Real Manafort and "Russiagate" story is out

[RocketMan]

Thanks for the invite!

[seemslikeadream]

YES thank you very very much for the invite Jack! I am really going to enjoy this

great to see two Manafort threads on page one again



On August 2, 2016, Paul Manafort Gave Konstantin Kilimnik 75 Pages of Recent, Detailed Polling Data & Then Discussed Sanctions Relief


Manafort court docs show Investigators could be targeting trump for conspiracy

Prosecutors told the judge in Manafort’s case in D.C. that that allegation … goes to the heart of what the special counsel is investigating but those charges are clearly not being adjudicated against Paul Manafort.....we know that now

If they aren’t using those allegations in the case against Paul Manafort, where are they using those allegations? in what case? AGAINST WHO?

They think he’s a liar.......they don’t think he’s useful

why is the government redacting that allegation in his case?

why is he government trying to keep all references to those allegations under seal in his case?

government says they wanted those redactions from those documents in order to protect ongoing investigations.

who are they being used against?

New York prosecutor reportedly preparing to charge criminal ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort whether or not president pardons him
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/new-yor ... rdons.html

Manafort's lawyer was basically pleading for a pardon after the sentencing
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/th ... re-1203813

Judge Spells Out How Manafort Lied About Russian Associate

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -associate

Ellis let off Erik Prince & Blackwater, as well as a Dem Congressman who was doing telecom business in Nigeria & taking bribes. Oh, and who also got the public backing of Dennis Hastert.
GROSS!

2009: Judge Ellis tossed lawsuits filed by Iraqi victims of Erik Prince's Blackwater, including those filed by estates of 19 people who died.
https://www.law.com/almID/1202551535605 ... 0208080845

Top Trump Aide Led the ‘Torturers’ Lobby’

Paul Manafort and the partners at his firm made a fortune repping some of the most despicable dictators of the 20th century.

04.13.16 1:00 AM ET
Over the course of a long lobbying career in D.C., top Trump aide Paul Manafort and his firm made a fortune fronting for a group of clients once referred to as the “torturers’ lobby.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump ... rers-lobby

My Daughter Reality Winner Faced Severe Punishment, but Key Figures in the Trump-Russia Scandal Are Getting Off Easy

I am outraged. I hope you are too.

The Intercept’s parent company First Look Media Works has contributed to Reality Winner’s legal defense.
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/23/rea ... mp-russia/

[JackRiddler]

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I agree about the politics of Judge Ellis -- and furthermore agree that any crimes Mueller uncovers that are not related to the #Russiagate narrative should be actionable -- but when Ellis states that Manafort's convictions are unrelated to Mueller's original mandate, he is merely describing what is in the case files. This exposes the damage and folly done when the #Russiagate plot into the central story of the so-called #Resistance to Trump.

Who has participated in constructing the #Russiagate plot out of found pieces, exaggerations, and fabrications? The outgoing CIA-NSA chiefs, an anti-Trump faction at the same FBI that was simultaneously primed to bring down Clinton relying on a retired agent from the MI6 Russia desk, the DNC/Clinton campaign and its defenders, the non-FOX corporate media, the "Never Trump" Republicans, a few related militarist-imperialist a.k.a. "Transatlantic" think-tanks and their projects like New Knowledge, Hamilton68 and "PropOrNot," and a bunch of fan-fiction writers posing as journalists, like Luke Harding; all of whom had obvious reasons to run with it.

It is a weak narrative, based on poorly spun and constantly recycled evidence. It is barely related to the long criminal history of the Trump businesses or its current escalated kleptocracy run from the captured presidency; barely related to the horrors the Trump-Pence regime has accelerated and introduced; barely related to the problems of everyday people; and barely related to the vital movements for change rising up in the U.S. It has inadvertantly served Trump-Pence regime -- normalized it through the choice of scandal, distracted from what it is really doing (including prepping new war attempts, as in Venezuela, and in various ways escalating tensions with Russia), and given Trump himself an ideal enemy to engage -- fake news! liberal media! hateful Democrats! -- in a way that reinforces his base. #Russiagate has even misinterpreted the continuation of the new-cold-war antagonism with Russia as "pro-Putin."

