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I was right... It was the Bezos mistress and brother... (Original Post) PeeJ52 Feb 2019 OP
Gotta be bad for a relationship. Hoyt Feb 2019 #1
hopefully Bezos will go after both of the individuals Fresh_Start Feb 2019 #3
Not so fast to conclusion - brother is actively denying he did this Pachamama Feb 2019 #2
Dang... always something... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #4
. Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #9
You've always got the Gary Hart - Lee Atwater - Roger Stone connection.... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #20
Truth Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #21
Of course he is because otherwise he's in DeminPennswoods Feb 2019 #35
Hello, Roger Stone.. Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #5
Post removed Post removed Feb 2019 #6
My understanding is they've been separated for awhile TrogL Feb 2019 #23
Separated from Sanchez? TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #26
Errr...no. Bezos and his wife TrogL Feb 2019 #29
I am still wondering if he was set up with the mistress malaise Feb 2019 #7
I think so TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #14
Old Chinese proverb in Jamaican patois malaise Feb 2019 #42
+1 2naSalit Feb 2019 #15
That was my exact thought. WhiteTara Feb 2019 #22
That thought occurred to DeminPennswoods Feb 2019 #38
same obamanut2012 Feb 2019 #41
Another article TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #8
Ewwwww.... You're not going to trick me into going to Foxnews... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #10
I'd contest that it's impossible Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #11
Sheesh, no kidding! klook Feb 2019 #30
Hmmm... It looks like Fox News is going to get a little "Inside Action" on this too... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #12
I hope bdamomma Feb 2019 #13
Yes indeed malaise Feb 2019 #16
But, what's this last paragraph.. ?! It doesn't make Cha Feb 2019 #17
Because Michael is a big tRump supporter and he thought Bezos was out to get tRump PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #18
The way I read it.. it sounds like Cha Feb 2019 #19
Won't be a long relationship. Lifelong Protester Feb 2019 #24
Why are AMI sources believable? More_Cowbell Feb 2019 #25
Yeah, after Rachel showed us this rag, I'm like, whaaa? Leghorn21 Feb 2019 #27
Can you buy that on Amazon? klook Feb 2019 #31
Yes, if they weren't currently out of stock!! Leghorn21 Feb 2019 #32
The question of who gave the pics to AMI is a distraction from the matter of what AMI did with them RockRaven Feb 2019 #28
One of the Dailybeast reporters who's an MSNBC DeminPennswoods Feb 2019 #36
Something smells fishy, watoos Feb 2019 #33
That was my question too. Did he have access to her phone? underpants Feb 2019 #34
There surely would have been a record of that on her phone ? In any case, de Becker OnDoutside Feb 2019 #37
So ... Sanchez is dirty? Qutzupalotl Feb 2019 #39
I see what you did there... I'm surprised it lasted 39 responses... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #40

Pachamama

(16,884 posts)
2. Not so fast to conclusion - brother is actively denying he did this
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:09 PM
Feb 2019

Unless you have some credible evidence other than an anonymous source quoted, the verdict is still out...

 

Fuzzpope

(602 posts)
9. .
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:20 PM
Feb 2019

"However, Bezos’ investigators have strongly suspected Sanchez was the leaker since at least last week, according to two people familiar with the investigation. “There is no one inside this inquiry process who doesn’t believe he’s ground zero,” one of those sources said.

Abramowitz, the AMI lawyer, appeared to confirm this in his Sunday interview, saying, “Any investigator that was going to investigate this knew who the source was.”"

I think that is pretty cut and dried.

The only thing not made clear is whether or not the sister was involved, and that is THE most important thing to establish here, because if it's found to be true, then what we have here is a Stone-driven, complex network of political hit teams who actually deploy women to ensnare a target sexually, and then ruin him with the evidence of the activities.

And because of what that implies, you can be certain that is the core secret which will be defended to the utmost.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
20. You've always got the Gary Hart - Lee Atwater - Roger Stone connection....
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 10:37 PM
Feb 2019

It's been done before...

 

Fuzzpope

(602 posts)
21. Truth
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 10:49 PM
Feb 2019

Nothing new under the Sun, I just use Stone because he most accurately embodies the current infestation.

And is probably the architect here.

DeminPennswoods

(15,265 posts)
35. Of course he is because otherwise he's in
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 03:26 AM
Feb 2019

big trouble for being a party to alleged blackmail and extortion.

