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What if I told you that an oligarch behind many of the Clintons worst crimes has flipped?

Why would so called conservative media ignore this story? Because they get ratings by tricking you into thinking nothing is happening.
#ButNothingsHappening #GilbertChagoury

Lebanese & Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury who illegally funded the Clinton's campaigns from 1996-2016 reached a secret agreement with DOJ to provide "unique cooperation" in October 2019. His cooperation was kept secret until 2 weeks ago!

I will be producing this thread today, but many of the side cases from this that I will post later threads on details of those cases. But Chagoury connects to so many Swampy crimes including the set up of Republicans to gain leverage over them.

The Chagoury case ties so many issues together, it is a thread that when pulled upon unravels so many cases: Clinton cash, Epstein, Spygate, the Marc Rich pardon, the extractive industries corruption & banks enabling money laundering for criminals & terrorists.

Unfortunately the Swampy media has not covered the story, because it poses a real danger to everyone in the Swamp.
You'd think FoxNews commentators would note the cooperation of a guy connected to terrorists who pledged $1B to the Clinton Global Initiatives...  

You must understand that the Swamp is bipartisan, media on both sides of the aisle devote most of their time to making their side think it is the other side that is corrupt. This keeps both sides from seeing that 1/2 the Swamp creatures are in their & 1/2 in your party. 

Let's start with the DOJ's announcement: Gilbert Chagoury flipped against the Swamp & is providing “unique cooperation” according to the DOJ documents.
Crimes: Illegal donations & loans to members of Congress, presidential candidates, & cabinet officials.

Chagoury reached a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with DOJ in Oct. 2019 in exchange for his cooperation. Under the DPA, he has admitted his guilt & if he fails to cooperate the charges will go to trial with his confession attached!

It may be better than a guilty plea for forcing continued cooperation, because he must cooperate for years to come rather than just until sentencing. In addition, if he failed to tell them about ANY crime he committed then it isn’t covered by the DPA & he can face those charges. 

Essentially his only way to stay out of prison is to tell FBI & DOJ EVERYTHING!

And it has taken me two weeks to even begin to document what that EVERYTHING includes!

Unique in this case means evidence of crimes that no one else could help them solve! 

Two of Chagoury's associates have also been flipped & are cooperating to avoid prison. But there is much more behind this as it exposes corrupt political contributions through straw donations.

We will get back to this later, but one of the stipulated crimes was setting up a contribution to a Republican Congressman during the 2016 campaign. The location connects this to other cases too!

If you think this cooperation means little, the cooperation started in Oct. 2019. By Dec. 2019 an Obama cabinet official & former Republican in Congress Ray LaHood was forced to flip & secretly cooperate against the Swamp.

Ray LaHood was a Swampy Republican from Illinois, who endorsed McCain in 2008, yet still was appointed Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury in early 2009. What kind of connections do you need to get a cabinet seat from a President in the opposite party that you campaigned against? 

Isn't it weird that so called conservative media failed to mention that an Obama cabinet official admitted he was guilty of taking foreign cash & concealing that information from his ethics reports?

Should be headlining FoxNews right? But he has an (R) after his name... 

Open Secrets has cross referenced the illegal donations with the FEC data on donations to identify the 4 campaigns not named in the DOJ information. Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential Campaign & 3 Republican Congressmen.

That does not mean these Republicans are dirty, the Swamp controls honest politicians in both parties by setting them up with fake scandals. If they ever need leverage, they use them with Fusion GPS style media coverage to damage the honest ones. I think I found 1 here! 

That 2016 donation in Los Angeles, it is likely that it went to California Republican Darrell Issa. The chairman who hunted down the truth on #Benghazi, #IRSTeaParty & #FastAndFurious until Speaker Boehner took the Benghazi case away & gave it to Gowdy.

In June 2018 Rep. Issa made a surprise announcement that he was dropping out of the race for re-election.

