Caputo
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🔸As of April 2020, Michael Caputo is the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

-Caputo is Trump’s HHS spokesperson

-Caputo has a definite and documented past relationship with Vladimir Putin
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Caputo backstory

-George Petrushin aka Sergey Georgiy Petrushin is
Caputo’s PR company Caputo Public Relations partner

-Petrushin and Caputo are also partners in Zeppelin Comminications

-Petrushin is CEO and Caputo is Managing Director

-Petrushin is Russian born
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In 1999-
George Petrushin builds on his brand by opening “Zeppelin” night club—Moscow’s first premium nightclub in Moscow
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-Petrushin (and Caputo) founded “Zeppelin Communications” in 1997
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Info on Caputo and Russian business partner’s ‘Zeppelin Communications’

-Zeppelin Communications (founded in 1997) is an international public affairs agency based in Miami Beach
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-Zeppelin’s areas of expertise (according to their web page):
* Global Media & Public Relations
* Gov’t Relations and Public Affairs
* Event Management
* Crisis and Issues Management
* Leadership & Marketing Communications
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Zeppelin’s expertise cont’d
* Litigation Support
* Coalition-building/Grassroots Mobilization
* Online Marketing and Narrowcasting
* Media Strategy, Creative and Visual Production
* Brand Creation, Execution and Reputation Management
* Social Media Marketing
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More Caputo Petrushin’s Zeppelin areas:
* VIP & Celebrities Management
* Sponsorship Cooperation
* HoReCa Management

-Caputo and Petrushin pretty much claim to do it all
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🔸Sergey “George” Petrushin and Michael Caputo first worked together in Moscow at The Florence Group, one of Russia’s first western PR groups

-The Florence Group’s main PR job was to quietly push Putin’s agenda
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According to FARA’s filed—

-Caputo was representing Putin in Russia while Paul Manafort was representing pro-Putin forces in Ukraine

and
Michael Flynn was representing Turkey and pushing a pro-Putin agenda
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🔸Caputo moved to Russia in 1994 after the fall of the Soviet Union to be adviser to and develop a Rock-the-Vote-style campaign for Russian President Boris Yeltsin

Reminder-Caputo and his Russian partner both worked in Russia at Florence Group PR in Moscow
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🔸While working in Russia in the 1990s, Caputo met and married a Russian student studying astrophysics; their marriage ended in a divorce

Reminder-Caputo and Petrushin became partners in Zeppelin in 1997

-In 2000 Caputo worked for Gazprom-Putin/Russia’s energy giant
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-Caputo was hired to improve Vladimir Putin’s image in the United States

-Caputo moved back to the U.S. and founded a public relations company “Caputo Public Relations” in 2003 with Russian partner Petrushin
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-Caputo moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate's campaign for parliament

-Caputo is hired to work for Ukrainian politician during the same time frame that Paul Manafort was in Ukraine helping improve images of Ukrainian politicians
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🔸When Caputo returns from Ukraine Roger Stone convinced Caputo to move to Miami Beach

Reminder
-Zeppelin Communications is based in Miami
-Caputo is partners with Sergey Petrushin Russian immigrant

-Caputo founded Michael Caputo Public Relations
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Caputo and Donald Trump

-Trump hired Caputo in 2014 to launch an astroturfing campaign in support of his stalking-horse bid for the Buffalo Bills

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Caputo and Trump cont’d

-Trump want to buy the Buffalo Bills

-Caputo established a shell organization named "12th Man Thunder"

-Caputo hired a fake leader, amputee Chuck Sonntag, whom Trump and Caputo figured would earn sympathy
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-During Trump’s bid for the “Bills” Caputo launched a smear campaign against bidder Jon Bon Jovi and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment

-Trump lost the bid to
natural gas tycoon Terrence Pegula and his wife Kim Pegula

-Caputo later became a Trump campaign advisor
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-Caputo worked for the Trump campaign from November 2015 to June 2016 in charge of communications for New York

-Caputo left the campaign after publicly supporting the removal of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
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-In 2016, offices of Michael Caputo Public Relations were located in East Aurora, New York, Miami Beach and in Moscow, Russia

