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Putin’s Wikileaks Host: “Mob Laundromat” Funded GOP
By patribotics Feb 25, 2018
Exclusive: Peter Chayanov, the Russian hacker who gave Wikileaks servers in Moscow a week before the release of the Podesta emails, is directly linked both to the Russian mob “laundromat” that was involved in the Sergei Magnitsky case, and the Russian government’s distribution of funds into the GOP.

The Russian Embassy in the UK, among other official Russian government sites, was quick to challenge both Robert Mueller and US investigative journalists after the early indictments of over a dozen Russians who had catfished unwitting Americans.

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“Foreign Minister Lavarov: no evidence of Russian state interference in US elections has ever been presented,” they wrote, adding an image of a blackboard with chalk lettering saying “Can you prove it?” with a large question mark.

Here we demonstrate, with sources linked to within the text:

  • Mr. Chayanov is the CEO of Hostkey, the company that provided Wikileaks its servers in Russia in advance of the Podesta emails release;
  • Mr. Chayanov partnered with Stephen John Kelly, a man who is directly linked to laundering the Russian taxpayers’ money that Sergei Magnitsky discovered, and for which he was murdered by Vladimir Putin;
  • … and that Chayanov’s company with Kelly, Optimal Telecom, is directly linked to PAC funding pro-Russian Republican candidates in the United States, according to records on the Nevada Secretary of State’s website, including Danny Tarkanian.
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Mr. Chayanov, in short, may be regarded as a “one-stop shop” in the matter of Russia’s hacks of America and its money laundered to the GOP. He is indisputably responsible for assisting Wikileaks, news broken in this blog by Laurelai Bailey, a socialist activist, former U.S. veteran and an original Wikileaker.


Mr. Chayanov’s “Optimal Telecom” Business Partner Helped Embezzle the Magnitsky Money
Records held at Companies House, the official UK registrar of businesses, show that Peter Chayanov and Stephen John Kelly were directors of a company called Optimal Telecom.

Stephen John Kelly is a key name in the pursuit by Bill Browder and Hermitage Capital of the tax refund that Mr. Magnitsky discovered, and which was embezzled by the Russian mafia under the guidance and direction of Vladimir Putin. Public reporting tied Kelly to the murder case of the Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy, a Magnitsky witness, found dead in his estate in Surrey, England in 2012.:weebaynanimated:

Documents seen by the Guardian show that in January and February Browder’s lawyers passed a criminal complaint to the City of London police, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

The complaint alleged … ties to the alleged criminal conspiracy from its earliest stages: a UK citizen, Stephen John Kelly, served as a nominee, or “sham” director, for British Virgin Islands-based offshore companies involved in liquidating the companies used to claim the allegedly fraudulent tax refunds.:weebaynanimated:

Mr. Browder’s office pointed to their research into the laundering of the money Sergei Magnitsky found, and was killed for exposing. ‘There are so many crimes that need their proceeds laundered, it is not practicable for them to set up a separate distribution network for each crime,’ Mr. Browder told us. ‘As a result, there is a well used ‘pipeline’ operation through which the [Russian] government and the Russian FSB launder their criminal funds.”:weebaynanimated:

Stephen John Kelly was part of that pipeline as a sort of ‘Director for hire’. He is a director of numerous companies featured in the Panama Papers, and is or was a director of 434 companies registered in the UK alone.:weebaynanimated:

The Chayanov-Kelly company Optimal Telecom is not listed as having received the money Sergei Magnitsky discovered, and was murdered over; rather, its use of Kelly indicates it was part of the same money-laundering network used to distribute that money on behalf of the Putin regime and the Russian mob.

Optimal Telecom Seems to Have Distributed Russian Money to GOP Candidates

Optimal Telecom’s archived web records show that its international partners included “Prioritel LLC” in the United States. Although it’s listed as an American partner, the website had a .ru address, indicating the site was hosted in Russia. There appears to have been a concerted effort to wipe the captures of Prioritel LLC in Webarchive, but this effort was not totally successful, and the one remaining record has been copied to other archives and screenshot.

“Privately owned by American and Russian shareholders, Prioritel LLC holds a Global Facilities Based Section 214 license from the FCC. The Russian subsidiary, OOO Prioritel, operates on the territory of the Russian Federation under licenses #23437 and #23438 granted by the Russian Ministry of Communications and owned by ZAO “Centaur Telecom” (a fully owned affiliate)”

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Although it was linked as a “US partner”, Prioritel LLC was using a .ru internet address, indicating it was Russian. Prioritel LLC shows up in the state of Nevada, where, as is common in money laundering, it links to multiple entities with the same or a similar name.


