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</div><div><a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/03/03/jerome-corsis-inks-to-alt-right-connected-russian-hackers/">https://www.madcowprod.com/2018/03/03/jerome-corsis-inks-to-alt-right-connected-russian-hackers/</a></div><div>
</div><div><div class="td-post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 21px; padding-bottom: 16px;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif">...Corsi, InfoWars’s DC bureau chief, as well as the man many think invented the alt-right, was riding high earlier this week,  after USA Today, the country’s <a href="https://splinternews.com/usa-today-publishes-infowars-conspiracy-nut-without-eve-1823404629#ga=2.220978523.237935032.1519528819-1695488106.1512405280" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">highest-circulating paper,</a> published an <a href="https://splinternews.com/usa-today-publishes-infowars-conspiracy-nut-without-eve-1823404629#ga=2.220978523.237935032.1519528819-1695488106.1512405280" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">opinion piece he wrote.</a>Then, yesterday, he was kicked off YouTube… for life.   He had only recently received his first two You Tube strikes—for harassment and/or bullying—late last month.[img]Since his banishment, he’s been posting increasingly irate tweets that make it clear than his relationship with the truth is currently a bit stand-offish.One of his headlines reads:  “Dr Jerome Corsi: My YouTube Channel Restored! Alex Jones Infowars.”[screensht]A screenshot of Corsi’s shut-down site gives the lie to that little bit of fake news. Maybe it was just wistful thinking. Say what you want about him, Jerome Corsi traffics in pro-style disinformation. He delivers the goods. He knows what makes his people’s blood race.<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 27px 0px 17px; line-height: 30px;">Dr. Jerome Corsi may know a few Russian hackers</h3>Jerome Corsi has more to worry about than how many views his video rants are currently receiving. He may be involved in a half-visible criminal conspiracy powering the Russiagate scandal, which is beginning to unravel.If, as expected, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicts a gaggle of Russian hackers next week, it will be surprising if some of the Americans who facilitated and helped pay for the hackers aren’t taken down as well.  Many are waiting impatiently for the American fellow-conspirators of the Russian hackers’ to be fingered and publicly shamed.The notion that this number “might could” include Jerome Corsi is enough to set bitter hearts aflutter. But, is this just wishful thinking?Under America’s racketeering laws, everyone involved in a criminal organization is supposedly guilty of the crimes committed by other members of the group, which could truly trigger a bloodletting.“Fed up with knives that just won’t cut? Need an Icy Hot Sleeve, a Glass Wizard, or 6 Second Abs? Could you utilize a Bun & Thigh Roller?  A Magic Bullet?”<a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pv1.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13979" src="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pv1.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="250" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: left; margin: 6px 24px 21px 0px; display: block;" /></a>The Russiagate conspiracy has been around — in one form or another— for 15 years, since March of 2003, when a Russian hacker later to become famous named Pavel ‘Red Eye’ Vrublevsky moved into a house in Howard Beach, Queens which was already occupied by a company owned by a Tampa Mobster named Mike Muzio.  Vrublevsky’s <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/readdress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">re partners LLC </a>listed its business address as 158-49 90th St, a single family residence in Howard Beach. So too Mike Muzio’s <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/blue-moon2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">blue moon group Inc. </a> involved in pornography and cyber crime. Vrublevsky’s company handled the back end, taking credit cards, through his Moscow company Chronopay.And this is where things begin to get interesting. In 2004, Muzio’s Blue Moon Group was a subsidiary of Genesis Intermedia, an Internet start-up used by Saudi arms dealer and ‘fixer’ Adnan Khashoggi in what will become a massive and masterful stock fraud generating a sweet $300 million dollar payday.Whether Muzio was an active participant is unknown. But he was not shy getting involved in stock fraud later, after he went from working for Adnan Khashoggi t0 an “alt-right” stock fraud ring run by a business partner and Breitbart collaborator of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Sarasota’s own Andrew Badolato.<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-16448" src="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/download.