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Cruise Through the Epstein Swamp -
Puzzle Pieces #1
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Published on Jul 26, 2019
I go through Jeffrey Esptein connections & some swamp creatures who have not yet been officially connected but I suspect will be someday. .. more… Includes Snorkeling Cruises for kids, the UK, Trinidad & Tobago, ISIS, Bunkers, Standard Hotel, Abramovic and more! PS: If you hate Q that’s your own problem. I don’t. 
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Disney Exec Convicted Child R—: https://q13fox.com/2019/05/09/former-…
Dizzney, Heely: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim…
Dizzney Heely retrial: https://www.hometownstation.com/santa…
Lehman Conviction Portland: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/…
BBC Terror JFK Trinidad: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6…
NYT Trinidad ISIS: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/wo…
Avenatti Plane: https://www.foxnews.com/us/feds-seize…
WeHo Standard GM dies in Helicopter: https://www.wehoville.com/2018/01/31/…
WhiteHouse Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti…
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LifeShield Bunkers
By Philippe Van Nedervelde, Brian Wang, Willard Wells, and other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. This is an ongoing program so you may submit suggestions to[email protected].
Overview
Our LifeShield Bunkers program is a compliment to our Space Habitats program. It is a fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.
A bunker can be quite large, such as Biosphere 2. A large bunker would be a place where babies are born and children play and go to school.
Participation
Let us know if you wish to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker. We will contact you if and when we find a cluster of interested people in your area. Read The Case for Survival Colonies: Soliciting Colonists.
Improving Homes and Offices
LifeShield bunkers can be extended to include making homes and offices into survivable structures with zero or limited aesthetic compromises. This will enable civil defense to work with our day-to-day lives. If our homes and offices are our blast shelters, then 80% or more of the time we will have some protection against possible disasters. If you only had an old style bomb shelter in your backyard then it is not likely you would be in it when things hit the fan.
Our goal is to design society to shrink the radius of fatalities around a nuclear explosion or other disaster and reduce the percentage of dead.
Simple steps to dramatically reduce deaths from nuclear weapons, hurricanes, and earthquakes include:
- Require a retrofit of all old houses and new houses to use HurriQuake® or better nails
- Distribute new anti-radiation drugs widely
- Use radiation resistance increasing gene therapy and drugs
- Use/retrofit with cellulose nanopaper (stronger than cast iron) for construction
- Use stronger cement
- Use carbon nanotube/graphene reinforcement (add hydrogen for radiation blocking)
- Use stronger windows and doors
- Find better fire/thermal resistance modifications
Many small nuclear reactors would enable a more robust electrical grid (in the event of very rare accidents/incidents, recall that we should have radiation resistance enhancing treatments and super-effective anti-radiation drugs).
Spend more money to harden the structure of hospitals and other places that are critical to enable civilization to survive a nuclear attack or other disaster.
10–50 times reduction in fatalities is very doable even without the tech getting too fancy. 1000+ times reduction is doable with better but achievable technology, which we will need because that same category of technology will also boost offense. (Nanofactories could make a lot of nukes, so it is a good thing that they would also help bring us protection against nukes as well.)
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Jeffrey Epstein went to the White House ‘several times’ during the early days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 90s, records show – raising questions about the former president’s claims he only met the billionaire after he left office
- Bill Clinton distanced himself from Jeffrey Epstein immediately after the billionaire was arrested on sex trafficking charges earlier this month
- Former president said he had taken four flights on Epstein’s private jet and visited him in his New York office and apartment on one occasion each
- Clinton said the encounters with Epstein occurred around 2002 and 2003 and that his Secret Service agents were present at the time
- A Daily Beast investigation has since uncovered that Epstein had links to the Clinton administration that date back to the early days of his presidency
- Epstein visited the White House multiple times in the early 1990s
- He also made a $10,000 donation to the White House Historical Association in 1993 and attended a donor reception hosted by the Clintons
By EMILY CRANE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:56 EDT, 24 July 2019 | UPDATED: 10:17 EDT, 25 July 2019
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly went to the White House multiple times during the early days of Bill Clinton’s presidency – even though the former president says he had only six encounters with the billionaire sex offender starting from 2002.
Clinton immediately distanced himself from Epstein when the New York financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges earlier this month.
The former president, who was in the White House from 1993 to 2001, said he had taken four flights on Epstein’s private jet and visited him in his New York office and apartment on one occasion each.
Clinton said the encounters with Epstein occurred around 2002 and 2003 and that his Secret Service agents were present at the time.
However, a Daily Beast investigation published on Wednesday has uncovered that Epstein had links to the Clinton administration that date back to the early days of his presidency.
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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly went to the White House multiple times during the early days of Bill Clinton’s presidency
Epstein made a $10,000 donation to the White House Historical Association back in 1993, according to records in the Clinton Library.
He also attended a reception for donors that was hosted by Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House residence following his donation.
Epstein was listed as a guest for the donor event with his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell – the woman who has been accused of helping the billionaire run his alleged underage sex ring.
Clinton immediately distanced himself from Epstein (above in his mugshot) when the New York financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges earlier this month
Maxwell was present at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding back in 2010.
Epstein also visited the White House at least three times in the mid-90s to meet with Clinton administration aide Mark Middleton, who was a friend of Clinton’s from Arkansas.
It is not clear how long they met for or what they discussed.
Middleston joined Clinton’s administration in 1993 after earlier working on his campaign.
He interacted with a number of businessman, including Epstein and Donald Trump.