Did he drop out because of an investigation into these illegal donations that could be weaponized by oppo research to flip his seat in 2018?

I think it is very likely because on 9/30/19 Darrell Issa announced that he was coming back to politics & running to resecure his old seat. What changed?
Chagoury signed his DPA on 10/21/19 several weeks earlier his attorneys would have provided a proffer of his cooperation. 

The timing makes it very likely that Chagoury proffered that he had set up Issa by making the illegal donations so they could be used against one of Hillary's enemies in Congress. As soon as the FBI cleared him, Issa announced his return to politics! 

I have not had time to research the other 2 Congressmen or Romney donations yet.
But Chagoury was an albatros around Hillary's necks for a 2016 run, dirtying up Romney with illegal donations from Chagoury would neutralize that issue.
Cintons accuse them of what you are guilty of! 

By specifying details of only Republicans, this baits the media into covering the story a little. Had the DOJ mentioned details connecting Chagoury to the Clintons the media would have buried it in an unmarked grave. This gets info on the record around media bias!

Those who follow me know I think it is very clear that the Mueller investigation & other actions were done as a smoke screen to hide the real investigations like the one of Chagoury. The Swamp had insiders on both teams watching that case, DOj had to make it look real. 

Here is an example of a Swamp insider who would have known if the Mueller team took it easy on Trump. Mark Corallo, was spokesperson for President Trump’s private legal team in the Russia investigation. He was also Chagoury's spy within Trump’s defense team… 

Likely coming out of revelations from the cooperation in this case. President Trump's Russian Collusion defense spokesman Corallo retroactively filed under FARA in the summer of 2020 for working as a Foreign agent for Chagoury in 2015!
The FARA exposed a variety of firms...

If you think it is interesting so far, you ain't seen nothing yet!
It looks like the Chagoury Clinton Foundation investigation grew out of the investigation into the Issa & Romney donations!
And it may be the case that lead McCabe & others to try a coup against Comey & Lynch! 

The Chagoury case was resolved in Los Angeles where DOJ was following another public corruption case that lead to the Clinton Foundation. It looks like the unrelated public-corruption case was the donations to Republicans in 2012-2016 outlined in this cooperation announcement!

We learned in October 2016 that the Clinton Foundation was under investigation. The LA investigation of the Clinton Foundation coming from that unrelated public-corruption case. In Feb. 2016, DOJ lawyers were trying to block FBI agents investigating it.

We learned this because the Wall Street Journal published a story claiming that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was blocking those investigations of the Clinton Foundations because of donations from Terry McAuliffe to McCabe's wife's campaign.
McCabe was busted! 

McCabe responded by having Lisa Page make leaks to claim that he was really the hero who tried to fight the DOJ on this case. When he was really the one shutting the agents down to prevent the investigation.

If you are still listening to conservative media, you may have missed the 5 OIG reports that make a clear case that McCabe & his accomplices began in early 2016 to try & force the recusal or removal of Lynch & Comey from the CF cases. So McCabe & Yates could make the decisions. 

Until this announcement several weeks ago, we did not know what the Los Angeles Clinton Foundation case was. But the Chagoury agreement with DOJ makes it fairly clear that this is the case. Chagoury & the Clintons go back very far in the world of Swamp Crime. 

Chagoury first came to national attention when he showed up at the Clinton's White House DNC donor party to celebrate the 1996 election victory. Which was odd as he was not a US citizen & could not legally donate to a Presidential campaign. 

Even the Washington Post was honest enough to notice the stench of taking foreign donations from a billionaire oligarch who was closely tied to an African dictator guilty of human rights violations

The donations were laundered through Vote Now 96 a tax exempt supposedly nonpartisan group that was used as a DNC slush fund.
They were caught diverting money to the reelection campaign of Teamsters President Ron Carey. Guess that's how they stuffed ballot boxes in 1996!

