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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/steve-bannon-2655746168/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/steve-bannon-2655746168/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n 2016, the British data firm </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Cambridge Analytic</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (which supported Donald Trump during that year's presidential election) used Steve Bannon as its director of U.S. operations — and </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cambridge had a billionaire backer i</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">n Rebekah Mercer.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> But now, according to the</span></b><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mercers-throw-steve-bannon-under-the-bus-in-election-probe?ref=scroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Daily Beast</span>'s Roger Sollenberger</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Mercer is distancing herself from the far-right MAGA Republican.</span></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center alleges that the Trump campaign and a pro-Trump super PAC run by Bannon illegally coordinated th</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rough Cambridge to pump out millions of dollars in political ads for Trump,"</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sollenberger reports in an article published on November 16. "Brendan Fischer, director of reform at CLC, said the evidence generated in the closed investigation specifically strengthens their case against Bannon, who was named in the foreign national probe but was never questioned."</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Bannon and Mercer were allies in 2016. But now, according to Fischer, Mercer appears to be throwing Bannon under the bus.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Federal election filings show the Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica $5.9 million in the 2016 cycle, and MAN1 reported paying another $5 million to the firm after the super PAC began backing Trump," Sollenberger explains. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"It is</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> illegal for campaigns and outside groups to coordinate</b><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> election-related activity through a common vendor without appropriate firewalls in place</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Fischer pointed out that Mercer, Bannon's former business partner and billionaire Cambridge financier, appears to have betrayed Bannon, with the right-wing megadonor pinning the blame for any illicit activity on him."</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fischer told the Beast, "The response from Mercer's attorney was that Bannon was running the show, so the idea that he'd also been running both the super PAC and the Trump campaign — and that both of them were contracting with the firm Bannon had also been running just boggles the mind</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">These are not novel issues. It's anticipated in the law that a shared vendor might act illegally as a conduit between campaigns, but this is something we haven't really seen before."</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Mercer's attorney, Mark Hansen, any problematic activity with Cambridge could not be blamed on her, but would lie with Bannon or Cambridge C</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">EO Alexander Nix.</span></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">"While Hansen acknowledged that Mercer worked at 'a high level' in the organization," Sollenberger writes, "she had been 'simply swept in' with Bannon and Nix, he said. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cambridge Analytica’s former chief executive Alexander Nix has been barred from acting as a company director for seven years. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rob Davies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Alexander Nix, the former boss of Cambridge Analytica, has been banned from serving as a company director for seven years over “potentially unethical” behaviour linked to his position at the centre of a global scandal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The Insolvency Service said Nix had allowed companies to offer potentially unethical services, including “bribery or honey-trap stings, voter disengagement campaigns, obtaining information to discredit political opponents and spreading information anonymously in political campaigns”.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nix did not dispute that he caused or permitted Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Elections to offer such services, behaviour “demonstrating a lack of commercial probity” according to the Insolvency Service.</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Old Etonian and former financial analyst will be disqualified from holding directorships, or from promoting, forming or managing a company, starting from 5 October, the Insolvency Service said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Following an extensive investigation, our conclusions were clear that SCL Elections had repeatedly offered shady political services to potential clients over a number of years,” said the Insolvency Service chief investigator, Mark Bruce.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Company directors should act with commercial probity and this means acting honestly and correctly. Alexander Nix’s actions did not meet the appropriate standard for a company director and his disqualification from managing limited companies for a significant amount of time is justified in the public interest.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SCL Elections and five connected companies ceased trading in 2018 following revelations in the Observer about its role in harvesting data about millions of voters from social media sites such as Facebook, for use by Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cambridge Analytica was found to have used the data to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The fallout from the scandal included a scathing report by the House of Commons digital, culture media and sport select committee, which labelled Facebook “digital gangsters” who had tried to obstruct the MPs’ inquiry and had done little to tackle attempts by Russia to manipulate elections.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Facebook also agreed to pay a record $5bn (£3.9bn) fine in the US, as well as a £500,000 fine – the highest possible – to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office over the scandal.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div>