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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499327-17416039-0-18384.html 403 no premission</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/cambridge-analytica-just-filed-for-us-bankruptcy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/cambridge-analytica-just-filed-for-us-bankruptcy</a></font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cambridge Analytica LLC, the American branch of the political consultancy firm that was hired by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, filed for bankruptcy late Thursday. The filing reveals previously unknown details about financial relationships at the organization, which was thrown into disarray due to revelations that it mishandled the Facebook data of millions of people.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The New York–based arm of the British outfit submitted a voluntary petition to declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan.</b> SCL USA, the US-based affiliate of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Group, also filed for bankruptcy in the same court on Thursday.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the filings were expected — the company announced earlier this month that it had begun <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/cambridge-analytica-is-shutting-down-after-a-very-bad-month?utm_term=.jkGjqqe6O#.cumOppq1v" style="text-decoration: none solid rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">bankruptcy proceedings</a> in the United Kingdom — the documents reveal a spiderweb of affiliated entities, all of which have taken severe reputation hits following reports in March in the Observer and the New York Times that shed light on the company’s election work and procurement of Facebook user data. Cambridge Analytica’s filing was signed by board members and majority shareholders Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, whose family, led by hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/05/the-amount-robert-mercer-spent-on-politics-in-2016-likely-topped-30-million/?utm_term=.a023e13f8430" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none solid rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">spent millions of dollars</a> in support of Trump’s presidential campaign and conservative causes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The document noted that the American entity had assets of about $101,000 to $500,000 and liabilities between $1 million and $10 million. It also said that the affiliated <b>UK-based companies, including SCL Group Ltd., SCL Analytica Ltd., SCL Commercial Ltd., SCL Social Ltd., SCL Election Ltd., and Cambridge Analytica Ltd., </b>had begun bankruptcy proceedings earlier this month in the UK.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A source close to the company told BuzzFeed News earlier on Thursday that about 120 people lost their jobs with Cambridge Analytica’s shutdown.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Julian Wheatland, the chair of SCL Group who briefly took over as CEO of Cambridge Analytica following the suspension of former leader Alexander Nix, did not immediately return a request for comment. <b>Adam Harris, a Schulte Roth & Zabel lawyer representing Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL USA</b> also did not immediately return a request for comment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bankruptcy documents from SCL USA and Cambridge Analytica LLC shed some light on a complex organizational structure that had been mapped out by independent journalists <a href="https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/scl-companies-shareholders-e65a4f394158" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none solid rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Wendy Siegelman and Ann Marlowe,</a> but was not well understood. The filings show some of the shareholding relationships between the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> group's affiliates, including <b>Emerdata,</b> a company that was registered in August that some believed would ultimately assume ownership of the embattled companies. That notion was later dispelled by SCL Group founder Nigel Oakes, who told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-08/cambridge-analytica-won-t-be-revived-under-new-company-name" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none solid rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">Bloomberg News last week,</a> "The whole group has been closed down. There’s no other organization that’s been created."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Interestingly, the bankruptcy filings note that Emerdata was footing the legal bills for the two entities' bankruptcies and was paying Harris $30,000. Jennifer and Rebekah Mercer also sit on Emerdata's board.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The filings also list a long line of creditors between the two companies. Cambridge Analytica LLC lists various state attorneys general, which are all currently in the process of suing the company for its role in mishandling Facebook user data, while <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>SCL USA has more than 50 creditors including Facebook, Google, and Twitter. </b>A spokesperson for the Senate Commerce Committee, which is listed as a creditor to both companies, cited an <a href="https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=F958259D-3076-45B6-BD9C-C815BAC06201" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none solid rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">on-going inquiry</a> as the reason why it showed up on the documents.