HRC/DNC - Russian Oligarchs

Good afternoon ‘Pedes (I am a future pede so it’s afternoon here anyway).

Yesterday I was perusing a certain [redacted] subreddit some information was posted. In what may, or may not have been a coincidence Trumps jet and the jet of another man were parked at the same airport. That man was Dmitry Rybolovlev. Now naturally things cascaded a bit with the typical “omg how can t_D ignores Trumps ties to Russia it’s so obvious!” Naturally I found such massive assumptions a bit over-the-top, but I figured it’d be a great time to showcase was t_D does while we display our insanely HIGH ENERGY and memetic wizardry.

We actually bother to investigate shit.

Now I didn't have much time on my hands, still don't so I had to stop at the time because I have shit to do. I asked that others continue the investigation, figured I'd give them all a chance to do something other than bitch. However it's already been 24 hours, it's time to bring in the big guns.

===================== AND SO IT BEGINS =============================


Dmitry Rybolovlev.

A Russian billionaire, made an absolute fucking fortune during the more corrupt and dangerous times that preceeded Putin taking complete power. Nowadays he no longer lives in Russia. He lives in Monaco, hasn't lived in Russia for quite some time. It was his private jet that was at the airport in Charlotte, NC at the same time that Trumps was.

Previously, in 2008, Rybolovlev had bought a mansion from Trump in a deal which netted Trump an [absolute fucking killing](http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/27/news/donald-trump-russian-deal-mansion/) made almost $60million profit in 4 years. What's a little strange is that Rybolovlev never lived in it at all. Peculiar perhaps?

So my next step was to see if Rybolovlev makes a habit of spending stupid quantities of money on property that he doesn't need or use. He bought an $88 million dollar apartment (15 Central West, PH20) off Joan Weill the wife of Sandy Weill from Citigroup (whom, after his departure got heavily involved with the Clintons). This occured in 2012. Rybolovlev's daughter lives/lived in the apartment. So it seems like this guy has a thing for spending huge amounts of money on US property.

This leaves a big question: Is there something specific about Donald Trump (real estate extraordinare; recently promoted to God Emperor) and Sandy Weill (The man who built up Citibank) that would make them particularly interesting to a man like Dmitry? [redacted] assumed it was Putin buying people out.

**But this centipede investigated**.

The only major similarity I could find (aside from being stupidly rich) was that Trump in the time preceeding the 2008 crash both predicted and expressed excitement at the impending property crash. He was also rather publically pissed about the operations of some banks. In fact He filed a lawsuit against [Deutsche Bank](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/business/05norris.html). So Trump didn't like how banks were handling business, and he also made his own money in property not finance.

Now Weill made his bank account bloom in the banking industry, but following his Apartment sail to Rybolovlev in 2012 he did a 180 on his opinions and [advocated against big banks](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sandy-weill-calls-break-big-ba).

For this all to click into place we now need some more information.

In Russia Putin *owns* the oligarchs. We can bag on Putin about a lot of things, but he basically [turned up, grabbed the elite by the balls and took control](http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/12/25/the-silent-coup-putin-vs-the-oligarchs/). Oligarchs thought Putin would be another figure head and even backed him to become President. In return he reach over and grabbed them all by the (metaphoric) pussy. Since then there's been a fairly consistent pattern, you toe the line or you better get out of the country before Putin makes sure you never see day again. The relevance of this?

Dmitry Rybolovlev, as far as I can tell, has [literally zero Russian assets](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-19/russian-billionaires-are-putins-hostages). Yes, that's right, this supposed 'link to Russia and Putin' is referring to a Russian-born billionaire who owns nothing in Russia, hasn't lived in the country for quite some time AND assisted Georgi Bedjamov [(wiki)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rybolovlev#Challenges_and_controversies) in fleeing from Russian authorities, supposedly in exchange for financial information on his opponents.

But it gets better, Dmitry made his fortune with a company called Uralkali. During the more corrupt days of Russia the [Mafia was involved with Uralkali](https://medium.com/@V7Monika6/russian-oligarch-dmitry-rybolovlev-accused-of-murder-a92acc229873#.c0z48vbtw) following one guy getting killed Dmitry was jailed for organising his death. During this time he was allegedly pressured to sell his shares in Uralkali in exchange for his freedom. Dmitry declined and after a while was released. That really sets him up and being pretty attatched to this company.

