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>>>>ORANGE STREET REPORT<<<<

(This is an extremely large compilation of links, so the most relevant bits and pieces from the articles are listed here with them, read those if you want the basic gist of what's happening here)

[Anything in brackets is a footnote to help link things up a bit better]

[Also, keep in mind that despite the title, there are an extremely wide variety of entities at work here. Most (if not all) of them simply seem to be connected in various ways through CT Corporation/Corporate Trust Center/Corporate Trust Company/etc (they go under various names which all lead back ultimately to 1209 Orange Street and an alternate Wilmington address)]

>>>All current links/information

>>owner of property of  OP sent with supposed 'alien' post (see this: http://pastebin.com/d5yDu4En)

[For anyone who wasn't there for this, basically a supposed photo of an alien was posted to /pol/ some time ago in a thread titled "24489 Taken Aprox 24 miles north west of Luke Airforce Base Phoenix Az. Lab H4C." The approx. location gave us our starting point and is the property bought by BM3 Holdings as referred to here]

http://mcassessor.maricopa.gov/mcs.php?q=503-31-004D

>>More info on property deal

http://www.builderonline.com/land/big-phoenix-land-purchase-suggests-more-deals-may-come_o

"The land at Festival Ranch that BM3 Holdings acquired is adjacent to Pulte/Del Webb’s Sun City Festival and Festival Foothills communities, on about 3,000 acres, where Pulte has already built an estimated 1,500 homes and a water-treatment facility. Pulte acquired this land about from The Lyle Anderson Companies, a Scottsdale-based real estate investment and development firm. As part of this deal, Anderson has been receiving 2.25% of the closing price of every home that Del Webb sells in this community."

[Very Large PDF] http://www.buckeyeaz.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015.10.13.PZC_.Material.pdf [Company lawyer's name is Michael E. Tiffany]

http://www.tblaw.com/attorneys/michael-e-tiffany

>>all of the companies pertaining to Ni family, info on their properties/locations

https://www.bizapedia.com/people/tsann-ni.html
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/284507843711729674/284730354349113345/a190a58851a86da402857bbe2b397c32.png
https://www.google.com/maps/place/8861+E+Carol+Way,+Scottsdale,+AZ+85260/@33.5993052,-111.8896586,3a,75y,164.94h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPfOJK2R_6pXY1elHCmsBBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb9dd7c2d03fb2d72!8m2!3d33.5990669!4d-111.8895915!6m1!1e1
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/199804010093
https://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/az/pdfs/energy/aps/deis/comments251-500.Par.57708.File.pdf/496_130129_Comment_Letter_w-petition_signatures_Redacted.pdf
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/284507843711729674/284530335495094274/NI.png
http://ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/Corp?corpid=L11187785
http://ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/Corp?corpid=L16347142&type=L.L.C.

[Essentially, multiple people bearing the last name "Ni" (in some cases even the same names recur multiple times across these companies) are associated with a multitude of different companies in the same general area(s). Many of these people share the same addresses.]

[It should also be noted that there is a "Ni Family LLC" among these companies, and it is the only one listed as foreign.]

[For the record, the BM3 purchase of the property seems to be the only solid link between the Nis and CT Corp. However, it is also notable in the respect that many of the companies associated with CT Corp also have links to the Asian market, e.g. Blackstone, Terraform Global, SunEdison, and others.]

>>previous owner of land is connected to AIPAC

http://councilforasecureamerica.org/richard-h-altman-director/

[Richard Altman, signed off on deal with BM3 for the property]

>>Council for a Secure America

[This organization is based in New York City, as is the case with a few other organizations associated with Orange Street/CTC such as Blackstone. The following is an excerpt from their 'About' page.]

"The Council for a Secure America was established by key domestic oil and gas producers and leaders of the Jewish community to educate the public about the importance of their common objective of decreasing U.S. reliance on imported oil from the Middle East. CSA is the successor to a similar group organized during the 1980’s to address the same basic issue."

[Another pro-Israel group, much like AIPAC.]

>>More on Richard Altman

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/07/world/pro-israel-group-exerts-quiet-might-as-it-rallies-supporters-in-congress.html?pagewanted=all

[Dated 1987] "The largest such group is the Washington-based National PAC, which gave $1 million to 118 Democrats and 82 Republicans running for Congress in 1985-86. The fund's treasurer, Richard H. Altman, served as political director of the group from 1979 to 1983...''Aipac members are the cream of the political world,'' said Arthur D. Chotin, who was deputy director of Aipac from 1981 to 1985. ''They know everything it takes to get into political office.''"

[Altman seems to at least have been/be a part of different PACs responsible for donating substantial amounts of money to political campaigns.]

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/recdocdata/getrecdatadetail.aspx?rec=20100957268&suf=

[For the document, click the number '5' under 'Pages.' It records the sale of the property to BM3 from Festival Holdings/10000 West LLC, signed off on by Altman.]

>>10000 West LLC and Dan Domogala

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/recdocdata/GetRecDataDetail.aspx?rec=20070764346

[Another document noting Festival and 10000 West LLC, as well as Pulte, which bought property in the same area as BM3. This time the deal was signed off on by a man named Daniel D. Domogala. A search of the man's name comes up with all sorts of different results, but this appears to be his LinkedIn below.]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-domogala-b8aa4217

"Specialties: Negotiating, documenting and closing real estate debt financing. Financial planning and analysis, including short-term and long-term cash flow projections. Treasury management. Coordinating real estate legal and regulatory matters. Managerial and GAAP financial reporting."