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[seemslikeadream]

On August 2, 2016, Paul Manafort Gave Konstantin Kilimnik 75 Pages of Recent, Detailed Polling Data & Then Discussed Sanctions Relief


Ellis would not allow the word oligarch in his court room

Manafort's lawyer gave a CAREFULLY WORDED statement that only denied collusion with "government officials" when no one has accused Manafort of that—as neither Deripaska, Kilimnik, nor Akhmetov are Russian government officials

Manafort lied to Mueller the whole time ...he never told the truth


Detailed story on how Putin’s Yanukovych and his criminal cronies stole $40 billion from the Ukrainian people.

Also shows Manafort’s role

A small contingent of oligarchs close to Yanukovych funneled more than $5 billion through oil, gas, and other energy companies, according to court documents filed in Ukraine.
https://www.unian.info/politics/1018764 ... media.html

Ukraine issues arrest warrant for ousted President Viktor Yanukovych
https://www.unian.info/politics/1018764 ... media.html

Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovich gets 13-year jail term for 'treason'
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/ ... 05652.html

Paul Manafort is getting sentenced--but tons of material related to the breach of his plea deal that the special counsel has said goes to the "heart" of the Mueller investigation remains sealed.

Paul Manafort

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[Grizzly]

I never knew any of most of the following, (with the exception of Poppy Bush Sr. calling for a NWO) ...especially up until the 9/9/01 where, Ahmad Massoud is assassinated by a fake TV crew that disguised a bomb as a TV camera, that I recall ...nothing before that. Any of you? Thoughts?

explanation of 9/11:

There are some people who realize that the physical evidence indicates that the official story is wrong, but don't understand what purpose or interest the government may have had in carrying out the attacks and thus have a psychological relation to the entire event as remaining quite mysterious even though the government's claims are patently absurd. I'll resolve that for you.

On 9/11/91 Bush Sr. spoke before Congress calling for a new world order. Alright, so the president is announcing a major initiative to the world. What could he be up to?

As the USSR was collapsing, there were major operations underway to seize control of their industry. We need to lay down a little historical context for those unaware before proceeding.

Throughout the 1980s the CIA was heavily involved in cocaine and arms trafficking, money laundering, etc. The most famous name here might be Oliver North, but Bush Sr. is neck deep. Mena, Arkansas is a major hub for this operation under the jurisdiction of Bill Clinton. Long trail of deaths surrounding North, Clinton, Bush, Mena, etc. You can educate yourself on those details.

This scandal goes mainstream around 1986. In 1989 you get the first major form of collateralized debt obligations in the form of Brady Bonds, invented by Bush Sr.'s treasury secretary. Minimally informed people are aware of the centrality of CDOs to the 2008 financial panic and the endemic fraud to securities trades of this type.

One of the Bush/North associates is Neil Livingstone, who acts as a go between to Semion Mogilevich. Mogilevich is one of the biggest mafia leaders in the USSR at the time. Mogilevich has had money laundering through the Bank of New York exposed to the tune of $10 billion. He is a major arms dealer at the time, and also heavily connected to al-Qaeda. Part of a bargain Livingstone tried to broker with DoJ involved Mogilevich handing over a bunch of his al-Qaeda connections.

Around 9/11/91 a bunch of fraudulent Brady Bonds are issued through the Bank of New York, Mogilevich's personal money laundering machine. This manifests ten years later. If you go back and look at the settlement imbalances at banks after 9/11, even the banks operating out of WTC complexes don't have any real settlement issues. There is one major exception however: Mogilevich's money laundering hub, the Bank of New York, is reporting book imbalances in excess of $100 billion per day following the attacks. The rules governing security clearance were lifted immediately after 9/11 - allegedly due to widespread problems - but really just to allow BoNY to clear it's balances without a record. It's worth noting that BoNY did not sustain structural damage on 9/11 - not in the WTC.

So these 100s of billions of fraudulent securities that were not clearing in the days after 9/11 - where did they come from? What were they used for? This is how the west launched their invasion of Russia following the collapse. You'll find exposes about crates of freshly printed US bills being shipped to Russia like The Money Plane in NY Magazine, used to buy influence; the other side of this is the securities fraud used to buy assets. It's estimated that something like 40-50% of Russia had been bought up through the mafia by late 92 or 1993.

