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Post by mhbruin on Mar 14, 2024 9:03:43 GMT -8
Trump allies' ties to indicted Biden impeachment witnessAn American company that paid an indicted FBI informant who testified in the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry has ties to a British company owned by associates of Donald Trump in Dubai, according to a new report. The Guardian reported that business filings and court documents show Smirnov, who has been accused of lying to investigators about the president and his son Hunter Biden, was paid $600,000 in 2020 by a company called Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), and the indictment shows that same year he started lying to the FBI about the Bidens. ETT's chief executive is Christopher Condon, an American who is also one of three shareholders in ETT Investment Holding Limited in London. The other two shareholders are Pakistani American investor Shahal Khan and Farooq Arjomand, a former chairman and current board member of Damac Properties in Dubai. Arjomand and Khan have ties to Trump through some of his associates and Damac, a Middle Eastern developer who has partnered with the former president for a decade, and Trump describes Damac's former chairman Hussain Sajwani as a "friend” and a “great man," and their families have attended weddings, Mar-a-Lago parties and ribbon-cutting ceremonies together. Of Course, It All Leads Back to Previous Guy
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Post by mhbruin on Mar 14, 2024 9:04:45 GMT -8
More QOP Graft
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters is getting taxpayers in his state to foot the bill to help him score interviews on Fox News and other right-wing media outlets.
Local news station Fox 25 reports that the Oklahoma State Department of Education earlier this month signed a contract with Washington D.C.-based Vought Strategies that will pay the firm $200 an hour to help Walters drum up publicity for himself and his initiatives.
Emails obtained by Fox 25 show that a Vought staffer sent out messages to national media outlets "pitching Walters for segments to talk about topics including fentanyl and the southern border, his fight against drag queens in the classrooms, PETA, teachers' unions, and certain library books."
In an earlier interview, Walters claimed that using taxpayer cash to pay others to help get him on TV was necessary to help him recruit teachers to the state, despite the fact that many of his TV appearances deal with his assorted fights against teachers.
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