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[Glix]

Where have you seen this and what exactly does that mean? "The entire party" as in who?

The idea is that the Russians were laundering money by donating it to Republican candidates, and/or the RNC. Possibly through companies like the one raided by the fbi today. And that a number of party members knew about it.

Hence a rico indictment for all. Would normally seem farfetched, but not really these days.

 

[super-heated plasma]

So a ton of vehicles and taped-off windows were sent to...get documents about a 4-year-old governor campaign? I wouldn't have expected that.

Four years to act on a warrant? Especially after an election cycle, and with such a response? Does seem a bit strange.

 

[jstripes]

Yeah, maybe I'm looking into this a bit too much, but those statements by the two employees/owners/whatever could have been fed to them by the FBI to keep this lower profile. But ultimately it seems like way too big a response for such an old case.

Yup. They're not gonna come out and say "Yeah, it's the Russia case..."

 

[Brashnir]

Four years to act on a warrant? Especially after an election cycle, and with such a response? Does seem a bit strange.

Investigations take time. It's not like a warrant was issued 4 years ago and they just sat on it until today.

 

[super-heated plasma]

Jayne Miller‏Verified account @jemillerwbal 22m22 minutes ago

Website of firm raided by FBI says one if its principals was formerly with firm operated by Paul Manafort--frm Trump campaign mgr

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Yeah you're right
Strategic campaign consulting's web presence/lack of existence is even more baffling
http://strategiccampaignconsulting.com/

What the fuck, so just to take things further, Strategic Campaign Consulting also has this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strategic-Campaign-Consulting/307494326057737

And then that's it. Their headquarters are allegedly in Alpharetta, GA, at 3070 Windward Plaza, according to this business registry. However, a search of that address shows that actually, there's a dentist there: https://www.facebook.com/CosmeticDentistryCenter?fref=ts

So it seems like they're completely fake, except they did receive a couple hundred thousand combined fees between Carson, Trump and the RNC.

Edit: wait, the person it's registered to, Sonya Harrison, seems legit, just not very tech savvy. Her Twitter has a single tweet. I think SCC is just a one person operation, and not related to SCG that got raided today.

Still, I'd love to know how to make that kind of money as a campaign consultant with almost zero online presence.

 

[Trouble]

Jayne Miller‏Verified account @jemillerwbal 22m22 minutes ago

Website of firm raided by FBI says one if its principals was formerly with firm operated by Paul Manafort--frm Trump campaign mgr

 

[StopMakingSense]

Jayne Miller‏Verified account @jemillerwbal 22m22 minutes ago

Website of firm raided by FBI says one if its principals was formerly with firm operated by Paul Manafort--frm Trump campaign mgr

There's so much cross pollination with these figures and outfits that that could just be a coIncidence wrt his investigation.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Four years to act on a warrant? Especially after an election cycle, and with such a response? Does seem a bit strange.

Feds would much much rather take as much time as they need to insure a conviction than blow their wad early.

 

[GameAddict411]

The key thing here is did they surprise them? Considering how many bad apples are in this government, it won't shock me if all the evidence were already removed by the time they got there. I just hope I am wrong and these criminals get what they deserve.

 

[Lonewulfeus]

What the fuck, so just to take things further, Strategic Campaign Consulting also has this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Strategic-Campaign-Consulting/307494326057737

And then that's it. Their headquarters are allegedly in Alpharetta, GA, at 3070 Windward Plaza, according to this business registry. However, a search of that address shows that actually, there's a dentist there: https://www.facebook.com/CosmeticDentistryCenter?fref=ts

So it seems like they're completely fake, except they did receive a couple hundred thousand combined fees between Carson, Trump and the RNC.

Edit: wait, the person it's registered to, Sonya Harrison, seems legit, just not very tech savvy. Her Twitter has a single tweet. I think SCC is just a one person operation, and not related to SCG that got raided today.

Still, I'd love to know how to make that kind of money as a campaign consultant with almost zero online presence.

She was newt Gingrichs head of Georgia operations in 2012 as well.

 

[chekhonte]

Feds would much much rather take as much time as they need to insure a conviction than blow their wad early.

Search warrants are time sensitive. You can't just hold onto one for years. When a judge issues one it has all kinds of limitations attached to it like exactly what you can search, the time you can search, who can perform the search etc.

 

[theclosetfan]

Jayne Miller‏Verified account @jemillerwbal 18m18 minutes ago

Washington FBI office says investigation incl raid of GOP fundraising firm in Annapolis being done w/ “fierce coordination”

Hmm.

