a collection of curious characters and interesting events
Rudy Giuliani’s goon, Lev Parnas, isn’t exactly a criminal mastermind. His lifetime career on the wrong side of the law seems to be more bumbling than brilliant. Lev has been the subject of news stories for months, but there are a few things mainstream media has missed, which are important in being able to understand what the hell is going
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When Speaker Pelosi confronted Trump and said “with you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin”, she was certainly on target, but a bit too narrowly focused. Putin is not just the president of a country at odds with America, he’s also believed to be the richest man in the world, the oligarch of all oligarchs. He’s part of an
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Another one of Trump’s cabinet members resigned from his post today. Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta, became the 13th member of Trump’s cabinet to be fired or resign. His feeble attempt to explain his secret plea deal in the Jeffrey Epstein case from 2008 proved to be his undoing. Nobody bought what he was trying to sell.
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Sam Patten, lobbyist and an associate of Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty on August 31st, 2018, of lying to the FBI, lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist and of funneling money from a Ukrainian oligarch to the Trump Inaugural Committee. Patten illegally used $50,000 from a Cypress bank account of Ukrainian Oligarch, Serhiy Lyovochkin to buy
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They didn’t say so. Nuff said. Impeach. There’s plenty to work with.
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Cindy Yang’s former boss described Cindy Yang as unsophisticated. I’m not sure if he was trying to protect her or throw her under the bus (I’m leaning towards the bus) but unsophisticated isn’t the way I’d describe someone who started multiple businesses, organized major events, and managed to get into Art Basel. Cindy not only had a booth exhibiting art
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Curious things happened in the summer of 2016 as the Trump campaign began recruiting Asian Americans to become members of an Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee. And by curious, I mean suspicious. And by suspicious, I mean we need to make sure Congress follows through on asking for an investigation into Cindy Yang. But I am very happy to report
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