Middleton had his access to the executive mansion revoked because he had allegedly abused his access to the White House to impress his personal business connections.
Epstein was also mentioned in a 1995 letter sent to Clinton by businesswoman Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
‘Dear Mr President: It was a pleasure to see you recently at Senator Kennedy’s house. There was too much to discuss and too little time. Using my fifteen seconds of access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization, I neglected to talk to you about a topic near and dear to my heart. Namely, affirmative action and the future,’ she wrote.
Following the news of Epstein’s arrest, Clinton insisted he had not had contact with Epstein for years and noted six occasions where he had crossed paths with him
Ghislaine Maxwell – Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and the woman accused of helping the billionaire run his alleged underage sex ring - was present at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding back in 2010
Both Middleton and Forester de Rothschild were not available for comment about their connections to Epstein.
Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, has repeatedly denied that the former president knew of Epstein’s crimes.
‘President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,’ she said.
‘Any suggestion to the contrary, is both factually inaccurate and irresponsible.’
Following the news of Epstein’s arrest, Clinton insisted he had not had contact with Epstein for years.
‘President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,’ a statement released by his office said.
Police raid New York home of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein made a $10,000 donation to the White House Historical Association back in 1993 and attended a donor reception hosted by Bill and Hillary Clinton
Clinton visits his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, at Lenox Hill Hospital on Tuesday after she welcomed a baby boy
‘In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.
‘Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip.’
In a 2002 profile on Epstein by New York magazine, a spokesperson for Clinton said of him: ‘Jeffrey is both a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science.
‘I especially appreciated his insights and generosity during the recent trip to Africa to work on democratization, empowering the poor, citizen service, and combating HIV/AIDS.’
In September 2002, Clinton flew with Epstein on a week-long tour through Africa that included stops in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and Mozambique.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking after being accused of luring dozens of girls as young as 14 to his luxury homes in New York and Florida and paying them for sex acts.
Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein remains behind bars in sex trafficking trial
https://q13fox.com/2019/05/09/former-disney-vp-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-girl/
Former Disney VP convicted of sexually abusing girl
POSTED 7:57 AM, MAY 9, 2019, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former Disney executive has been convicted of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl.
Michael Laney 2018 booking photo
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 73-year-old Michael Laney, a former vice president for the Walt Disney Company, was convicted Tuesday of four counts of first-degree sexual abuse after a six-day trial.
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Souede acquitted Laney of three counts of rape and three counts of sex abuse.
Court documents say Laney began abusing the victim in 2009 and there were multiple incidents of abuse spanning about two years.
The child initially reported the abuse in 2017 in Washington, where she lived at the time.
Another person reported that Laney had sexually abused her in 2007 when she lived in Portland, but the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said the court couldn’t find sufficient evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Court documents say Laney lives on Bainbridge Island.
Disney music executive arrested, charged with sexually abusing two underage girls
By JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 09, 2017 | 12:24 AM
Jon Heely, the director of music publishing at Disney, has been charged with three felony counts of child sexual abuse. (Facebook)
A 58-year-old Disney executive has been charged with three felony counts of child sexual abuse.
Jon Heely, the director of music publishing at Disney, was arrested and charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child, Variety reported.
The 58-year-old, who was arrested on Nov. 16 and released six days later on $150,000 bail, is accused of abusing two underage girls about a decade ago.
Heely’s Twitter bio reads “Disney Concerts and living to glorify God in all things.” (Jon Heely via Twitter)
One alleged victim was 15. The other was abused for four years starting at the age of 11, according to the charges.
His attorney Robert Helfend said Heely “vehemently denies these allegations.”
Heely, who oversees the licensing of music from Disney films, pleaded not guilty on Thursday. He faces up to nine years and three months in prison if convicted.
He was suspended from Disney late Friday, with a spokesperson telling Variety, “Immediately upon learning of this situation tonight, he has been suspended without pay until the matter is resolved by the courts.”
Heely’s Twitter bio reads, “Disney Concerts and living to glorify God in all things.”
The Walt Disney Concert Hall is pictured in downtown Los Angeles, Calif. (Mario Anzuoni/REUTERS)
PSU professor who posted child pornography on his blog gets 2.5 years in prison
Updated Jul 8, 2019; Posted Jul 8, 2019
Niles Edward Lehman, 57, was convicted of two counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse. (Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office)
By Aimee Green | The Oregonian/OregonLive
A former Portland State University chemistry professor who had been named Oregon’s “Scientist of the Year” was sentenced Monday to 2 ½ years in prison for possessing child pornography.
Niles Edward Lehman, 57, uploaded videos and photos of child pornography to his blog — which was available for public viewing — on the social networking website Tumblr, investigators said. Tumblr tipped off the FBI to the posted images and that led to Lehman’s arrest, said Deputy District Attorney Bumjoon Park.
Lehman was charged with viewing and sharing 35 illicit images of children from fall 2017 to fall 2018, although authorities said he had hundreds on his iPhone and other electronic devices of children ages 3 to 12.
During that same period, Lehman was named Oregon’s “Scientist of the Year” by the Oregon Academy of Science for his research into the possible origins of life, according to a January 2018 tweet by PSU. He had been a 17-year employee of the university at the time of his arrest in February and was placed on paid administrative leave. University spokesman Kenny Ma said Lehman resigned from his faculty position in May.
“It is shocking and upsetting to learn that a PSU employee has engaged in this type of illegal and improper conduct,” Ma said in an emailed statement Monday.