Consultant
The Lyle Anderson Company, Inc.
November 2009 – August 2010 (10 months)

Consultant for real estate financing and corporate governance assignments.
Senior Vice President - Treasurer
The Lyle Anderson Company and Oasis Management Resources
July 1997 – September 2009 (12 years 3 months)

Negotiated, documented and closed real estate financing transactions. Managed finance, treasury, legal and regulatory services, corporate governance, and financial planning and analysis.

[As you can see, he was involved with Lyle Anderson, the company previously stated to have sold the property to Pulte. Also take note of "Oasis Management Resources." They're on LinkedIn too. The page shows a quote from their president, whose name you may find familiar.]

https://www.linkedin.com/company/oasis-management-resources-llc

"OMR is your single source solution from Construction to Property Management to complete Back Office Processing. We represent the best inclass and will provide you unparalleled service." - Rich Altman, President

[Not only did this guy work with Altman, he also worked at a couple banks afterward. The times at which he stopped working at each roughly coincide with their absorption (First Interstate Bank by Wells Fargo in 1996) or federal seizure (MeraBank in 1990).]

Vice President - Financial Planning and Analysis
First Interstate Bank
1991 – 1996 (5 years)

Prepared financial analyses, competitive analyses and investor presentations for use by the Chairman and CFO. Evaluated business cases proposing capital expenditures.

Accounting Manager - Assistant Vice President
MeraBank
1988 – 1991 (3 years)

Managed accounting department of fourteen responsible for accounting for loan portfolios, real estate joint ventures, non-bank subsidiaries and foreclosed real estate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Interstate_Bancorp

"First Interstate Bancorp was a bank holding company based in the United States that was taken over in 1996 by Wells Fargo. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it was the nation's eighth largest banking company."

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/01/business/us-seizes-arizona-s-biggest-savings-institution.html

"LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31— The collapse of the real estate market in Arizona claimed another victim today when Federal regulators seized control of Merabank, the state's largest savings and loan institution, from its parent company, the Pinnacle West Capital Corporation. Merabank, with $6.5 billion in assets, is the fourth-largest of the more than 300 institutions seized by regulators as they try to cope with the savings and loan crisis."

[For the record, both Wells Fargo and Bank of America (which bought MeraBank after its federal seizure) have tied to CTC as well. So did Pinnacle West Capital Corp., the original company controlling MeraBank.]

BANK OF AMERICA: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/2927442

PINNACLE WEST: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_az/01730097

WELLS FARGO INVESTMENT FUND: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5225739

[This will not be the last instance in this list of companies associated with CTC either buying each other out or running into legal trouble with one another.]

>>Oasis Management Resources, Richard Altman and 1209 Orange Street/Corporation Trust Center

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/4494387

[This company, previously stated as having Altman as its president, leads straight to Orange Street. Its Arizona branch information also points to some interesting names.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_az/R14644464

Directors / Officers

        CT CORPORATION SYSTEM, agent
        LAFC NORTH AMERICA HOLDING COM, member, 16 Jul 2008-
        PHILIP J GUND, manager, 16 Jul 2008-
        STEPHEN MAROTTA, manager, 16 Jul 2008-

[Remember Philip J Gund. He'll come up later, and seems to have his hands in a wide variety of things himself.]

>>Festival Holdings and Corporation Trust Center

http://ecorp.azcc.gov/Details/corp?corpid=F11063079

STEPHEN MAROTTA  CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
MGBD LLC
800 LANIDEX PLAZA
SUITE 210
PARSIPANNY, NJ 07054
    10/21/2008  12/30/2015

RICHARD ALTMAN  PRESIDENT
MGBD LLC
800 LANIDEX PLAZA
SUITE 210
PARSIPANNY, NJ 07054
    10/21/2008  12/30/2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_Corporation)

"The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 North Orange Street, is a single-story building located in the Brandywine neighborhood of Wilmington, Delaware, USA, operated by CT Corporation. This is CT Corporation's location in the state of Delaware for providing "registered agent services." In 2012 it was the legal address of no fewer than 285,000 separate businesses. Companies have offices in Delaware due to its desirable corporate taxes and law, and it is estimated that 9 billion dollars of potential taxes were not levied over the past decade, due to the Delaware loophole. Offices are usually held in the state to avoid the high franchise fees associated with registering the company in Delaware and operating the corporation outside the state. Notable companies that hold a post-office box at this location include Google, American Airlines, Apple Inc, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Verizon Internet Services, and Deutsche Bank with about 430 of their more than 2,000 subsidiary companies and special purpose companies. Both President Donald Trump, winner of the United States presidential election, 2016 and his opponent Hillary Clinton, have registered companies at the center."

>>Philip J. Gund - Director at Festival, later CFO at SunEdison, Inc.

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=2827278&privcapId=340736

[Philip Gund was initially a part of Festival before moving over to SunEdison]

>>More on SunEdison

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_az/F14682260

Branch
    Branch of SUNEDISON, INC. (Delaware (US))
Registered Address

        % CT CORPORATION SYSTEM
        2390 E CAMELBACK RD
        PHOENIX, AZ 85016
        United States

Business Classification Text
    SALES ENERGY
Agent Name
    CT CORPORATION SYSTEM

[Strangely, Gund is nowhere to be found among the employee listings. However, the company is listed as a branch of another, which is based in Delaware at the 1209 Orange Street address.]