A managing entity for the company, for example, was “Prioritel Holdings, Inc.” That shell corporation was managed by one Mr. Frederick Andresen. Andresen is involved with Alfa Bank, who had a server communicating with Trump Tower which, I reported at Heat Street the day before the election, was under a FISA warrant. In 2002 an FCC document shows that Andresen had transferred control of Prioritel LLC to one “Irina Grishanova“, yet through a shell he was controlling the thing again as recently as two years ago.

This may be of serious interest to Mr. Mueller, as alibiz.com lists “Priorities Inc”, a Nevada company with the exact same two principals – Andresen and Grishanova – as having ten million dollars a year in revenue.:mindblown:

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It is beyond the scope of this article to examine all the shell companiesconnected to Prioritel LLC and Optimal Telecom (Chayanov, Stephen John Kelly). But one representative example of money laundering to the GOP is “Priorities Nevada Inc.” This little not for profit, related to the first company in Nevada records, was formed in 2015 – when Director Comey testified he first became aware of Russian efforts to influence the election – and dissolved in May 2016, after Trump met and spoke with Sergei Kislyak at the Mayfair hotel.

Why would a non-profit be set up and dissolved so quickly? Because non-profits are subject to a different tax regimen. Principles included Ciara Matthews, the pro-russian spokesman of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and Amy Tarkanian, the wife of GOP candidate Danny Tarkanian.

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Danny Tarkanian and Amy Tarkanian are pro-Trump, pro “America First”, and were recently shilling in praise of convicted felon and NRA supporter Dinesh D’Souza.

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Amy Tarkanian, whose name is on the Priorities Nevada state records, was also retweeting pro-Russian Rand Paul’s attacks on the Pentagon.

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Danny and Amy Tarkanian Are Major Supporters of Russia and Wikileaks
Amy Tarkanian is a regular contributor to Russia Today.:weebaynanimated: Under new laws, she may need to register as a foreign agent of the Russian state under FARA, as all Sputnik and Russia Today employees as required to do. Failing to register under FARA is a felony crime.

Given that Amy Tarkanian’s PAC is linked to Peter Chayanov, the host of Wikileaks’ Russian servers, both Amy and her husband Danny may find themselves in deep trouble. What was the price of whatever part of that ten million dollars a year from Chayanov’s partners Prioritel? We don’t have to look any closer than Amy and Danny’s twitter feeds:

“I always enjoy going on Russia Today @NewswithEd ..thanks for having me on again today. (Not him in the picture, that’s the other guest)” she gushes.

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Nor is her husband to be outdone.



The Tarkanians also use Roger Stone’s hashtags, boost Wikileaks, whose host links to their PAC, attack James Comey and defend Russia. They spread Russia’s lies about the murder of Seth Rich.

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Doubtless Mr. Mueller will be knocking on their door very soon.






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GOP Refuses to Ask Twitter for Private Messages in Russia Probe
GOP Refuses to Ask Twitter for Private Messages in Russia Probe
Twitter could be key to unraveling some of the mysteries surrounding the Trump-Russia nexus. If only Devin Nunes and company would look.

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Republicans on the House intelligence committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election have refused Democratic entreaties to subpoena Twitter for direct messages of Donald Trump associates, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Beast.

Sources would not share with The Daily Beast specifically whose DMs committee Democrats wanted to subpoena Twitter to acquire. But in hearing transcripts,
Democrats have indicated they want DMs concerning Donald Trump Jr. and Trump consigliere Roger Stoneboth of whom have been linked to WikiLeaks, which famously released hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign.

It’s the latest sign that the Republicans on the hyper-factionalized committee are willing to focus on anything but potential collusion between Donald Trump and the Kremlin in the 2016 election. Trump’s associates tend to share their boss’ love for Twitter and, like many users of the social network, have been known to use direct messaging for sensitive communications.

And it comes as frustrated Democrats are accusing their Republican colleagues behind closed doors of intransigence that leaves them in a precarious position for any investigation: being asked to trust witnesses without the tools to verify their stories.

“For months, we have repeatedly requested that the Committee subpoena Twitter for communications between numerous persons of interest in our investigation,” Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the committee, confirmed to The Daily Beast.