If you follow the Clintons, you won't be surprised to see that Ickes, McAuliffe & Lanny Davis were involved in this fundraising perk to illegal donators!
But few people know Mark Weiner, the DNC fundraiser who arranged Chagoury's donations & his access to the Clinton White House.

Mark Weiner got his first job in politics in 1976, being personally hired by Hillary Rodham Clinton to work on the Jimmy Carter campaign. By 1980, he was raking in Swampy money providing t-shirts & other merchandise for the Democratic candidates & the DNC convention. 

Vote Now 96 was also implicated in a variety of shady donations but of course the Janet Reno DOJ didn't prosecute anyone for those crimes!

I guess you won't also be surprised to find Clinton lawyers Robert F. Bauer involved in this case along with the late Henry Cisneros. It had all the Clintonite Swamp creatures generating funds for the 1996 election.

So what was Chagoury trying to buy with his access to the Clinton White House? A reduction in US santions against Nigeria because Chagoury's ally Gen. Abach was enabling drug smuggling & hanging political opponents.

Gilbert Chagoury was the ultimate Swamp creature in Nigeria under Abacha & was working to integrate that with the Swamp in Washington DC. How did he get his access, through Mark Weiner using Jesse Jackson!

Gaining access to Clinton NSA James Steinberg & Susan Rice!

Note Mark Weiner was the money funding Jesse Jackson's coalition in the 1990s. The effort focused on accusing large corporations of racism, then shaking them down for contributions & consulting contracts to help the corporations appear woke. It may explain a lot but not today! 

Apparently Steinberg & Rice were not very pliable to Abacha's interests when they met with Chagoury.

Jackson claimed to not know that his sponsor Weiner was also getting funding for the DNC's off books election efforts from Chagoury to get access to the Clinton White House.

Susan Rice had moved to State Dept & secret meetings were held with the Nigerians in Geneva. Someone invited Chagoury but State didn't give Nigeria what it wanted.
So Clinton brought in Swamp creature Congressmen Bill Richardson to handle private negotiations with Chagoury!

Chagoury became a billionaire because of corruption.

His parents emigrated to Nigeria from Lebanon & after college he & his brother began engaging in corrupt business building infrastructure in Nigeria!

Corruption is Infrastructure!

Gilbert & his brother Ronald build a multibillion dollar fortune controlling key industries & making friends with Swamp creatures all over the planet! He stayed out of trouble for many decades until his luck ran out in 1998.

Chagoury became very wealthy by beign the primary corruption conduit for Gen. Abacha, which came crashing down when Abacha died in 1998! But don't worry, he is still making money off that corruption today!

Wikipedia will disappear this, but their site even admits that this foreign oligarch who illegally donated to candidates has funded the election campaigns of both Bill & Hillary Clinton. Which is illegal for a foreigner to do & Dems have spent 5 years calling that treason.

In 2010, PBS's Frontline did a good article on Gilbert Chagoury & his corruption. Gen. Abacha's death made him vulnerable as the new leaders of Nigeria, wanted to recover as much of that corrupt money as they could for themselves!
pbs.org/frontlineworld…

I can't find a date, but Chagoury befriended Abacha when he was a young officer many years before he took over Nigeria in a coup. Chagoury likely groomed Abacha to be dictator of one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.

Abacha, through Chagoury, set up the usual #ButNothingsHappening case arrangements of shell companies, extractive industry contracts, along with bankers & lawyers to help hide it all. Tens of billions disappeared from this impoverished nation during & after his reign!

Nigeria is a very oil rich country stuck in poverty because of corruption from the oil industry.
Chagoury handled these corrupt deals in a very wise manner, he brought in both halves of the American Swamp: Halliburton & Glencore! 

PBS of course focuses on Halliburton, because they investigate corruption in the Republican half of the Swamp. But when I continue this thread tomorrow I will look at the harder to find details on Glencore. Was Chagoury the reason Clinton pardoned Glencore's CEO Marc Rich?https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1382377142823100419.html