In 2000/2001 Putin comes onto the scene. He starts nationalizing Russian assets that were seized by the US via the above mentioned securities fraud / money laundering and putting pressure on the mob. Next thing you know 9/11 happens. There are a lot of bones to pick with the official story, but rather than taking up those issues I'd like to highlight the importance of some officially acknowledged but underreported facts.

On 9/9/01 Ahmad Massoud is assassinated by a fake TV crew that disguised a bomb as a TV camera. Two days later the secret service denies access to a couple of guys claiming to have an interview lined up with Bush in Florida on the morning of 9/11. This is our first direct threat against Bush of the day and indication of some larger plot than hijacked planes. Upon learning of the attacks, Bush insists on returning directly to Washington. In flight, a threat is received in the form of a call from an unknown source saying "Angel is next," angel being code for the president that only insiders would have. (* "Can you confirm the substance of that threat that was telephoned in...that Air Force One is next and using code words?" Fleischer: "Yes, I can. That's correct."(September 13)* )Bush is at this point aware that there is some sort of coup effort going on; for example, all the reporter's onboard AF1 are required to turn their cellphones off because they are worried about the attacking faction tracking cell signals - a capability we can all agree is well beyond that of al-Qaeda.

So Bush is under threat from people with high level insider knowledge. Press secretary acknowledged all this on national TV the day after (Angel is next being called in). Bush diverts to Barksdale which is basically the #2 nuclear command site. After a couple hours there he proceeds to Offutt, which is the #1 nuclear command site. You should also be aware of a variety of drills running on the day of 9/11, Vigilant Guardian. This is a full scale mock up of nuclear war; the whole infrastructure is activated for first strike (incidentally, part of the Vigilant Guardian drill in 2001 included a hijacking of planes as the instigator of the conflict). So what is Bush doing going to Barksdale and Offutt? Clearly trying to bring the nuclear forces to heel in light of learning of high level insider power plays.

This might be starting to sound a bit over the top - high level insiders seizing control of nuclear infrastructure and threatening the president with it. But only a few years later we have a similar incident in 2007 as 6 nuclear weapons are seized, generally regarded as intended for use starting the war in either Iran or Georgia. Later, in 2013, we again have nukes going off base unauthorized. Hours after it was reported in the media Sen. Graham is on TV warning of a nuke hit on South Carolina to be blamed on Syrian rebels; two of top nuclear commanders get dismissed in the following weeks. So high level insider fighting over the nuclear arsenal is pretty standard stuff, well known to the public.

With the question of a struggle over the nuclear arsenal now being common sense rather than shocking, we consider Bush caving to the terrorism line and starting the whole war on terror. You have Putin immediately backing off the seizure of assets in Russia. It won't be until the last couple of years that Putin resumes his assertion of authority over Russia; the US responds in kind with attacks on Syria and Ukraine but Russia has since quietly updated it's missile program and is prepared for nuclear war this time around; you now see a defiant Putin in the face of the 9/11 coup faction. Alongside this remarkable shift in geopolitics, there is an emerging anti-dollar block with the BRIC countries establishing an infrastructure bank last year. Just weeks ago, Glazyev announced this and is widely regarded as being the mouth of Putin; he organized the recent gas deal with Chin for example.

So you see 9/11 was a pivotal event used to extend the US dollar empire under threat of nuclear war for another 10-15 years in the face of an assertive Putin back in 2001 and growing domestic problems for the US Government. (You may recall the 90s was full of anti government militancy, concern over globalization, NAFTA, extraordinary distrust, in general what you would expect of citizens in an empire with no apparent external threat ... the cold war had ended)

So now that broad outline of purpose and motivation for 9/11 is clear, it's easier to come to terms with what your eyes tell you looking at Building 7 implode into its foot print at free fall for example. You don't even necessarily have to view it as an evil thing; the US people are quite severely fucked without something being done to backstop the US dollar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/com ... h=48412ff9

[seemslikeadream]

I will get back with more Boykin stuff...he wanted to control the nukes

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We know General Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, finally got caught after regularly appearing at evangelical revivals preaching that the US was in a holy war as a "Christian nation" battling "Satan". If some unhinged Boykin-esque American Taliban were actually behind the B-52 mess, would we ever know? Of course not.

