing-radicals-steve-bannon-and-sheriff-clarke-coming-to-warren-for-we-build-the-wall-event
The town hall-style meeting will be held in response to the national emergency that Trump declared on Feb. 15.
The hotly debated declaration would set a new precedent, allowing future presidents to bypass Congress to fund projects deemed an "emergency." https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/03/04/right-wing-radicals-steve-bannon-and-sheriff-clarke-coming-to-warren-for-we-build-the-wall-event
The hotly debated declaration would set a new precedent, allowing future presidents to bypass Congress to fund projects deemed an "emergency." https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/03/04/right-wing-radicals-steve-bannon-and-sheriff-clarke-coming-to-warren-for-we-build-the-wall-event
2/15/19: Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico in order to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there, leading to a confrontation over the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/national-emergency-trump.html
Trump’s preferred construction firm lands $1.3 billion border wall contract, the biggest so far
Winner of the contract Fisher Sand & Gravel, has been repeatedly lauded by the president in White House meetings with border officials and military commander. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-fisher-contract/2020/05/19/d22943f2-99de-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
Winner of the contract Fisher Sand & Gravel, has been repeatedly lauded by the president in White House meetings with border officials and military commander. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-fisher-contract/2020/05/19/d22943f2-99de-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
WE BUILD THE WALL
TeamTrump Griftapolooza
https://twitter.com/pinche_pi/status/1296464442385928192?s=21 https://twitter.com/pinche_pi/status/1296464442385928192
TeamTrump Griftapolooza
https://twitter.com/pinche_pi/status/1296464442385928192?s=21 https://twitter.com/pinche_pi/status/1296464442385928192
DonJr is on on it too.
H/T @Pinche_Pi
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H/T @Pinche_Pi
https://twitter.com/pinche_pi/status/1296473929423388674?s=21 https://twitter.com/pinche_pi/status/1296473929423388674
It gets even more BatSh*t folks:
BADOLATO
Bannon and Badolato share a long history.
They have been in several businesses together since 2003, shared office and residential space in Sarasota County under questionable circumstances, https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
BADOLATOBannon and Badolato share a long history.
They have been in several businesses together since 2003, shared office and residential space in Sarasota County under questionable circumstances, https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Bannon and Badolato appeared as producers on conservative documentaries such as “Clinton Cash,” and analyzed voter data on satellite radio shows just before the 2016 election.#CambridgeAnalytica https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Bannon and Badolato are well enough acquainted that Badolato was with Bannon inside Trump Tower the night Trump was elected president. https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Badolato’s past includes: numerous lawsuits, substantial monetary judgments and sizeable Internal Revenue Service liens filed against him; business dealings with convicted felons for stock-related fraud; https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Con’t: an extortion attempt after he borrowed money from a self-described mobster that led to him wearing a wire for the FBI; an association with a Costa Rican offshore firm that was called a “money laundering hub” by the Justice Department; https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
and sexual assault allegations made by three women from 2006 to 2010 that allegedly took place inside Badolato’s home in south Sarasota County. https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
The relationship between Bannon & Badolato first came to light on Aug. 19, 2016, when Bannon registered to vote in FL by listing Badolato’s Casey Key Road address as his residence, even though multiple sources have told the HT that he never lived there. https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Cambridge Analytica’s BK filing also is not the first time Bannon and Badolato have been connected to a BK.