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="259" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: left; margin: 6px 24px 21px 0px; display: block;" />It does not seem to have been a difficult leap, especially since Khashoggi is a charter member of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach ‘homies.’It was at this time—in 2003—that Russian Mobsters, including Semion Mogilevich, Russia’s Mob’s Mr. Bigski, began colluding with elements of the American Mafia, the nascent alt-right, and Adnan Khashoggi, who was right at home in this company, having been in operations for over 40-years in his long career as a CIA fixer.Khashoggi’s longevity owed partly to being able to offer the requisite plausible deniability (he’s a foreigner!). As well, they offered the chance to meet starlets, like Paul McCartney’s future wife Heather, in decidedly relaxed circumstances.Until his death last year in New York Adnan Khashoggi was a fixture in nearly every American scandal since Watergate. He was around for so long that clips from his first big scandal—something to do with bribes and Lockheed—are in black and white.  The staple of spammers everywhere was Viagra, in all its hundreds of mutations. Penile enlargers sold well. Aftersales might include an antenna booster. <h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 24px 0px 14px; line-height: 29px;">The secret life of an agent provocateur</h4>Jerome Corsi, alt-right rabble-rouser, led a secret second life.Who knew?<a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/e2muySx.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="alignleft wp-image-16450" src="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/e2muySx-558x262.png" alt="" width="359" height="168" srcset="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/e2muySx-558x262.png 558w, https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/e2muySx-696x326.png 696w, https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/e2muySx.png 766w" sizes="(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: left; margin: 6px 24px 21px 0px; display: block;" /></a>In 1995, before his career peddling smears began to take off, reported The Boston Globe, Corsi was involved in ripping off two dozen investors in Minnesota by convincing them to give him money which then magically disappeared, supposedly for investments in Poland.The FBI didn’t charge Corsi. Several investors sued and won judgments against him, but were unable to collect.  Corsi reportedly transferred all his assets and funds to his wife’s name.Another leader in the American wing of the Russiagate conspiracy was  stockbroker Gregg M.S. Berger. Gregg M.S. Berger, however, is not his real name. His real name is Gregg StickelBerger.  Easy to see why he changed it.Both Berger and Corsi worked at shady Gilford Securities, widely rumored to have Mob ties.Stockbroker StickelBerger used Gilford Securities to serviced two sets of players, in what looks to be the same ongoing conspiracy. One is a Mob-Mafiya strand; the other is Khashoggi’s GenesisIntermedia fraud.From Reuters:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; position: relative; border-left: none; margin: 40px 34.7969px 38px; text-align: center;">NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) – A New York stock broker has been charged with orchestrating a fraudulent $30 million scheme to illegally “pump-and-dump” thinly traded Chinese and Israeli penny stocks, the U.S. Justice Department said.  Gregg Berger, 47, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. district court in Detroit. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.In a related case, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against Berger, seven other people, and three companies involved in the alleged scheme, including one company in Canada.</blockquote><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 24px 0px 14px; line-height: 29px;">A “China-Israeli micro stock play”</h4>Gregg Berger worked with Alan M. Ralsky, known as America’s Spam King. The two men commit financial fraud together, then plead guilty in 2009 to conspiracy.In their joint effort, Berger ran a $33 million international microcap stock scheme involving the stocks of eight small U.S. companies “headquartered” overseas, in the People’s Republic of China, Canada, and Israel.The companies were used in reverse mergers with local non-U.S. companies looking for a back door into U.S. financial markets.Stockbroker Berger ran two conspiracies. One was the China-Israeli micro stock play, for which Berger was eventually indicted, along with Al Ralsky, a cast of virtual unknowns… and a Russian named Peter Severa.Make that Russian hacker Peter Severa.  Who was safe in Russia, until, five years after his American partners are convicted,  makes the mistake of going on [pix]vacation in Spain…. Or… he was lured to Spain.  In either event, under Spanish skies, the Russian hacker was arrested by Spanish police, where it turned out Peter Severa was not his real name. It was Peter Levashov, #7 on the world’s Top 10 Worst Spammers list, according to a Russian cyber-security company. A Justice Department indictment asserts Levashov is the long-time Russian partner of American Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield Michigan.After the U.S. won a titanic struggle with Russia for control of where he would be extradited, he was recently extradited to the United States.It’s a simple declension. Jerome Corsi has ties to Gregg Berger. Berger was partners with America’s Spam King Al Ralsky. He partnered with Peter Levashov. As well as with Jonathan Curshen.One of Khashoggi’s partners named Michael Farkas bought a spy store in Miami. The group began soliciting sales over the Internet in earnest.