Avenatti strikes...

[HipChick]

Grab yer popcorn....

Link to tweet

Looks like they tried to take their site off-line already

but I grabbed a google cache...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Xl0XEX31i1wJ:www.demeterdirect.com/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-ab


https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Torrance/demeter-direct-inc/45389573.aspx

Business Strategy Consulting and Investment

Demeter Direct, Inc. is a business strategy consulting and investment firm that specializes in helping global companies create growth through successful expansion into international markets. We assist companies in the United States and Asia in entering or expanding into global markets.

We offer a range of global business solutions to help companies succeed in international markets including feasibility studies, market entry strategy, brand development, brand partner search, product launch and promotion support as well as investment and investment consultation.

[rzemanfl]

1. K&R n/t.

[EffieBlack]

2. Here we go!

[manor321]

3. Oh baby!

Now he's talking outflows of money!

OMG this is so entertaining!

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Laundered $$$ keeps moving along...

[HipChick]

6. Cohen has got to be puckering...

[manor321]

5. Their site is down, but cached on Google

Looking at Demeter Direct, they seem to be a company that helps your business get into foreign markets. Like Russia, perhaps?

And, LOL, why is their site down?

[HipChick]

8. Server's probabely over-loaded, or they recently took them off line...however there is always Whois

information...lemme see what's there

[Leghorn21]

7. I googled Demeter Direct Inc Russian owners, ha ha, got nuthin, wannnh

[lindysalsagal]

9. Anyone who can speculate on the political implications of this?

???

[Haggis for Breakfast]

54. To paraphrase the GREAT Lewis Black

If you can't say what your company does in 25 words or less, it's illegal.

[BobTheSubgenius]

63. I REALLY like that quote.

I like LB a lot, and this is a good example of why.

[Leghorn21]

10. Here's an apparent company overview/description from "ca-registry.com"

https://www.ca-registry.com/C3237285-demeter-direct-inc


They look very busy, but I don’t know what they do!!?

[Frustratedlady]

13. Updated at 12th May 2018 They are GOOD! They can update their site a day ahead.

I wonder if this is a real building or a post office box site?

[triron]

14. Wonder if it could be a shell company?

[HipChick]

15. Looks like it..tons of 'em..

[triron]

43. After reading and researching more am more convinced than ever

it's a shell(s) company.

[malaise]

17. Overseas

Had the same thought at first but it's 12th May in several places

[Frustratedlady]

52. Oh, I forgot that although the company is in the U.S., right?

I got a long phone call, but was going to spot check those companies to see if there was any info on them. I will try a few just out of curiosity.

[Ellipsis]

19. Its in Korea Town- Retail and offices on the upper floors

Check out the neighborhood on Google maps.


Lots of interesting counselettes.

[snort]

20. It's the 12th somewhere.

[Ellipsis]

23. Korea I'd guess.

[Renew Deal]

49. Could be hosted in Asia

[BobTheSubgenius]

64. It would depend on their time zone.

The former Soviet Union was 7 time zones wide. I'm not sure of the number of zones now, but that's a possible explanation.

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[PaulX2]

16. Fake / Shell Company?

Do they answer their phone?

Fake Company!

[RandomAccess]

18. Does Avenatti incur any legal liability or vulnerability with such revelations?

Or just by HAVING that info??

He worries me a bit.

[HipChick]

21. He's an attorney, who knows what he's doing

Unlike Idiot's team...

[RandomAccess]

27. Which doesn't really reassure me that he's not taking

some great risks. That's my question.

[bucolic_frolic]

38. I too worry that

he is out over his skis at times. But he does stick to facts, and qualifies other aspects of his dialogue with opinion - "I think" - or doubt - probably, perhaps, seems. He's not getting called on it, so he must be doing something right. I hope he has a team to advise as well as research. And where does he get all his information?

[RandomAccess]

42. Yes, that's a key part of my concern:

where DOES he get all that info?? It's not like it's public record (that I know of).

[flibbitygiblets]

55. On MJ today they were saying Avenatti's a folk hero now--people are just sending him info

because they know he can get that info out there while protecting their anonymity.

[RandomAccess]

56. Ah, good point.

I did hear that (and forgot it), so I appreciate your excellent reminder.

[Sophia4]

62. You would be surprised at what you find out just by asking.

And Avenatti has a team working with him. He mentioned that on one of his television appearances.

[JI7]

39. I feel like sometimes he might reveal something just to win

A Twitter war.

[moreland01]

22. This struck me . . .

"Our international team of professionals has over 55 years of collective knowledge and expertise".

That's 4 guys with less than 15 years of experience each.

Those kinds of "companies" are fronts. It's quite easy to make a website. I want to see owner's faces and resumes.