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3963719-crazy-contrarian-theory-sunedison-inc

"Recently we found out that SEC and DOJ are looking into SUNE and everyone panicked. Later we were informed that the reason for these 2 investigations are likely tied to the actions detailed in the TerraForm Global (NASDAQ: GLBL) lawsuit. For those unfamiliar I'll give a quick summary of what the lawsuit said: GLBL was supposed to pay SUNE $231 million for a down payment on assets in India. These projects were to be completed and then passed down to GLBL (the Yieldco). Suddenly there was an absence of leadership in GLBL and in the interim Wuebbels stepped up and pushed GLBL's board to approve and send the $231 million quickly. $150 million was transferred to SUNE immediately and it has come out that SUNE used that money to pay a $150 million bill that was due very soon. In response, bears say that this move shows SUNE's reported liquidity (as shown in its cash walk in January) is actually one big lie. Bulls are mostly silent or long gone at this point."

[An interesting thing to note about this entire story about the lawsuit: both of the companies involved trace back to CTC. In addition to SunEdison, TerraForm Global is also registered with one of CTC's alternate names, Corporation Service Company, at an address very similar to the Wilmington one that typically accompanies the 1209 Orange Street address. See below for more details.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5623481

Jurisdiction
    Delaware (US)
Agent Name
    CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY
Agent Address
    2711 CENTERVILLE RD SUITE 400, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19808
Directors / Officers
    CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY, agent

[There are various different listings on opencorporate for companies bearing the same name, two of which are at similar or identical addresses, and the rest of which are located internationally.]

[Around this point, take note of the alternate Wilmington address(es). There is a later section that discusses this specifically.]

[This is not the first time that SunEdison has been involved in a legal matter. Here is another such instance, this time concerning a company from Taiwan. Most likely unrelated, but the entire Ni family is supposedly from Taiwan.]

http://www.cit.uscourts.gov/SlipOpinions/Slip_op16/16-59.pdf

>>More on 1209 Orange Street, connection to Clintons/Trump and shell companies

http://freebeacon.com/issues/delaware-address-home-200000-shell-companies-including-hillary-clintons/

"The address “1209 North Orange Street” in Wilmington, Del., has become known in recent years as the epicenter of U.S. corporate secrecy. The squat, split-level building is the official address of over 285,000 companies, many of which are looking to take advantage of Delaware’s Panama-like secrecy rules, tax incentives, and business-friendly case law...Hillary and Bill Clinton quietly set up two shell companies listed at “1209 North Orange Street” in 2008 and 2013, the Washington Free Beacon has found. The names of the companies, but not their location, were first made public in tax filings released by Hillary Clinton last year. According to records, one of the Clintons’ “1209 North Orange Street” companies is WJC, LLC, which was set up by Bill Clinton in 2008 as a pass-through for his consulting fees. Another company at the same location, ZFS Holdings, LLC, was set up in February 2013, one week after Hillary Clinton left the State Department. Hillary Clinton received $5.5 million from her book publisher, Simon & Schuster, through the company."


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-thrives-as-a-corporate-tax-haven.html

"Jack Abramoff, the former Washington lobbyist jailed on corruption charges, set up a sham Delaware corporation to hide millions in payments and circumvent federal laws. Mr. Subotic, the Serbian businessman who was tried in absentia last October for his role in a cigarette smuggling scheme and sentenced to six years, used three airplanes that were registered in Delaware, including two at 1209 North Orange."

>>Mossack Fonseca/Panama Papers connection

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/26/dozens-firms-creating-foreign-based-shell-companies-two-us-states/84222480/

"In Delaware, which does not levy sales or personal property taxes, revenue from the state’s Division of Corporations totaled $928 million in 2014 — nearly 30% of the state’s overall tax revenue. Almost 90% came from the taxes charged for registering new companies."

"More than 50 firms in Nevada have registered as many or more different companies than Mossack Fonseca, the focus of the Panama Papers leak. Here are the 10 Nevada registration entities with the most formed companies."

CSC Services Of Nevada - 47,903
Corporation Trust Company Of Nev. - 47,001

[This piece of info is mostly to point out that this is a similar sort of operation to Mossack Fonseca, a firm that also dealt in setting up shell companies and operated out of Panama. Also take note, Corporation Trust Company = CTC, this name recurs a few times in other deals and is the same thing as CT Corporation.]
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evil-llc-0000524-v21n12

"Documents and interviews I've conducted also show that Mossack Fonseca is happy to help clients set up so-called shelf companies—which are the vintage wines of the money-laundering business, hated by law enforcement and beloved by crooks because they are "aged" for years before being sold, so that they appear to be established corporations with solid track records—including in Las Vegas. One international asset manager who talked to Mossack Fonseca about doing business with them told me that the firm offered to sell a 50-year-old shelf company for $100,000."

[A few of the companies listed here may be shelf companies as discussed here.]

>>Blackstone Connection

http://nvsos.gov/SOSEntitySearch/CorpDetails.aspx?lx8nvq=hv9RSCAVkgdYEOd5oNMPyQ%253d%253d&nt7=0

[Under Registered Agent Information] - Name:     THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY OF NEVADA

http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/cosmopolitan-las-vegas-sold-blackstone-group-173-billion

Germany’s largest bank, which took ownership of the unfinished property in 2008 after its original developer defaulted on a loan, announced an agreement to sell The Cosmopolitan to a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group, a multinational private equity investment firm, for $1.73 billion in an all-cash transaction.

