Roger Stone notes—
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Reminder
-Mogilevich picked Deripaska
-Deripaska picked Manafort
-Mamafort picked Pence

🔸Mike Pence’s brother, Ed Pence, is (was) an executive at Cummins Inc., a company that manufactures engines for the Russian military
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🔸Pence’s Cummins used lobbying firms connected with Paul Manafort and Roger Stone

🔸Cummins is not only a long-time joint venture partner of Russian Government owned KAMAZ, it provides engines to GAZ , owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
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🔸Cummins PAC were the 2nd largest campaign donors in Mike Pence’s Congressional career

🔸The lobbying firm Pence’s brother used is PPGPence’s brother Ed Pence worked at Cummins uses firm PPG run by Charles Black
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🔸Charles Black is a former partner with Manafort in Ukraine
-Black’s PPG worked with TRNC as did Flynn
-Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)

🔸Black and Manafort are/were bisiness partners doing Ukraine and TRNC work

-Thier lobbying firm at the time—BMSK
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🔸BMSK = Black, Manafort, Stone,Kelly

-BMSK, was established in 1980 as a Washington, DC-based lobbying firm by principals
Paul Manafort
Charles R. Black Jr
Roger J. Stone
and Peter Kelly
* Lee Atwater joined them later
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More BMSK—Black, Manafort, Stone, Kelly

-BMSK had a two-part strategy
1. It helped politicians to get elected
2. It used the access it had gained with those politicians to “influence” them on behalf of the rest of their clients
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BMSK became infamous for lobbying in behalf of dictators and creating back channels
-$950,000 year from Ferdnando Marcos
-1M year from Said Barre of Somalia
-Dominican $660,00 a year
-Equatorial Guinea $750,000 a year
-Nigeria 1M

Many of BMSK payments were made off record
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🔸BMSK has paid over 800K in fees to Ed Pence’s Cummins

🔸BMSK—Black, Manafort, Stone, Kelly lobbying firm did work in the Ukraine at the same time Manafort was in Ukraine helping to elect its president
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🔸Ed Pence’s Cummins lobbying firm had a contract September 2017 to do work for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)

🔸TRNC was allied with Flynn’s group through a sub contractor employed by the Flynn Intel Group (Flynn and Son)
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Stone and FB
🔸Stone’s assistant
said that, as part of his work for Stone, he bought "a couple hundred fake Facebook accounts" and that bloggers working for Stone built what looked like real Facebook accounts to push information about the 2016 Russian hack of the Democrats
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Stone and Assange
-On June 4, 2017 Stone messaged Assange on Twitter
"If the US government moves on you I will bring down the entire house of cards. With the trumped- up sexual assault charges dropped I don't know of any crime you need to be pardoned for," Stone wrote
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🔸Much about the Stone investigation is still redacted in the Mueller report
-With the Stone sentence commuted-there is no need for redaction

🔸Stone has repeatedly discussed his backchannel communications with WikiLeaks’ Assange and claimed knowledge of leaks
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