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The Skadden swamp

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Firestarter wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:15 pmEven more interesting is the “lobbying” for the European Center for Modern Ukraine (ECFMU) by Mercury LLC (of Manafort and his employee Rick Gates) and the Podesta Group from 2012 to 2014. ECFMU was affiliated with Viktor Yanukovych, who was the president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. Yanukovych is pro-Putin and had to flee the country after protesters overthrew his government. He was reportedly helped by Putin to escape to Russia.
Reportedly Podesta and Manafort had to lobby the message that Ukraine’s 2012 election was really democratic and that the country’s leaders wanted to move further away from Putin and closer to the West.
I haven’t quite been able to find a good story on the corruption of the big international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which was also involved in lobbying for Ukraine with Mercury and Podesta, and also “forgot” to register as a foreign agent, but I found some interesting connections…

The Dutch (former?) attorney Alex van der Zwaan worked for the London branch of Skadden… In 2018, he pleaded guilty to lying to the US Special Counsel's Office over his Ukraine/Russian contacts for which he got a slap on the wrist of 30 days in prison and a fine of $20,000. Van der Zwaan also deleted emails between him and Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik (a Russian intelligence agent also associated with Oleg Deripaska).
In December 2020, president Trump pardoned him.

In November 2017, Van der Zwaan was fired by Skadden… for his gross misconduct of … lying (something ALL attorneys do), and on 3 July 2019 was disbarred in England and Wales.
Van der Zwaan, with 8 other Skadden … crooks attorneys, worked on a 2012 report for Paul Manafort that defended the unlawful prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's rival, Yulia Tymoshenko.

In June 2017, Van der Zwaan married Eva, daughter of the Russian billionaire German Khan, co-founder and co-owner of the Alfa Group.
See circled German Khan at the wedding of his daughter to Alex van der Zwaan.
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Van der Zwaan repeatedly provided Ukrainian oligarch Gennadiy Bogolyubov with legal counselling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_van_der_Zwaan


Bogolyubov together with Ihor Kolomoisky (Zelensky’s puppet master) and Oleksiy Martynov controlled the Privat Group (of which PrivatBank is a subsidairy)…
Firestarter wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:16 pmAll the Trump-loving Clinton-Biden haters know that Joe's misfit son Hunter Biden got lots of cash for sitting on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Now it appears that Volodymyr Zelensky's sugar daddy Ihor Kolomoisky controlled Burisma through the PrivatBank.
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Skadden … also represented the AAR consortium of Russian oligarchs including Mikhail Fridman and German Khan in its legal battle with BP in 2011. Skadden … later also represented Fridman when the UK government forced his L1 investment vehicle to sell gas fields in the North Sea.

Alex van der Zwaan also assisted Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's businesses in relation to mining assets in Ukraine.
Skadden … also advised Abramovich in his court battle with Boris Berezovsky.

Roman Abramovich even selected the head of Skadden’s European operations, Bruce Buck, for chairman of the Chelsea football club after he had helped him acquire it in 2003: https://archive.is/EWc7e

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Firestarter wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:24 pmIn 2010, Vitesse Arnhem was bought "by" the Georgian former professional soccer player Merab Jordania. Jordania was a friend of Roman Abramovich, the Chabad-Lubavitcher owner of Chelsea London. So there have been (denied) rumours that Merab Jordania was nothing but a strawman for Abramovich that have now finally been confirmed.
Abramovich indeed secretly funded the Vitesse takeover and subsequent investments with at least €117 million, a big sum compared to the purchasing price for Vitesse, a mere €8 million and its total turnover in 2014-15 of €14 million.
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For the 2012 report, Van der Zwaan worked closely with Gregory B. Craig, who resigned from Skadden … after the indictment of Van der Zwaan.

Craig at Harvard had become associated with none other than Henry Kissinger.
At Yale Law School, Craig was in the same class as Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham. He became special counsel for president Clinton in the Lewinsky impeachment show.
Craig later supported Barack Obama for president after he had first met the Obamas in 2003, and was his White House Counsel in 2009 and 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_B._Craig


Another Skadden … partner, Robert Stephen Bennett, also represented Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal.

Bennett also represented…
Caspar Weinberger in the Iran–Contra cover-up;
Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal;
Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank scandal.

Bennett was also special counsel for the US Senate Ethics Committee's 1989–1991 “investigation” of the Keating Five.
In 2008, Bennett was hired by the Keating five’s John McCain (to thank him for the cover-up investigation?!?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Bennett


Before Mark N. Kaplan became a senior partner at Skadden he was the CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1970 to 1977…
In 1977, junk bond swindler Michael Milken became chairman of Drexel Burnham, he was later pardoned by president Donald…
Firestarter wrote:Billions of dollars were now flowing out of and through Lincoln and Keating, to Lindner and his co-conspirators at Drexel Burnham.
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has even repeatedly collaborated with my “favourite” Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek from at least 2010 to 2024:
(in Dutch) https://web.archive.org/web/20240424195 ... om/page/2/
(in Dutch) https://mena.nl/artikel/greenhill-skadd ... laserdeal/
https://archive.is/YUpFh

