Notices by Wendy Siegelman (wendysiegelman@mastodon.social)

Today Rep Jamie Raskin and Sen Ron Wyden urged the DOJ to appoint a special counsel to investigate Jared Kushner for acting as an unregistered foreign agent

Kushner Acted as a Shadow Diplomat and Political Adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Who Directed Billions in Saudi Funds to Kushner-Owned Affinity Partners

#JaredKushner #Kushner

Here's the press release

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/raskin-wyden-call-department-justice-appoint-special-counsel-investigate-jared

Here's the 8 page letter

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Letter%20to%20DOJ%20on%20Kushner%20-%20FARA%20%28Wyden%20-%20Raskin%29%20final.pdf

Musk funneled $50 million to Stephen Miller’s nonprofit through Building America’s Future, which is linked to former Ron DeSantis campaign advisors Generra Peck & Phil Cox, who both now run Elon Musk’s America PAC, which is paying vendors run by Phil Cox.

And it turns out that Stephen's wife Katie Miller works at P2 Pathway Public Affairs run by Generra Peck and Phil Cox.

#StephenMiller #ElonMusk #Musk #CitizensforSanity #AmericaFirstLegal

https://newstracs.com/the-wsj-reports-elon-musk-gave-50-million-to-stephen-miller-linked-nonprofit/2024/10/15/

The WSJ recently reported Elon Musk gave $50 million to a Stephen Miller-linked nonprofit in 2022 & they spent $90mil on media contractors. Did some of Musk's $ loop back to buy ads on X?

A look at the overlapping network of Stephen Miller, Elon Musk and several former DeSantis advisors

#StephenMiller #ElonMusk #Musk #CitizensforSanity #AmericaFirstLegal

My latest:

https://newstracs.com/the-wsj-reports-elon-musk-gave-50-million-to-stephen-miller-linked-nonprofit/2024/10/15/

Trump-Touted Crypto Website Crashes as Token Sale Goes Live, With Just 1.7% of Target Sold

The Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial's WLFI token sale is off to a bumpy start

The token sale website suffered numerous outages shortly after going live

WLFI’s token sale raised just $5 million, falling short of its $300 million goal.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #WorldLibertyFinancial #WLFI

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-wlfi-website-crashes-token-131805442.html

NEW: How Jared Kushner’s Saudi-funded Affinity Partners has invested over $1 billion - including in an obscure deal with WeWork's ex-CEO Adam Neumann

In July Sen. Wyden launched a probe of Kushner's firm and the potential conflicts of interest as foreign govts try to influence Kushner and Trump as he runs for president.

I put together a full overview of the companies in which Kushner's Affinity Partners has invested to-date:

#Kushner #JaredKushner #AffinityPartners

https://newstracs.com/how-jared-kushners-affinity-partners-has-invested-over-1-billion/2024/09/16/

DOJ seized 32 internet domains used in Russian government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns referred to as “Doppelganger,” in violation of US money laundering and criminal trademark laws.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence

Link to 277 page affidavit with exhibits of docs used by Russian Presidential Administration and Sergei Kiriyenko

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366261/dl

#Russia #Doppelganger #DOJAffidavit #MalignInfluenceCampaign

NEW: Chart and overview of key links for JD Vance with mentor Peter Thiel, the little-known Rockbridge Network and 2016 kingmaker Rebekah Mercer

One key person in the network close to Vance includes Cambridge Analytica founder Rebekah Mercer, my latest.

#JDVance #PeterThiel #RebekahMercer #RockbridgeNetwork

https://newstracs.com/chart-and-overview-of-key-links-for-jd-vance-with-thiel-mercer-rockbridge/2024/07/29/

NEW: The $500 million Trump International Oman has launched with an expected opening in 2028 and the Trump Org probably just earned a large payment from a Saudi company as Trump runs for president, my latest

#Trump #DonaldTrump #TrumpOrganization #SaudiArabia #Oman #TrumpInternational Oman

https://newstracs.com/the-500-million-trump-international-oman-has-launched-with-an-expected-opening-in-2028-and-the-trump-org-probably-just-earned-a-large-payment-from-a-saudi-company-as-trump-runs-for-president/2024/07/01/

Update on Cambridge Analytica funder Rebekah Mercer who runs Emerdata, co-founded 1789 Capital with Omeed Malik and is a trustee of the Heritage Foundation which launched Project 2025, and 1 of 5 directors of their political arm Heritage Action, my latest

#RebekahMercer #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #CambridgeAnalytica #LeonardLeo #OmeedMalik #1789Capital

https://newstracs.com/update-on-cambridge-analytica-funder-rebekah-mercer/2024/07/08/

Breaking: Two Individuals Plead Guilty To Insider Trading Scheme Based On SPAC Merger With Trump Media & Technology Group

Michael and Gerald Shvartsman made over $22 million in illegal profits by trading in advance of DWAC Trump Media merger announcement

#Trump #TrumpMedia #DWAC #Shvartsman #InsiderTrading

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/two-individuals-plead-guilty-participating-insider-trading-scheme-based-spac-merger

Trump’s $50 Million Mystery Debt Looks Like ‘Tax Evasion’

Trump has long claimed he personally owed tens of millions to an obscure entity related to his Chicago tower - Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC

Per a footnote in letter from court appointed monitor Barbara Jones the Trump Org now says the loan never existed

#Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dollar50-million-mystery-debt-looks-like-tax-evasion/

From 2020-2022, three nonprofits aligned with conservative activist Leonard Leo paid his for-profit business CRC Advisors far more than the average fees paid by 20+ other nonprofits.

New research builds upon prior reporting from @politico and the Campaign for Accountability

I've published an overview of Leonard Leo with data on fees paid his for-profit businesses and diagrams of his vast darkmoney nonprofit network

#LeonardLeo #CRCAdvisors #CourtWhisperer

My latest:

https://newstracs.com/the-nonprofit-network-powered-by-leonard-leo-and-his-for-profit-businesses/2023/12/13/

Meet the Misfits Working to Elect RFK Jr.

Kennedy’s campaign isn’t just uniting the fringes of the left and right—it’s enriching them, too.

Ex Cambridge Analytic exec Brittany Kaiser's company Achayot Partners earned $10K in June for digital consulting.

#RFKJR #RFK #BrittanyKaiser #CambridgeAnalytica

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-misfits-working-to-elect-rfk-jr-including-amaryllis-fox-kennedy-del-bigtree-and-charles-eisenstein

@Gargron the opt out feature would be great. Although I’m sure this would not be simple either - another modified option would be the ability to quote our own prior posts. It would allow everyone to quickly reference things we have said before that we want to add on to, without imposing the feature on others.

@Gargron I think a nice compromise would be giving individual users the ability to opt in or opt out of functionality like quote tweets or allowing their posts to be findable by search. Another option would be allowing users to quote their own tweets so we can link related posts visually