https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke"> #TurkeyGate & TeamTrump https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1184244160984825856?s=21">https://twitter.com/karolcumm...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Question for Barr: Why would the President or you try to avoid a criminal indictment of the bank given the serious allegations that it engaged in a multi-billion dollar scheme to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran? https://www.justsecurity.org/68699/three-dozen-questions-for-congress-and-the-news-media-to-ask-attorney-general-barr/">https://www.justsecurity.org/68699/thr...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Investigation into whether any inappropriate influences led to efforts to interfere, from the president’s business interests and those of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to a powerful Trump-connected lobbying firm and the Turkish president himself. https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/trump-administration-efforts-on-behalf-of-turkish-bank">https://www.americanoversight.org/investiga...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">In 2017: Trump pressed then-SOS Rex Tillerson to help persuade the DOJ (Sessions) to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/trump-urged-top-aide-to-help-giuliani-client-facing-doj-charges">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...
Paraphrasing Berman: If Giuliani & Mukasey’s efforts succeeded in dropping the US case against Zarrab they would be helping Iran evade US sanctions.

See full quote below:

https://www.justsecurity.org/71694/trump-barr-and-the-halkbank-case-timeline/">https://www.justsecurity.org/71694/tru...
"Fruman and Parnas appear to have bought access to & #39;Trumpworld& #39; by directing a six-figure contribution to Tommy Hicks Jr’s pro-Trump superPAC AMERICA FIRST ACTION through a shell corporation," says Brendan Fischer, an attorney with the CLC.

Lawsuit https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1176270292898861056?s=21">https://twitter.com/karolcumm...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📌" title="Reißzwecke" aria-label="Emoji: Reißzwecke">Parnas and Hicks were in contact for at least four months, messages show, as the scheme to oust then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yavonovitch and pressure Ukraine to announce political investigations unfolded. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/giuliani-associate-parnas-texted-trump-campaign-donors-including/story?id=68358361">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/...
Together w/ powerful Ukrainians Correia, Parnas, Fruman, Rick Perry (& his TX oil & Gas cronies), Pence, Tommy Hicks Jr., (“the money guy,”) who is the co-chairman of the RNC and pal of DonJr. are all involved in the attempt to takeover/control Naftogaz. https://apnews.com/7f97eac651e7ada92fed6480e70dce1b">https://apnews.com/7f97eac65...
“Hicks (along with James Woolsey) also played a behind-the-scenes role, in the freeing last year of Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who was detained for two years by the Turkish government.”

Brunson was released days after the Khoshoggi murder. https://www.nationalmemo.com/the-hidden-influence-of-tommy-hicks-don-jrs-hunting-buddy">https://www.nationalmemo.com/the-hidde...
On April 2, 2017 Louise Mensch sends a warning to Woolsey, Freeh & Flynn.

What happened that day?

Re: April 2 statement that the FBI investigation into the construction accident wasn’t related to the group or its employees but rather human trafficking & money laundering.
Other MeK devotees include John Bolton, Newt Gingrich.

Elaine Chao has also been on the MeK payroll, as has former Bush 43 security aide Fran Townsend, whose name was in play as a possible Trump secretary of homeland security or DNI in 2017. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/giuliani-mek-terrorist-group-money-bolton-iran-214479">https://www.politico.com/magazine/...
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