[Blackstone bought this property from Deutsche Bank, also registered with CTC]

[Blackstone is also listed on opencorporates. Here's their page and the information on it. They link right back to 1209 Orange St.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/4315990

Incorporation Date
    12 March 2007 (almost 10 years ago)
Company Type
    Limited Partnership
Jurisdiction
    Delaware (US)
Agent Name
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY
Agent Address
    CORPORATION TRUST CENTER 1209 ORANGE ST, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19801
Directors / Officers
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, agent

>>Blackstone's connection to Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/dealbook/stephen-schwarzman-palm-beach-party-trump.html?_r=0

"Normally, a birthday party for a boldface name wouldn’t warrant a sentence outside the gossip pages. But Mr. Schwarzman is the billionaire co-founder of the Blackstone Group as well as President Trump’s latest BFF as the chairman of the president’s strategic policy forum — and his last birthday bash turned into a cultural flash point."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/02/trump-to-meet-frequently-with-blackstones-schwarzman-other-business-titans-to-discuss-policy.html

"Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman will chair Trump's strategic and policy forum, which will feature the heads of some of the largest financial, industrial and media companies in the United States. Schwarzman told CNBC that he selected the business leaders for the forum and that the president-elect "loved them all.""

Here's a full list of members:

    Schwarzman
    JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
    Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger
    BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
    Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon
    IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
    Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch
    General Motors CEO Mary Barra
    Paul Atkins, CEO of Patomak Global Partners, a regulatory compliance consulting firm
    Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove
    Boston Consulting Group CEO Rich Lesser
    Former Boeing CEO Jim McNerney
    Global Infrastructure Partners Chairman Adebayo Ogunlesi
    Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger
    Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS Markit
    Kevin Warsh, former Federal Reserve governor

http://www.alternet.org/education/yale-shoukd-shun-blackstone-ceo-steve-schwarzman

“What about Schwarzman —other than his estimated $10 billion fortune — does Yale find appealing? Surely not his belief, as of October 2015, that Donald Trump’s ‘political incorrectness’ makes him ‘good for democracy.’ Surely not his 2011 suggestion to raise taxes on the working poor because ‘skin in the game’ might make them work harder. Surely not his view that a 2010 bipartisan effort to close a private equity tax loophole — from which Schwarzman personally profits —  was ‘like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.’ Surely it is not his prominence at the Koch brothers’ donor summits, where he’s donated undisclosed millions to political organizations that have cannibalized the GOP establishment and paralyzed the Obama administration.”

>>Obama connection to Blackstone

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/13/us/politics/obamas-top-fund-raisers.html?_r=0

Tony James  $1,340,400  N/A     New York    President   The Blackstone Group

http://www.weeklystandard.com/obama-attacks-private-equity-raises-funds-from-private-equity-leaders/article/644470

"President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is "one of the world's largest private equity fund businesses," according to its website."

[Blackstone Group made donations of millions of dollars to both Obama's and Trump's presidential campaigns. This figure is exponentially higher than most of the others on that list, in Obama's case at least.]

>>More general info on Blackstone

[From previous link] "Blackstone has profited from damaging society and the economy by moving in on the home-rental market and shifting its private debt obligations to the taxpayers. As one of the largest owners of rental homes in the country, with nearly double the average eviction rate, Blackstone has been transforming the homes into CDO's (debt obligations -- mortgages, bonds, and other loans pooled as speculative investments for Schwarzman). This is virtually the tactic that engineered the Great Recession. Thanks to Schwarzman, the federal Fannie Mae is underwriting the Blackstone project."

[Essentially just highlights Blackstone's shifty financial tactics, making their connection to CTC less surprising but certainly more interesting.]

>>More on Clintons and previous history with dirty money

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4251046/Illegal-Clinton-fundraiser-tape-fearing-life.html

"The video was obtained by author and historian Doug Wead for his new book Game of Thorns, which traces Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 campaign and the Chinese government's long-running operation to buy political influence in Washington...In the never-before-released footage, Chung described how he feared for his life after he publicly admitted to funneling money from Chinese officials to President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He also claimed Democrats pressured him to stay silent about his dealings with the Clintons and said the FBI tried to enlist him in a sting against a top Chinese general at a Los Angeles airport. The video comes amid renewed interest in foreign influence in Washington, as some members of President Donald Trump's team have been scrutinized for their associations with Russian officials."

[This one is more tangential, related in regard to the part about funneling money from Chinese officials (CTC and the companies/people associated with it may be involved in something similar as Mossack Fonseca was), the issue of foreign influence and the Clintons' prior history with these sorts of schemes. In addition, many of the larger corporations registered at the Orange St./Wilmington address have subsidiaries/branches in the Asian market, such as Terraform Global and Blackstone.]

>>Return of the Nis: East Coast connections

https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=TSANN+LI+NI

TSANN LI NI, agent, United States flag ATLANTIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Arizona (US), 14 Sep 1989- )

>>More on Atlantic Development Corporation

http://www.manta.com/c/mm5k9ld/atlantic-development-corporation
http://atlanticdevelopment.com/featured-projects/quincy/

“The development involved significant environmental remediation and capping of property previously used as landfills and automobile junkyards. Working closely with neighbors, local officials, State agencies and their experienced development team, Atlantic transformed an unsafe and contaminated area into a vibrant neighborhood producing hundreds of new jobs and over $1,400,000 annually in real estate tax revenue for the City of Quincy… Atlantic has also been continually involved and supportive in numerous local, civic and charitable activities in Quincy. Based on our experience with Atlantic, we would rate them as a developer committed to cooperation with a steadfast dedication to excellence.“ - Mayor Thomas P. Koch, City of Quincy, MA

https://www.facebook.com/savecamprichard/posts/414641525330718

"The developer who flashed cash at the Cape Scouts leaders and is trying so hard to essentially steal land out from under our kids and from the Nantucket Civic League is D.J. MacKinnon of Atlantic Development. This is the same group who owns a large portion of the mid-island, is building the new Cape Cod Five building, and is planning a new, massive Stop & Shop in the same area."