Firestarter wrote:The law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (the largest law firm in the Netherlands), that represented me in front of the Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) in my court case against ABN AMRO to harm my interests, is the law firm that also regularly represents both ABN AMRO and Rabobank (that blocks my bank accounts since June 3, 2015). In November 2008 Rabobank and Rothschild started cooperating in mergers and acquisitions, with legal counselling of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (ABN AMRO has for many years been connected to Rothschild). Jaap W. Winter of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek was invited to the Bilderberg conference of 2011 (coincidently when De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek was representing me).
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Donald crypto corruption

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It seems like not so long ago that cryptocurrency was exposed for the fraud it is, with FTX crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried getting sentenced to 25 years in prison (no pardon)…

Trump let his campaign be financed by crypto grifters, and now that he’s back in the White House he can implement policies of which the whole crypto scam can profit, promising that as president he’ll make the US the “crypto capital of the planet”.
Donald even selected several crypto grifters for his administration, including David Sacks, of the Peter Thiel led PayPal mafia, who owns a stake in SpaceX and Palantir, and was named “crypto and AI czar” by Trump.
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Firestarter wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 8:02 amYasir al-Rumayyan, governor of the $620 billion Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), invited Silicon Valley investors to the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah, including none other than Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz (the son of zionist right wing extremist David Horowitz).

PIF’s venture arm, Sanabil, is in partnerships with almost 40 US venture firms, including Andreessen Horowitz, David Sacks’ Craft Ventures and 9Yards Capital (where Bullingdon boy, former UK chancellor George Osborne is a managing partner) and Coatue Management (whose president Nathan Urquhart was formerly a partner of the notorious Carlyle)
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Days before his inauguration, Donald launched the $Trump meme coin, with his lovely wife launching her own $Melania not long after. Trump’s and Melania’s crypto currencies ballooned to a worth of tens of billions of dollars (!) from which Trump Organization affiliates will get 80% (although it isn’t clear how much he could actually cash in)...
One of the “concerns” that these horrible Trump-haters have against this scam, is that it gives any crook, foreign or domestic, the possibility for pay-to-play schemes (a.k.a. bribes and kickbacks), which according to the MAGA red hatters is only bad when these horrible Democrats do it.
The anonymity involved with cryptocurrency transactions will apparently allow anyone looking for favorable treatment from Trump’s administration, including US businesses, as well as foreign actors and countries, to participate in making Trump wealthier than ever by just buying his token.
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Last year, Trump’s sons, Don Jr and Eric, launched the crypto venture World Liberty Financial. Last month, World Liberty was present at a Bitcoin event in Abu Dhabi (in the UAE where else?!?) that featured Eric Trump and Trump’s special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, who helped launch World Liberty.
World Liberty boasts among its top investors the controversial Chinese-born TRON founder Justin Sun, who reportedly pumped $75 million into World Liberty.

Crypto firm Ripple donated $5 million in cryptocurrency to Trump’s inaugural. Ripple’s hired lobbyists include Michael Best Strategies whose board is chaired by Trump’s ex-chief of staff Reince Priebus and (of course) Brian Ballard whose lobbying firm also represents Robinhood, a bitcoin trading platform that donated another $2 million to Donald’s inaugural.: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tocurrency

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Firestarter wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:54 pmSullivan & Cromwell represents several crypto competitors of FTX that have an interest in how the bankruptcy is handled - BlockFi, Coinbase, Gemini, and Kracken.
And in a strange twist, BlockFi has filed a lawsuit (with the help of Sullivan & Cromwell?) that approximately $440 million of shares in Robinhood belong to it as collateral for loans it made to FTX. While the Sullivan & Cromwell bankruptcy team for FTX is arguing that the Robinhood shares belong to FTX's subsidiairy Alameda Research.
And - of course - Robinhood is also a client of Sullivan & Cromwell (!)
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Firestarter wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:12 amThere are so many potential Ballard Partners scandals that I can’t really figure out which one is the worst.
Ballard Partners counts Dubai-based ASM International General Trading LLC (in the UAE, where else?!?) among its clients. ASM International is owned by Assad ally Samer Foz.
Ballard Partners also represents a group of Syrian-American doctors who want a Syria free of Assad (another minor conflict of interest among friends?!?): https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump ... ssad-ally/

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Firestarter wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:41 amformer New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been sentenced to pay $148 million for defamation of Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss.
Once again confirmation that all of these lawsuits were nothing but a publicity stunt (or were they blackmailed by the Trump cabal into an offer they couldn’t refuse?!?).
Former NYC mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had already been ordered to pay the former Georgia election workers a fine of $146 million for defamation.

Now Giuliani has reached a settlement after the judge also sentenced him for contempt of the court.
If I understand correctly this “settlement” means that Giuliani can keep his assets (without having to pay the part of the $146 million he actually has…) for the “promise not to ever defame” the Georgia election workers again: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... rcna187881

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Firestarter wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:29 amI think the Chabad-Lubavitch link, Melgen being pardoned by the swamp-draining president is more interesting…
Firestarter wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:25 amProsecutors accused Melgen of stealling $136 million. U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, who sentenced him, conluded that Melgen had stolen at least $73 million.