Niles Lehman (left) made no statements during his plea and sentencing hearing on Monday, July 8, 2019, in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Defense attorney Michael Romano is seated next to him. (Aimee Green/The Oregonian)
He pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, and Multnomah County Circuit Judge Karin Immergut convicted him of those crimes. She dismissed the remaining counts.
Lehman declined to make any statements during the hearing. His lawyer, Michael Romano, said that unlike with some other defendants caught with child pornography, there was no evidence that Lehman molested children.
According to a staff profile at PSU, Lehman received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1990. He had no prior criminal history.
In addition to prison time, the judge sentenced him to five years of probation and sex offender treatment. He also must register as a sex offender.
– Aimee Green
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Trying to Stanch Trinidad’s Flow of Young Recruits to ISIS
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Yasin Abu Bakr, second from right, speaking with other Muslims at his mosque in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.CreditCreditFederico Rios Escobar for The New York Times
- Feb. 21, 2017
ENTERPRISE, Trinidad and Tobago — By the time he was 17, Fahyim Sabur had memorized the Quran.
At 23, he was shunning calypso parties and giving private Arabic lessons in his neighborhood here in Enterprise, about 20 miles south of Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.
A year later, he was on the battlefield in Syria, where he died fighting for the Islamic State.
“He never spoke to me about it,” said his father, Abdus Sabur, 56, who sells meat patties on the street. “National Security called me one day and told me, ‘Your son is dead.’ ”
Law enforcement officials in Trinidad and Tobago, a small Caribbean island nation off the coast of Venezuela, are scrambling to close a pipeline that has sent a steady stream of young Muslims to Syria, where they have taken up arms for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
American officials worry about having a breeding ground for extremists so close to the United States, fearing that Trinidadian fighters could return from the Middle East and attack American diplomatic and oil installations in Trinidad, or even take a three-and-a-half-hour flight to Miami.
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President Trump spoke by telephone over the weekend with Prime Minister Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago about terrorism and other security challenges, including foreign fighters, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman, said.
Trinidad has a history of Islamist extremism — a radical Muslim group was responsible for a failed coup in 1990 that lasted six days, and in 2012 a Trinidadian man was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a plot to blow up Kennedy International Airport. Muslims make up only about 6 percent of the population, and the combatants often come from the margins of society, some of them on the run from criminal charges.
They saw few opportunities in an oil-rich nation whose economy has declined with the price of petroleum, experts say. Some were gang members who either converted or were radicalized in prison, while others have been swayed by local imams who studied in the Middle East, according to Muslim leaders and American officials.
The young men found solace in radical Islamist websites and social media.
And in the call to jihad.
In contrast to the laws of many countries, it is not illegal in Trinidad to join the so-called caliphate, though the government wants to change that. One hundred to 130 people have made the trip to Syria from Trinidad, which has a population of 1.3 million, according to a former United States ambassador, John L. Estrada, and Trinidad’s minister of national security, Edmund Dillon.
By comparison, about 250 citizens of the United States, a country with 240 times the population, had joined the extremists or attempted to travel to Syria by late 2015, according to a House Homeland Security Committee report.
Per capita, Trinidad has the greatest number of foreign fighters from the Western Hemisphere who have joined the Islamic State, said Mr. Estrada, who stepped down after the inauguration of President Trump last month.
“Trinidadians do very well with ISIL,” Mr. Estrada said. “They are high up in the ranks, they are very respected and they are English-speaking. ISIL have used them for propaganda to spread their message through the Caribbean.”
Much of the information about the identities of those who went abroad comes from American intelligence sources, although local imams and Islamic leaders all said they knew several people, including women, who had left.
“I know whole families that went,” said Imtiaz Mohammed, president of the Islamic Missionaries Guild, which does charity work in Trinidad and the Middle East.
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Umar Abdullah, an Islamic activist in Trinidad and Tobago, at home with his daughter.CreditFederico Rios Escobar for The New York Times
Juan S. Gonzalez, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, said the bulk of Islamic State fighters from Latin America originated in Trinidad and Tobago. The numbers underscore a risk of lone-wolf attacks in the region, he added.
“As the United States continues to corner ISIS and defeat them, a lot of these guys aren’t going to feel they have safe quarters,” Mr. Gonzalez said. “Is the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, prepared for these guys to return back to their countries? This is a real vulnerability.”
He noted that people in the Caribbean enjoyed visa-free travel throughout the islands, which makes it fairly easy to travel to the Bahamas, and from there make a “short jump” to South Florida.
The United States, which encouraged Trinidad to tighten its laws, has hosted meetings with Muslim leaders at the embassy in Port of Spain, and paid for several to attend anti-extremism workshops in the United States.
Mr. Sabur, the young radical from Enterprise, is one of a handful of Trinidadians known to have died in Syria. Others include Shawn Parson, who appeared in an Islamic State recruiting video. He was targeted by an F.B.I. program that, with the cooperation of the military, sought to eliminate the group’s social media figures, often with drone strikes.
Last summer, Shane Crawford, also known as Abu Sa’d at-Trinidadi, perhaps Trinidad’s best-known Islamic State recruit, was prominently featured in an article in the group’s magazine, Dabiq, in which he called for attacks on Western embassies.
Mr. Crawford said he had been influenced by Islamic lectures and a Trinidadian Muslim leader, Ashmead Choate. Mr. Choate “attained martyrdom” in Ramadi, Iraq, the article said.
The genesis of today’s rising militancy, Mr. Crawford added in the article, can be traced to the failed 1990 coup, when a group of radical Muslims took legislators hostage in a siege of Parliament. When it was over, two dozen people were dead.
