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  • A Complicated Deal

    What were the details of Donald Trump’s “complicated” real estate deal with South African fraudster Leslie Greyling? In November 1993, Donald Trump paid $1.6 million for 1094 S. Ocean Blvd, a 7,863 square-foot, marble-floored house adjacent his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. source Trump purchased the house for less than half the original sale…

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  • The Felix Sater Files

    Read the deleted websites of Trump’s racketeering Russian-American former business partner and senior advisor Yesterday I blogged about Felix Sater, a Russian-American real estate mogul and convicted fraudster who was at one time a senior advisor to Trump. Trump with Felix Sater (source) Sater found fame during the 2016 election when Trump’s Russia connections became…

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  • Sater the Sockpuppeteer

    Did former Trump advisor/Russian-American real estate mogul Felix Sater delete info about his criminal history from Trump’s Wikipedia page using a sockpuppet account? READ UPDATE HERE When Trump’s Russia connections became a focus for journalists during the 2016 election, Felix Sater, a convicted racketeer and former government informant, was a key figure. Felix Sater with…

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  • The Higher Education Police

    UK’s Northumbria police department accuses me of abusing its complaints system for enquiring about student’s allegation of officer overreach Last week I asked the department to comment on a threatening e-mail allegedly sent by one of its officers, PC Mohammed Khan, to Newcastle University student Jonaya English. source According to screenshots published by English, Khan told…

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  • Arif Trumps WordPress

    WordPress blocks critical blog about Trump’s inner circle after Turkish court order from Trump’s Bayrock business partner Tevfik Arif Earlier this week I blogged about Bayrock Group CEO Tevfik Arif’s attempts to get news reports about his 2010 arrest for human trafficking removed from the Internet. Arif, a former Soviet commerce official, is best known for…

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  • Bad Day at Bayrock

    Trump’s Bayrock Group business partner Tevfik Arif demands takedown of news reports that he was arrested and charged with human trafficking According to the Lumen Database, which collects and analyses takedown requests of online content, Arif recently sent Turkish court orders to Google and Automattic (WordPress’ parent company) demanding the removal of a number of…

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  • The Art of the Steal

    Did Trump plagiarise content from CNN, The New York Times, and other big news outlets on defunct Trump University blog? Since taking office, the Trump administration has repeatedly accused the news media, particularly U.S. network CNN, of reporting so-called “fake news.” However, it appears that between 2006 and 2010 Trump plagiarised content from around a…

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  • Gay Panic, Poe’s Law, and the Strange Cult of Julian Assange

    How my corrections story about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ended up on a bunch of fringe conspiracy websites I recently blogged about The Sun, a popular British tabloid newspaper owned by Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In March, the paper falsely reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was accused of raping two men during a…

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  • When Authors Attack (Redux)

    Guardian deletes article about “batty” romance/sci-fi author Candace Sams after claims someone hacked her e-mails According to Google’s Transparency Report, the Texan author recently filed a copyright complaint for the search engine to delist a critical 2009 article published in the Guardian newspaper, “When Authors Attack” by multimedia books journalist Alison Flood. source Flood’s article said that the “wonderfully batty” Sams, using the pseudonym…

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  • Paramilitaries in Parliament

    DUP councillor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast Frank McCoubrey was a key political advisor to one of Northern Ireland’s worst paramilitary organisations From 2002 to 2012, McCoubrey headed the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), an advisory body established to provide political analysis to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). The UDA is a notorious Northern Irish…

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