“A complete investigation would subpoena relevant communications records—including Twitter messages—to corroborate or contradict witness testimony,” added Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat on the committee and a former prosecutor.

“The GOP has been unwilling to do that. If we don’t do that, we are conducting a take-them-at-their-word investigation. There are too many Trump team members who are not worthy of being taken at their word.”

Democrats who want to subpoena Twitter for the private messages of Trumpworld figures are operating on the theory that the communications would either reveal substantive discussion of election machinations tied to Russia or vindicate the denials of actual and potential Trump-camp witnesses.
But the Republicans have sat on the requests instead of fulfilling them or denying them outright.

Representatives for committee chairman Devin Nunes and Russia investigation chief Mike Conaway did not reply to a request for comment.

“We are conducting a take-them-at-their-word investigation. There are too many Trump team members who are not worthy of being taken at their word.”

— Rep. Eric Swalwell

Democrats are getting restless. They’ve urged in committee hearings dominated by Nunes’ accusations of surveillance malfeasance that the Republicans are blocking access to witness documentation, including travel records and communications logs. The DMs fall in that category.

Twitter, for its part, has pledged to cooperate with both the House and Senate Russia inquiries and special counsel Robert Mueller’s unfolding inquiry. But the company has said a lot less about how it cooperates. Turning over a user’s DMs without being lawfully compelled to do so would spark serious questions about how the company treats user privacy with implications far beyond the Russia probe.

“Twitter continues to work with the Special Counsel’s Office and with Congress throughout their investigations, providing relevant information and cooperating through appropriate law enforcement channels,” the company said in a Friday statement.

There has been an exception to the committee’s inability to get DMs from relevant Twitter users: Donald Trump Jr.’s exchanges with WikiLeaks, which were published in part by The Atlantic in November. In the published DMs, WikiLeaks nudges the younger Trump toward its 2016 publication of Democratic emails that U.S. intelligence assesses Russia hacked, and even suggests that Trump refuse to concede the election if he lost. Congress acquired those messages not from Twitter, but from the younger Trump’s attorneys—raising questions about how complete the Trump Jr.-WikiLeaks colloquy actually is.

On Feb. 5, the committee met to consider the release of the Democratic rebuttal to Nunes’ accusations against the FBI and Justice Department. But the transcript revealed a deep Democratic frustration over the committee’s inability to access all sorts of relevant documentation (PDF).

For example: Peter King, a Long Island Republican, referenced not “see[ing] anything at all” to contradict the Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s insistence that Cohen never met in Prague in August 2016 with a Russian official.

Schiff, the senior Democrat on the panel, replied in the meeting: “What we have not had the opportunity to do is determine whether he was telling us the truth, because we have made requests to get documents, the subpoenaed documents, and the majority has been unwilling to support those requests to subpoena documents. When that is the case, then we have no way of verifying or disproving information.”

Among the information Schiff said the GOPers had declined steps to acquire are subpoena requests for unspecified Trump Jr. documents and unspecified Deutsche Bank records. (Trump is approximately $360 million in debt to Deutsche Bank, which faces accusations of acting as a vehicle for Russian money laundering, and there are disputed reports that Mueller has served subpoenas on the bank.)

“Numerous times, we have asked for documents, we have requested to subpoena documents from Twitter when we know there were direct communication between Don Jr. and Twitter, and Roger Stone and Twitter. These requests have gone nowhere with [the] majority,” the Feb. 5 meeting transcript records Schiff saying.

“We have requested to subpoena documents from Twitter when we know there were direct communication between Don Jr. and Twitter, and Roger Stone and Twitter. These requests have gone nowhere.”

— Rep. Adam Schiff

It wasn’t just Don Jr. who was prone to DMing about the election. Stone, in August and September 2016, DM’d with the Russian cutout Guccifer2.0, an intermediary that claimed to provide the DNC material to WikiLeaks. Stone has also claimed to have a backchannel to WikiLeaks, which would explain his prescient fall 2016 predictions about material damaging to Democrats the group would publish. But it’s not clear if that backchannel, said to be radio host Randy Credico, is genuine, and WikiLeaks has denied it.

Nunes, the committee chairman, has wide-ranging authority for subpoenas under the committee bylaws (PDF). He hasn’t seen fit to subpoena Twitter for the DMs, but has subpoenaed Fusion GPS, the political research consultancy that sponsored ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s dossier. That followed on an August subpoena (PDF) to the FBI and Justice Department for documentation surrounding their “relationship” to Steele and the dossier. More recently, Nunes has announced unilateral plans to investigate Trump investigators and members of the Obama administration, either at the current Justice Department or the State Department under John Kerry.