Yasin Abu Bakr, 76, who led that uprising and has since been released from prison, said the government had created a climate where young Muslims did not feel safe or welcome in the military or civil service. “This is total discrimination and isolation against young Muslims in Trinidad,” he said in an interview.
Trinidad’s attorney general, Faris Al-Rawi, said that after the coup, wearing Muslim garb “took on a certain appeal.”
“A lot of people who were not genuinely Muslim or otherwise took on the persona to carry on their thuggery,” he added.
Mr. Al-Rawi said Mr. Crawford was believed to have died in Syria. His mother, Joan Crawford, said she had heard rumors that he had been badly wounded.
Ms. Crawford, 62, said that her son had been falsely accused of plotting to kill the Trinidadian prime minister, and that this had diminished his professional prospects, even though he ran a fish business and had experience in plumbing.
“Once you are branded a terrorist in your own country, what could you do?” said Ms. Crawford, a former Spiritual Baptist who converted to Islam after her son did. “I did cry, because I knew I would never see him again. I did not get to say goodbye.”
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Haruun Ben Usuf, left, an imam in Trinidad. At least one Muslim who has joined the Islamic State has been through his mosque. He said he hadn’t known of that Muslim’s plan to join the jihadist group.CreditFederico Rios Escobar for The New York Times
Efforts to combat the flow of young Muslims to overseas battlefields have been complicated by the ambivalence toward, and sometimes support for, the jihadi cause among some imams and the recruits’ parents. In an interview that began and ended with a prayer, Mr. Sabur said he had welcomed his son’s death as a martyr: “I felt elated. Speaking about it now, I am overelated.”
The Trinidadian government last week introduced a series of amendments that would criminalize membership in the Islamic State and other extremist organizations. People who traveled to certain regions would be presumed to be doing so for terrorism, and the burden to prove otherwise would be on them, Mr. Al-Rawi said.
Mr. Mohammed, of the Islamic Missionaries Guild, criticized the proposed legislation, saying groups like his that make trips to the Middle East are often engaged in charity work and could be unfairly singled out.
“You can’t just go to a court and have a judge tell you that you are guilty with no evidence, just an assumption,” he said.
Mr. Mohammed has publicly denounced the Islamic State, but noted that his own United States visa and commercial pilot’s license had been revoked after a terrorism suspect passed through his Islamic center.
A senior intelligence official in Trinidad who was not authorized to speak publicly said he worried that the proposed legislation would make people who would have left for Syria plan attacks at home instead.
He said about 15 or 20 of the Islamic State recruits spent two weeks before their trips at a mosque in Rio Claro, about 50 miles southeast of Port of Spain. There, they attended an orientation, the official said.
Umar Abdullah, an Islamic activist, said he had been among those who encouraged the would-be fighters.
Despite having made thinly veiled threats to Americans in the past, which led a cruise ship on its way to Trinidad to turn back, Mr. Abdullah has since denounced extremism, and now says Muslims must work with the United States to “change the narrative.” It would be “stupid” to try to attack the United States Embassy, he said.
“At one point in time I was a strong believer in that, and I still believe it to some extent,” Mr. Abdullah said. “But to do something like that would put the Muslim community in harm’s way. We would not be able to stand the fallout of that type of action.”
The imam in Rio Claro, Nazim Mohammed, denied running an Islamic State training program, and insisted that he operated an elementary school and a weekly food program for the poor. But he acknowledged that two of his children and five of his grandchildren were in Syria, and that the adults were believed to be involved with the Islamic State.
“Killing and murdering is not Islamic,” Nazim Mohammed, 75, said in an interview. “Our program is to help people. You know how many people have come here for help?”
He insisted that his children did not notify him of their plans, and he shrugged off the group’s influence.
“Who is ISIS?” he said. “ISIS is just a few people.”
Prior Beharry contributed reporting from Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Feds seize $4.5 million Avenatti plane amid tax scandal
By William La Jeunesse, Paulina Dedaj | Fox News
Michael Avenatti’s jet seized from Santa Barbara airport
LOS ANGELES – Embattled lawyer Michael Avenatti was the subject of a federal warrant Wednesday that resulted in the seizure of his private jet, worth about $4.5 million.
A U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman, Thom Mrozek, confirmed to Fox News that federal agents seized a Honda HA-420 twin-engine jet from Santa Barbara Airport about 10 a.m. after a federal judge issued a warrant.
The plane was originally scheduled to be flown Wednesday to Orange County on Avenatti’s behalf, but pilots had to file a new flight plan to San Bernardino County.
A U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman, Thom Mrozek, confirmed to Fox News that federal agents seized a Honda HA-420 twin-engine jet from Santa Barbara Airport about 10 a.m. after a federal judge issued a warrant. (William La Jeunesse/Lee Ross)
“Federal authorities have seized a jet co-owned by Mr. Avenatti pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a federal judge. This seizure is related to the pending criminal case in Los Angeles,” a federal official told Fox News.
Avenatti told Fox News on Wednesday: “I haven’t used the plane in almost a year and I gave up my interest last year. I have no interest in the plane and could care less.” Fox News reached out to Avenatti’s lawyer but received no response.
The six-seat business jet was flown by a private contract pilot to Chino Municipal Airport, where it is being held by Threshold Aviation.
Federal court records indicated that the plane, bought on Jan. 30, 2017, was registered to Passport 420, a company co-owned by Avenatti. A government complaint obtained by Fox News said Avenatti’s wife, Lisa-Storie Avenatti, said he owned two private jets – one through Avenatti & Associates and the other through Passport 420 — and that each had a value of $4.5 million.
