1/11Follow The Money
- Mega $$$ Thread - Stick w/ It - Trust Me
- Oct'19: Rudy Giuliani says he needs money
- Nov'19: Rudy hires Pierce Bainbridge law firm
- Nov'19: 1-week later PB gets a $21M loan commitment
from Virage Capital
- Partners started leaving PB in Aug tho

2/11 - Feb'20: The PB founder, John Pierce, who is based in LA, basically pilfers $2.5M from payday lender, Karish Kapital in Queens, NY
- Feb'20: The day before PB stops paying on another cash advance to WCB
- Mar'20: A new firm Hecht Partners is formed, all partners are ex-PB

3/11 - Apr'20 - Reports say PB owes Virage $65M, after just 1-yr
- May'20: PB down from 70 attorneys to almost none
- May'20: Virage Capital says PB defaulted
- May'20: But Virage then funds PB spin-off Hecht Partners
- Sept'20 - Lin Wood says Giuliani is Pierce's "ex-client"

4/11 - $65M debt, attorneys left in droves, Giuliani in & out...Where is the Money?
- Players...
- Rudy Giuliani, G Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Tulsi Gabbard, M. Avenatti all touched PB & touted firm
- Marc Mukasey did as a lawyer for them, but he quit https://donlewis-2215.medium.com/when-a-lawyer-connected-to-trump-quits-on-you-for-ethics-92fc6bc1accf

5/11 - R. Oligarch Sergey Grishin was also a client
- PB boss Pierce worked for a Grishin venture capital fund in '16
- Grishin hired PB in '18, around time JP was first meeting w/ Rudy
- Mid 2020, Grishin went to Withers Bergman w/ ex-PB partner Amman Khan, who was sued pre-PB

6/11 - The lawsuit alleging Khan intentionally botched a case settled after about 3 years w/ no admission of liability
- Per Newsweek, Rudy has "mysterious ties to Russia" for decades
- Virage Capital founder used to work w/ derivative products at Enron, Edward Ondarza

7/11- The Virage Capital General Counsel - Burke McDavid - is fluent in Russian & did extensive investment related in work on at least 3 tours in Russia for his law firm Akin Gump, prior to joining Virage.
- McDavid, Ondarza and Virage at link
http://www.opalesque.com/files/Opalesque_2015_Texas_Roundtable.pdf

8/11 - Virage appears to have over $650M under management and has an entity located in "Ugland House" in the Cayman Islands.
- Virage also sells securities. It sold around $380M to "undisclosed investors" a few months ago.
- In Mar'19, the month before Virage's first. . .

9/11 - . . . of the reported $65M capital commitment to PB in Apr'19, Virage appears to have sold $73M to "undisclosed investors"
- The PB "elite litigators" won 0 trials during the $65M Virage year.
- PB filed at least 3 defamations 'suits each touted as "$50 Million" claims...

10/11...each 'suit tossed early, $150M claims, $0 recovered
- PB had severe red flags while Virage was committing tens of millions
- Another Virage funded lawyer has a USAO issue, another w/ the SEC & reportedly the FBI
- What's going on? . . .more. . . https://donlewis-2215.medium.com/virage-capital-money-mystery-featuring-hecht-partners-pierce-bainbridge-618feb26108a

11/11 - Main Pierce Bainbridge guy is John Pierce.
- Notre Dame & Harvard Law Graduate
- The firm cratered, Pierce now reps Kyle Rittenhouse
- Corrupt firm. $70M debt. Giuliani's "close friend."
- "Who is John Pierce?" 2-min vidby @sulkess