>>First Chicago Leasing Corp., a Boeing, and CTC

[Around the time things started going crazy with the alien photo on 4chan, a story started circulating about the alien story being false and that it was a cover for something 9/11-related. At the same time, this webpage started getting circulated. Notice the construction number is the same as the supposed thread title with the 'alien photo'.]

https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/757/24489/N613AA-Jet-Midwest-Group

    REMARKS

    leased from First Chicago Leasing Corporation Sep 1989 - Jul 2014
    WL fitted Dec 2008
    wfu 09. Dec 2013
    std at ROW 10. Dec 2013

[For reference, ROW = Roswell Industrial Air Center, which is where it was stored. Let's look into the company that leased out the plane, First Chicago Leasing Corporation.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/748330

Controlling Company
    JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
Agent Name
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY
Agent Address
    CORPORATION TRUST CENTER 1209 ORANGE ST, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19801
Directors / Officers
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, agent

[So this plane, the company that leased it out, leads us right back to Orange St. Not only that, it's apparently associated with JP Morgan Chase. Recall now that the CEO of Chase was at the meeting with the Blackstone CEO, Schwarzman, the former Boeing CEO, and Trump.]

>>Ankura, MGBD LLC and CTC

[Richard Altman and his associates Philip Gund and Stephen Marotta were all part of a company called Marotta Gund Budd & Dzera, LLC, in existence at the same time as many of their other companies. Several of these companies were dissolved in 2013, and MGBD was acquired by Ankura in 2016, according to Altman's employee page.]

https://ankuraconsulting.com/richard-altman/

"Prior to his current position, Mr. Altman served as a Managing Director with Marotta Gund Budd & Dzera, LLC (“MGBD”), which was acquired by Ankura Consulting in 2016."

[Marotta and Gund can be found among this list of employees as well. Unlisted on Altman's page is his involvement in PACs such as CSA, AIPAC and NationalPAC, the latter two of which are/were based in Washington, D.C., as is Ankura.]

https://ankuraconsulting.com/about-ankura/

"Ankura Consulting is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Our firm has offices across the nation to better serve our clients."

[Seems as though Altman has been working in and around D.C. for years. Let's take a look at Ankura's opencorporates page.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5632213

Incorporation Date
    24 November 2014 (over 2 years ago)
Company Type
    Limited Liability Company
Jurisdiction
    Delaware (US)
Agent Name
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY
Agent Address
    CORPORATION TRUST CENTER 1209 ORANGE ST, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19801
Directors / Officers
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, agent

[Seems as though everything Altman is involved with is run out of Corporation Trust Center. Not too different for the other Altman though; Roger Altman that is, former Vice Chairman of the Blackstone Group in the 1990s and another politically-active figure based in D.C. However, it seems like the same can be said for everyone involved at MGBD and many who have worked with Altman in general.]

>>Shareblue and CTC

[The 'Company' section of the Shareblue website gives an idea of what this political activist organization is about.]

"Shareblue is an American media company. We produce practical political content to delegitimize Trump’s presidency, embolden the opposition, and empower the majority of Americans to fight."

[This page also lists several members of the Shareblue team. Some have worked as part of the Clinton campaign.]

JESS MCINTOSH, Executive Editor: "Democratic strategist, feminist activist, and former communications advisor for Hillary Clinton, EMILY's List, & Sen. Al Franken."

JOSH NERPEL, Director of Outreach: "Former executive director of OneVoice. Advance for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden."

DIANNA E. ANDERSON, Senior Writer: "Feminist author and freelance writer. Graduate of Oxford University and former organizer for the Clinton campaign."

[This article written about supposed ties between this organization and China makes mention specifically of Josh Nerpel, Shareblue's parent company, True Blue Media, LLC, and David Brock, its owner as well as the source of funds behind various left-wing organizations.]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-27/democrat-propaganda-group-shareblue-has-ties-chinese-government-host-foreign-special

"Following the various connections of Shareblue employees leads to a global chase wading through a number of other "charitable" Foundations and front companies being used as vessels to maintain lines of communication between global players hoping to pull strings and use Brock's propaganda to influence the minds of American voters. Many of the individuals involved with Shareblue have troubling histories as corporate lobbyists and consultants for a large list of special interest groups, raising questions about the various sources of influence pulling strings in the Democratic propaganda machine."

[There is far too much important information in this article to fit every significant quote here without copy/pasting the whole thing, so read through it if you want to see the full scope of the connection alluded to here. At the end of it, however, is this helpful image that can tell you much of what you need to know.]

http://disobedientmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/infograph.png

[Additionally, considering the fact that CTC/Orange Street is the glue that seems to connect everything here, let's see if that's the case with True Blue Media.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5872344

Jurisdiction
    Delaware (US)
Agent Name
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY
Agent Address
    CORPORATION TRUST CENTER 1209 ORANGE ST, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19801
Directors / Officers
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, agent

>>Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Anbang Insurance Group

[A couple years ago a major NYC landmark, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, was purchased by a Chinese corporation and set to shut down operations for a couple years while they re-do the place. Here's a link with a bit more to tell on the topic.]

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0I32EF20141014

"Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc said last week it would sell the Waldorf Astoria hotel and residences to China's Anbang Insurance Group Co Ltd for $1.95 billion, one of the highest prices per room ever paid for a U.S. hotel. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has a residence in the hotel. The property also accommodates a host of heads of state and government, including President Barack Obama, during the annual U.N. General Assembly and throughout the year. "We are currently in the process of reviewing the details of the sale and the company's long term plans for the facility," Kurtis Cooper, spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said on Tuesday. The Waldorf Astoria has been the residence for U.S. envoys to the United Nations for more than 50 years, he noted."