But, Avenatti disputed this, telling Fox News: “I have never owned two planes either directly or indirectly and any claim to the contrary is complete nonsense.”
The warrant under which the plane was seized was under seal; Avenatti was accused last month of failing to pay income taxes for almost a decade despite making $18 million since 2010. Officials are also looking at his firm, which is said to have recorded $38 million in deposits but filed no tax returns.
Prosecutors did not disclose if the jet was seized to satisfy a judgment, or in connection with nonpayment of taxes.
Avenatti, who previously represented adult-film star Stormy Daniels in litigation against President Trump, has also been charged with wire and bank fraud in California. And federal prosecutors in New York accused the lawyer of attempting to extort about $25 million from Nike “by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met.”
Avenatti made a name for himself after representing Daniels when she sued Trump in March 2018, claiming that Trump paid her hush money ahead of the 2016 election over an alleged 2006 tryst.
The president has repeatedly denied her story.
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After repeated social media attacks on Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen, Avenatti hinted that he would consider a run for the 2020 presidential election on the Democratic ticket.
Avenatti has since put to rest rumors of a bid for the White House and has ended his contract with Daniels.
Fox News’ Lee Ross and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
GM of WeHo’s Standard Hotel Identified as Victim of Newport Beach Helicopter Crash
Wednesday – January 31, 2018 by Staff | No Comments
Kimberly Lynn Watzman
Kimberly Lynne Watzman, the general manager of the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, was one of the three people killed in a helicopter crash in Newport Beach on Tuesday.
Watzman, 45, had worked as general for the Standard Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard since July 2015. Previously she had been a manager and director at the Standard in downtown Los Angeles.
Watzman, who lived in Santa Monica, was one of four people on the helicopter when it crashed. Others who died were Joseph Tena of Newport Beach, who apparently was the pilot, and Brian Reichelt of Hollywood, Fla. Another passenger was seriously injured and was taken to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. Reichelt was the regional finance director for the Standard’s parent company.
The helicopter crashed into a house on Shearwater Place in the Bayview Terrace gated community just before 2 p.m. It had been flying from John Wayne Airport to Catalina Island. No one in the house was injured.
An investigation is underway into the cause of the crash.
A Uranium One Primer – Clinton, Giustra & Kazakhstan’s Uranium Assets
December 21, 2017 by Jeff Carlson, CFA
It’s being reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered DOJ prosecutors to ask FBI agents about evidence they found in the now dormant Uranium One Investigation.
The true Uranium One story was always about Kazakhstan uranium assets.
Here are the basic facts (full details below):
Bill Clinton met Canadian investor Frank Giustra in June 2005, during a fund-raiser at Mr. Giustra’s Vancouver home.
Frank Giustra owned UrAsia, a small – and newly formed – uranium company that was seeking to purchase lucrative uranium reserves in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan has about one-fifth of the world’s uranium reserves.
Giustra and Clinton had a private meeting with Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev on September 6, 2005.
UrAsia (Giustra’s company) signed two memorandums of understanding with Kazatomprom (Kazakhstan national atomic company) to become partners in three uranium mines on September 8, 2005 – two days after Clinton’s visit.
Frank Giustra donated a total of $145 million in a series of payments to the Clinton Foundation.
These donations appeared to be directly tied to the series of transactions involving UrAsia, Kazatomprom, Uranium One and ultimately Rosatom (Russia’s Nuclear Agency).
$31.3 million came directly after the closing of the UrAsia/Kazatomprom transaction in early 2006 (more below).
Giustra pledged another $100 million in June 2007, after the closing of Uranium One’s acquisition of Giustra’s company, UrAsia.
Later, another $2.3 million was paid to the Clinton Foundation by Ian Telfer – the Chairman of Uranium One.
In addition to Telfer’s donations, between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions came from multiple people with ties to Uranium One and/or UrAsia.
In October 2010, the Committee on Foreign Investment approved the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom – the Russian State Nuclear Agency.
Here are the detailed sequence of events.
Giustra and Bill Clinton flew on Giustra’s jet to meet with Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev on September 6, 2005. It was a one day visit.
There is some dispute on timing. The Times reported that Giustra and Clinton flew together on Giustra’s private jet. A later account from Forbes, places Giustra in Kazakhstan a few days prior to Clinton, who arrived on September 6, 2005, on billionaire Ron Burkle’s plane.
Regardless of timing, Giustra and Clinton had a private meeting with Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev on September 6, 2005.
Clinton publicly praised President Nazarbayev at a dinner following the meeting, conferring respectability on a regime with a shaky human rights record.
Giustra discussed his interest in acquiring Kazakhstan uranium assets with President Nazarbayev during the visit. Giustra initially denied this but was later forced to admit discussions had taken place.
UrAsia (Giustra’s company) signed two memorandums of understanding with Kazatomprom(Kazakhstan national atomic company – which controls all uranium mining in the country) to become partners in three mines on September 8, 2005 – two days after Clinton’s visit.
UrAsia paid $450 million to Kazatomprom to enter into the partnership.
The agreement transformed UrAsia from a small unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers overnight.
Four months later, in January 2006, Giustra made the $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation.
This donation was kept secret until it was discovered in December 2007.
For weeks, Clinton Foundation officials had suggested that the $31.3 million contribution listed on its tax return did not come from a single donor. They then said it came from a single source, but declined to identify it. Wednesday afternoon, a representative of Mr. Giustra contacted The Times and acknowledged the contribution.
