Mueller Gleaned Manafort Texts From London's FBC, Sources Say

[nitpicker]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/mueller-is-said-to-glean-manafort-texts-from-london-s-fbc

Mueller Gleaned Manafort Texts From London’s FBC, Sources Say

By Stephanie Baker

‎June‎ ‎7‎, ‎2018‎ ‎4‎:‎25‎ ‎PM

Paul Manafort reached out to executives who’d worked at London-based FBC Communications in his alleged effort to influence their testimony, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Manafort, who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, was accused this week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of attempted witness tampering. Manafort and an associate called and sent encrypted texts to two individuals earlier this year, attempting to persuade them to characterize the pro-Ukraine lobbying work they had done together years before as limited to Europe to avoid running afoul of U.S. laws. The prosecutors, in their filing, didn’t identify the individuals or firm.

They are Alan Friedman and Eckart Sagart, according to the people familiar with the matter. Longtime journalists Friedman and Sagart formed FBC, which stands for Fact-Based Communications and is no longer operating. They didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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[Nitram]

1. There is some irony in the name of the company involved.

[Delmette2.0]

2. There seems to be a pattern developing.

Cambridge Analytica went out of business. Rachel Maddow reported last night that Trump's architect has closed up shop. Now this place also. Wow!

[emulatorloo]

3. Cambridge Analytica simply changed their name to Emerdata. So they are still around.

Unfortunately

Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata
Shock shutdown – THE TRUTH
By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 2 May 2018 at 20:29
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_analytica_shutdown/

[Delmette2.0]

4. Oh, thank you.

There is so much to keep track of that slipped by me.

Did you hear that the CEO of CA made off with $8 million of the company's funds?

[emulatorloo]

5. Wow! No, I missed that story!

[Delmette2.0]

6. I'll see if I can find it.

[Delmette2.0]

7. This was on Rachel Maddow.

It was Wednesday's show. I listen to Rachel on Stitcher podcast Radio but she may be on other podcast Networks.

The segment starts at 9:25 and the $8m comment is at 18:50.
The show title starts out "A lot of international players.