Keeping that previous point in mind you might be surprised that he sold off his shares (a whole 53%) in Uralkali to [Suleiman Kerimov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleyman_Kerimov#Uralkali) and his associates. That was in 2010 and by the looks of things was the last time he invested in Russia. Suleiman Kerimov is *literally* in the Russian government, he is an oligarch who came to power in the Medvedev era. We can be sure the Suleiman is under the boot of Putin because, after acquiring Uralkali Suleiman made a concerted effort to push into Belarus and establish a monopoly. He was aggressive enough that he pissed off both the governors of Belarus [*and Putin*](http://imrussia.org/en/politics/553-putin-lukashenko-and-kerimov-the-russian-belarusian-triangle) following which Kerimov sold all his shares to one of Putins circle: Vladimir Kogan.

So we've got Dmitry Rybolovlev, who seems to have abandoned Russia completely in 2010 with no financial links remaining there and we have Suleiman Kerimov, an oligarch under Putins boot.

========================== Wall Street and Kerimov ====================================

Oh yes, the good bits.

Now, these are fairly bright fellows we are dealing with. They know how to hide money. So they aren't the easiest to track down. But then I found [this](https://www.ft.com/content/ad4e8816-52d0-11e1-ae2c-00144feabdc0#axzz28mAxBIZY) wonderful little article. Here's a few tasty morsels:

>Senior western bankers were impressed with Kerimov’s financial agility. They introduced him to the likes of Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, John Mack, the former Morgan Stanley boss, and, later, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs who, according to one of them, has since visited Kerimov’s Moscow residence twice.

Kerimov invested so much money in wall street that the bankers would fly out to visit him in Russia.

>The opacity of the investment figures exemplifies the veiled, ever-shifting world of Kerimov, where there is even talk of phone calls from the US Treasury after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, exhorting the Kerimov group and lender banks not to sell their stakes. “It was a big amount of money. It was in the banking system and it was a problem for the US Treasury,” said one banker with knowledge of the situation. The acting deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury for Europe and Eurasia at the time, Eric Meyer, said he was unaware of these “specific circumstances”.

In fact he had invested *so much fucking money* in these banks that the US treasury **personally begged him not to sell during the crisis**

>But privately some have wondered whether there may be more to the mysterious Kerimov than meets the eye. Much speculation has rested on whether he sometimes invests funds for other silent partners – in particular, the Kremlin.

Well now... how ugly is that.

Gosh I wonder what stack these particular banks had in this current election:

Goldman Sachs - [Banned employees from donating to Trump](http://www.salon.com/2016/09/07/goldman-sachs-bans-employees-from-donating-to-donald-trump-but-not-hillary-clinton/)

Deutsche Bank - Sued by Trump as I mentioned earlier but apparently they still do business with him [(source)](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-deutsche-bank-idUSKBN14U1MU) and even favoured him which is actually a pretty interesting situation. Not sure what to make of it, they didn't donate much to any particular party. However [this](http://projectcamelotportal.com/2011/02/22/white-hats-report-12/) link makes me wonder WTF is going on Deutsche Bank. Needs more investigation.

Morgan Stanley - Top 2 recipients of donations are [Hillary Clinton and the DNC](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000106), of course than didn't stop them from riding [Trump's market rally](http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/morgan-stanley-donald-trump-richer).

JP Morgan - Donated heavily to [Hillary Clinton and the DNC](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000103).

And of course during her time as senator Hillary Clinton's top contributors included [All of the above](https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00000019&type=I&newmem=N) also including Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Merrill Lynch is now owned by the Bank of America. Merrill Lynch is relevant because thats where Kerimov favourite advisor - Allen Vine - comes from. And he was apparently even invited to the Whitehouse =). I can't find much on hi

Bank of America - Donated to [Hillary Clinton](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000090).

Citigroup - Where Sandy Weill originally made his money also donated to [Hillary Clinton](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000071) not to mention that the CEO is the one who told Obama to put her in as SoS.

Now I'll stop there, because fuck it, we've already covered the Axis of Evil.