In September 2006, Giustra co-hosted Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday – an event that raised $21 million for the Clinton Foundation.
In February of 2007, Uranium One, a South African mining company, agreed to buy UrAsia for a staggering $3.1 billion. Uranium One paid $7.05 per share for Giustra’s UrAsia. Two years earlier UrAsia was trading at 10 cents per share.
This transaction was a windfall for Giustra and his investors.
Giustra says he divested himself of his Uranium One stake after the closing of the 2007 transaction, but there is no way to confirm if this is accurate. Giustra has lied about several important events as noted above and below. What is known is that Giustra remained financially tied to Uranium One through one of his other companies, Endeavor Financial, as a financial advisor to Uranium One – through at least June 2008.
Also in February 2007, the head of Kazatomprom, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, traveled to the U.S. to meet with Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra at Clinton’s home. Mr. Dzhakishev said “he wanted to discuss Kazakhstan’s intention [not publicly known at the time] to buy a 10 percent stake in Westinghouse”, a United States supplier of nuclear technology.
Both Clinton and Giustra repeatedly denied this meeting took place – until they were confronted with evidence from the New York Times.
Both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Giustra at first denied that any such meeting occurred. Mr. Giustra also denied ever arranging for Kazakh officials to meet with Mr. Clinton. Wednesday, after The Times told them that others said a meeting, in Mr. Clinton’s home, had in fact taken place, both men acknowledged it.
“You are correct that I asked the president to meet with the head of Kazatomprom,” Mr. Giustra said. “Mr. Dzhakishev asked me in February 2007 to set up a meeting with former President Clinton to discuss the future of the nuclear energy industry.” Mr. Giustra said the meeting “escaped my memory until you raised it.”
Wednesday, Mr. Clinton’s spokesman, Ben Yarrow, issued what he called a “correction,” saying: “Today, Mr. Giustra told our office that in February 2007, he brought Mr. Dzhakishev from Kazatomprom to meet with President Clinton to discuss the future of nuclear energy.”
Dzhakishev would later be arrested, in May 2009, for arranging corrupt uranium transactions with foreign companies.
For a more in-depth review of these various events see, After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton.
We continue with a timeline put together by John Sexton. From John’s work:
2009: Ian Telfer, Chairman of Uranium One, donates $1 million to the Clinton Foundation through his family charity. [Telfor and Giustra are long-time friends and colleagues]
June 2009: Moukhtar Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom, is arrested for illegally selling mining rights to foreign companies, including some given to Frank Giustra’s UrAsia (which are now owned by Uranium One). The NY Times reports “American diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks…reflect concerns that Mr. Dzhakishev’s arrest was part of a Russian power play for control of Kazakh uranium assets.”
In June 2009, the FBI begins to investigate people connected to Rosatom.
June 10-11, 2009: Uranium One pressures the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan to clarify the situation regarding its mining rights and US officials meet with Kazakh officials on these two days to discuss it.
June 14, 2009: A subsidiary of the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom gains a 17 percent ownership share in Uranium One.
November 2009: With the permission of the FBI, an American businessman begins making kickback payments at the direction of Vadim Mikerin, “the main Russianoverseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States.” Between 2009 and 2012, with the approval of Rosatom, Mikerin would use bribes and extortion to compromise “American contractors in the nuclear industry.”
You can read more about this in Russian Collusion – Bribes, Coverups, Clinton & Uranium One and Russian Collusion – Part II – Corruption, Clinton & Obama.
June 2010: Rosatom seeks a majority ownership share in Uranium One. Because Uranium One owns mining interests in several states within the US, the deal must be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment. One agency that has to sign off on the deal is the State Department, where Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State.
2010: Ian Telfer, Chairman of Uranium One, donates $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation through his family charity. Between 2009-2012 Telfer’s charity would donate more than $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.
In addition to Telfer’s donations, between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions came from multiple people with ties to Uranium One and/or UrAsia.
June 29,2010: The New York Times timeline notes, “Bill Clinton is paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow by a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that assigned a buy rating to Uranium One stock.” President Putin reportedly personally thanked Clinton for giving the speech.
October 2010: Rosatom’s majority ownership of Uranium One is approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The company’s most valuable assets are the mining rights originally owned by UrAsia Energy Ltd., thanks to the deal reached just one day after former President Clinton left Kazakhstan.
2011: The administration gave approval for Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp. Before then, Tenex had been limited to selling U.S. nuclear power plants reprocessed uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program.
January 2013: Rosatom takes 100% control of Uranium One and takes the company private.
A common rebuttal to criticisms of the Uranium One transaction is that no uranium was actually allowed to leave the U.S. – something the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) supposedly assured Congress at the time of the transaction.
It turns out the NRC quietly granted export licenses to RSB Logistics. Licenses that added Uranium One to the list of RSB clients for whom RSB could move uranium. As noted in a November 2, 2017 article titled, Uranium One Deal Led to Some Exports to Europe.
NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium — the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons — from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.
NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.
NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.
You can read more about the shipments, along with the process surrounding the U.S. governmental approval of the Uranium One sale in, FOIA Documents, FBI Preservation Requests, the CFIUS & Uranium One.
And Giustra’s ties to the Clintons do not end with Uranium One.
In 2015, it was discovered that a Canadian charity affiliated with the Clinton Foundation had failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors. The charity, the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, was founded by Frank Giustra:
The Canadian group has received attention in recent days as a potential avenue for anonymous Clinton Foundation donations from foreign business executives, including some who had interests before the U.S. government while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state.