 

[super-heated plasma]

Search warrants are time sensitive. You can't just hold onto one for years. When a judge issues one it has all kinds of limitations attached to it like exactly what you can search, the time you can search, who can perform the search etc.

Which begs the question, why would they want a search warrant now for something that happened back in 2013?

 

[Darknight]

Sounds good. We need more of these to keep the ball rolling.

Still hoping this will all catch up to Trump. Hard to say yet as people keep jumping the gun. Lets hope the FBI keep at it and that they really are going to "war" with Trump after firing Comey.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

Which begs the question, why would they want a search warrant now for something that happened back in 2013?

to see if they were doing the same money laundering in 2013, or if was a more recent happening

 

[Duane Cunningham]

She was newt Gingrichs head of Georgia operations in 2012 as well.

Guess that company name really just exists to put on invoices etc. Welp, nothing to see there, then... there's probably no reason to think she's connected to the Annapolis company. You'd think for that money she could hire a web designer for a minute, though.

 

[adamsappel]

We do know that this raid revolves around the VA governor race in 2013 right?

Granted, they may find other stuff, but I don't think this has to do with anything with what's happening now.

It doesn't need to have anything to do with what's happening now to have leverage over Manafort, Stone, etc. This might be a "Get out of jail free" card for them, if they flip on Trump et al.

 

[super-heated plasma]

Interesting thread on Twitter that makes alot of sense.

https://twitter.com/Broadsword_Six

THREAD: 1.Buckle up, get your coffee, spark dat spliff, pour your wine. Here we go. The FBI raid of Strategic Campaign Group yesterday was a

2. two pronged attack. One Manafort & Stone are both linked to that firm by way of their old lobby firm BKSH. BKSH went on to become what

3. Prime Policy group which is the firm Manafort was using to work with Ukraine. Prime Policy Group helped Victor Yanukovic a Putin bag man

4. Get elected. Prime Policy also put out a press release some time ago stating Manafort, & Stone were Trump campaign advisors. Lots of

5.Evidence was taken yesterday. Hard drives, files, etc. Manafort still has not registered under FARA which makes me think he may have

6. Flipped on Trump. But I'm not 100%. He's fallen off of everyone's radar for a while. Here's where it gets interesting. Strategic Campaign

7. Also has ties to Trump & the Taj Mahal casino. Strategic Campaign registered with Maryland lobby website on behalf of Prince George's

8. Racing Ventures. PGRV is also known as Penn Natl Gaming. A man named James Perry ran PNG before he went to work for Trump. Perry worked

9. for Trump Entertainment Resorts. One of which was Trump Taj Mahal. All of this happened ONE DAY after the Senate Intel Committee asked

10. Treasury Dept. to release info on all of Trump's finances. See where I'm going here? Follow the money. The money will lead them to the

11. truth. Taj Mahal was a money washing front for the Russian mob for YEARS. Trump is starting to come undone. He has never before acted so

12. Nervous and unhinged in a public area before because he knows they are on the money trail. There are 2 EXCELLENT expose's done by a

13. Dutch news team documenting the money trail very well. I will post links. I highly suggest you take the time to watch them. There's a

14. Man subject in the story named Felix Sater. He's a lynchpin in the money laundering operation. Read about him, and his daddy. As recent

15.Last year Sater worked for Trump as a senior advisor to his company. All roads lead to the money

16. Trump cannot stop or interfere with the investigation the NYS AG has opened on him. Schiederman is a rabid pit bull and has a hard on

17. For all things Trump. Get familiar with the term "Enterprise corruption" you'll see it's important. Trump's presidency is already dead

18. He knows that. That's why he's behaving the way he is, and explains his latest twitter melt down. At this point it's just a matter of

19. how much longer he's there. I'll post links shortly. @realDonaldTrump can you feel me now? Harder? Deeper? #GsUpHoesDown

And here's the links to the Dutch story.

https://t.co/Mbxmcg3zaa

https://zembla.vara.nl/dossier/uitzending/the-dubious-friends-of-donald-trump-part-two-king-of-diamonds

 

[Squire]

"#GsUpHoesDown"?

Are you serious?

 

[Mr. X]

I want to believe.

 

[Acorn]

#CakeNews

 

[Hex]

We need Costner and Connery on the job

 

[Veritigo_X]

19. how much longer he's there. I'll post links shortly. @realDonaldTrump can you feel me now? Harder? Deeper? #GsUpHoesDown

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