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Shooting the Messenger

online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Category: Law and Politics

  • From Russia with Business

    Former senior Trump campaign advisor Michael Caputo gave a talk at a Russian-American business/commerce event two months before denying Russia ties — Former Trump campaign lawyer Kendall Coffey also spoke at the event In an interview with CNN last month, Caputo, a former senior advisor to Donald Trump’s campaign with strong ties to Russia, “firmly denied”…

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  • Sated

    Online paper trail appears to show Trump’s Russian-American business partner Felix Sater tried to delete his criminal record from Trump’s Wikipedia page using a fake name Last month I blogged about the enigmatic Felix Sater, a convicted brawler and racketeer turned FBI informant. The Russia-born real estate mogul collaborated with Donald Trump on a number of high-profile…

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  • Rather Droll

    Wikipedia once accused Trump’s new bible studies teacher Ralph Kim Drollinger of deleting unflattering information about himself using a sockpuppet account This week it was reported by Breaking Christian News that about a dozen members of Trump’s cabinet, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions,…

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  • A Complicated Deal (Part II)

    Four criminal convictions, one suicide, and one satisfied customer: Unravelling Donald Trump’s “complicated” 1993 Palm Beach real estate purchase from convicted fraudster Leslie Greyling. Earlier this month I blogged about Donald Trump’s 1993 Palm Beach real estate deal with Leslie Greyling, a notorious South African fraudster who was later deported to England after a string of…

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  • Arif Gets Streisanded

    The Daily Beast picks up my story about Turkish court-ordered takedown requests by Trump’s Bayrock business partner Tevfik Arif re: his 2010 arrest in prostitution sting source Via “Trump’s Business Partner Tries to Erase his Prostitution Bust From Web” by Lachlan Markay, The Daily Beast, July 21, 2007: A former Russian government official – and…

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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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