The partnership, named in part for Bill Clinton, sends much of its money to the New York-based Clinton Foundation. Two of the partnership’s known donors — Giustra and another mining executive, Ian Telfer — are featured in the soon-to-be-released book “Clinton Cash” for their roles in a series of deals that resulted in Russia controlling many uranium deposits around the world and in the United States.
The large number of undisclosed supporters of a Clinton-affiliated charity raises new questions about the foundation’s adherence to the 2008 ethics agreement it struck with the Obama administration, which was designed to avoid conflicts of interest during Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department.
In The Clintons, a Luxury Jet and Their $100 Million Donor from Canada, the Washington Post lays out further ties between Giustra and the Clintons:
For Frank Giustra, who had never met the former president, this was an opportunity. The Canadian mining magnate and onetime Hollywood studio owner stepped up to let the former president borrow his luxurious passenger jet. There was just one condition: Giustra would come along for the ride.
That 2005 trip was the start of an intense, mutually beneficial friendship — one that has helped propel the Clinton Foundation into a global giant and established Giustra’s reputation as an international philanthropist while helping him build connections in countries where his business was expanding.
Clinton has also gained regular transportation, borrowing Giustra’s plane 26 times for foundation business since 2005, including 13 trips in which the two men traveled together.
Giustra continued to expand his business empire, closing some of the biggest deals of his career in the same countries where he traveled with Clinton.
Giustra’s business involvements with the Clintons extended beyond Kazakhstan:
A few weeks after returning from Kazakhstan in 2005, Giustra attended his first meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
There, he was introduced to the leader of another country where he had business interests: Álvaro Uribe of Colombia.
Giustra’s interests in Colombia included gold mines, port construction, timber and, more recently, oil production.
Giustra’s Colombian Holding Company “received valuable drilling rights in deals involving a state-owned oil company that went through a few years after he met the Colombian president through the Clinton Foundation”.
In 2007, Giustra played a key role in forming a fast-growing oil company operating in Colombia, Pacific Rubiales Energy. It burst onto the scene that year by purchasing control of an oil production firm that worked closely with the Colombian state oil company, which Uribe had recently privatized. It also signed a pipeline deal with that firm and then won the right to explore for oil in environmentally sensitive areas along the Colombian coast.
The same pattern emerged in 2013, with Blue Pacific – another Giustra Colombian company that benefited from an association with Bill Clinton:
Pacific Infrastructure [owned by Blue Pacific], a company connected to Clinton Foundation mega-donor Frank Giustra, needed $150 million to build a port and pipeline along the northern Colombian coast, it went to the International Finance Corporation for funding.
There was one major obstacle. The project, according to a review by the International Finance Corporation, was deemed “Category A.” That meant it would likely have “significant adverse social and/or environmental impacts that are diverse, irreversible, or unprecedented” on the local community.
Within the next few months, two for-profit companies were created in Cartagena. One was a job-training center to teach locals how to work at the port. The other was a food supplier that helped support fishers and farmers by selling their products to hotels and supermarkets.
Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra launched both companies using funding from the Clinton Foundation’s Colombia-based private investment fund, Fondo Acceso.
You can read more about Giustra’s and the Clinton Foundation’s involvement in Columbia here and here. They are not particularly flattering portrayals.
There are numerous such examples. Giustra’s operations are intertwined with historical ties to the Clinton Foundation.
Which brings me full circle to this point.
The $31.3 million donation by Giustra in early 2006 was clearly tied to the UrAsia/Kazatomprom transaction.
The $100 million donation pledge by Giustra came in June 2007. It was almost certainly tied to Uranium One’s acquisition of UrAsia.
It may also have been a promise of future payments for the many transactions yet to come.
CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) was the entity that approved the Uranium One transaction.
CFIUS is comprised of the heads of almost every single major department under the Obama Administration.
From recent articles by The Hill and Circa, we know the following:
Fifteen months before the 13 members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS, approved the sale of the Canadian company Uranium One to Russia’s nuclear arm giant Rosatom, the FBI began investigating persons who were connected to the Russian state corporation.
The FBI said in court documents and in interviews that by 2010 they had gathered enough evidence to prove that Rosatom-connected officials were engaged in a global bribery schedule that included kickbacks and money laundering. FBI officials said the investigation could have prevented the sale of Uranium One, which controlled 20 percent of U.S. uranium supply under U.S. law.
The Justice Department didn’t move forward an indictment with prosecution of bribery by people tied to Rosatom, through subsidies and other entities, until 2014 after CFIUS approved the sale of Uranium One.
An American businessman who worked for years undercover as an FBI confidential witness was blocked by the Obama Justice Department from telling Congress about conversations and transactions he witnessed related to the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win favor with Bill and Hillary Clinton and influence Obama administration decisions.
Some, if not all, of these issues had to have been known by at least some members of CFIUS.
Which brings me to this discovery by @GOPPollAnalyst:
In late August 2015, the FBI sent Preservation and Records Requests to the following agencies:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- The U.S. Dept. of Treasury
- The Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI James Clapper)
- The National Counter Terrorism Center
- The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
- The National Security Agency (NSA – Admiral Mike Rogers)
- The United States Secret Service (USSS)
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
- The Department of Defense.
Equally important is the one agency left off the list.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
For those who notice another omission, reminder: The FBI is a subset of the Department of Justice.
Which has led to some intriguing speculation.
