US attorney Berman fired after investigating Trump cronies

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From 1977 to 1990, before co-founding Apollo, Black was employed by investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert (that collapsed in a scandal involving junk bond king Michael Milken).

In February 2020, President Donald of course pardoned junk bond king Michael Milken (nothing suspicious when a corrupt president pardons crooks!): https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...p=15799#p15799

In the last year, Jay Clayton earned some $7.6 million from Sullivan & Cromwell. He has investments in Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital (founded by Mitt Romney), J.C. Flowers and Perry Partners.

In another strange twist Blackstone CEO Skull & Bones’ Stephen Schwarzman and Leon Black of Apollo Management have also served on the RDIF Board.


David Bonderman with another well-known financier Rich Gerson started the Redwood Bank in the UK. Bonderman was also a director of the Russian Development Investment Fund (RDIF), headed by none other than Kirill Dmitriev.
Rich’s brother Mark Gerson, was an early investor in Cadre, the multi-million dollar start-up founded by Jared Kushner and his brother Josh Kushner: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...tart=140#p6963


Kushner “forgot” to disclose that in December 2016 he met at Trump Tower with Sergei Gorkov, head of the sanctioned Russian bank VEB, who was trained by the FSB (the current name for the KGB).
Also in December 2016, UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nayan met Kushner and Steve Bannon in an undisclosed meeting.

On 11 January 2017, Erik Prince, brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, at the suggestion of Prince Bin Zayed, met covertly with Kirill Dmitriev, head of RDIF and formerly of Goldman Sachs, in the Seychelles. RDIF’s parent company is VEB, and both RDIF and VEB are under US sanctions. Mohammed bin Zayed and Alexander Mashkevich were also in the Seychelles at this time.
On 17 January, Anthony Scaramucci, (then) Trump senior advisor, also met head of RDIF, Kirill Dmitriev, in Davos, Switzerland. Dmitriev is also under sanctions: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...8&p=4908#p4908


To finish the story on the peculiar coincidences surrounding the funds Jay Clayton invested in, which includes Bain Capital which was founded with the assistance of junk bond king Michael Milken (chairman of Drexel Burnham, pardoned by Donald) and Ghislaine’s daddy Robert Maxwell!

On 10 September, John Bolton was fired or he resigned as Trump´s National Security Advisor.
He was replaced by lawyer Robert O’Brien, who was chosen in 2005 by George W. Bush as deputy of ambassador at the UN John Bolton.
Robert O´Brien is also a Zionist and a Mormon: https://www.jns.org/jewish-pro-israe...security-pick/

O’Brien was also a senior adviser on the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns of fellow Mormon, Senator Mitt Romney, who has known O’Brien for more than 15 years: https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...curity-advisor


After Mitt Romney founded Bain Capital in 1984; his first investor was London financier, Sir Jack Lyons, who invested $2.5 million through a Panama shell company, shielding his identity.
Another early investor was none other than Robert Maxwell, who invested $2 million

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6909097

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In the last year, Jay Clayton earned some $7.6 million from Sullivan & Cromwell. He has investments in Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital (founded by Mitt Romney), J.C. Flowers and Perry Partners.

In early 2017, Joshua Harris, cofounder of Apollo Global Management, was advising the Trump administration on infrastructure policy. During that period, Harris repeatedly met President Donald’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

In November 2017, Apollo lent $184 million to Kushner Companies (of the in-laws of Donald’s Jewish daughter Ivanka Trump).
In 2017, Citigroup lent Kushner Companies and one of its partners $325 million.

Kushner Companies is more than $600 million in debt to Citigroup and Apollo Global Management and owes Apollo more than $250 million

Both Citigroup and Kushner Companies have strongly denied that Kushner’s connections to president Donald has anything to do with the loans to the company of his family (in which he owns a stake of hundreds of millions of dollars): https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...p-loans-522952


And another 3 “deaths” in the Trump body count...
On 19 November 2019, Thomas Bowers reportedly committed suicide by hanging.

Thomas Bowers, as head of Deutsche Bank’s American wealth-management division, oversaw Trump’s private banker since 2010, Rosemary T. Vrablic (previously of Citigroup).
It was none other than Chabad-Lubavitcher Jared Kushner, who introduced Vrablic to Donald.