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As one of multiple government investigators listed in the bankruptcy filing as a creditor (including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Election Commission), the Senate Commerce Committee has an outstanding request for information from Cambridge Analytica,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.7rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Google and Facebook declined to comment on why they appeared on the filings, while Twitter did not return a request for comment. </b>A source familiar with Cambridge Analytica and SCL's business dealings noted that the companies may have owed those internet firms money for advertisement expenditures.</font></p><p style="margin: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 5px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[docs]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/scl-companies-shareholders-e65a4f394158">https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/scl-companies-shareholders-e65a4f394158</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="im" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.063px;">Note: chart updated May 2018, does not reflect recent news about AggregateIQ, however </span><a class="bi fw fx in fz ga" target="blank" rel="noopener" href="https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/chart-emerdata-limited-the-new-cambridge-analytica-scl-group-63283f47670d" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,"><svg preserveaspectratio="\"none\"" viewbox="\"0" quot="quot" xmlns="\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\""><line x1="\"0\"" y1="\"0\"" x2="\"1\"" y2="\"1\"" stroke="\"rgba(41," quot="quot" /></svg>"); letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><span class="im" style="box-sizing: inherit;">click here for chart of new CA/SCL company Emerdata</span></a></font></p><section class="ef eg eh ei ej" style="box-sizing: inherit; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="n p" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="z ab ac ae af ek ah ai" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-width: 0px; width: 680px; max-width: 680px; margin: 0px 64px;"><p id="90f8" class="ht hu en hv b fg hw hx hy fj hz ia ib ic id fo ie if ig fr ih ii ij fu ik il ef dd" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> sources of data used in the chart (updated May 2018):</font></p><p id="46db" class="ht hu en hv b fg hw hx hy fj hz ia ib ic id fo ie if ig fr ih ii ij fu ik il ef dd" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,"><svg preserveaspectratio="\"none\"" viewbox="\"0" quot="quot" xmlns="\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\""><line x1="\"0\"" y1="\"0\"" x2="\"1\"" y2="\"1\"" stroke="\"rgba(41," quot="quot" /></svg>");">https://opencorporates.com/</a></font></p></div></div></section><hr class="jd bp je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: none; margin-top: 30px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><section class="ef eg eh ei ej" style="box-sizing: inherit; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="n p" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="z ab ac ae af ek ah ai" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-width: 0px; width: 680px; max-width: 680px; margin: 0px 64px;"><p id="33cf" class="ht hu en hv b fg hw hx hy fj hz ia ib ic id fo ie if ig fr ih ii ij fu ik il ef dd" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More charts: <a class="bi fw fx in fz ga" target="blank" rel="noopener" href="https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/trump-creditors-ladder-capital-financial-deutsche-bank-658d97d2e2dc" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,"><svg preserveaspectratio="\"none\"" viewbox="\"0" quot="quot" xmlns="\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\""><line x1="\"0\"" y1="\"0\"" x2="\"1\"" y2="\"1\"" stroke="\"rgba(41," quot="quot" /></svg>");">Trump creditors Deutsche Bank and Ladder Capital, </a><a class="bi fw fx in fz ga" target="blank" rel="noopener" href="https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/rosneft-flowchart-559ac95ae7f" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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</font><div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exit Nix</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A year after this recording, <b>Nix was negotiating an abortive acquisition deal with Martin Sorrell’s world-leading WPP conglomerate of advertising and marketing firms</b>. In January 2018, he finally raised almost $20m for a new company called Emerdata.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Papers obtained by my investigation indicate the Mercers were joined by Chinese and Gulf investors in this effort, although the ultimate sources of their funds remain unclear. Johnson Ko, the Chinese state-linked business partner of American mercenary Erik Prince, briefly joined Emerdata’s board alongside one of his associates. (Cambridge Analytica China was also incubated at Ko’s firm Reorient Capital during 2017.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The majority of the new funds injected into Emerdata seem to have been extracted personally by Nix through various different pretexts, according to conversations I had with well-placed sources and review of bankruptcy documents. The biggest withdrawal <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1c8a5e74-6901-11e8-8cf3-0c230fa67aec" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; text-underline-position: under; word-break: break-word;">of $8.7 million</a> took place after Kaiser’s whistleblowing, and before Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections went into administration. Many employees were never paid their outstanding salaries and severance: the general sacrificed his footsoldiers, most of whom just wanted to get out and move on.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I first discovered Brittany Kaiser’s support for Bernie Sanders via a YouTube video of a company party at the dog races, arrestingly subtitled “We ‘Rigg’ Elections”. It shows a comedy routine performed by one of Cambridge Analytica’s data scientists, who notes Kaiser’s past involvement with the Obama campaign, suggests she may still be working for the Democrats, and includes this memorable line about Alexander Nix: “He could sell an anchor to a drowning man.