@KissBillTwice Another case in point: Douglas Stankewitz. Brady violations and DA lies, framing and railroading. He’s still incarcerated after 46 years, 10 years of seriously pushing for freedom. https://t.co/AUQ9pcRKCz
Our criminal legal system is corrupt!
What the heck is going on here?
ABC7 is my local station. It isn’t a partisan network, it’s where millions of Angelenos get local news, weather, fires, earthquakes, and emergency alerts.
So why is the FCC putting its broadcast license under an unusually early review years before it was due?
Explain, with receipts. @FCC
This is an attorney asking all attorneys to step up. He is representing all those whose constitutional rights have been infringed by ICE, and is asking for partners. He’s also doing it for free. Please spread this everywhere.
Senator Bae framing this in stark moral terms, like EVIL, is apt
“Michelle Obama is one of the most dignified people one could ever meet… This idea that Black women aren’t really women and Black people aren’t really people harkens to the darkest days in our country’s history.”
🚨NEW: Donald Trump has forced the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into California Governor Gavin Newsom, one of his top political opponents.
RETWEET if you stand with @GavinNewsom against Trump!
My post on Sazan Island went viral yesterday because the verifiable facts are shocking.
Here's what I left out: Sazan is just one piece of a much bigger operation.
Jared Kushner started Affinity Partners in July 2021. One day after leaving the White House.
Within weeks, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund wired him $2 billion. Senior Saudi officials objected. Mohammed bin Salman overruled them.
By the end of 2024, Affinity was managing $4.8 billion, almost entirely from foreign governments. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE. Today that number is $6.16 billion. 99% from foreign nationals.
The fee structure, disclosed to the Senate Finance Committee under investigation: Kushner charges the Saudis 1.25% annually on $2 billion in committed capital. Other investors pay closer to 2%. The Senate's own investigators called this "unusually high" for a firm with Kushner's experience level, or more correctly, complete lack of experience. As of mid-2024, Affinity had generated zero return on investment and had not distributed a penny of earnings back to any client.
He's charging governments tens of millions a year to have their money sit in a bank account.
In late 2024, Senator Wyden referred Kushner to the Department of Justice for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The same law that put Paul Manafort in prison.
Now Kushner is back in government. Trump's "Special Envoy for Peace." Negotiating with Iran. Negotiating with Russia. Negotiating ceasefire terms in Gaza. On behalf of the United States. Not chosen by Americans. No experience running an investment firm. No training or experience in international relations. His sole credential is that he married the president's daughter. All while managing $6 billion from the governments he is negotiating with.
Before Trump's second term started, Kushner publicly promised he would not raise additional capital while serving. The New York Times then reported he was actively soliciting $5 billion more from foreign governments. His lawyers confirmed the conversations. They said he "does not intend" to take it.
He said the same thing before he took it the first time.
The Senate Finance Committee and the House Oversight Committee are both demanding answers. They've asked for every communication between Kushner and foreign governments. They've asked Affinity to preserve all documents. Any destruction of records, they said in writing, will be treated as obstruction.
Now look at the ownership chart below. It was produced as part of a corporate investigation published June 3rd titled "Exporting the Abraham Accords: The Hidden Network Converging on Albania's Shoreline." My follower @SlavicWoman777 flagged it in my replies.
Five unnamed Albanian shareholders. 24% combined stake. Structured deliberately just below the 25% threshold that would require public disclosure under Dutch law.
That is someone trying to hide who is behind the money.
This is what corruption looks like when it's wearing a suit and has a law firm on retainer.
What do you call it when your government's negotiator is on the payroll of the governments he's negotiating with?
Jared and Ivanka Kushner want to buy Sazan Island in Albania because it is beautiful and they want to make it a resort. How nice!
But Sazan island is not a vacation spot. It’s a well-documented strategic military chokepoint with a long military history.
In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev stood at the nearby Soviet submarine base and said, "From there I could control the Mediterranean to Gibraltar." Sazan island controls the Strait of Otranto, and the Strait of Otranto controls access to the entire Adriatic.
Every empire that wanted to control the Adriatic, wanted Sazan. Romans. Ottomans. Italians. Germans. Soviets.
What Ivanka describes as "An unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean," is approximately 3,600 nuclear bunkers and kilometers of tunnels and hardened underground facilities, including a submarine pen the Soviets built specifically to project power into the Mediterranean, and is still an Albanian military zone.
The deal was negotiated in secret. Albanian citizens and their own parliament didn't know about it until the press reported it. The Albanian government approved it immediately after Trump won reelection. Kushner’s newly formed investment company is using $4.6 billion from Saudi Arabia and Gulf sovereign wealth funds to fund the purchase. A Qatari company, Power International Holding, is a co-owner of the project and is currently under investigation by Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors.
Now that the deal is public, the Albanians are pissed. They're in the streets marching by the thousands in Tirana, Albania’s capital with banners reading "Albania is not for sale." Private security forces have attacked protesters. The Albanian government has suspended police officers, and revoked security company licenses.
Yep, just a couple private civilians looking to open a resort. No need to look further...
Now that you know the whole story, what do you think?
This girl found out that the Albanian island that the Kushner’s are buying is registered in Amsterdam by Zvernic South Adriatic Development & it’s owned through a chain of Dutch Shell Companies & it’s managed by a trust office.They’re really trying to hide the owners names well.
@DADiClementi She’s a beautiful woman who has self confidence and doesn’t need facelifts to feel good about herself. Screw the expectation that women should look a certain way!
Sometimes I think we are broken right now as a country. To heal, we need to find a way to have grace.
If Graham Platner and all of you can find a way to build that redemption through this campaign, this transformation, maybe it can show a way for this country to redeem itself.
Fresno County Superior Court grants Douglas Stankewitz, a Native American man, access to evidence under the California Racial Justice Act. This allows him to substantiate claims of racial bias in his decades-long death penalty case.
https://t.co/zNvhlseaY5
Fresno County Superior Court grants Douglas Stankewitz, a Native American man, access to evidence under the California Racial Justice Act. This allows him to substantiate claims of racial bias in his decades-long death penalty case.
https://t.co/zNvhlseaY5