“Need a pair of sunglasses fitted with a fiber-optic video camera? A shirt button concealing a surveillance microphone? How about a bullet-proof umbrella, or a baseball cap strong enough to repel a hatchet blow? <h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 24px 0px 14px; line-height: 29px;">Uber-hackers working  for uber-oligarchs</h4>At the same time he was working with Ralsky and his crew, busy fraudster (but on whose behalf?) Gregg Berger was also part of a criminal conspiracy involving Sarasota native Jonathan Curshen, another example of that Florida city’s lack of either ethics or charm.With Curshen’s lavish assistance, Berger helms an effort to pump and dump the stock of a little nothing company (literally, there was nothing there) called CO2.Back to the first conspiracy.  One of the eight American shell companies located overseas that Berger and Ralsky are using is something called “China Digital.”Which leads back to Jonathan Curshen, part of Berger Conspiracy No. 2.In Berger’s Conspiracy no 1. Curshen helped manipulate “China Digital’s stock price.  So Berger’s two known criminal conspiracies must be part of one larger overarching conspiracy.Which means that — in the best of all possible worlds —  each and every ‘connected’ miscreant who has helped move the conspiracy forward is now, as a matter of law, guilty of every crime committed by each one of their fellow conspirators.Jonathan Curshen was in business with Steve Bannon’s alt-right business partner Andy Badolato in Sarasota, Florida.According to a criminal Complaint filed Sept 4, 2008, Curshen, along with someone named Bruce Grossman, schemed to defraud investors in a company called Industrial Biotechnology Corporation (“IBC”) by paying secret cash kickbacks to an undercover FBI agent, who was posing as a middleman willing to recruit corrupt stockbrokers.Who controlled Industrial Biotechnology Corporation (“IBC”)?  Serial alt-right fraudster Andy Badolato.Teddy bears. Some Viagra? A mail-order bride? Fake diplomas were steady earners. But of course they didn’t sell nearly as well as hard-core pornography videos.  Nothing did. <h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 24px 0px 14px; line-height: 29px;" /><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 24px 0px 14px; line-height: 29px;">Before there was Jesus there was John the Baptist</h4>Before there was Donald Trump, there was Jerome Corsi. His supremely distasteful “Swift Boat” book, filled with lies and calumny, did in an authentic war hero (no matter what you thought of his politics), 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.Later Corsi lobbed another grenade over the transom called  “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President.”Slight problem: in a bit of horrific timing that makes you question whether there might not be a God after all,  Corsi’s book came out three weeks after Obama’s birth certificate had been released, and promptly tanked.That’s when Alex Jones told his audience he and Corsi were receiving warnings from “top government officials”—presumably because a mid-level functionary wouldn’t convey the seriousness of the matter—while preparing to publish the true story of something or other.“Threats started pouring in,” Alex Jones told his listeners. Even his own lawyers, he said, advised him against breaking the story.It’s enough to give you chills. <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/hack.gif" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="alignright wp-image-16462 size-full" src="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/hack.gif" alt="" width="300" height="170" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; float: right; margin: 6px 0px 21px 24px; display: block;" /></a>The real story of the Russian hackers is a story of the increasing levels of expertise they began to display.  They were working hard to master the Internet’s arts of persuasion.As the Russians began stretching their computer skills beyond the reach of their American cousins, Adnan Khashoggi and sidekick Ramy El Batrawi’s GenesisIntermedia provided the only outfit who could stay with them.Spammers—in Russia and the U.S.—sold vacation giveaways, mortgages, work-at-home opportunities…Loans! Successful spammers were soon living large.This is what hackers, Russian and American, did. Control millions of servers. Write a zesty little sales pitch. Slam some cloak-and-dagger software through a massive database of e-mail addresses.Then deluge the planet like the wrath of a vengeful God.  <h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 24px 0px 14px; line-height: 29px;">A threat to proto-fascists everywhere</h4>Not since the glory days of Iran-Contra has the group Donald Trump is fronting for—the so-called “Alt-Right”—received so much bad publicity. Yet even after all this time the group— as a long-standing drug trafficking, financial fraud and money laundering operation— remains recognizable. One anchor over the decades, for example, has been Adnan Khashoggi.Khashoggi, and his lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi, both of whom were deeply implicated in Iran Contra, would have a last hurrah in Russiagate.So too would Americans like Tampa Mobster Mike Muzio,  currently away doing 13 years at a federal penitentiary in Minnesota. There he tweets about looking forward to getting out in 2020.While the players on the ground were releasing press releases announcing orders from each other for billions of dollars worth of product that didn’t exist, from other businesses which were members of the conspiracy.The phony companies were often led by former agents from U.S. military intelligence, the CIA, and the NSA (at Skyway Aircraft, which we’ll get to presently), as well as alt-right factotums like Andy Badolato, Jerome Corsi, and Jonathan Curshen. Facing them across the table was a roving posse of Russian hackers, as well as a squadron of Russian Mobsters like Oleg Deripaska.The story of our time is about Donald Trump and the globalization of organized crime. 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</div><div></div><div>hmmn</div><div><div class="td-post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 21px; padding-bottom: 16px;">an unofficial investigation into RussiaGate has uncovered a shocking and previously-unknown new connection— a CIA-connected man who became instantly famous after the Boston Marathon bombing — involved in recent allegations against Trump associate Felix Sater that he laundered $440 million of stolen money for billionaire oligarchs in Kazakhstan through American real estate. Evidence in the case also showed a startling similarity between suspicions of money laundering in Trump’s sale of a Palm Beach mansion to a Russian billionaire gangster and a <a href="https://theislandnow.com/featured/former-sands-point-resident-felix-sater-sued-for-alleged-money-laundering/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">billionaire gangster from Kazakhstan</a> purchasing a similarly over-priced mansion in London from Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, a member of the British royal family, son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and at one time second in line to the throne.When Donald Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/trump-lawsuit-deutsche-bank.html?searchResultPosition=1" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">filed suit yesterday</a> to keep his business dealings with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/politics/trump-lawsuit-deutsche-bank.html?searchResultPosition=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Germany’s criminal Deutsche Bank</a> secret, it prompted a review of notes for clues that led to long-unanswered questions about why Mueller’s investigation showed no apparent interest in linking crimes Deutsche Bank was committing while Trump was doing business with the bank with a man with whom he had clear ties: Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.Was an unwillingness to unmask CIA involvement<a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/2017/03/06/russian-hacking-probe-linked-alt-right-stock-fraud/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"> behind both situations? </a>Donald Trump’s Palm Beach ‘homies’ in the newsAdnan Khashoggi, one of Donald Trump’s longtime Palm Beach ‘homies,’  was committing crimes with Deutsche Bank<a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/2019/04/18/mueller-report/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">, and, as this website</a> never tires of pointing out, during the same time period Trump was involved in what many suspect was similar business, money laundering, with the bank. PRO TIP: If  investigators also subpoena information about criminal dealings between Deutsche Bank and Adnan Khashoggi—whose death a year ago makes accessing information about his criminal dealings with the bank easier—progress may be made. It’s just a suggestion, but probably a good one.Khashoggi is one of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach ‘homies.’  Moreover his <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/2017/06/26/trump-khashoggi-germanys-criminal-deutsche-bank/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">criminal collusion with Deutsche Bank </a> has already been proven in court.Deutsche Bank was forced to pay <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2005/12/19/daily35.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">a hefty $278 million</a> fine for its illegal actions with Khashoggi which included a <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/STOCKWALK.