[HipChick]

25. They look like fronts..one of the companies were only in existant for a month and half and then

dissolved...

[workinclasszero]

24. Getting Russian mob money

all cleaned up I bet.

Seems to be the main function of the GOP in the Bone Spurs error.

[MineralMan]

26. Oh, Snap!

[Catherine Vincent]

28. I'm starting to love this man

Love it!

[C_U_L8R]

29. Yo, check out the phone number....

it also goes to here... http://www.pk2entertainment.com
Same hosting co and contact info as Demeter Direct -
seems like the same web template too
Address is apparently a condo.

Payne Kobayashi and Ko
Why does that sound familiar??? For a company claiming
so many famous clients there aren't any Google items on them
(though one single asst producer on LinkedIn)

Clearly these people are not who they claim to be.

[C_U_L8R]

30. Kobayashi explains it all

But he doesn't tell us who Mark Ko is.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

60. Kobyashi can be beaten.

But only if you're James Kirk.

[Uncle Joe]

31. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, HipChick

[Ellipsis]

32. Thanks for the links... There's a 12 course meal in there.

K&R

[FreeState]

33. Companies that are associated with Demeter Direct

Chrysler
Walmark
Dodge
Sony
Drink Blocks
Jeep
Fedex
Union Bank
Version

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Xl0XEX31i1wJ:www.demeterdirect.com/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-ab

[HipChick]

34. I am betting none of those companies have heard of them

[FreeState]

35. That would be my guess, they didn't even fill out the whole template

There was still an empty space for an additional logo. Cheap WordPress templates...

[Pepsidog]

61. Yep!!

[moosewhisperer]

36. Aliases

Demeter Direct (DD) = David Dennison (Trump’s alias, also, “coincidentally” DD)

DD used as shorthand in Cohen’s emails for “David Dennison”. Also for “Demeter Direct”?

Also, Demeter is the Greek goddess of fertility and protection of marriage.

Does this all connect to pay offs to women? For abortions? Just good old-fashioned money laundering? We shall see.

[bucolic_frolic]

40. Your reading of these tea leaves

has great merit. That is exactly the kind of coverups they use.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. RW & Trumpanzees gonna be blindsided. They are NOT clued in to this stuff / following Avenatti

Instead they are following a bunch of nonsense from Q (QAnon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

[stewrat]

41. From the CA secretary of state website

C3237285 DEMETER DIRECT, INC.

Registration Date:
11/10/2009
Jurisdiction:
CALIFORNIA
Entity Type:
DOMESTIC STOCK
Status:
ACTIVE
Agent for Service of Process:
MARK KO
3810 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 412
LOS ANGELES CA 90010
Entity Address:
3810 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 412
LOS ANGELES CA 90010
Entity Mailing Address:
3810 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 412
LOS ANGELES CA 90010
Type of Business Retail - Korean Food

[triron]

44. Korean food! There is something very fishy here!

It screams "shell".

[Ellipsis]

48. Probably lots of "cabbage" involved.

[Ellipsis]

45. Kyle Griffin - I'm going to spend my Friday night decoding Michael Avenatti tweets, aren't I?

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/995107704556457984

[canetoad]

46. Tweet

Link to tweet

Wendy Siegelman
? @WendySiegelman
Replying to @AdamParkhomenko @MichaelAvenatti @FoxNews

Demeter Direct Inc in LA is at 3810 Wilshire Blvd Ste 412 Los Angeles, CA, which happens to be a 20 minute drive from 8383 Wilshire Blvd where attorney Keith Davidson has his office - maybe related?
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C3237285 …

[triron]

50. Wonder what Avenatti already knows about this?

[canetoad]

53. You, me, the rest of DU

And most of the internet is wondering too.

[mobeau69]

51. There's some good stuff where this came from.

Link to tweet

Cohen's indictment is gonna make Manafort's look like a speeding ticket.

[pecosbob]

57. If it was intended as a shot across Giuliani's bow, so to speak...

and I'm pretty sure it was, then it most likely shows Giuliani taking cash under the table from someone...maybe the Turks.

[dreamland]

59. Giuliani has strong middle east connections

By his own account, Remember reclaim to be the consultant for the Arabs. Something is definitely under the table.

[winstars]

58. Koreans and Russians???I am not getting this connection...

[LudwigPastorius]

65. Trump/Cohen paying "large sums" to a company run by a couple of folks with Korean names...

around the same time that the DPRK agrees to release American hostages (prisoners).

I'm not saying...

I'm just asking, how would one bypass sanction laws and make surreptitious payments to the leadership of North Korea in a "cash for release" deal?

It seems that you would have to know someone who knew someone, and you'd have to move the money through several companies.