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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDevin Nunes - interesting information on his ties to organized crime
Not sure who Winford/ToestringRd is and if he is that reliable, but most of his information is sourced.
Here is thread 1:
Link to tweet
Here is thread 2:
Link to tweet
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)The last 48 hrs, thank you for this. I saw the second tweet last night, got distracted and forgot.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)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.
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)but the Armenians too. My my my.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,078 posts)... 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...
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)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 whos 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)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.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,574 posts)onecaliberal
(33,013 posts)jmbar2
(4,923 posts)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)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)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)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)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 Spains 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.)
neohippie
(1,142 posts)This site lines up the history of the Russian mafia and it's ties to Trump as their Manchurian candidate
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/russian-organized-crime.htm