The point here though, is that we know members of the **RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT** owned so much stock in Wall Street that (a) they had a personal relationship and (b) the US treasury called Kerimov to beg him not to sell during the crash. IMO if the Treasury had to do that then it makes me think they owned an absolute shitload. These very same businesses heavily finance Hillary *and have done so for more than a decade*.

**AND THEREFORE, I ASK TO YOU: IF YOU TAKE MONEY FROM BIG FINANCE AND LEGAL FIRMS, AND THOSE LEGAL FIRMS ARE SATURATED WITH MONEY FROM RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, IS THAT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?**

============================ Back to Trump ======================================

What does this imply for Trump?

We need consider that Kerimov seems to be under Putins boot, appears to be an adversary of Dmitry Rybolovlev and lost [**at least $14.4 billion dollars](https://www.ft.com/content/ad4e8816-52d0-11e1-ae2c-00144feabdc0#axzz28mAxBIZY) during 2008. It would seem that there were opposing forces at work during that time. Dmitry clearly couldn't live in Russia and pressure had already been applied on him before, so it would seem to me that his best path forward was to work with whoever would damage his enemies the most. And it would appear his 'faction' succeeded. Afterwards he was either forced or chose to sell his remaining assets in Russia.

Now who that faction consists of I do not know (if it even is a faction, or just a bunch of mutual interests acting individually) but it sure fucking looks like 2008 did incredible damage to individuals of the Russian government who were steadily increasing their grip on American financial institutions. For people like Donald Trump 2008 was an opportunity to make a lot of money, for people like Suleiman it was a disaster because they had investments (not assets)  and for him money == power.

Considering that so far the only link I've found between Trump and Rybolovlev is that one bought a house from the other there isn't much evidence to go on for Trumps role (if there is one in all this) but even he is, he sure doesn't look like the bad guy from my perspective.

============================ Why invest in US finance? ==================================

The Oligarchs are under Putins boot. I'm sure most hate being there. Once they ruled by the gun and now they just get told what to do and where to do it. But they can't get rid of Putin domestically, he's heavily ingrained in the military, intelligence services and even the people. People might not like Putin entirely, but would they prefer to the murderous corruption of the 90's? probably not.

That means these Oligarchs need foreign intervention to get rid of Putin, something bad enough that it'll let them reclaim power just like they did in the 90's.

They cannot gain power easily in Russia anymore, so they have to go foreign. Investments are perfect for that, people notice if you buy all of their physical assets but stocks? shares? there's a million ways to hide those. Naturally the banking elite will be on their side considering that [Putin](http://yournewswire.com/putin-bans-rothschilds-from-russia/) evicted them from Russia. And, due to the american government allowing these interests to buy politicians and lobby, that affords these Oligarchs significant influence over the American government.

In this light Hillary's hostility towards Russian makes *perfect sense*. In Russia, Putin is strong, but if you could use the Americans to make him look weak enough, they could depose him and reclaim their throne. They would use the US as mercenaries to do their bidding. The absolute last thing they want is friendly relations between Putin and the US.

============================== Digging Required =====================================

Kerimov - doesn't act alone, none of his ilk really do. Anything we can find on them is going to be extremely helpful. Nafta Moskva is apparently an investment company of his, maybe that'll spring some leads.

Allen Vine - Worked for Merrill Lynch, Kerimov's top western guy and was even invited to the Whitehouse.

The Bank of Cyprus - Rybolovlev was heavily invested in this, Kerimov invested too, actually shitloads of people invested in it at different times, fuckery is afoot.

Rybolovlev - His money isn't the easiest to track, it's difficult.

Russian Oligarchs - Methinks there's at least two broad factions: those looking to topple Putin by any means and those looking to stop them reclaiming Russia. I pressume theres a variety of Russian oligarchs both inside and out on the sides of each. I suspect the more links into finance they have, the more corrupt they probably are.

Obama - His signing of the NSA powers thing concern me. He's also the guy who bailed out banks. The banks the oligarchs hold sway over.

Media Companies - If the banks have been bought you can bet there's media bought and paid for. If we can find the money trails we can find who the fools are.

**THE MEME WAR HAS JUST BEGUN PEDES; TIME TO MAKE THE WORLD GREAT AGAIN**

quick spez: I apologise for any fucked up grammar.