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">spectacularly-successful pump and dump scheme</a> that stole more than $300 million from investors.Clues to what was going on during that fascinating journey into the underworld of global criminal banking could help prosecutors quest to use three words criminals involved in organized crime fear most: “continuing criminal conspiracy(RICO).”Khashoggi participated in banking giant Deutsche Bank’s<a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/deutsche-bank-fined-502m-over-russia-money-laundering-claims/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"> successful scheme to launder $10-billion dollars </a> into the bloodstream of the Western economy for Russian gangsters, <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/deutsche-bank-fined-over-10-billion-russian-money-laundering-scheme/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">for which the bank was fined more</a> than a half-billion dollars.The scheme only came to light after a massive <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/police-operation-in-the-deutsche-bank/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">500-man strong police raid</a> at Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, an act which would have probably caused immediate cardiac arrest in  U.S. authorities like former Attorney General Eric Holder.Fur hats vs the fedorasAnother revelation sheds new light on <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">suspicions about the connection</a> between Felix Sater and the ultra-orthodox Jewish <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/27/the-odd-chabad-connection-between-putin-and-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Chabad Lubavitch</a> sect. Because Felix Sater’s name appears on 28 separate pages in the Mueller Report, his many and various <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/27/the-odd-chabad-connection-between-putin-and-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">connections with Chabad Lubavitch</a> have been receiving  <a href="https://www.jta.org/2019/04/18/politics/6-jewish-takeaways-from-the-mueller-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">increased </a>attention.  Sater himself has also become a more intriguing figure. A<a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Sater.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"> lawsuit filed against him </a>earlier this month by the quasi-state bank of the country of Kazakhstan claims Sater used money he<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-25/sater-eyed-trump-moscow-tower-to-launder-money-kazakh-bank-says" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"> stole from the bank</a> (and by extension the people of Kazakhstan) to develop his project to create a Trump Tower in Moscow.Sater was feted as “<a href="https://youtu.be/xSpFtCmoD5o" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Man Of The Year”</a> at Chabad’s synagogue in Port Washington on Long Island, a location seen as having been used as something like a dead drop between Putin and Trump.As first reported in author Craig Unger’s excellent “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Trump-Putin-Untold-Russian/dp/152474350X" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">House of Trump, House of Putin” </a>, <a href="https://www.robinmorgan.net/blog/six-degrees-cash-corruption-putin-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Vladimir Putin used Chabad Lubavitch</a> to consolidate power in Russia, through putting Berel Lazar, the Chabad’s chief Rabbi in the country, in charge over a new Russian national organization for Jews.With Putin’s support, reported Unger, “Chabad’s Lazar became Russia’s chief rabbi, and the alliance provided direct connections between Putin and Donald Trump.”<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-chabad-emissaries-expelled-from-russia-chief-rabbi-sees-a-friend-in-putin/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Putin’s Jewish outreach</a>, Unger found, had helped him counteract rising resentment over the Russian Mafiya—sometimes called the Kosher Nostra for its heavily-Jewish gangster ranks—as well as Russia’s new class of billionaire oligarchs, many of them Jewish.Putin’s new Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia was designed to replace what before Putin had long been the leading Jewish organization in Russia.Called the Russian Jewish Congress, it had been cofounded by Russian oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky, who Israeli newspaper Haaretz called the “Number 1 Jew in Russia.”Not anymore.  Chabad Lubavitch“Felix Sater and others at Bayrock <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/who-is-felix-sater-and-why-is-donald-trump-so-afraid-of-him/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">with close ties to Chabad</a>—like Tamir Sapir and his son-in-law Rotem Rosen—were part of an extraordinarily powerful channel between Trump and Putin,” Unger reported.[pix soho twr launch don jr ivanka]When the late Russian billionaire Tamir Sapir first arrived in New York in 1976, he opened an electronics store in the Flatiron district, which largely <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/09/nyregion/brass-knuckles-over-2-broadway-mta-landlord-are-fighting-it-over-rent.