Remember when the FBI raided the Best Sunshine Live Casino on Saipan last March?
—-Federal agents arrived Thursday at Best Sunshine offices
—-Imperial Pacific says no investigation notice received
....FBI personnel, accompanied by uniformed police officers, arrived Thursday morning at a local office used by Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd., the Hong Kong-based company that owns the Best Sunshine Live casino, local residents said. They stayed for several hours, with local police blocking access to the building.
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“The FBI "is not in a position to comment at this time" on any enforcement actions in Saipan, Michele Ernst, a spokeswoman for the bureau in Hawaii, whose jurisdiction includes the island, said on Thursday.
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In 2015, the company opened Best Sunshine Live in a mall between a laundromat and a cellphone shop. From its sleepy storefront, Best Sunshine Live has posted per-table revenues far greater than those at the largest resorts in Macau, Asia’s gambling capital.
Those cash flows attracted interest from the U.S. Treasury unit that monitors suspicious financial flows, a person familiar with the matter said in November. A spokesman for the unit declined to comment for this article.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/fbi-agents-visit-office-of-saipan-casino-run-by-trump-protege (the Best Sunshine was being run by Trump protégée Mark Brown at the time, fyi)
Remember when the FBI raided a republican consulting firm last May?:
The FBI has raided the Annapolis office of Strategic Campaign Group, a Republican fundraising and campaign consulting firm in Maryland, according to a local news outlet.
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It is unclear what the FBI is investigating and what prompted the search warrant.
The firm has worked for Republican candidates for Congress, but has also had clients whose fundraising efforts raised concerns among campaign finance watchdogs. In recent years, those questionable groups began to represent a larger portion of its balance sheet.
more:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/332991-fbi-raids-office-of-gop-consulting-firm-in-maryland
DU’s own MelissaB posted about the ties linking the Strategic Campaign Group to Bolton PACs, Mercer, and Cambridge Analytica, also May 2017:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029050332
...I’m just sayin, some memories bring a little smile of, “Hmmm, gotta wonder whasssup with THAT, hmmmm”