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(Special thanks to the person known as "seemslikeadream" who posts at Democratic Underground (the post containing most of the source info for this diary is here) and at Jeff Well's forum, the Rigorous Intuition discussion board. He/she doesn't post at Dailykos, but I wish they did, because they're brilliant.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24745&p=278558&hilit=Nuclear+general+boykin.#p278558

I use to be noticed

and I still am

but it is tough going around here sometimes

[JackRiddler]

Shocker!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/nyre ... rrest.html

Banker Accused of Arranging $16 Million in Loans to Manafort to Gain High-Level Trump Post

Banker Accused of Arranging $16 Million in Loans to Manafort to Gain High-Level Trump Post
Stephen M. Calk, the chairman of a small Chicago bank, sought positions including secretary of the Treasury, prosecutors said.



By Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum

May 23, 2019

The chairman of a Chicago bank has been indicted in Manhattan on a charge that he issued millions of dollars in high-risk loans to President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in an effort to obtain a senior position in the administration, federal authorities said on Thursday.

Prosecutors said the chairman, Stephen M. Calk of Federal Savings Bank, pushed the bank to give Mr. Manafort $16 million in loans in 2016 in exchange for help in procuring an appointment. Just after the election, Mr. Calk, 54, had sent Mr. Manafort a list of 10 positions he wanted, including Treasury secretary, commerce secretary and defense secretary, according to the indictment unsealed in Federal District Court.

At the time, Mr. Manafort was trying to stave off foreclosure on several properties and desperately needed capital, the indictment said.

Mr. Manafort, who had left the campaign in August, made two calls on Mr. Calk’s behalf in late 2016 to officials on Mr. Trump’s transition team, urging them to appoint Mr. Calk secretary of the Army, the indictment said. In the end, Mr. Calk was interviewed in January 2017 for a job as under secretary of the Army, but was not hired.

One person with knowledge of the matter said Mr. Calk surrendered to federal authorities on Thursday morning. He is expected to appear in United States District Court later Thursday.

Mr. Calk has been under investigation for well over a year in a case that was originally opened by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, but then passed to the special counsel’s office during an inquiry into Mr. Manafort’s business dealings, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

The case was later returned to Manhattan for prosecution, those people said.

The indictment charges Mr. Calk with one count of financial institution bribery.

If convicted, he would face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, although he would likely receive a lesser sentence.

Daniel L. Stein, a lawyer for Mr. Calk, did not immediately comment.

Mr. Manafort, 70, is serving a seven-and-half-year sentence at a minimum security prison in Pennsylvania. He was convicted of 10 felonies, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, bank fraud and tax fraud in two cases brought by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

Read more about the indictment of Paul Manafort

The indictment released on Thursday said Mr. Manafort provided Mr. Calk with “valuable personal benefits” during the period he was seeking loans.

Mr. Calk and the rest of his bank’s credit committee conditionally approved the first loan to Mr. Manafort in the summer of 2016, during the presidential campaign. Days later, Mr. Manafort appointed Mr. Calk to an economic advisory committee affiliated with the campaign.

Later in 2016, after Mr. Trump won the election, Mr. Manafort recommended to the presidential transition team that Mr. Calk be considered for an administration position, the indictment said. At the time, Mr. Manafort’s first loan had been issued and a second loan was pending approval by the bank.

Mr. Calk was ultimately given the opportunity to be formally interviewed for the position of under secretary of the Army at the transition team’s offices in New York, though he was not hired, the indictment said.

William K. Rashbaum is a senior writer on the Metro desk, where he covers political and municipal corruption, courts, terrorism and broader law enforcement topics. He was a part of the team awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. @WRashbaum • Facebook

Benjamin Weiser is a reporter covering the Manhattan federal courts. He has long covered criminal justice, both as a beat and investigative reporter. Before joining The Times in 1997, he worked at The Washington Post. @BenWeiserNYT

So unfair! He wanted to buy into the government, fair and square!

When approved by Calk, the loans made to Manafort were the largest ever made by the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago.

At one of Manafort's trials, it was disclosed that the bank has since written off the $16 million in loans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... a6d8363dbf

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