An American company that allegedly paid an indicted FBI informant accused of lying about Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings has ties to former President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), the company, paid Alexander Smirnov, the once-FBI informant, $600,000 in September 2020, a February court filing states, reported The Guardian.
This hefty payment was made “in exchange for a stake in an Israel-based crypto trading platform” that Mr Smirnov was trying to launch, the Wall Street Journal reported in February.
The document also notes that months prior, in June, Mr Smirnov first began telling “fabrications” to the agency. Mr Smirnov has since been charged for these lies.
and yet he’s still allowed to run for president. Yo what’s the hold up U.S. rule-of-law? didn’t you bust capone on tax evasion?
In hindsight, it turns out Capone should have just run for president and he would have gotten away with it.
Poor Capone was born in the wrong time. He’d have been considered a hero and a good politician today apparently.
Much of the organized crime families in the US went into legit businesses and politics after the old ways of extortion, smuggling, and robberies were no longer as profitable and gained too much notoriety. Capone was just the most notable and almost got away with it. He was made an example of once the government managed to find SOMETHING he’s irrefutably guilty of.
He was busted only because of tax evasion. Now think about that.
Oh look, another act of treason, or at least a felony.
If you read Ian Fleming or John le Carre you imagine every agent having years of training and using all sorts of tricks to cover their tracks.
As I wrote that I realized what the problem was. Trump didn’t read le Carre; the closest he got to understanding spy tradecraft was Secret Squirrel.
Smiley’s People? He sounds like a great guy. I’ve never met him before.
Cute.
If you like spy books, try Dan Fesperman. ‘The Warlord’s Son’ is about the run up to the Afghan invasion.
I’m more surprised that Trump actually paid someone
It says the company paid him, not trump. I’m sure trump didn’t pay a dime.
Not yet. They will be paid later in the form of ambassadorships and government contracts if he gets reelected.
The rivers of ruin run deep.
Blyat!