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.86667rem; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Listening again to the pitch recording, I felt that Nix, who continues to protest his innocence and attempt to reboot his career, is now the one sinking under the weight of accumulating evidence. What about those who enabled him?</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond Facebookistan, New Deal 2.0?</font></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2018/05/09/if-you-thought-cambridge-analytica-was-scary-well-this-lots-fcking-terrifying/">https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2018/05/09/if-you-thought-cambridge-analytica-was-scary-well-this-lots-fcking-terrifying/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">new</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...Palantir first came to public attention thanks to investigations by US journalist Barrett Brown just prior to his arrest and imprisonment. Brown discovered that Palantir, HBGary Federal (later rebranded as CounterTack), and Berico were part of a dirty tricks campaign [pdf, p14] to discredit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Intercept editor Glenn Greenwald.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palantir has several divisions, including Defense, Cyber and Intelligence. The latter offers to integrate:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">disparate data from disconnected data silos at massive scale for low-friction interaction with intelligence officers. Search through every shred of enterprise data at high speed, pull out significant intelligence, and perform intuitive, multi-dimensional analysis to reveal unseen patterns, connections, and trends. Enterprise data sources, unstructured cable traffic, structured identity data, email, telephone records, spreadsheets, network traffic and more can all be searched and analyzed without the need for a specialized query language.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, Palantir was awarded a $34.6m contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and helped the Customs and Border Patrol Agency create the Analytical Framework for Intelligence (AFI) system to track immigrants. Palantir also works with Health and Human Services, the FBI and Homeland Security to track people as part of the ‘War on Terror’.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Palantir’s products is ‘Gotham’, a system to identify corporate or government leakers, as this leaked video shows:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, used to work as an intern at SCL Group, the parent company of CA. Schmidt reportedly advised former SCL head Alexander Nix to check out the work of Palantir.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently, whistleblower Christopher Wylie told Britain’s MPs that Palantir had several meetings with Nix and that “senior Palantir employees” subsequently worked on data harvested by CA.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Palantir spokesperson denies this:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palantir has never had a relationship with Cambridge Analytica nor have we ever worked on any Cambridge Analytica data.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it’s reported that, in 2013, UK-based Palantir employee Alfredas Chmieliauskas worked with CA, with access to the now infamous 50 million+ Facebook users’ data (that figure has since risen to around 87 million).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fallout</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the apparent demise of CA and SCL Elections, there is speculation about which other SCL affilates will fall on their sword, and whether the more recently formed company Emerdata will gather up the spoils:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's the chart I created showing Emerdata Limited?—?the new Cambridge Analytica/SCL Grouphttps://medium.com/@wsiegelman/chart-emerdata-limited-the-new-cambridge-analytica-scl-group-63283f47670d …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/chart-emerdata-limited-the-new-cambridge-analytica-scl-group-63283f47670d">https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/chart-emerdata-limited-the-new-cambridge-analytica-scl-group-63283f47670d</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chart: Emerdata Limited — the new Cambridge Analytica/SCL Group?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note: chart may be updated periodically, please share page link, not a screenshot.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, revelations continue to emerge, with SCL admitting [pdf, p3] in a 2010 email that, not long after the company was founded, it helped to break up strikes in the UK car industry:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1990 the first field trials for this methodology were undertaken by Strategic Communication Laboratories Ltd., a project management and implementation company, who successfully broke up a strike at a UK car transport plant.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, emails show [pdf, p7] that SCL’s managing director Mark Turnbull and data scientist David Wilkinson were asked to present at a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) conference in February 2017. The FCO told [pdf, p8] SCL it wanted to explore “our early Data Strategy for Foreign Policy and seek your views in shaping this”. The Canary has previously published the conference programme [pdf] and report [pdf].</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palantir and the UK</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Undoubtedly, there will be more revelations in weeks to come; and not just with CA/SCL, given that Palantir is now covering [paywall] Europe too.