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Devin Nunes - interesting information on his ties to organized crime (Original Post) NewJeffCT Jan 2018 OP
We have been saturated in a tsunami of news dewsgirl Jan 2018 #1
you're welcome NewJeffCT Jan 2018 #8
I knew Nunes was in with the Russians WhiteTara Jan 2018 #2
Where did you get the Armenian reference... IthinkThereforeIAM Jan 2018 #11
Nasty little man, isn't he. nt WhiteTara Jan 2018 #15
About time. How come he got the Order of the Star of Romania ? OnDoutside Jan 2018 #3
Here's the Threadreaderapp link OnDoutside Jan 2018 #4
Indivisible is doing a great job. BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #6
thanks for threadreaderapp link! n/t Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2018 #7
Wow! onecaliberal Jan 2018 #5
wow++ jmbar2 Jan 2018 #9
I am often skeptical about these type of Twitter accounts, but this one has such a biting tone and dewsgirl Jan 2018 #10
I don't know if it will have enough impact NewJeffCT Jan 2018 #12
Anything is possible, whoever this person is, they are seriously pissed at Devin Nunes. I have seen dewsgirl Jan 2018 #13
The Russian Armenian Mafias are linked neohippie Jan 2018 #14
more on Russian mafia neohippie Jan 2018 #16
Kick dalton99a Jan 2018 #17

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. We have been saturated in a tsunami of news
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 07:46 AM
Jan 2018

The last 48 hrs, thank you for this. I saw the second tweet last night, got distracted and forgot.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
8. you're welcome
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 09:57 AM
Jan 2018

I didn't see it at the top of GD anywhere, so posted it there. Not sure about the person posting it on Twitter, though.

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,078 posts)
11. Where did you get the Armenian reference...
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 11:27 AM
Jan 2018

... because I do not see any mention of it in the article linked via the OP's tweet repost. I have a friend who is involved in issues there and the Ukraine. Please toss me a line!


Nevermind. I found it in the link offered in post #4, Armenian wineries...

OnDoutside

(19,987 posts)
4. Here's the Threadreaderapp link
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 08:43 AM
Jan 2018
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/958421960194691072.html


Hi there, guy!

I just wanted to share a few details about your life with those horrible, mean people at the FBI, K?

Let's start with that one front group you're friends with, the Ag Lenders Society of California:
Amid controversy, Devin Nunes returning to Fresno to talk water
Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman from Tulare who’s been at the center of a political firestorm in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to discuss federal water issues at a meeting of agricultur…
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article141555489.html


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You know what's really weird about the Ag Lenders Society of California? The board members are all tied to each other in different ways, outside of the Ag Lenders Society: aglenders.org/board-of-direc…
But it gets even WEIRDER Devin. Would you like me to show you how?

Take Michael Gomez' firm, Frandzel, Robins Boloom and Csato, LC...they have this REALLY unusual client list. Let me tell you about them...

Bear with me, Devin. Lots of info here. So please be patient with me, while I explain everything...

Eenie-meenie-minie-mo...

Let's look at Chinatrust Bank first, Devin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTBC_Bank

They're the ones with the Pakistani President who "opposes 'Cold War' thinking in US/Chinese relations":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Menai
Hmmm...which one should we talk about next Devin?

BigmanPigman

(51,674 posts)
6. Indivisible is doing a great job.
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 09:18 AM
Jan 2018

I was hoping that those in his area would turn up at his local office. Indivisible has had weekly meeting for a year outside of Issa's local office and now he won't run for reelction.

jmbar2

(4,923 posts)
9. wow++
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 10:34 AM
Jan 2018

I knew there had to be some smoking guns in the background. thanks for posting!

Trump's infrastructure plan sounds like what Putie did to Russia's state-owned gov companies. Feeding frenzy for oligarchs from around the world. Trump wants to BE Putin on a global scale --with American assets!

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
10. I am often skeptical about these type of Twitter accounts, but this one has such a biting tone and
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 11:12 AM
Jan 2018

threatening nature to it, I don't doubt it at all. Thank you again, I can't wait until part 3 is up or Nunes turns himself in.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
12. I don't know if it will have enough impact
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 11:29 AM
Jan 2018

to get Nunes to resign. It would need to be researched, documented and presented by a legitimate news organization (a local or regional newspaper in his area, or a local TV news station?) for him to have to answer to what was posted on Twitter.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
13. Anything is possible, whoever this person is, they are seriously pissed at Devin Nunes. I have seen
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 11:41 AM
Jan 2018

quite a few threads that I completely forgot about, a year goes bye and then boom suddenly that random Twitter thread I read however long ago was correct. I love when I come across one like this one.

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
14. The Russian Armenian Mafias are linked
Wed Jan 31, 2018, 12:07 PM
Jan 2018

These Eastern European mafias have longstanding ties and have worked worldwide to spread their power and influence through both corrupt and legitimate business practices, laundering monies, and trying to establish political power and relationships all over the world

Here's an interesting story on how they operate that mentions some of these mafia figures living in Trump Tower

Gangsters of the Mediterranean


https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/russian-mob-mallorca-spain/545504/


If the fugitives were intimidated, Rueda saw little sign of it. Law-enforcement officials in Georgia told him that Oniani was threatening to kill Spanish investigators. But in the spring of 2006, Rueda heard about another birthday party. This time the guest of honor was to be Vyacheslav (the Little Japanese) Ivankov, a feisty mobster who had cut a swath through New York City in the early 1990s, reportedly living in a Trump Tower apartment and dressing like a Russian John Gotti. The U.S. authorities had convicted him of extortion and deported him to Russia, but a decade later, he was a free man, looking forward to celebrating in Dubai with a parade of other kingpins.


and another paragraph from this same story links these "businessmen" to Paul Manafort


Last year, the Spanish prosecutors took the case into a new realm, charging a high-profile Ukrainian oligarch named Dmitry Firtash with being a boss of the money laundering operation. Firtash, who is based in Vienna, was also once a business partner of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who worked extensively for pro-Russian political figures in Ukraine and was charged last week with money laundering, conspiracy and other crimes by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. But on August 30, an Austrian court rejected Spain’s extradition request, ruling that its prosecutors had not presented sufficient information against Firtash. (The businessman still faces possible extradition to the United States on charges that he paid $18.5 million in bribes through American intermediaries to win a mining concession in India.)
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