[So, a Chinese corporation bought up property that's known to host a wide array of world leaders on a variety of occasions. What exactly is Anbang?]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbang_Insurance_Group

"As of February 2015, the company had assets worth more than CN ¥800 billion (US $123 billion). The Financial Times has described Anbang as "one of China’s most politically connected companies.""

[Here are some of their acquisitions as listed on this page. Blackstone appears to have quite a history with them. In fact, they're the ones who sold Anbang the Waldorf Astoria, which tells us not only that these two corporations have a connection, but that Blackstone held ownership over such a landmark in the first place.]

"In 2014, Anbang Insurance purchased the Waldorf Astoria New York hotel from Blackstone for nearly US $2 billion."

"In 2015 Anbang purchased Dutch insurer Vivat from the Dutch state. They paid €150m outright, and agreed to infuse between €770m and €1bn in fresh capital, and to take on €550m of debt."

"In March 2016, Blackstone agreed to a further US $6.5 billion sale of 16 landmark US hotels owned by the Strategic Hotels & Resorts REIT, including the historic Hotel del Coronado near San Diego, the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, several Four Seasons resorts, and Manhattan's JW Marriott Essex House hotel."

"In November 2016, the Globe&Mail reported that Anbang is buying a stake in Retirement Concepts, a Canadian company with 24 retirement homes in British Columbia, Calgary and Montreal. Anbang must obtain approval from the Canadian government to close the deal."

[According to this list, it would seem as though the company's biggest transactions have been with Blackstone. Both corporations seem to be incredibly close to their respective governments, as well as one another's. Further proof of this is evidenced by Anbang's CEO, Wu Xiaohui.]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xiaohui

"Wu Xiaohui CEO of Anbang, married to Zhuo Ran, who is the daughter of Deng Xiaoping. He is also linked to Chen Xiaolu, son of Chen Yi, a top military commander under Mao. In a speech at a campus recruitment event at Harvard University, Wu did a panel discussion with Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group."

[So, he seems to have a personal connection to Schwarzman himself, even if just on a professional level. Equally interesting are his connections to the Chinese government. For example, his marriage to Zhuo Ran, the granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping. If you are unaware of who Xiaoping was, he was a communist revolutionary during Mao Zedong's time, and had held high positions in the Chinese government for years. He died in February of 1997.]

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/world/deng-xiaoping-is-dead-at-92-architect-of-modern-china.html?pagewanted=all

[Another article sheds more of a light on Xiaohui himself and lists some of the people associated with his company.]

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21642197-once-obscure-chinese-financial-firm-leaps-spotlight-big-anbang

"Mr Wu, a former bureaucrat, knows many grandees. The official company registry lists Chen Xiaolu, the son of Chen Yi, a top military commander under Mao, as a director. Levin Zhu, the son of Zhu Rongji, China’s former prime minister, and a successful banker in his own right, is an associate. This is not unusual in China: many firms cultivate ties with relatives of current or former senior officials."

[So, in essence, one of the most government-involved financial groups in our country, Blackstone, directly links to Anbang, which has a multitude of ties to the Chinese government both in its present form and during the Maoist revolution. Both companies also seem to handle their assets in a similar fashion as well: through shell companies.]

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/world/asia/china-anbang-insurance.html

"A group of 39 companies control Anbang, which was once a sleepy insurance company and now has $295 billion in assets and a reputation as an ambitious global deal maker. Many of those companies are in turn owned by a welter of shell companies, many with similar names and addresses or common owners."

[This also sounds extremely similar to the collection of Ni-family businesses that we started with, which lends more credence to the idea that they are, indeed, shell companies owned and operated by some larger entity. In the case of the Nis, that still remains unknown, but with Anbang, it's ground that's already been tread. What hasn't been noted is how connected they truly are to everything else on this list as well due to their link to Blackstone. In that larger context, with other companies and corporations of comparable size rubbing shoulders with them, the question may be raised as to who else's money may be being moved through these shell corporations.]

>>Ni Part III: BMY, Lennar and Blackstone

[As you may or may not recall, one of the many companies with the 'Ni' name attached to it was BMY Happy Valley Investment, LLC. They, too, have been dealing in the buying and selling of land in Maricopa county. A few of these have been with a company with the name 'Lennar' on it, this one in particular being 'Lennar Communities Development Inc.' Also present on this particular document is First American Title Insurance Company.]

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/recdocdata/GetRecDataDetail.aspx?rec=20050018522

[Both Lennar and First American have the CTC/CSC name and Orange St./Wilmington address on them.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_az/F00162986 [AZ branch]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/4452866 [Parent company of First American Title Insurance Company]

[Further dealings with CTC- and Ni-associated companies are interesting enough, but there's more. There appear to be many companies bearing the Lennar name, many of them appearing to be based in Delaware. The sec.gov archives show another name of interest associated with one of their companies in Colorado.]