Badolato has filed for BK 4x, once on the day before a Rico Act case concerning stock fraud was set to go to trial in 2005 (he was a defendant). https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Badolato has filed for BK 4x, once on the day before a Rico Act case concerning stock fraud was set to go to trial in 2005 (he was a defendant). https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
Bannon was 16th on a list of CA creditors, though the amount of the claim was not revealed. At #19 on the list was a Costa Rican company called Red Sea Management, which was a “money laundering hub,” run by a fmr Sarasota resident named Jonathan Curshen, https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
The connection between The USA Exchange and Cambridge Analytica became public at 11:30 p.m. on May 25 — the Friday night of the Memorial Day weekend. That’s when the Sarasota-based company appeared on an amended bankruptcy document filed in New York. https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
The business agreement between the two parties went into effect on Jan. 18. Badolato signed the document, as did Cambridge Analytica COO Julian Wheatland. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499960-Contract-Final.html
Alexander Nix, the company’s CEO who appeared last week before British lawmakers about whether Cambridge Analytica played a role in England’s vote to leave the European Union, is named in the agreement with Badolato’s company. https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180610/cambridge-analytica-scandal-has-sarasota-ties
A Prime Minister, a Drug Pilot, an Oligarch, & RussiaGate
Bannon
Badolato CurshenMogilevich
H/T @SaysDana https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Bannon
Badolato CurshenMogilevichH/T @SaysDana https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
RussiaGate is all about the Mob, 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. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
First to Sarasota, where two local grifters plied their ‘craft:’ Jonathan Curshen, currently serving 20 years in federal prison, and Andy Badolato, currently free as a bird—until today. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Badolato, Bannon’s former chief lieutenant, surfaced after Bannon switched his legal residence in a panic before the 2016 election to Badolato’s pad on Casey Key in Sarasota, to avoid a vote fraud rap while Trump was strenuously decrying…vote fraud. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Andy Badolato and Jonathan Curshen participated in a number of continuing criminal conspiracies together, along with a colorful cast of co-conspirators whose importance to RussiaGate is growing all the time. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Curshen & Badolato were partners in what’s known as a “hyena pack” engaged in stock fraud & related financial crime. Each was an officer in a # of dummy front biz’s, supposedly independent of one another, but acting in concert w/ interlocking ownership. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
The crew was led by a wily 30-year veteran of scams and white collar crime, a man whose name was already famous from previous scandals, Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer, long-time CIA ‘fixer’ and Iran Contra middleman. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Rounding out the hyena pack was Khashoggi’s long-time lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi—an Iran Contra figure in his own right—and an assortment of retired CIA and DIA assets, including Glen Kovar, https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Kovar, Adnan Khashoggi, Ramy El-Batrawi and Jonathan Curshen all had a hand in a company called SkyWay Communications. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Curshen and Badolato ran companies which owned, or were in business with, dummy companies that were fronted by a hapless Tampa Mobster named Mike Muzio, currently residing in federal prison until 2020. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Curshen’s Blue Moon Group, which operated under a number of different names and was into everything from music publishing to internet porn, was owned by Adnan Khashoggi. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
‘Red Eye’ handled the back end cash for Muzio’s porn sites.
Eleven years later Pavel ‘Red Eye’ Vrublevsky became the first Russian hacker the FBI fingered for involvement in the 2016 Presidential election. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Eleven years later Pavel ‘Red Eye’ Vrublevsky became the first Russian hacker the FBI fingered for involvement in the 2016 Presidential election. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Last but not least, there’s Semion Mogilevich, the RUMob’s boss of bosses. Mr Big-Ski.
Mogilevich’s white knight was an unknown from Sarasota, Florida, who supposedly owned a supposed ins co called “Southern Assurance.” His name was Jonathan Curshen. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
Mogilevich’s white knight was an unknown from Sarasota, Florida, who supposedly owned a supposed ins co called “Southern Assurance.” His name was Jonathan Curshen. https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/08/29/a-prime-minister-a-drug-pilot-an-oligarch-russiagate/
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H/T @SaysDana
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Fundraising at Company Tied to Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui Faces Probe
Former Trump political adviser and exiled Chinese businessman raised more than $300 million in private offering, Guo says https://www.wsj.com/articles/fundraising-at-company-tied-to-steve-bannon-and-guo-wengui-faces-probe-11597857467
Former Trump political adviser and exiled Chinese businessman raised more than $300 million in private offering, Guo says https://www.wsj.com/articles/fundraising-at-company-tied-to-steve-bannon-and-guo-wengui-faces-probe-11597857467
