Shalev connected the Tether story directly to his investigation into the Epstein financial network and the 2008 crash. “The reason I stumbled across this story is because I was doing the Greatest Heist,” he explained. “We were looking at how Jeffrey Epstein triggered the 2008 crash. Then I was like, well, what did Cantor Fitzgerald do? And there it was.” Cantor sold off $40 billion in toxic assets right after Epstein triggered the initial crash but before Bear Stearns and Lehman collapsed.
The same pattern is forming now — a closed loop designed to crash, followed by a bailout, followed by sovereign wealth funds buying American assets at pennies on the dollar. “That is the wealth transfer,” Shalev said. “That is the theft of America’s middle class by the Russian criminal gangs, by the Russian mafia, and by this group of transnational criminals.”
Inter Jura — a law firm in Cyprus whose founder had 69 shell companies in the Panama Papers. Its clients: Paul Manafort. Rick Gates. Oleg Deripaska. Between 2007 and 2012 — the same years Stearns collapsed and Cantor absorbed its people — Inter Jura built at least 13 shells for Deripaska and the men who would eventually run djt campaign. Deripaska used Manafort and Gates to loot Ukraine. Then they pivoted to America to run the 2016 presidential campaign.
“He started an illegal war against Iran without congressional authorization, against a nation backed by Russia and China — the same Russia and China whose strategic interests every single one of his actions serves. The war he started is the war that completes the legal framework for the charge.
Mortgage rates fell below 6% for the first time in three years, and Trump took credit at the State of the Union. What he didn’t mention: he ordered Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to buy $200 billion in mortgage-backed bonds to push rates down. “That’s not a free market move,” Zev explained. “He’s doing this only to win the next elections. It’s one of the first signs we’re seeing of him juicing the market to get the economy humming so he can win in November.”
France banned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner from meeting government officials after he refused a diplomatic summons. Twice. Trump’s ambassador to one of America’s oldest allies is now persona non grata in Paris.
“Donald J. Trump has driven this nation to the precipice. He has treated the Presidency not as a solemn charge, but as a personal franchise, an engine of revenge, profit, and personal protection. He has replaced law with loyalty, governance with grievance, and the impartial administration of justice with the crude satisfactions of retaliation. “
Venezuela’s government is bankrupt. Looted by its dictatorship and by its Russian overlords, and the U.S. taxpayer is about to become the financier of last resort. . And the harsh reality, Venezuela is now a line item in the US budget which is already straining under impossible debt conditions.
Epstein’s 2019 assessment of the transaction: “Trump had either miraculously earned $55 million, without putting up a dime, or Rybolovlev... paid Trump Properties, LLC—actual owner unknown—$96 million, thereby providing a clean payment of $55 million to someone. Rybolovlev might have, in effect, paid himself for the house, thereby cleansing the money.”
Def Sec Pete Hegseth gave a direct order before the 1st Caribbean boat strike: “Kill everybody.” When 2 survivors were spotted clinging to burning wreckage after the missile hit, the SEAL Team 6 commander ordered a 2nd strike. The Pentagon told Congress it was to “remove a navigation hazard.” Former military lawyers call it what it is: murder. An order to kill those who can no longer fight is …a war crime…Rep. Seth Moulton put it plainly: they will be prosecuted for this. https://open.substack.com/pub/narativ/p/breaking-news-hegseths-kill-order
What looked like isolated crises—canceled flights, missing jobs data, military purges—reveals itself as the thrashing of an administration that knows something devastating is coming. Dean and I traced the panic from the Pentagon to Capitol Hill, and it all leads back to one place: those unreleased Epstein files.
“ Trump’s casinos rack up over 100 money-laundering violations but escape prosecution—Manhattan DA Morgenthau’s 1991 case simply vanishes after donates to Giuliani’s campaign. …. The casinos became industrial laundries processing billions while “losing money” on paper. Intelligence protection from CIA connections kept them all untouchable. By 1996, billions had washed through, infecting stocks, real estate, banks—weaponizing American capitalism itself.”
“ Working under Leese and Khashoggi during the height of Al-Yamamah, Epstein learned how to move hundreds of millions through offshore entities, create front companies, and use legitimate businesses as cover for arms dealing profits. The Austrian passport found in Epstein's safe—showing stamps from numerous countries throughout the 1980s with a Saudi address—documents his operational movements during this training period.”
Andrew Weissmann: This is an “I am Spartacus” moment if ever there was one.Don’t let America go Nazi!PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson“extreme billionaire wealth is largely unmerited.”Both profile pics are my oil paintings.