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">catered</a> to KGB agents, according to the New York Times.Over time Tamir Sapir became a significant partner in Bayrock.Donald Trump, who called Sapir “a great friend,” hosted the wedding of Sapir’s daughter at Mar-a-Lago, an event featuring  performances by Lionel Ritchie and the Pussycat Dolls.The wedding’s groom, Rotem Rosen, became Sapir’s son-in-law, the CEO of the Sapir organization, and the head of the American branch of  Putin oligarch Lev Leviev’s holding company, Africa Israel.At the time, the busy Rosen was already a lieutenant of Israeli diamond king Lev Leviev, Chabad’s biggest backer. Felix Sater in Kazakhstan Sater was back in the news as the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the government of Kazakhstan on behalf of the country’s chief bank. The suit describes him as “a notorious New York ‘businessman’ and “two-time felon’ before claiming he participated in an international criminal conspiracy to launder $440 million stolen from Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank though American real estate.   According to the lawsuit, <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Sater.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Sater helped Mukhtar Ablyazov</a>, the former chairman of BTA Bank, and Ilyas Khrapunov, the son of the former Mayor of  Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, to funnel money out of the country to the U.S., where it was invested  in U.S. real estate.In our notes was something noteworthy: Also popping up in the scandal is someone  whose involvement proves something a retired Customs Agent in Louisiana once told me:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; position: relative; border-left: none; margin: 40px 34.7969px 38px; text-align: center;">“There aren’t that many players out there. Pretty much, they all know each other.” </blockquote> The return of Uncle RuslanRuslan Tsarni  <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/2013/05/03/did-the-cia-commandeer-the-boston-bombing-investigation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">shot to fame six years ago</a> on the day after the Boston Marathon bombing as the uncle of the two men accused. He roundly and vociferously condemned his nephews, and quickly became the chief source of information about the two men. For days he was ubiquitous on television. Now he has a prominent role in accusing  Felix Sater of laundering money for <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">two billionaires from Kazakhstan</a> through American real estate. <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/?p=3557" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">It was exclusive reporting</a> here which first revealed that Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, had been married to the daughter of former top <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/?p=3743" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">CIA official Graham Fuller</a>, who was still active in the region, although not, he claimed, on behalf of the CIA.Two years earlier Tsarni was involved in the international criminal investigation into a Kazakh billionaire banker-turned-fugitive who allegedly absconded with more than $6 billion from Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank before settling down in London.  “Tsarni was a US lawyer who has had dealings in Kazakh business affairs,” reported the May 8, 2011 London Sunday Times.“A statement by Ruslan Zaindi Tsarni claimed that the two Kazaks involved bought properties in Mayfair with $96 million derived from a complex series of deals intended to disguise money laundering.”“Tsarni alleged that the money came from the takeover of a western company, which had been used as a front to obtain oil contracts from the Kazakh state.” Felix Sater & Ruslan TsarniDuring the “Wild West” days in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan in the early 9o’s— when anything that wasn’t nailed down in that country was up for grabs—Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had been in Kazakhstan working as <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/?p=3643" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">a Halliburton contractor</a> as well as for the Agency for International Development (USAID), which is often <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/?p=3557" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">used for cover by CIA agents overseas.</a>The “takeover of the western company” mentioned in the lawsuit was <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Big Sky Energy Corporation,</a> where Tsarni was a top executive. The soon-to-be-bankrupt US oil company had oil leases in Kazakhstan’s Caspian Basin, and was being run by a long-time Halliburton top executive.At the time I contacted a reporter at Oilgram News, a respected oil industry trade publication, for information about U.S. oil companies in the ‘Stans, one of a myriad of subjects about which I knew nothing.  After requesting anonymity, he replied. “Big Sky, Ablyazov, Kulibayev and the rest, were all on my watch list for intelligence connections and pay-offs of various kinds.”  