by NFT Ethics
This is 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 and the most powerful/dangerous gangster in the world: Semion Mogilevich.
In 2014 the largest Bitcoin exchange at the time, Mt Gox, went bankrupt after having lost 744,408 Bitcoin in a theft by two Russians. Alexander Vinnik pleaded guilty to laundering $9bn. His exchange BTC-e (WEX) is now controlled by Konstantin Malofeev of the Russian security agency FSB.
Vinnik has ties to FSB-linked Semion Mogilevich, “the boss of all bosses” of the Russian mafia, whose crime organization has immense global power and reach, and is connected to intelligence agencies and politicians around the world. He has made alliances with Italian, Chinese & Japanese organised crime groups.
Mogilevich is the preeminent money launderer of his generation and 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 and the North-Korean-linked Lazarus hacker group.
By 2001, $70 billion had already been laundered through Nauru alone, a tiny Pacific island. Mogilevich was put on the FBI "Top 10 Most Wanted List" but was later removed and former FBI director William Sessions became his lawyer. He allegedly made a deal with the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (German Federal Intelligence Service) and is close to Putin.
One party that wanted to save Mt Gox was Sunlot Holdings, a group centred around Brock Pierce and John Betts. Sunlot was incorporated in Cyprus, a country 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%.
Brock 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.
Steve Bannon joined IGE in 2005 and got venture capital and Goldman Sachs to invest $60m. Breitbart was indirectly connected to Sunlot and via Jonathan Curshen (jailed for 20 years for stock fraud), Bannon also has ties to Mogilevich. Bannon’s associate Guo Wengui AKA Miles Guo is implicated in a $1 billion (crypto) scam.
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 International Law Enforcement Academy in Hungary and met Viktor Orbán, who Mogilevich seems to have ‘compromised’ via Dietmar Clodo when he lived in Hungary.
After the FBI, Freeh started a consultancy firm called FSS with Stanley Sporkin (who used to work for the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the CIA) and Eugene Sullivan, a judge and former general counsel of the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office. They worked with William Sessions at Gavel Consulting.
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.
In 2018 it was again Louis Freeh who wrote Tether’s attestation report on behalf of Freeh's consultancy firm 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 more than $2 billion a month in bets.
This casino had very prominent advisors and board members who were also associated with Tether. Indeed, Louis Freeh & Eugene Sullivan, but also former CIA director James Woolsey and Haley Barbour, whose clients Mikhail Fridman and Dmytro Firtash are suspected frontmen for Mogilevich.
Both Woolsey (implicated in a $1 billion green energy scam) and Sessions were part of GlobalOptions Inc, a "private front for the CIA/FBI" run 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 US Department of Justice.
Freeh also represented many clients with ties to Mogilevich, e.g. Fridman, Prevezon (Pyotr and Denis Katsyv) and Andy Khawaja’s Allied Wallet, a client of Wirecard, where Firtash and German and Russian intelligence operatives had accounts. Wirecard’s COO Jan Marsalek was a Russian spy.
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 and three Portuguese banks linked to Bitfinex’s shadow bank were active.
Casinos allow dark money to go from one party to another, using gambling as a cover. Donald Trump once received a "loan" from his father in that way, and more recently received donations via Imperial Pacific. Mark Brown headed Trump’s Saipan’s casinos and worked in Macau for Steve Wynn, a client of Freeh.
Trump has deep ties to Mogilevich, for example via Felix Sater and Bayrock, via a Russian gambling ring run out of Trump Tower and via 1,300 real estate transactions that were all cash purchases made by anonymous Russian-mobster linked shell companies. CraigUnger wrote a book about it.
Michael Milken invented the junk bonds that were used to buy out Las Vegas’s mob-owned casinos by people like Trump and Wynn, initiating the $160 billion Savings & Loans scandal, which was a conspiracy between corrupt politicians and businessmen, organized crime, and intelligence agencies.
Bannon was involved in meetings between CIA-tied Erik Prince and George Nader to influence the 2016 US elections on behalf of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with Putin’s approval and with Kirill Dmitriev to establish a backchannel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin (see the Seychelles meeting). Andy Khawaja claims the 2016 elections were bought by the UAE and the Saudis with more than $100m of donations to Trump. Others corroborate his story. Nader (now jailed) wanted to use Khawaja’s payment engine, but found an alternative. Dmitriev (ex-Goldman Sachs) is close to Alisher Usmanov.
