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THIS should send Trump WH into full panic mode: US intelligence has been monitoring Erik Prince -Polly Sigh on twiter
Blackwaters Founder Is Under Investigation for Money Laundering, Ties to Chinese Intel, and Brokering Mercenary Services
Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill
March 24 2016, 6:00 a.m.
ERIK PRINCE, founder of the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and current chairman of Frontier Services Group, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies for attempting to broker military services to foreign governments and possible money laundering, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the case.
What began as an investigation into Princes attempts to sell defense services in Libya and other countries in Africa has widened to a probe of allegations that Prince received assistance from Chinese intelligence to set up an account for his Libya operations through the Bank of China. The Justice Department, which declined to comment for this article, is also seeking to uncover the precise nature of Princes relationship with Chinese intelligence.
Prince, through his lawyer, Victoria Toensing, said he has not been informed of a federal investigation and had not offered any defense services in Libya. Toensing called the money-laundering allegations total bullshit.
The Intercept interviewed more than a half dozen of Princes associates, including current and former business partners; four former U.S. intelligence officers; and other sources familiar with the Justice Department investigation. All of them requested anonymity to discuss these matters because there is an ongoing investigation. The Intercept also reviewed several secret proposals drafted by Prince and his closest advisers and partners offering paramilitary services to foreign entities.
For more than a year, U.S. intelligence has been monitoring Princes communications and movements, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence officer and a second former intelligence official briefed on the investigation. Multiple sources, including two people with business ties to Prince, told The Intercept that current government and intelligence personnel informed them of this surveillance. Those with business ties were cautioned to sever their dealings with Prince.
Link: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/24/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-under-federal-investigation/
malaise
(269,038 posts)He should have been locked up after that slaughter in Iraq
barbtries
(28,798 posts)looks like getting away with that emboldened him further
malaise
(269,038 posts)If men and women had been arrested for war crimes, we would not be here.
How is Eric Prince still free and up the chain.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)not to mention the proximity of extremists to each other, contributed to the formation of ISIS (unlike Trump's assertion that Hillary and Obama created it).
malaise
(269,038 posts)Mercenaries will fugg up your empire.
Squinch
(50,954 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)has a way with words, doesn't she? Very professional.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)He was just selling them some cleaning products.
calimary
(81,304 posts)Orrex
(63,215 posts)Her long history with that respected MLM cult sort of keeps it relevant, given her dubious obtained position.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Edit: I figured it out.
shraby
(21,946 posts)for trump in Seychelles. They had him under surveillance for the other stuff.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)That's right. They call it the Republican Party aka the illegitimate KGOP.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)So, what has become of the investigation???
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Response to MelissaB (Original post)
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nikibatts
(2,198 posts)His rants against China unfair trade were only for the purpose of getting his base riled up.
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pnwmom
(108,980 posts)communication between DT and Russia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_seychelles-0438pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a4b56413f28e
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)Qatar wanted a pipeline through Syria to distribute it's massive LNG supply to Europe. Qatar also funds rebel groups in Syria.
kentuck
(111,101 posts)Trump never mentions people that he's really close to...
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)FakeNoose
(32,642 posts)berksdem
(595 posts)people associated with Cheeto tRump are under investigation? I need a binder full of russian sympathizers to keep track these days...
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)catbyte
(34,402 posts)how the DeVos/Van Andel/Prince Dutch Mafia schmoozed and then started spewing money every place they could, inserting themselves into Presidential politics via Jerry Ford, then buying every politician from Holland to Grand Rapids to Lansing to Washington, DC. They're really, really vile, evil, despicable, dangerous, and dirty.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)Is he a Christian Dominant nut job like his sister?
catbyte
(34,402 posts)killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)And it's water under the bridge
keithbvadu2
(36,821 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The server was communicating with a DeVos company computer, likely to him. That would tie him to the #TrumpRussia investigation and the Russian banks the FISA warrant targeted.
Isn't he still running Trump's private security detachment?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)I read his book on Blackwater (Xe) and have hated this guys phony, war-profiteering guts ever since.
Gitmo is still open, right?
Initech
(100,080 posts)paleotn
(17,930 posts)asshole. Hopefully, this will permanently take down that merc for jebus.
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)Christian theocracy for Amerikkka.
Vinca
(50,276 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)Now what a congressional investigation and hearing with who Trey Gouty? Chavez? yeah WH in panic mode......? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
not until this WH is cleaned, disinfected, and repainted will we see any kind of responsibility.
2018 win in the Senate would be a start....