In May 2016 this👇

-Russian born Henry Greenberg (not his real name) approaches Caputo’s Russian partner, Petrushin, with dirt on Hillary Clinton
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--Greenberg would give dirt on Clinton in exchange for 2M

-Greenberg shows up at an art gallery opening organized by Caputo’s PR firm

-Greemberg approaches Caputo’s partner, Sergey “George” Petrushin and invited him to check out a restaurant site to discuss quid pro quo
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-Greenberg approaches Petrushin

-Petrushin calls Caputo

-Caputo calls Roger Stone

-Stone meets with Russian Greenberg (not his real name) and a Ukrainian only identified as Alexei at a restaurant in Sunny Isles aka Little Moscow
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-Greenberg meets with Roger Stone to give Clinton dirt in exhange for 2M

-Caputo has arranged the meeting after Greenberg approaches Caputo’s Russian partner Petrushin

-“Supposedly” nothing happened—no quid pro quo
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-When Greenberg met with Roger Stone he owned an LLC “Longmore” shell company

--The Caputo arranged Greenberg/Stone meeting occurred 2 weeks before George Papadopoulos was told in London that Russia had dirt on Clinton and 2 weeks before the infamous Trump Tower meeting
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-Greenberg (not his real name) was born in Russia

-Greenberg jogged back and forth between Russia and the US

-Greenberg was in Russia around the time Michael Caputo was in Russia to help Boris Yeltsin’s image—1994

-Greenberg was well known for hitting the Moscow clubs
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Reminders
-How did Greemberg know to approach Caputo’s partner with a quid pro quo (Hillary dirt for 2M)?

-Caputo’s partner Petrushin owns Moscow’s famous Zeppelin Night Club and Greenberg was a regular among Moscow night clubs
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-Henry Greenberg (not his real name) has been arrested at least four times in Russia and three times in the United States, on charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon to selling 50 million nonexistent tin cans of meat for close to $3 million
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-Greenberg was Gennady Vostretsov during the canned meat caper

-Greenberg was arrested in John Daly’s apartment (Daly=Terminator) and had photos posing with Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone

-Greenberg had multiple passports and corporate credit cards under various names
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-Greenberg spent almost two years in the custody of the U.S. immigration service and returned to Russia

-Greenberg says he spied for the FBI for years in return for being allowed to return to the United States after his deportation for violent crimes
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-Greenberg said an FBI agent named David Baker had supervised his espionage work, retired in 2013 and turned him over to the bureau's Miami office
(claims are not substantiated)

-Caputo and Stone did not reveal their meeting and arrangements with Congress
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-Caputo and Stone were interviewed by Mueller

-Both Caputo and Stone told Mueller about the meeting with the Russian, Greenberg, but dismissed it was inconsequential

More Caputo👇
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-Caputo was caught scrubbing Russia from his bio on Wikipedia

-Sean Dwyer, an employee of Caputo’s PR firm, Zeppelin Communications—Russian partner Sergey “George” Petrushin—was blocked from Wikipedia in August 2017
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-Dwyer was was caught using multiple pseudonymous accounts to purge Caputo’s page of alleged Putin ties

-Dwyer scubbed Caputo’s Russia info through four different “sock puppet” accounts
(according to Wikipedia’s investigation)
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-Dyer repeatedly attempted to remove language from the page that tied Caputo’s work for Gazprom to any efforts to burnish Putin’s reputation abroad

More Caputo👇
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🔸Caputo is a good friend of Somalia president Mohamed Mohamed

-In August 2019, Caputo PR signed on to make the Somali government—and President Mohammad and poverty stricken Somalia look good to Somalians and outsiders
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-Mohamed fled Somalia, attained asylum in US

-Mohammad became an American citizen, enrolled at the University of Buffalo and got involved in GOP politics in western New York