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920760/000162828016010323/len-2015x1130x10kxexh21.htm

[Below info found on page 4]

Lennar Cobra, LLC - DE
Lennar Colorado Minerals LLC - CO
Lennar Colorado, LLC - CO - Blackstone Country Club
Lennar Commercial Investors, LLC - FL
Lennar Commercial Services, Inc. - CA
Lennar Commercial Services, LLC - DE
Lennar Communities Development, Inc. - DE
Lennar Communities Nevada, LLC

[The 'Blackstone Country Club' is not owned by the Blackstone Group as referred to previously, but by ClubCorp, which appears to be another international organization dealing primarily in country clubs. It was listed under the 'DBA' ('Doing Business As') section of the listing.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClubCorp

"ClubCorp (NASDAQ: MYCC)is an American corporation with a home office in Dallas and is the largest owner and operator of private golf and country clubs in the country. It owns or operates more than 200 golf and country clubs and business, sports and alumni clubs worldwide. Located in 26 states, the District of Columbia and two foreign countries, the company and the clubs in its network serve more than 430,000 members and employ approximately 20,000 peak-season employees."

http://www.clubcorp.com/About-ClubCorp/Company-Profile

"ClubCorp's nationally recognized properties include: Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio; Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California; The Woodlands Country Club, The Woodlands, Texas; Capital Club Beijing; and Metropolitan Club Chicago."

[ClubCorp is another organization that we can add to the list of companies with ties to the Asian market. Here's more information on that.]

[From Wikipedia]: "1994: ClubCorp develops and opens Capital Club in Beijing; and the U.S. Senior Open is conducted at Pinehurst in July. 1996: ClubCorp develops and opens Tower Club in Singapore...2012: ClubCorp adds Mission Hills Golf Club & Resort in China to its network of properties in its reciprocal access program. ClubCorp expands its club management portfolio with LPGA International and Hollytree Country Club, and acquires Hartefeld National."

[There also appears to be an opencorporates page for 'ClubCorp - Asia.']

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nv/C1604-1991

Agent Name
    CSC SERVICES OF NEVADA, INC

[So from the information gathered here, ClubCorp seems to have been doing business with at least one Ni company through one of the many Lennar companies (which, due to the sheer amount of them that appear in the SEC archive listing, may be shell companies themselves). Not only that, everything associated with ClubCorp leads back to CTC/CSC.]

>>Caterpillar, Inc.

[Not long ago, a news story came out regarding a federal investigation into Caterpillar, Inc.'s tax strategy.]

http://www.pjstar.com/news/20170302/federal-agents-raid-caterpillar-offices-as-part-of-tax-strategy-investigation

"Investigators from an alphabet soup of federal agencies lined up outside the main administration building, a data center in East Peoria and the logistics center in Morton..."Caterpillar is cooperating," a brief statement from the company read...the investigation appears to stem from revelations about the company's tax strategy as outlined in a 2009 federal wrongful termination lawsuit brought by Daniel Schlicksup. The lawsuit alleged the company shifted profits overseas and to offshore shell companies to avoid paying more than $2 billion in U.S. taxes. Schlicksup settled the suit in 2012."

"In his complaint against Caterpillar, Schlicksup alleged the company sold and shipped spare parts globally from its warehouse in Morton while attributing at least $5.6 billion of profits from those sales to a unit in Geneva, Switzerland. This scheme, which operated from 2000 to 2009, was known as the "Swiss structure." Caterpillar SARL is based in Geneva. A different strategy, the "Bermuda structure," allegedly involved shell companies that had no business operations returning profits to the United States without paying taxes on them."

[The sort of tax avoidance scheme that Caterpillar seems to be accused of is very similar to what the other companies listed here appear to be implicated in. What makes the incident with Caterpillar particularly relevant, though, is that it is also incorporated at CTC.]

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/2085588

Jurisdiction
    Delaware (US)
Agent Name
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY
Agent Address
    CORPORATION TRUST CENTER 1209 ORANGE ST, WILMINGTON, New Castle, DE, 19801
Directors / Officers
    THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY, agent

[The opencorporates page also links to Caterpillar's SEC filings, one of which is referred to in the news article above.]

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18230/000001823017000041/0000018230-17-000041-index.htm

[Not only does that document make reference to their legal proceedings, it also contains a list of Caterpillar's 'subsidiaries & associated companies', which is extensive. Many are incorporated in Delaware and China, though as with several of the other companies, they appear to have subsidiaries in many parts of the world.]

[Wikileaks also has some documents regarding Caterpillar, many of which have to do with its relations to Asian companies and governments.]

[From 1979] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979ANTANA02256_e.html

"1. FURTHER TO REFTEL, LOCAL CATERPILLAR REP, ACCOMPANIED BY CATERPILLAR FINANCE REP FROM GENEVA OFFICE OF CATERPILLAR OVERSEAS S.A., CALLED ON EMBOFF TO PROVIDE INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THEIR SEEKING DIRECT EX-IM CREDITS FOR LARGE-SCALE SALES OF AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT."

"2. ALTHOUGH NOT YET OFFICIAL, CATERPILLAR REPS HAVE LEARNED THAT THE MALAGASY CENTRAL BANK MAY BE PLANNING TO INSTITUTE RESTRICTIONS WHEREBY ANY OFFSHORE FINANCING PACKAGE WITH AN INTEREST RATE OF OVER 10 PERCENT WILL NOT BE PERMITTED. THIS, COUPLED WITH THE REQUIREMENT THAT CAPITAL GOODS IMPORTS MUST BE FINANCED OFFSHORE, BODES ILL FOR US EXPORTS TO MADAGASCAR IN GENERAL, AND THIS PROPOSAL IN PARTICULAR."

"3. CATERPILLAR'S MAIN COMPETITOR FOR THIS BUSINESS IS JAPAN, WHICH COULD OFFER SUBSIDIZED CREDITS AT AROUND 6-7 PERCENT. JAPANESE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A FOOTHOLD IN MALAGASY HEAVY EQUIPMENT MARKET ANYWAY, AND THIS PROJECT COULD BE THE ADVANTAGE THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR."