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, Palantir has already worked for UK intelligence and was awarded contracts to handle vast data sets on UK citizens for British spy agency GCHQ. The company also helped developan aid for the spyware XKEYSCORE programme. This was on behalf of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and its ‘Five Eyes‘ partners (in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), and was subsequently exposed [pdf] by whistleblower Edward Snowden. And a 2010 presentation on the joint NSA-GCHQ ‘Mastering the Internet‘ surveillance programme recommendedrunning Palantir software on Android handsets (smartphones and tablets). Palantir was also used as part of a GCHQ project which sought to improve the agency’s ability to collect tweets, blog posts and news articles.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It remains to be seen if Palantir lives up to its all-seeing/all-knowing name (taken from The Lord of the Rings). But its record to date most definitely suggests we need to keep our eyes wide open.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cambridge-analytica-secrets-covered-up-by-emerdata-rebekah-mercer-jennifer-mercer-alexander-nix-julian-wheatland"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.thedailybeast.com/cambridge-analytica-secrets-covered-up-by-emerdata-rebekah-mercer-jennifer-mercer-alexander-nix-julian-wheatland</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Cambridge Analytica Secrets Allegedly Covered Up by Trump Campaign Veterans</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The High Court in London heard that former insiders, including Rebekah Mercer, were pulling the strings of “biased” officials responsible for the fate of the company.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nico Hines</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">London Editor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Updated <b>04.18.19</b> 4:28AM ET / Published 03.18.19 5:48PM ET </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, 102);">LONDON—British political consultants that worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign liked to boast that they could deploy dirty tricks and twist democracies all over the world without the risk of detection.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The High Court in London heard on Monday that Cambridge Analytica was up to its old tricks from beyond the grave—by surreptitiously trying to halt investigations that could expose allegedly nefarious tactics before the company was shut down for good.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company filed for the British equivalent of chapter 11 bankruptcy last year after undercover Channel 4 reporters secretly recorded its boss, Alexander Nix, claiming that Trump’s data gurus had carried out illicit election campaigns all over the world. The company was also accused of using up to 87 million clandestinely harvested Facebook profiles to create a state of the art voter database that helped Trump win election in 2016.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PROXY WAR</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cambridge Analytica’s Dirty Tricks Elected Trump, CEO Claims</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nico Hines</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A lawyer representing a New York professor, who believes his private data was misused by the notorious campaign operatives, claims Cambridge Analytica’s data secrets are being shielded from justice and exposure by administrators in the pay of a shadow company set up by a band of executives linked to the Trump campaign veterans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The High Court heard that administrators had deliberately misled a judge during a previous hearing by obfuscating their financial links to Emerdata, a company which was set up by Nix, Rebekah Mercer, and other senior figures who were previously involved with Cambridge Analytica.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Britain, court-appointed administrators are supposed to work independently on behalf of all creditors to take over running of the company, similar to chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. But the legal team of David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School in New York who is fighting for access to the data compiled on him, claimed that the administrators of Cambridge Analytica has succumbed to undue influence. Emerdata appointed the administrator and subsequently committed to pay them up to $1 million in fees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The administrators, Vincent Green and Mark Newman of Crowe U.K. LLP, were accused of trying to liquidate the company before a full investigation into the company could be held.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It is extremely unusual, in my submission, to have the fees of an administrator underwritten effectively by the people who may themselves be the principal focus of any subsequent investigation,” said Andreas Gledhill Q.C., the lawyer representing Carroll in court.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It's about searching for the answers and triggering accountability.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— David Carroll</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carroll’s team hope the High Court judge will fire the administrator and pass the case to government receivers who would then appoint a new administrator willing to investigate legal breaches at Cambridge Analytica and five other interrelated companies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This needs to go to the official receiver and there needs to be a whole set of investigations—someone needs to crack the vault,” Ravi Naik, a lawyer for Carroll told The Daily Beast outside court. “Without this case being successful, there cannot be an investigation because the company will liquidate. This is the dying embers.