Mogilevich is also close to Usmanov, who co-founded DST Global with Yuri Milner, a venture capital firm that invested in many US companies (Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb). DST’s team came almost entirely from its proxy, Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs and Jared Kushner's Cadre served as DST's funding vehicle.
Peter Thiel started to invest in bitcoin in 2014. He also backed Cadre and is close to DST. Palantir was funded by the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel. Palantir and Bannon were involved in the FaceBook-Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal. CA’s largest shareholder was Vincent Tchenguiz, Firtash’s partner. Thiel worked at CIA-linked Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C), the law firm of FTX, Goldman Sachs & DST.
S&C is accused of having co-conspired in the FTX fraud, for example, via Ryne Miller who worked for FTX & S&C. S&C sold FTX’s assets at big discounts to Novogratz’ Galaxy Digital, another S&C client.
Christopher Bauer died aged 44 under suspicious circumstances in the Philippines. He was Wirecard’s contact for the late Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili. Both are mentioned in Heidi Blake's book "From Russia with Blood," covering fourteen Russian-linked deaths on UK soil.
One party that wanted to save Mt Gox was Sunlot Holdings, a group centred around Brock Pierce and John Betts. Sunlot was incorporated in Cyprus, a country 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%.
Brock 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.
Steve Bannon joined IGE in 2005 and got venture capital and Goldman Sachs to invest $60m. Breitbart was indirectly connected to Sunlot and via Jonathan Curshen (jailed for 20 years for stock fraud), Bannon also has ties to Mogilevich. Bannon’s associate Guo Wengui AKA Miles Guo is implicated in a $1 billion (crypto) scam.
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 International Law Enforcement Academy in Hungary and met Viktor Orbán, who Mogilevich seems to have ‘compromised’ via Dietmar Clodo when he lived in Hungary.
After the FBI, Freeh started a consultancy firm called FSS with Stanley Sporkin (who used to work for the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the CIA) and Eugene Sullivan, a judge and former general counsel of the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office. They worked with William Sessions at Gavel Consulting.
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.
In 2018 it was again Louis Freeh who wrote Tether’s attestation report on behalf of Freeh's consultancy firm 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 more than $2 billion a month in bets.
This casino had very prominent advisors and board members who were also associated with Tether. Indeed, Louis Freeh & Eugene Sullivan, but also former CIA director James Woolsey and Haley Barbour, whose clients Mikhail Fridman and Dmytro Firtash are suspected frontmen for Mogilevich.
Both Woolsey (implicated in a $1 billion green energy scam) and Sessions were part of GlobalOptions Inc, a "private front for the CIA/FBI" run 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 US Department of Justice.
Freeh also represented many clients with ties to Mogilevich, e.g. Fridman, Prevezon (Pyotr and Denis Katsyv) and Andy Khawaja’s Allied Wallet, a client of Wirecard, where Firtash and German and Russian intelligence operatives had accounts. Wirecard’s COO Jan Marsalek was a Russian spy.
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 and three Portuguese banks linked to Bitfinex’s shadow bank were active.
Casinos allow dark money to go from one party to another, using gambling as a cover. Donald Trump once received a "loan" from his father in that way, and more recently received donations via Imperial Pacific. Mark Brown headed Trump’s Saipan’s casinos and worked in Macau for Steve Wynn, a client of Freeh.
Trump has deep ties to Mogilevich, for example via Felix Sater and Bayrock, via a Russian gambling ring run out of Trump Tower and via 1,300 real estate transactions that were all cash purchases made by anonymous Russian-mobster linked shell companies. CraigUnger wrote a book about it.
Michael Milken invented the junk bonds that were used to buy out Las Vegas’s mob-owned casinos by people like Trump and Wynn, initiating the $160 billion Savings & Loans scandal, which was a conspiracy between corrupt politicians and businessmen, organized crime, and intelligence agencies.
