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1/ This is a thread about the largest money-laundering casino on US soil that ever existed and its deep connections to Bitfinex/Tether, FTX, Donald Trump, US elections, Russia, Wirecard, intelligence agencies & the most powerful/dangerous gangster in the world: Semion Mogilevich.
2/ In 2014 the largest Bitcoin exchange at the time, Mt Gox, went bankrupt after having lost 744,408 Bitcoin in a theft by 2 Russians. Alexander Vinnik pleaded guilty to laundering $9bn. His exchange BTC-e (WEX) is now controlled by Konstantin Malofeev/Russian security agency FSB
3/ Vinnik has ties to FSB-linked Semion Mogilevich, “the boss of all bosses” of the Russian mafia, whose crime organization has immense global power/reach & is connected to intelligence agencies/politicians around the world. He made alliances with Italian, Chinese & Japanese OCGs
4/ Mogilevich is the preeminent money launderer of his generation & traffics in weapons, narcotics, oil, etc. He pulled off a $5bn Czech fuel tax fraud, a$150m US stock scam (YBM Magnex) laundering $10bn through the Bank of New York. He employs PhDs & Lazarus/Russia work together
5/ By 2001, $70bn was already laundered through Nauru alone, a tiny Pacific island. Mogilevich was put on the FBI Top 10 Most Wanted List but later removed & former FBI director William Sessions became his lawyer. He allegedly made a deal with the German BND and is close to Putin
6/ One party that wanted to save Mt Gox was Sunlot Holdings, a group around Brock Pierce and John Betts. Sunlot was incorporated in Cyprus, also described as “a Russian bank with dirty money posing as an EU state”. When Cyprus was bailed out in 2013 the Bitcoin price surged 178%.
7/ Pierce is at the base of many crypto companies, being the co-founder of Tether, BlockOne & Blockchain Capital (which funded Coinbase, Bancor, BitGo, Blockstream). Pierce’s company IGE acquired Gamecliff from Brendan Blumer in 2005 and they later became co-founders of BlockOne.
8/ Steve Bannon joined IGE in 2005 and got VCs/Goldman Sachs to invest $60m. Breitbart was indirectly connected to Sunlot and via Jonathan Curshen (jailed 20yrs), Bannon also has ties to Mogilevich. Bannon’s associate Guo Wengui AKA Miles Guo is implicated in a $1bn (crypto) scam
9/ Sunlot Holdings’ advisor was former FBI director Louis Freeh, the first FBI director to go to Russia in 1994. In the 90s he also set up the first ILEA academy in Hungary and met Viktor Orbán, who Mogilevich seems to have ‘compromised’ via Dietmar Clodo when he lived in Hungary
10/ After the FBI, Freeh started a consultancy firm called FSS with Stanley Sporkin (who used to work for the SEC & CIA) and Eugene Sullivan, a judge & former general counsel of the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office. They worked with William Sessions at Gavel Consulting
11/ In 2014, the year of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, the first stablecoin Tether was launched by Brock Pierce&Co. When Tether faced banking issues in 2017 they moved their money to Noble Bank founded by Pierce & Betts. Freeh’s colleague Eugene Sullivan was on Noble Bank’s board
12/ In 2018 it was again Louis Freeh who wrote Tether’s attestation report on behalf of FSS. 2014 was also the year that a casino was built in Saipan by Imperial Pacific, which on paper was “the most successful gambling operation in history” handling >$2 billion a month in bets.
13/ This casino had very prominent advisors/board members that were also associated with Tether. Indeed, Louis Freeh & Eugene Sullivan. But also former CIA director James Woolsey & Haley Barbour, whose clients Mikhail Fridman & Dmytro Firtash are suspected frontmen for Mogilevich
14/ Both Woolsey (implicated in a $1bn scam) & Sessions were part of GlobalOptions Inc, a “private CIA/FBI” by former secret agent Neil Livingstone. Barbour connected his client Firtash to Livingstone who tried to negotiate a very sensitive “Project M” (=Mogilevich) with the DOJ.
15/ Freeh also represented many clients with ties to Mogilevich, eg Fridman, Prevezon (Pyotr & Denis Katsyv) and Andy Khawaja’s Allied Wallet, a client of Wirecard, where Firtash, German & Russian intelligence operatives had accounts. Wirecard’s COO Jan Marsalek was a Russian spy
16/ Freeh was also implicated in the Mueller report for ties to Russian organized crime. Journalist Adam Levine confirmed that Bitfinex had a banking relationship in Macau where Imperial Pacific has its fraudulent origins & 3 Portuguese banks of Bitfinex’s shadow bank were active
17/ Casinos allow (illicit) money to go from one party to another using gambling as a cover. Donald Trump received a ‘loan’ from his father in that way & donations via Imperial Pacific. Mark Brown headed Trump’s/Saipan’s casinos & worked in Macau for Steve Wynn, a client of Freeh
18/ Trump has deep ties to Mogilevich, e.g. via Felix Sater/ Bayrock, via a Russian gambling ring run out of Trump Tower & via 1300 real estate transactions that were all cash purchases made by anonymous Russian-mobster linked shell companies. @CraigUnger wrote a book about it.
19/ Michael Milken invented the junk bonds that were used to buy out Las Vegas’ mob-owned casinos by people like Trump & Wynn, initiating the $160bn Savings & Loans scandal, which was a conspiracy between corrupt politicians/businessmen, organized crime & intelligence agencies.
20/ Bannon was involved in meetings between CIA-tied Erik Prince & George Nader to influence the 2016 US elections on behalf of Saudi Arabia/UAE with Putin’s approval & with Kirill Dmitriev to establish a backchannel between the Trump administration & Kremlin (Seychelles meeting)