From Conservative Treehouse’s article, Uranium One: Previously Undiscovered FOIA Documents Could Be Game-Changer in Investigation:
What is interesting about the preservation request(s) are the recipients, their attachment to CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States), and the timeline of events surrounding the agent’s notification.
Sometime around August 3rd, 2015, we discovered the FBI inquiry was actually a “criminal probe“. [USA Today August 4th] – [Washington Post August 3rd] – [New York Post, August 5th, 2015]. The dates here are important.
The discovery by Katica shows that on August 28th, 2015, an FBI special agent sent a notification to preserve records to: •Nuclear Regulatory Commission; •The U.S. Dept. of Treasury; •Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI James Clapper); •The National Counter Terrorism Center; and the •U.S. Department of Energy (DoE).
Each of these agencies was intricately involved in the 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State at the time.
Five Days later, on September 2nd, 2015, the FBI special agent sent another notification for preservation of records to the same agencies – and adding: the National Security Agency (NSA – Admiral Mike Rogers) and the United States Secret Service (USSS).
The following day, on September 3rd, 2015, the FBI special agent submitted a supplemental notification for preservation of records to: •The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), •Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and •The Department of Defense.
Taken in their totality those FBI special agent notifications now encompassed every member of the CFIUS group who “signed off” on approval of the Uranium One deal.
It would be intellectually dishonest not to see the very likely attachment of the special agent’s action. That is to say an FBI probe originating as an outcome of information retrieved in parallel to the timing of the “criminal probe” of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use.
The sequence of events highlights a criminal probe starting [early August 2015], followed by notifications to the “Uranium One” CFIUS participants [late August 2015].
Congress can get, and see, those FBI preservation notification documents without redaction. Congress could then interview the FBI special agent who was obviously in charge of key elements within the 2015 probe. Put the FBI special agent together with the unnamed FBI informant, question them, and discover what they know about the entire Uranium One deal – and there’s the road-map to tear this thing wide open.
No matter what certain “pundits” may say, the Uranium One transaction was not some innocent affair, unfairly portrayed by the Right.
It was an ongoing part of a larger scandal.
A scandal that investigators may be looking into once again…
For those interested, the New York Times wrote an excellent 2015 article, Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal., which provides additional salient details.
Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption
Issued on: December 21, 2017
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Public Law 114-328) (the “Act”), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) (INA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.
I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
I hereby determine and order:
Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:
(i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order;
(ii) any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General:
(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse;
(B) to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in:
(1) corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or
(2) the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption;
(C) to be or have been a leader or official of:
(1) an entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section relating to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or
(2) an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order as a result of activities related to the leader’s or official’s tenure; or
(D) to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section; and
(iii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General:
(A) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of:
(1) any activity described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section that is conducted by a foreign person;
(2) any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(3) any entity, including any government entity, that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, any of the activities described in subsections (ii)(A), (ii)(B)(1), or (ii)(B)(2) of this section, where the activity is conducted by a foreign person;
(B) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(C) to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections (iii)(A) or (B) of this section.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the effective date of this order.
Sec. 2. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of this order would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and the entry of such persons into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is hereby suspended. Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).
Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.
Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 include:
(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and
(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
Sec. 6. For the purposes of this order:
(a) the term “person” means an individual or entity;
(b) the term “entity” means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and
(c) the term “United States person” means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to this order.
Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to me by IEEPA and the Act as may be necessary to implement this order and section 1263(a) of the Act with respect to the determinations provided for therein. The Secretary of the Treasury may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States. All agencies shall take all appropriate measures within their authority to implement this order.
Sec. 9. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to take such actions, including adopting rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to me by IEEPA, the INA, and the Act as may be necessary to carry out section 2 of this order and, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the reporting requirement in section 1264(a) of the Act with respect to the reports provided for in section 1264(b)(2) of that Act. The Secretary of State may, consistent with applicable law, redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States consistent with applicable law.
Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, is hereby authorized to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of the property and interests in property of a person listed in the Annex to this order, and to take necessary action to give effect to that determination.
Sec. 11. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).
Sec. 12. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, December 21, 2017.
Sec. 13. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 20, 2017.
ANNEX
1. Mukhtar Hamid Shah; Date of Birth (DOB) August 11, 1939; alt. DOB November 8, 1939; nationality, Pakistan
2. Angel Rondon Rijo; DOB July 16, 1950; nationality, Dominican Republic
3. Dan Gertler; DOB December 23, 1973; nationality, Israel; alt. nationality, Democratic Republic of the Congo
4. Maung Maung Soe; DOB March 1964; nationality, Burma
5. Yahya Jammeh; DOB May 25, 1965; nationality, The Gambia
6. Sergey Kusiuk; DOB December 1, 1966; nationality, Ukraine; alt. nationality, Russia
7. Benjamin Bol Mel; DOB January 3, 1978; alt. DOB December 24, 1978; nationality, South Sudan; alt. nationality, Sudan
8. Julio Antonio Juárez Ramírez; DOB December 1, 1980; nationality, Guatemala
9. Goulnora Islamovna Karimova; DOB July 8, 1972; nationality, Uzbekistan
10. Slobodan Tesic; DOB December 21, 1958; nationality, Serbia
11. Artem Yuryevich Chayka; DOB September 25, 1975; nationality, Russia
12. Gao Yan; DOB April 1963; nationality, China
13. Roberto Jose Rivas Reyes; DOB July 6, 1954; nationality, Nicaragua
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How is it possible that NOBODY else in the “RING” or “WEB” has been arrested? Only in fantasy land. It is obvious that Jeff is old, retiring and taking one for the team.