Bannon was involved in meetings between CIA-tied Erik Prince and George Nader to influence the 2016 US elections on behalf of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with Putin’s approval and with Kirill Dmitriev to establish a backchannel between the Trump administration and the Kremlin (see the Seychelles meeting). Andy Khawaja claims the 2016 elections were bought by the UAE and the Saudis with more than $100m of donations to Trump. Others corroborate his story. Nader (now jailed) wanted to use Khawaja’s payment engine, but found an alternative. Dmitriev (ex-Goldman Sachs) is close to Alisher Usmanov.
Mogilevich is also close to Usmanov, who co-founded DST Global with Yuri Milner, a venture capital firm that invested in many US companies (Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb). DST’s team came almost entirely from its proxy, Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs and Jared Kushner's Cadre served as DST's funding vehicle.
Peter Thiel started to invest in bitcoin in 2014. He also backed Cadre and is close to DST. Palantir was funded by the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel. Palantir and Bannon were involved in the FaceBook-Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal. CA’s largest shareholder was Vincent Tchenguiz, Firtash’s partner. Thiel worked at CIA-linked Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C), the law firm of FTX, Goldman Sachs & DST.
S&C is accused of having co-conspired in the FTX fraud, for example, via Ryne Miller who worked for FTX & S&C. S&C sold FTX’s assets at big discounts to Novogratz’ Galaxy Digital, another S&C client.
Bitfinex issued their LEO token on 8th May, 2019, the same day that FTX was founded, resulting in a $1 billion bailout by Galaxy-and-Thiel-backed BlockOne & FTX. BlockOne and Bitfinex share a founder (Pierce) and FTX and Bitfinex shared a bank (Deltec). Deltec granted FTX a $2bn credit line.
FTX & Binance (via crypto trading firm Cumberland) were the largest recipients of Tether, which serves as (Russia’s) money-laundering vehicle. Research shows Tether and the bitcoin price are correlated. Wirecard was a card issuer for crypto firms and when Wirecard went down, Tether started to ramp up.
FTX & Binance (via crypto trading firm Cumberland) were the largest recipients of Tether, which serves as (Russia’s) money-laundering vehicle. Research shows Tether and the bitcoin price are correlated. Wirecard was a card issuer for crypto firms and when Wirecard went down, Tether started to ramp up.
Christopher Bauer died aged 44 under suspicious circumstances in the Philippines. He was Wirecard’s contact for the late Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili. Both are mentioned in Heidi Blake's book "From Russia with Blood," covering fourteen Russian-linked deaths on UK soil.
Russia and other authoritarian regimes have been able to undermine democracies by buying influence in Western countries (via venture capital funds, hedge funds, real estate, etc), often via opaque constructions with the help of elite lawyers, lobbyists, bankers & shadowy businessmen, who all benefited.
Crime groups and private mercenaries are used to influence elections, destabilize and loot countries, and fund covert operations to pursue and protect political and national security interests. Putin had used the German company SPAG to launder the narco money from the Columbian Cali Cartel via Mogilevich et al.
The CIA also made many alliances with drug lords and crime groups, a market worth trillions a year. Wall Street, Big Tech & the US Military-Industrial Complex, which are deeply intertwined, are engines of the debt-ridden US economy and key to protect the US dollar as reserve currency.
Crypto is part of this (geo)political battle. Mogilevich’s biggest nemesis, the late FBI agent Bob Levinson, warned about the dangerous gangsters that his former bosses (Freeh & Sessions) later started to ‘protect’ & features in a documentary ("The Billion Dollar Don") with Mogilevich’s only ever interview.
Originally published as a Twitter thread. Some minor editing.
Crime groups and private mercenaries are used to influence elections, destabilize and loot countries, and fund covert operations to pursue and protect political and national security interests. Putin had used the German company SPAG to launder the narco money from the Columbian Cali Cartel via Mogilevich et al.
The CIA also made many alliances with drug lords and crime groups, a market worth trillions a year. Wall Street, Big Tech & the US Military-Industrial Complex, which are deeply intertwined, are engines of the debt-ridden US economy and key to protect the US dollar as reserve currency.
Crypto is part of this (geo)political battle. Mogilevich’s biggest nemesis, the late FBI agent Bob Levinson, warned about the dangerous gangsters that his former bosses (Freeh & Sessions) later started to ‘protect’ & features in a documentary ("The Billion Dollar Don") with Mogilevich’s only ever interview.
Originally published as a Twitter thread. Some minor editing.
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