NEW: Rebekah Mercer & others accused of trying to liquidate Cambridge Analytica before its secrets

[MelissaB]

NEW: Rebekah Mercer and others accused of trying to liquidate Cambridge Analytica before its secrets can be revealed

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Cambridge Analytica Secrets Allegedly Covered Up by Trump Campaign Veterans

The High Court in London heard that former insiders, including Rebekah Mercer, were pulling the strings of “biased” officials responsible for the fate of the company.

LONDON—British political consultants that worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign liked to boast that they could deploy dirty tricks and twist democracies all over the world without the risk of detection.

The High Court in London heard on Monday that Cambridge Analytica was up to its old tricks from beyond the grave—by surreptitiously trying to halt investigations that could expose allegedly nefarious tactics before the company was shut down for good.

The company filed for the British equivalent of chapter 11 bankruptcy last year after secret recordings of its boss Alexander Nix emerged in which he claimed that Trump’s data gurus had carried out illicit election campaigns all over the world. The company was also accused of using up to 87 million clandestinely harvested Facebook profiles to create a state of the art voter database that helped Trump win election in 2016.

A lawyer representing a New York professor, who believes his private data was misused by the notorious campaign operatives, claims Cambridge Analytica’s data secrets are being shielded from justice and exposure by administrators in the pay of a shadow company set up by a band of executives linked to the Trump campaign veterans.

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cambridge-analytica-secrets-covered-up-by-emerdata-rebekah-mercer-jennifer-mercer-alexander-nix-julian-wheatland

[MelissaB]

1. The administrators deliberately misled a judge

The High Court heard that administrators had deliberately misled a judge during a previous hearing by obfuscating their financial links to Emerdata, a company which was set up by Alexander Nix, Rebekah Mercer, and other senior figures who were previously involved with Cambridge Analytica.

In Britain, court-appointed administrators are supposed to work independently on behalf of all creditors to take over running of the company, similar to chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. But the legal team of David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School in New York who is fighting for access to the data compiled on him, claimed that the administrator of Cambridge Analytica has succumbed to undue influence. Emerdata appointed the administrator and subsequently committed to pay them up to $1 million in fees.

The administrators, Vincent Green and Mark Newman of Crowe U.K. LLP, were accused of trying to liquidate the company before a full investigation into the company could be held.

“It is extremely unusual, in my submission, to have the fees of an administrator underwritten effectively by the people who may themselves be the principal focus of any subsequent investigation,” said Andreas Gledhill Q.C., the lawyer representing Carroll in court.

[MelissaB]

2. The Mercers

Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, daughters of billionaire Trump donor Robert Mercer, are listed as directors of Emerdata. As is former Cambridge Analytica chairman Julian Wheatland, who is named on the list of people close to President Trump being probed by the House Judiciary Committee, alongside Nix, who resigned as a director of Emerdata on the same day that he was called back for further questioning by a committee in Britain’s House of Commons. Nix remains a shareholder.

[MelissaB]

3. Oh, they are just going to keep on doing what they were doing under another company name.

On Monday, the High Court heard that press reports following Cambridge Analytica’s bankruptcy speculated that Emerdata might take up the baton and continue the controversial company’s work under another name.

Court documents submitted by Carroll’s team claimed that the administrators had also failed in their most basic duties: “Employees have refused to return laptops to the Administrators, and others have been stolen from the Administrators’ custody. Adding to concerns that the Cambridge Analytica business continues to be carried-on under another guise, as at November 2018, former employees were apparently still accessing its cloud-based infrastructure.”

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[BigmanPigman]

4. I read last year that Carroll was able to go after the company in England

but for some reason people in the US couldn't do the same. I forget if he was going after both Fakebook and Cambridge Analyitica. More people in the US who had their info stolen should do the same thing if they are able to, especially now since the crooks are trying to bribe their way out of this gigantic crime.

[cp]

5. Rebekah Mercer in prison, like that image.

[Leghorn21]

6. KICK

these scum buckets to the curb

[ProfessorGAC]

7. It's RebeKKKah Mercer

Just helping out.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Corruption is so deep & widespread. Meaningful sentences desperately needed. Mueller? SDNY? Anyone?

[DallasNE]

10. What Does This Statement Mean

"Cambridge Analytica’s data secrets are being shielded from justice and exposure by administrators in the pay of a shadow company set up by a band of executives linked to the Trump campaign veterans."

Where do these "administrators" work today, who are they and how do they yield the power to shield these secrets from "justice and exposure". It sounds sinister but I'm wary of such a couching description of events.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. will they get away with it?

Money is a universal language.

[rickyhall]

12. Billionaires going to jail? Yeah, right, I see that happening - NOT

[ck4829]

14. Thanks for the info