As if that weren’t enough— and its never enough— the Felix Sater-Ruslan Tsarni connection offered one more piece of intriguing information on a subject that should ring a bell to anyone following the RussiaGate scandal… No? Prince Andrew? Laundering dirty cash just like Trump?Prince Andrew, the younger brother of Prince Charles and the second or third heir to the throne, sold one of his chief residences to a man named Timur Kulibayev, one of the billionaire Kazakh oil tycoons who “controlled that country’s oil industry.Conveniently, he was also married to the daughter of Kazakhstan’s autocratic then-President,  Nursultan Nazarbayev.The story, headlined “<a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/princes-home-in-laundered-cash-inquiry/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Prince’s home in ‘laundered cash’ inquiry,”</a>  reported that the President-for-Life’s son-in-law, amid allegations of money laundering, paid millions  over the asking price to Prince Andrew for his home, paid through a network of offshore companies to hide his ownership.This money laundering tale bears a startling similarity to Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.madcowprod.com/2008/06/26/trump-mansion-sold-to-mobsters-sans-frontieres/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">sale of a Palm Beach mansion</a> to a Russian mobster at about the same time.No doubt it is just a coincidence.Still, it is now clear, but too late to do any good, that buying anonymous real estate in friendly Western countries has been the main way Russian gangsters use to get their dirty cash laundered out of Russia and into the Western economy. The Messiah of Brooklyn & Jared Kushner’s Dad Chabad Lubavitch is a tiny Brooklyn-based sect centered on the teachings of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who some Jews, in all seriousness, called the messiah or Mashiach.The sect is anti-abortion, anti-homosexual, and big-time fundamentalist.  Although it has less than a hundred thousand adherents, it has more than 1100 outposts around the world. In Russia, recognizing Chabad as the official state representative for Jews would be like America naming Fred Phelps’ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Westboro Baptist Church </a>— remember them? Running anti-gay protests at military funerals while carrying signs reading “thank God for dead soldiers” and “God blew up the troops?”— as official spokesman for Protestants.One of Chabad’s biggest financial backers was Russian billionaire oligarch Lev Leviev, who, because of his stature in the diamond trade, is known as ‘The King of Diamonds.”Another is Jared Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner. Coming disclosures to come will push the story of RussiaGate ever-deeper into the high cotton, to places the timid Mueller Report feared to tread.   Sarasota grifter & Semion MogilevichTrump-Bannon-Khashoggi associate Jonathan Curshen tried to save Russian Mob Uber-Boss Semion Mogilevich’s nuts from the fire in the YBM Magnex affair.Individuals close enough to Trump to stroll around the block with him outside the Ravenite Social Club, metaphorically-speaking, were doing the bidding of Russia’s most powerful gangster… back in 1998.Jonathan Curshen has been the subject of reporting here for a decade. Still, it was a shock to discover he was involved in a major financial fraud with the Maestro himself, ‘the Brainy Don,’ the ‘Russian Meyer Lansky’… Semion Mogilevich.Curshen’s connection with grifters associated with Donald Trump can be found  in corporate documents available to anyone online. What’s lacking? Grainy security-camera footage of Curshen passing a suitcase stuffed with cash up the ladder to his capo.  There’s more news about Donald Trump and the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Chabad Lubavitch—whose chief defining characteristic is its Mormon missionary-type zeal to bring in new recruits worldwide— which may be nothing nothing more than cover for  criminal and espionage operations.Russian gangsters living in the U.S.  appear to have been involved in a Whitman’s Sampler-assortment of criminal operations which have been supporting efforts to subvert sovereign nation-states on the planet…  Including our own. Hackers, Mob Bosses & Alt-Right GriftersThe Russian Mob nexus with U.S. organized crime has been operational for at least the past 30 years. Even before that, the “outreach” of the tiny Chabad Lubavitch sect began spreading across America — as I will soon personally and ruefully attest— have been in existence for 50 years or longer.Close business associates of Donald  Trump — including his former campaign manager Steve Bannon and Bannon’s lieutenant and former employee Andy Badolato— were in business in 2003 with Russia’s premier hacker, who was fingered by name by the FBI in July of 2016 for hacking election databases in the United States.No one has laid a finger on Pavel Vrublevsky.As long as he confines himself to the vast steppes of his Russian homeland, “Red Eye,’ as he’s called, remains safe.But that can’t last. 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