Just got back from Ukraine with proof

                                                                       

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I recently got back from Ukraine. While I was there, a documentary filmmaker was embedded with the team while we were working on a project aimed at hitting the Russian economy.  The working title is Defiant. Here's what nobody's connecting: corruption is Russia's best weapon against Ukraine, and Trump knows it. In fact, he’s Russia’s most potent weapon.  And corruption needs to be kept under control, no matter whose corruption it is – ours, Ukraine’s, or Russia's. Corruption is weakening Ukraine, and that is Russia’s deliberate policy.  Right now, Ukrainian investigators are chasing Timur Mindich — Zelenskyy's business partner and longtime friend — across international borders.  He fled to Israel hours before investigators raided his home in a $100 million corruption case Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies are calling Operation Midas. The scheme worked like this: contractors building fortifications to protect Ukraine's nuclear power plants from Russian missile attacks paid 10 to 15 percent bribes to keep their government contracts.  While Ukrainians sat in the dark with rolling blackouts, people in Zelenskyy's inner circle were siphoning off money meant to defend the power grid. Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau is now working with around ten jurisdictions, including multiple EU countries, to track the money and extradite suspects.  The money laundering operation ran out of an office in Kyiv that belonged to the family of Andriy Derkach, a former Ukrainian MP who's now a Russian senator. This is exactly what Putin wants.  Derkach’s name may sound familiar: He was Rudy Giuliani’s contact in Ukraine and the source of so much of the anti-Ukraine rhetoric that Giuliani and Trump spewed in the last election.  Russia uses corruption to keep Ukraine weak and has for decades. When Ukraine's government looks corrupt, Trump uses it as an excuse to cut aid to Ukraine. Make no mistake: This is by design. At Dekleptocracy, we don’t do hot takes. We track the networks, map the money, name the intermediaries, and make it harder for kleptocrats to operate in daylight. We have already helped expose projects like Putin's Arctic LNG 2. Now we’re bringing the tools home. But if you want the U.S. to stop sliding into oligarchy, we need resources.  Every dollar helps us trace shell companies, track sanctions evasion, and expose the intermediaries who keep kleptocrats in business. The documentary we worked on in Ukraine will show what's really happening on the ground, and, importantly, that we all have agency and can have a tremendous impact by getting out and doing what we’re good at.  It doesn’t matter what that is; just go out and do the thing. We're not waiting for the government to act. We're using anti-corruption to foil Putin’s plans. You can too. Chip in $10, $25, $50, or whatever you can. Corruption will not win.  In solidarity, Kristofer Harrison President, Dekleptocracy Alliance DONATE TODAY           Dekleptocracy Alliance is a Texas based 501(c)(4) following the authoritarians’ money. We’re on a mission to protect democracy and the rule of law by providing critical research, analysis, and solutions to governments, businesses, civil society, and the public. Support our work and keep us independent: DONATE >> Paid for by The Dekleptocracy Alliance, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. Copyright (C) 2026, Dekleptocracy Alliance. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Dekleptocracy Alliance PO Box 6580 2850 South Quincy Arlington VA, 22206-9998

The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000

 

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► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/... Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters. In November, Tucker Carlson’s online network released a six-part series called All the President’s Men: The Conspiracy Against Trump that purported to chronicle the familiar MAGA conspiracy theory that a Deep State plotted against Donald Trump while he was a presidential candidate in 2016 and when he was president. The fourth episode focused on Patel and his years-long crusade to depict the Trump-Russia scandal—Moscow’s attack on the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s efforts to cover up its existence—as nothing but a total hoax orchestrated by nefarious Democrats and rogue government operatives. In this film—which credits Patel as an executive producer—he offers a blistering attack on the FBI. He calls it a “corrupt” enterprise and claims it has been on the Democratic Party’s “payroll.” He says, “I’m the guy that’s going to tell you they need major reforms. I’m going to tell you to shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it up as a museum of the Deep State the next day. Seriously, you need 50 guys in Washington running the FBI.” He pushes the false claim that the FBI launched its Russia investigation in 2016 on the basis of the infamous and unconfirmed Steele memos. And he insists that the FBI and the rest of the US intelligence community that investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election “knew it didn’t exist.” He also asserts that “globalists” have been working with Al Qaeda to make a profit. The series was produced for Carlson, who is featured in the final episode, by Global Tree Pictures, a Los Angeles-based firm run by Ukrainian-American-Russian filmmaker Igor Lopatonok. He and Russian-born film director Vera Tomilova, the chief financial officer of Global Tree Pictures, who holds a US green card, are listed in the film’s credits as its producers. Global Tree raised the financing for the series, according to a contract filed in Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy proceedings. (Giuliani also starred in the documentary.) Lopatonok has ties to Russian propaganda and disinformation efforts. In recent years, he has helped lead a Kremlin-financed effort to persuade Westerners to move to Russia. In 2023, he chaired a competition dubbed “To Russia With Love” that invited bloggers to produce content that would show the “most appealing side of Russia” and encourage people to emigrate there. This project was funded by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives, a state entity that Putin created in 2021 to “support projects in the field of culture, art and the creative industries.” So, according to Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. #vladimirputin #kashpatel #deepstate #fbi -- For more award-winning independent reporting, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/ Facebook:   / motherjones   Twitter:   / motherjones   Instagram:   / motherjonesmag  

Rudy Giuliani Sued AGAIN

 

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