Deutsche Bank – of course - lent Donald around $2 billion after most other banks refused to finance the “king of debt”.
Rosemary T. Vrablic reported directly to Bowers, who personally approved loans to Donald Trump.

In March 2017, Bowers’ wife Abigail also died: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...customers.html


The Trump-supporting media put the full spin on this one...
Ignoring the Trump ties but instead reporting a non-existent Jeffrey Epstein connection (who was of course also in business with Deutsche Bank that much is true): https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...ing-death.html


Nothing suspicious about any witness to the many crimes of the Trump syndicate getting depressed and killing themselves is there (Trump good – Clinton bad!)?

In January 2014, Deutsche Bank executive William S. Broeksmit also reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a dog leash at his home in London.
Broeksmit was part of the unit lending money to Donald Trump and his family: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ney-laundering

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In early 2017, Joshua Harris, cofounder of Apollo Global Management, was advising the Trump administration on infrastructure policy. During that period, Harris repeatedly met President Donald’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

In November 2017, Apollo lent $184 million to Kushner Companies (of the in-laws of Donald’s Jewish daughter Ivanka Trump).
In 2017, Citigroup lent Kushner Companies and one of its partners $325 million.

Kushner Companies is more than $600 million in debt to Citigroup and Apollo Global Management and owes Apollo more than $250 million

Both Citigroup and Kushner Companies have strongly denied that Kushner’s connections to president Donald has anything to do with the loans to the company of his family (in which he owns a stake of hundreds of millions of dollars): https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...p-loans-522952


And another 3 “deaths” in the Trump body count...
On 19 November 2019, Thomas Bowers reportedly committed suicide by hanging.

Thomas Bowers, as head of Deutsche Bank’s American wealth-management division, oversaw Trump’s private banker since 2010, Rosemary T. Vrablic (previously of Citigroup).
It was none other than Chabad-Lubavitcher Jared Kushner, who introduced Vrablic to Donald.

Deutsche Bank – of course - lent Donald around $2 billion after most other banks refused to finance the “king of debt”.
Rosemary T. Vrablic reported directly to Bowers, who personally approved loans to Donald Trump.

In March 2017, Bowers’ wife Abigail also died: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...customers.html


The Trump-supporting media put the full spin on this one...
Ignoring the Trump ties but instead reporting a non-existent Jeffrey Epstein connection (who was of course also in business with Deutsche Bank that much is true): https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...ing-death.html


Nothing suspicious about any witness to the many crimes of the Trump syndicate getting depressed and killing themselves is there (Trump good – Clinton bad!)?

In January 2014, Deutsche Bank executive William S. Broeksmit also reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a dog leash at his home in London.
Broeksmit was part of the unit lending money to Donald Trump and his family: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ney-laundering

Sherlock Holmes exposed as having personal relationship with Moriarity.

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Some call it 'dog and pony show' but to give credit where due, at least early on MAGA team had taken strong stance against nepotism .

"Donald Trump Wants Ivanka and Jared Kushner to Move Back Home to NYC"

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I’m (almost) sure that it’s only a coincidence that the US Attorney to the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Geoffrey Berman, was fired on 20 June (technically speaking: forced to resign) after his office had begun investigating Trump’s taxes in 2017: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-...iling/12520884


Most people won’t find the single “bombshell” buried in this recently published very long New York Times article.
The article shows that Donald Trump was able to lower his taxes for 18 years by deducting his more than $900 million in losses in 1990, when he went bankrupt.

Following the U.S. stock market crash of 1987, a global recession hit New York real estate. New construction stalled, and several big developers declared bankruptcy.
As the real estate market slumped, Trump ran out of cash.
At the beginning of 1990 he owed a combined $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with $800 million personally guaranteed by his own assets, according to Alan Pomerantz, a lawyer whose team led negotiations between Trump and 72 banks to restructure Trump’s loans. Pomerantz was hired by Citibank but became lead counsel for the negotiations.

https://archive.is/8npXW


With many people these days unable to read anything longer than a Twitter message, this article seems to argue that Donald Trump really is a great businessman, by using the laws to lower his taxes to almost 0. In 10 of the previous 15 years, “billionaire” Trump paid no (0) income taxes, and in 2016 and 2017 Trump paid only a combined $1500).

In 2010, Donald claimed and received an income tax refund totalling $72.9 million (the federal income tax he had paid for 2005 to 2008). That was with the help of legislation entered by President Obama.
Then from 2011 to 2014, “billionaire” Donald paid no federal taxes at all (0).