In a separate case, Melgen was accused of bribing Senator Bob Menendez, to stop Medicare officials that were investigating his malpractices, and to obtain visas for his foreign mistresses.
Former US senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking bribes from Egypt, Qatar and New Jersey businessmen (no fine, nor pardon, and nothing on Salomon Melgen?!?).
Menendez will probably stay out of prison while he appeals his conviction.

Menendez’s much younger wife, Nadine, will be sentenced later as her trial was postponed after her claimed breast cancer diagnosis.

Menendez’s 2 convicted co-defendants - Fred Daibes and Wael Hana – were sentenced to 7 and 8 years in jail and fines of $1.75 million and $1.25 million respectively.
A third businessman, Jose Uribe, pleaded guilty, testified against Menendez and will be sentenced later this year: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyekv226l2o
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Pfizer, Heritage Foundation, MAGA

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When there’s a worldwide network of organisations promoting right wing nationalism, this “nationalism” is of course really… globalism.
When the same network connects to the left wing network, our whole system of politics is a shitshow in which we lose, independent for whom we vote…

While the Trump campaign denied that he had anything to do with the Heritage Foundation, in reality its Project 2025 provides the Trump II administration with the blueprint to further implement the technocratic surveillance state (a.k.a. open prison).
Pfizer and Bill Gates’ Microsoft are among the big corporations that have funded the Heritage Foundation for many years.

Since the plandemic was started, Bill Gates has become the main left wing villain for right wing conspiracy theorists (taking over the top spot from George Soros).
Like in December 2016, in early January 2025 none other than Bill Gates had a meeting with president-elect Donald Trump and his well-connected lobbyist chief of staff Susie Wiles, in which they talked about “global health issues” including HIV vaccines (in other words… Make America Genocidal Again): https://archive.is/SpQ24


Another Ballard Partners lobbyist, Pam Bondi that was selected as Trump Secretary of injustice, worked as a lawyer for Pfizer earning more than $200,000: https://archive.is/2xLJK

Trump’s pick to head the Transportation Department, Sean Duffy, lobbied for Pfizer when he worked at the BGR Group: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/po ... p-00194050

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Firestarter wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:23 pmI haven’t quite been able to find a good story on the corruption of the big international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which was also involved in lobbying for Ukraine with Mercury and Podesta, and also “forgot” to register as a foreign agent
And of course, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has represented Pfizer: https://archive.is/9gHaS


Pfizer and Microsoft also funded the Dutch right wing think tank Edmund Burke Stichting (active in 2000-2005).
Pfizer donated $470,000 to the Edmund Burke Stichting.

Several prominent Dutch right wing politicians were active in the Edmund Burke Stichting, including Frits Bolkestein, Hans Hillen, Dries van Agt and Onno Ruding: (in Dutch) https://web.archive.org/web/20190710090 ... anse-lobby


I had previously posted about basically the same network (as the Heritage Foundation) being funded by a group of wealthy psychopaths, including Mercer:
Firestarter wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:00 pmRebekah Mercer funds Gatestone Media via her family foundation and was a member of the Gatestone Institute “board of governors”.
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Firestarter wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 7:53 pmProject Veritas took the tapes from Leslie only to bury the scandal. According to Justin Leslie, many ‘bombshell’ stories on the adverse effects of the mRNA COVID vaccines, and malfeasance by drug companies, were spiked by Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe…
I looked for a direct connection by putting heritage foundation project veritas in the Google “search engine”, and came up with nothing…

Then I thought about my previous post about the Opus Dei network financing the Veritas liars…
Apparently Erik Prince (who is close to Steve Bannon and Betsy DeVos’ brother) was involved in setting up Project Veritas.
Project Veritas was founded through the black money funnelling Donors Trust that is used by wealthy donors, including Robert and daughter Rebekah Mercer.
Firestarter wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:05 pmIn 2014-18, The "dark money" Donors Trust gave more than $8.4 million to Project Veritas, nearly one-third of its revenue.
Donors Trust is used so that donations can't be traced back to the individual donors. Donors Trust has been used by Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, and Adolph Coors
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And then it suddenly becomes easy to find connections between the (funders of) Project Veritas and the Heritage Foundation…

Recipients of donations by the DeVos in-laws of Erik Prince’s sister Betsy, include:
the Heritage Foundation, the Institute for Justice, and the American Enterprise Institute
https://archive.is/DKHjo
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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made the comments Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, adding that Republicans are “in the process of taking this country back.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/0 ... n-00166583
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Rebekah Mercer is one of eighteen trustees of the Heritage Foundation and in past years the Mercer Family Foundation has been a donor to Heritage…
Rebekah Mercer is a director of the Government Accountability Institute co-founded with Stephen Bannon
https://archive.is/FS9QR
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