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In documents submitted to the court, Gledhill claimed that Emerdata was due to pay the administrator up to £800,000 ($1 million) but had only handed over around £220,000 ($290,000) so far.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“With their legal fees funded by Emerdata, the administrators have treated this as hostile litigation between themselves and Mr. Carroll, making their lack of independence abundantly clear,” Gledhill said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, daughters of billionaire Trump donor Robert Mercer, are listed as directors of Emerdata</b>. As is former Cambridge Analytica chairman Julian Wheatland, who is named on the list of people close to President Trump being probed by the House Judiciary Committee, alongside Nix, who resigned as a director of Emerdata on the same day that he was called back for further questioning by a committee in Britain’s House of Commons. Nix remains a shareholder.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The dispute between Carroll and Cambridge Analytica began when the professor read about the alleged use of data in the 2016 presidential campaign. Under British law, companies are required to disclose what information they hold on any individual who asks for it, so Carroll filed a formal request. Cambridge Analytica repeatedly refused to hand the information over until it entered administration last year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cambridge Analytica’s Real Role in Trump’s Facebook Campaign</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Poulsen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notionally, Carroll’s involvement in this case is due to his role as a creditor who is potentially owed around £5,000 ($6,600) for the personal data breach.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Even if I were to get the money, it's tiny fraction of the amount of money that I'm risking,” he told The Daily Beast. “It's about searching for the answers and triggering accountability. If it wasn't for me they would just rubberstamp it—and they'd be gone.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His contention is that there are millions of other people whose data was stolen and misused by Cambridge Analytica.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Monday, the High Court heard that press reports following Cambridge Analytica’s bankruptcy speculated that Emerdata might take up the baton and continue the controversial company’s work under another name.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Court documents submitted by Carroll’s team claimed that the administrators had also failed in their most basic duties: “Employees have refused to return laptops to the Administrators, and others have been stolen from the Administrators’ custody. Adding to concerns that the Cambridge Analytica business continues to be carried-on under another guise, as at November 2018, former employees were apparently still accessing its cloud-based infrastructure.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gledhill told the court that it was vital for Mr. Justice Norris to refuse to grant Crowe’s bid to become liquidators and shut the company down permanently.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This case has attracted exceptional public interest and in our submission the standard of independence in this case should be correspondingly high. We say that the administrators cannot meet that standard both because of the appearance of bias and because they are in fact biased,” he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gledhill claimed that Emerdata’s favored administrators had gone to extremes in order to avoid complying with the regulator which ordered Cambridge Analytica to respond to a subject access request (SAR) from Carroll. He wanted to know what information had been obtained on him, where it had come from, and how it was used. The Information Commissioner's Office ended up taking the company to court, and Cambridge Analytica parent company SCL was convicted of breaking the law in January.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It speaks volumes about the extent to which the administrators are beholden to Emerdata that, despite their status as officers of the court… they preferred to expose [SCL] Elections to criminal sanction for failure to cooperate with a regulator, rather than yield an inch to Professor Carroll’s SAR.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gledhill said it may have been enough to avoid the conviction if the administrators had made their best endeavors to comply. “Had they done that in any subsequent criminal proceedings they would have had a defense … They didn't even try at all.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said that would have been easy: “What was there to prevent the administrator from sitting down with Mr. Nix or Mr. Wheatland” and asking what they remembered about where the vast swathes of data on up to 200 million American voters had come from?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Catherine Addy QC, representing the administrators in court, said her clients had cooperated as much as they could with the regulators. She said it was impossible to track down Carroll’s personal information amid 700 terabytes of data that has been seized by the Information Commission. She also insisted that the administrators had no idea that there was an ongoing process to access that material when they were appointed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She claimed Carroll’s legal team was “using the media and political storm cloud” to try to hold up the normal procedures of the court.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The judge has reserved his judgment on whether Crowe should be dismissed as the administrator. He is expected to rule in the coming days.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div>