“The committee’s rules provide that only the chairman can authorize a subpoena, and a serious investigation requires that the committee not simply take witnesses’ word at face value, but verify their testimony when possible through communication records obtained from third parties,” Schiff told The Daily Beast.

“And while that power has been used freely against government officials and Fusion GPS, for the purposes of the Russia investigation this vital investigative power has been foreclosed.”


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Mueller Is Gaining Steam. Should Trump Worry?
Feb. 24, 2018
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Allies of President Trump acknowledged that the investigation has taken a toll, as the recent indictments and guilty pleas suggest.Tom Brenner/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — In a fiery speech to supporters on Friday, President Trump went after his vanquished opponent from 2016. “We had a crooked candidate,” he declared. The crowd responded with a signature chant from the campaign trail: “Lock her up!”

About three hours later and 10 miles to the north, Mr. Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, who helped put him in the White House, arrived at a federal courthouse in Washington to plead guilty to being crooked and face the prospect that the authorities will now lock him up.

With each passing day, Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, seems to add another brick to the case he is building — one more indictment, one more interview, one more guilty plea. Mr. Trump and his advisers insist they are not worried because so far none of the charges implicate the president. Yet no one outside Mr. Mueller’s office knows for sure where he is heading and the flurry of recent action seems to be inexorably leading to a larger target.

“When you put that all together, the White House should be extremely worried,” said Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare, a blog that analyzes legal issues, and a friend of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I.director who was leading the Russia investigation until being fired by Mr. Trump last year. “You have to ask the question about whether there is a certain measure of self-delusion going on here.”

In the last 10 days, Mr. Mueller has indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies on suspicion of secretly trying to help Mr. Trump win the election, added new charges against Paul Manafort, who was Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, and secured a guilty plea from a lawyer tied to Mr. Manafort’s business dealings with pro-Russian figures. The guilty plea on Friday by Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman, raised the pressure on Mr. Manafort.

Mr. Trump is correct that nothing produced publicly by Mr. Mueller to date has claimed any wrongdoing by the president nor any illegal collaboration with the Russians seeking to influence the 2016 election. The indictment of the Russians — who are accused of flooding Facebook and other social media with disinformation and propaganda — cited only contact with “unwitting individuals” connected with Mr. Trump’s campaign.

The charges against Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates depict an expansive money-laundering and fraud operation stemming from their work for Ukrainian leaders aligned with Moscow, not from their involvement in the campaign. Michael T. Flynn, the president’s former national security adviser, and George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about their contacts with Russians or intermediaries but not to criminal acts related to collusion.

John M. Dowd, the president’s private lawyer, pointed to Mr. Trump’s cooperation with the investigation as evidence that he had nothing to hide. He noted that the White House had voluntarily turned over more than 20,000 pages to Mr. Mueller, including documents related to Mr. Flynn and Mr. Comey, and the campaign provided 1.4 million pages.

More than 20 White House officials, including eight members of the counsel’s office, voluntarily gave interviews to the special counsel or congressional investigators, as did 17 campaign employees and 11 others affiliated with the campaign, he added.

“I give great credit to the president for his extraordinary cooperation with the special counsel,” Mr. Dowd said.

Still, as the pileup at the courthouse indicates, allies of Mr. Trump acknowledged that the investigation had taken a toll.

“The good news for the White House is that more than 18 months since the F.B.I. probe began, there is still no evidence of Russian collusion,” said Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax and a friend of Mr. Trump. “The bad news is that the special counsel has a scorched-earth prosecution aimed at crushing the president’s associates.”

“I don’t think the president is worried about the investigation himself,” he added, “but it clearly bothers him that people are being prosecuted simply because they worked for his campaign.”

Inside the White House, officials expressed calm resignation on Friday as Mr. Gates marched into the courthouse. But there was low-grade concern out of recognition that Mr. Gates was in a lot of meetings over a long period of time.

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Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of the Trump campaign, leaving a hearing on Friday at Federal District Court in Washington.Erin Schaff for The New York Times
While Mr. Gates joined the campaign with Mr. Manafort, his longtime business partner and mentor, he stayed after Mr. Manafort was fired. He rode on Mr. Trump’s campaign plane and served as liaison to the Republican National Committee. After the election victory, he joined the transition as a right hand to Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the president’s close friend who ran the inaugural operation.