-Mohammad returned to Somalia-successfully ran for president in and renounced US citizenship 2017
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🔸In January 2020–Ukrainian company NGO agreed to pay Michael Caputo's New York and Miami Beach based Zeppelin Communications $1 M for organizing the meetings with Donald Trump and Administration as well as cover any expenses, (according to the FARA filing)
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🔸In April 2020, Trump selected Caputo the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and be HHS spokesperson

-In May, after Capito’s appointment to HHS, he repeatedly directed sexually crude and sexist tweets at women
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Recap
-Caputo worked for Putin and Gazprom

-Caputo worked for Ukrainian politicians

-Capito arranged a meeting for quid pro quo Hillary dirt for 2M (Roger Stone involved)

-Capito ran a smear campaign for Trump against Bon Jovi
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-Capito’s partner is Russian

-Capito’s wife is Ukrainian

-Caputo’s expertise is making politicians look good (by making the other people look bad)

-Caputo has experience scrubbing data and incriminating information
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-After Capito took over as at HHS three things happened:

1. The smear campaign began on Dr. Fauci

2. The smear campaign began on the CDC

3. Coronavirus control was shifted from the CDC to HHS
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-Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC to Caputo at HHS

And now👇

July 16, 2020
Coronavirus: Russian spies target Covid-19 vaccine research

-Caputo is a channel between Trump and Russia—hidden in plain sight
End of Caputo
FYI

-Mogilevich is Ukrainian-now an Israeli citizen

-Len Blavatnik was born in Ukraine

-Michael Cohen’s wife is Ukrainian

-Micheal Cohen’s brother’s wife is Ukrainian

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Trump/Ukraine connections

-Alex Oronov is Ukrainian-Oronov arranged the Peace Plan meeting between Andrii Artemenko (also Ukrainian), Felix Sater in NYC late January 2017 at the Loews Hotel (whee FBI raided Cohen) and where Cohen was to deliver the plan to Michael Flynn
Addendum 2/

-Viktor Topolov is Ukrainian
Topolov is/was part of a money laundering and embezzlement scandal in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s involving Ukraine’s Naftogaz

(when Caputo was in Russia working for Mogilevkch and Putin’s Gazprom)
Addendum 3/

-Michael Caputo’s wife is Ukrainian

-Lev Parnas is Ukrainian

-Igor Fruman is Belarusian but made his money in Ukraine and laundering Russia money (Fruman’s wife ex is Ukrainian)

-Konstantin Kilimnik, Mamafort aide, is Ukrainian
Addendum 4
-June 2018–Konstantin Kilimnik, Ukrainian Manafort aide, is charged in Russia probe accused of conspiring with Manafort to obstruct justice

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Trump / Ukraine

-Andrey Kukushkin is Ukrainian

Kukushkin is linked to Giuliani Associates,

Kukushkin was arrested in San Francisco on campaign finance violations October 2019
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Trump/Ukraine

-Dmitry Firtash is Ukrainian

Firtash is a shadow broker for Semion Mogilevich for the transport and sale of Central Asian gas into Ukraine
Mamafort and Firtash joined to redevelop the Drake Hotel
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Trump/Ukraine
Reminder-
-Ukrainian Lev Parnas was working for Ukrainian Dmitry Firtash

-Michael Cohen’s taxi partner’s Simon Garber and Evgeny Freidman are Ukrainian (before Cohen came on board at Trump, most of Cohen’s clients were Ukrainian)
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Trump/Ukrainian orbit

Lesser known
-Inna Ponomareva

Ponomareva worked for Miami Red Square Realty

Red Square sold Trump properties to Russians

In the pic
Lev Parnas
Ivana Trump
Lev’s wife
David Correia
Inna Ponomareva
David Correia (4th Giuliani associate arrested)
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Trump Ukraine orbit

The pic on #8 was taken at Lique Restaurant in Miami

The founder of Lique, Alex Podolonyy, is also Ukranian (the bio for Podolonyy is on the Lique site)

The pic with Ivana is dated April 2015

Trump announced his candidacy in June 2105
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Trump/Ukrainian orbit cont’d

-Michael Cohen’s wife is Ukrainian
-Michael Cohen’s brother’s wife is Ukrainian

-Semion Mogilevich is Ukrainian
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