[Speaking of the Japanese, here's another document regarding a different investigation into a joint venture between Caterpillar and Mitsubishi.]

[From 1978] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978TOKYO09204_d.html

"1. FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF LETTER RECEIVED BY EMBASSY MAY 22 FROM THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY STATING THE INTENTION OF THE JAPANESE FAIR TRADE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE JOINT VENTURE CONTRACT BETWEEN CATERPILLAR OVERSEAS S.A. AND MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO."

"(PARA) THE FAIR TRADE COMMISSION BELIEVES THAT THESE AGREEMENTS INVOLVE PROVISIONS WHICH MAY FORM UNFAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES, THUS VIOLATING PARAGRAPH 1, SECTION 6 OF THE ACT CONCERNING PROHIBITION OF PRIVATE MONOPOLY AND MAINTENANCE OF FAIR TRADE (ANTIMONOPOLY ACT). (PARA) IF I CAN BE OF ANY FURTHER ASSISTANCE, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME. YOURS SINCERELY, SIGNED N. OWADA, NORIAKI OWADA, DIRECTOR OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION, ECONOMIC AFFAIRS BUREAU, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS."

[Caterpillar has also been involved in other regions of the Asian market, particularly Burma, more recently. This document is from 2009, the same year as the wrongful termination lawsuit against the company which began the current federal investigation into their tax strategy.]

[From 2009] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09RANGOON526_a.html

"5. (C) The Caterpillar group met with the CDA after returning from a two-day trip to Nay Pyi Taw (which we had no hand in organizing and did not know of in advance). The executives had a series of meetings with Burmese officials, including some at the ministerial level, at the Ministries of Construction, Agriculture, Industry 1, Industry 2, Electric Power, and Railways to explain Caterpillar's intent to resume sales in Burma. They reported that GOB officials expressed high regard for Caterpillar products and technical support. Charge inquired whether that meant the company is intending to sell to the government. The Caterpillar reps said they do not sell to the government but recognize that the GOB issues import licenses, which could affect their business. They also said the Nay Pyi Taw meetings provided them information on planned public and private projects which could offer commercial opportunities."

"6. (C) Thieneman expressed concern about growing Chinese competition in the heavy equipment sector due to rising Chinese investment and influence in Burma. He noted Chinese investments and projects are usually "tied" -- i.e., require inputs, including equipment, from PRC suppliers. At the same time, several ministers noted an interest in developing local manufacturing capability that presumably would compete with imports. The executives acknowledged that U.S. sanctions and the relatively small size of the Burmese market would preclude Caterpillar from pursuing any licensing or foreign investment in such projects."

>>Current Conclusions

Obviously, much of what's presented here is circumstantial evidence, though in simple terms it seems that a large variety of entities ranging from individuals to larger corporations (and perhaps other groups not officially documented) are using CTC's services to take advantage of Delaware's corporate tax loopholes, set up shell corporations to further increase their funds, and using those funds for reasons ranging from buying out smaller/competing companies, further political goals or making moves in foreign markets. This is as true for foreign entities associated with the company/address as it is for our domestic groups and figures. Here are the common/recurring factors that seem to point toward this conclusion.

First off, it seems as though a vast amount of the companies registered at CTC are connected to larger group or figures with political motivations. Richard Altman and his associates appear to have made a great deal of money through the various corporations they've set up, and Altman himself appears to have plenty of money to contribute to the various political organizations and PACs he appears to be a part of. The Clintons, as previously stated, as well as Donald Trump himself, have set up various companies of a similar nature to those Altman was associated with, for their own political gain.

The same goes for Blackstone, the CEO of which has managed to get extremely close to the President and into his administration, and no doubt for many of the even larger and more household-name companies such as the big banks, Boeing, etc., all of whom appear to have been reaping the benefits of the current political landscape (http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/02/18/nyc-companies-trading-at-all-time-highs.html). Here's an excerpt from that article.

"More than 300 U.S. companies hit new trading highs this week as the country's major stock indices continued what's being called the "Trump rally" by reeling off five consecutive days of record highs...the market's high fliers spanned a broad cross section of the U.S. economy, as companies as large and diverse as Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and JPMorgan Chase registered record share prices at various points throughout the week...among the nation's record setters were The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), which made headlines following a worker vote to remain non-union at a major manufacturing plant in South Carolina, and Kraft Heinz Co. (NYSE: KHC), which announced plans to pursue an unsolicited acquisition of Unilever. At around $171 a share as of Friday's opening bell, Boeing was up roughly 10 percent for the year, while Kraft was flat over the same span."

It seems that whatever goes through the offices of CTC in Delaware, many on Wall Street and in Washington (among many others worldwide) have much to gain from it. There also seem to be a fair degree of ties to the Asian market in particular among the many organizations to be found here, as seen in the cases of Blackstone, Anbang, Terraform, SunEdison and even Altman once again in regard to his deal with one of the Ni family organizations (which seem to be set up in a similar fashion to the shell corporations that hold Anbang Group's assets), not to mention groups like Shareblue and their parent company, and the various even bigger-name organizations associated with CTC.

Due to the fact that there isn't a ton of solid evidence to go on, it's not entirely clear that anything explicitly illegal is happening here, but it is clear at the very least that an incredibly vast web of organizations and major figures are using the loopholes associated with Delaware law through this place for the purpose of extra funds for either political or corporate interests. Additionally, though many entities associated with CTC seem to be benefitting one another, it does appear that even competing interests use the resources that it offers for the same sorts of purposes: funneling their money through/into shell corporations.

Blackstone tied to Alefantis -

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1834875