The fact that Mr. Gates was allowed to plead guilty to just two relatively lower-level charges indicated to legal experts that he must have something of value for Mr. Mueller. The presumption in Mr. Trump’s circle is that Mr. Gates may not have any incriminating information about the president but could be a dangerous witness against Mr. Manafort, who in turn could threaten Mr. Trump.

Mr. Manafort participated in a meeting in June 2016 along with Donald Trump Jr., the candidate’s son, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, with a Russian lawyer on the promise of receiving incriminating information about Hillary Clinton on behalf of Russia’s government.

Mr. Manafort also reportedly offered during the campaign to give “private briefings” to Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch allied with President Vladimir V. Putin who claimed Mr. Manafort owed him $19 million. Prosecutors are interested in learning how a Republican convention platform plank on Russia’s intervention in Ukraine was watered down.

On the other hand, Mr. Trump’s defenders said Mr. Gates’s credibility as a witness may be tainted by the fact that one of the charges he pleaded guilty to was lying to the F.B.I. even as he was negotiating his plea deal. Ty Cobb, the White House special counsel, has said that Mr. Manafort has no damaging information against Mr. Trump. Mr. Manafort insisted again on Friday that he was innocent and would fight the “untrue piled up charges.”

Mr. Trump’s argument that none of this has anything to do with him resonates with many of his supporters, who have echoed his repeated insistence that there was no collusion with Russia. But being surrounded by people who are prosecuted has damaged other presidents even when they were not directly implicated.

Jimmy Carter endured significant political damage when his confidant and budget director, Bert Lance, was accused of banking irregularities. Even putting aside the Iran-contra scandal and the Monica S. Lewinsky affair, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were besieged by investigations of their aides unrelated to them. In Reagan’s era, it became known as the “sleaze factor.” Mr. Clinton’s team drew the scrutiny of six independent counsels other than Kenneth W. Starr.

In the current case, the targets so far have included not just a “coffee boy,” as Mr. Papadopoulos was described by an adviser to Mr. Trump, but the president’s top two campaign officials and national security adviser. While Mr. Trump has dismissed the relevance of allegations against Mr. Manafort because they involved business dealings before the campaign, the latest indictment claims that he was scheming to defraud banks while serving as Mr. Trump’s chairman.

Moreover, it remains unclear why he volunteered to work for Mr. Trump’s campaign without pay at a time when he was experiencing significant financial pressure.

Mr. Trump’s defenders have focused on questioning the original basis for the investigation, accusing the F.B.I. of misconduct in relying on an unverified dossier assembled by a former British spy hired by investigators working for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

To the extent that Mr. Mueller is exploring whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey, the president’s defenders contend that under the Constitution, he has the power to dismiss executive branch officials and dictate their work. They also point to testimony by Mr. Comey and other officials who said the investigation was not impeded.

Therefore, they argue, the original order appointing Mr. Mueller was itself invalid and should be revoked.

In the meantime, they are left to interpret the clues from Mr. Mueller’s actions just like everyone else. David B. Rivkin Jr., a former White House and Justice Department lawyer under Reagan and President George Bush, said the totality of Mr. Mueller’s actions still did not add up to a threat to Mr. Trump.

“It doesn’t make sense to unfold piecemeal an indictment of Russian entities and Russians if you have any hope of building a collusion case. It makes no logical sense,” he said. “To me, at least, what he’s done does underscore that there’s no collusion there. That leaves him with the obstruction of justice narrative which I think is constitutionally flawed and isn’t going to go anywhere.”

Mr. Wittes said Mr. Mueller’s actions could be seen as building a pyramid — establishing that there was a Russian influence campaign and assembling a group of cooperating witnesses. But the special counsel has not tipped his hand yet.

“The basic contours of the puzzle is that he’s constructed his actions in a way that we don’t know where it’s leading,” he said, “and that’s on purpose.”

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting from New York.

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Oh great. Duterte



This is both very good reporting and unsurprising. Trump has repeatedly and unsubtly hinted in public that he supports Duterte-like drug war tactics, and we have a transcript of him complimenting Duterte on his drug war (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3729123-POTUS-RD-Doc.html …)
The leaked transcript has always been a remarkable document: Trump called up Duterte in April exclusively to congratulate him for his murderous drug war. documentcloud.org/documents/3729…
 
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