Where it gets “criminal” behaviour by the Donald is that he never paid those losses back to his handlers/lenders, so he shouldn’t be allowed to deduct it.

Here’s how the NYT one time in the whole long article explains that Donald really is in trouble with the IRS.

If the I.R.S. learns that the owner received anything of value, the allowable losses are reduced to just $3,000 a year. And Mr. Trump does appear to have received something. When the casino bankruptcy concluded, he got 5 percent of the stock in the new company.

http://archive.is/Zyew1

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President Donald couldn't pardon him in Switzerland...

Blood diamond merchant Beny Steinmetz (another client of Alan Dershowitz) was convicted for bribing officials to reap iron ore resources in the West African country Guinea. He was sentenced to 5 years in Swiss prison and a $56.5 million fine.
In 2005, Steinmetz started paying bribes totaling nearly $10 million to Conté, who ruled Guinea from 1984 until his death: https://archive.is/HZYKB

A “dubious relationship” between Gaia and Bank Hapoalim, which is also one of Kushner Cos. lenders, has been reported.
Gaia Investment lists Shlomo Meichor and Assi Arev as principals. Meichor was previously chief financial officer of Ampal-American Israel Corp. In 1996, Raz Steinmetz and his father Daniel (Beny’s brother) bought a controlling interest in Ampal-American Israel Corp. from Bank Hapoalim.

Kushner Companies buying real estate in New York for $190 million was made possible because of investments from Israel’s Raz Steinmetz, whose uncle is none other than diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz.
Since at least 2012, Kushner Cos. and Raz Steinmetz’s investment firm Gaia have been in business including in a number of joint ventures.

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I’m (almost) sure that it’s only a coincidence that the US Attorney to the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Geoffrey Berman, was fired on 20 June (technically speaking: forced to resign) after his office had begun investigating Trump’s taxes in 2017: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-...iling/12520884

The US Supreme Court in a 7-2 vote has decided that there is no reason to block the release of Donald Trump's tax returns to prosecutors, who can now subpoena the former president for his financial documents from January 2011 to August 2019.

But they won't be publicly released (is there more than we already know?): https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/22/p...nce/index.html

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Another possible motive for getting rid of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, is that he refused to prosecute American lawyer Steven Donziger for actually winning a $9.5 billion lawsuit against Chevron for polluting Ecuador.

After the Southern District Court of New York declined to prosecute Donzinger, Judge Lewis Kaplan selected the private law firm Seward & Kissel to do this.
Seward & Kissel had Chevron as a client. In other words: Chevron's lawyers were now prosecuting Steven Donziger for winning the $9.5 billion lawsuit against Chevron!

Donziger was found guilty after Chevron simply bribed the former Ecuadorean judge Alberto Guerra to testify against Donziger.
Guerra later admitted that he had lied after Chevron paid him a monthly salary of $12,000 for "expenses": An-Oil-Company-Just-Earned-A-Huge-Settlement-After-Environmentalists-Brought-False-Charges

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Berman has prosecuted or brought charges against: 1) Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen; 2) Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Berman also investigated Giuliani himself.

A jury found Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas guilty of breaking campaign finance laws.
Parnas and his associate Igor Fruman illegally funneled at least $156,000 in political donations from Russian businessman Andrey Muraviev.
Parnas also illegally made a $325,000 contribution to a pro-Trump super PAC through a shell company from another source.
Parnas and Fruman also concealed that they were the true source of a donation in support of then-President Donald.

Igor Fruman already pleaded guilty in September. He is scheduled to be sentenced next 21 January.
Another associate of Giuliani and Parnas, David Correia, plead guilty to defrauding investors in a fraud where Giuliani was paid a $500,000 consulting fee. Correia has already been sentenced to a year in prison.

Co-defendant Andrey Kukushkin was found guilty, together with Parnas, for facilitating the campaign donations paid for with his Russian boss's money (Muraviev).
Parnas can be sentenced to a maximum 45 years in prison and Kukushkin 15 years.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also received part of the $1 million that Parnas and Fruman received from Muraviev in campaign donations.
See (from left), Parnas, Trump lawyers Pam Bondi and Giulianiand DeSantis.

https://www.dw.com/en/giuliani-assoc...ges/a-59602295
(https://archive.md/fn1SK)