Response to PeeJ52 (Original post)

TexasBushwhacker

(20,148 posts)
14. I think so
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:27 PM
Feb 2019

Even a 55 year old billionaires can go through mid-life crisis and get itchy. Bezos and Lauren Sanchez traveled in the same social circles and her brother might have given her the idea that it was time to trade up from her Hollywood agent husband.

malaise

(268,715 posts)
42. Old Chinese proverb in Jamaican patois
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 04:15 PM
Feb 2019

"Man with hard dick have soft head".
Let me add that age, wealth and status don't matter.

DeminPennswoods

(15,265 posts)
38. That thought occurred to
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 03:40 AM
Feb 2019

me as well.

Or maybe it was a half-baked extortion scheme she and her brother cooked up on their own with AMI as the middle man. Bezos is the richest guy on the planet. Some people are greedy and dumb enough to try ways like this to get some of his dough.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,148 posts)
8. Another article
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:17 PM
Feb 2019
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/brother-of-jeff-bezos-girlfriend-lauren-sanchez-slams-moguls-team-in-enquirer-controversy

In addition, Sanchez said his acquaintance with longtime Republican political operative Roger Stone, who recently pleaded not guilty to charges of witness tampering and lying to Congress in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, is irrelevant to the Bezos matter.

"My friendships are being used as a weapon against me, but the dots don't connect," said Sanchez, who also knows former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page and is friends with top AMI executive Dylan Howard."

 

Fuzzpope

(602 posts)
11. I'd contest that it's impossible
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:23 PM
Feb 2019

To rank one's self among that circle of monsters and not be an actively contributing a-hole as well.

"Yeah, I'm tight with all these super villian dickheads, but no no, I'm not one myself. Lol."

klook

(12,152 posts)
30. Sheesh, no kidding!
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 12:14 AM
Feb 2019

I take it Bezos’s super-duper security firm didn’t vet the girlfriend’s family... I guess if you have a lot to lose, it would pay to be paranoid.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
12. Hmmm... It looks like Fox News is going to get a little "Inside Action" on this too...
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:24 PM
Feb 2019

Maybe a little OJ ratings boost... How convenient to have the Sanchez family available for interviews...

Cha

(296,867 posts)
17. But, what's this last paragraph.. ?! It doesn't make
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:35 PM
Feb 2019

sense if Michael Sanchez is the one who leaked his sister's private texts to the enquirerer.

From your link..

The identity of the Enquirer’s source was only one of the many mysteries in a tale that is sordid and tangled, even by supermarket tabloid standards. Still unresolved: why Sanchez allegedly supplied the information to the Enquirer; why the Enquirer promoted a story about Bezos with such vigor; what, if anything this had to do with the Enquirer’s long-standing support for Trump; why its parent company was so bothered by the suggestion that it was motivated by “external forces, political or otherwise”; and why AMI tried to later coerce Bezos with a previously-unreleased “d*ck pick.”


And, this makes no sense..
Documents reviewed by The Daily Beast show that Michael Sanchez believed the Enquirer pursued its story about Bezos with “President Trump's knowledge and appreciation”—a chase encouraged, in Sanchez’s estimation, by Republican operatives “who THINK Jeff gets up every morning and has a WaPo meeting to plot its next diabolical attack on President Trump.”

Why would Michael Sanchez send his sister's private texts to the Enquirer if he believed that?!
 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
18. Because Michael is a big tRump supporter and he thought Bezos was out to get tRump
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:40 PM
Feb 2019

so he wanted to help the Enquirer? It's crazy... plus his sister is a Fox affiliate star and now she's getting interviewed on Fox News... They'll probably have exclusives with her to pump their ratings up. It's gonna be a circus...

Cha

(296,867 posts)
19. The way I read it.. it sounds like
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 09:56 PM
Feb 2019

Sanchez is calling out the Enquirerer and trump for going after Bezos.. ".. it was pursuing this story with trump's knowledge and appreciation.." , and mocking "republican operatives".

RockRaven

(14,907 posts)
28. The question of who gave the pics to AMI is a distraction from the matter of what AMI did with them
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 11:50 PM
Feb 2019

and given that the sources for this article are supposedly people with knowledge of the workings of the National Enquirer/AMI, their motives in giving this info to a reporter are extremely suspect.

This story looks to me like AMI trying to shift attention and blame away from the criminal behavior they engaged with after getting the info, and focus people's attention and ire on the source (either the true one or a patsy).

DeminPennswoods

(15,265 posts)
36. One of the Dailybeast reporters who's an MSNBC
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 03:33 AM
Feb 2019

regular guest said another Dailybeast reporter worked at AMI and knows how the company operates. Apparently AMI tried to intimidate him and/or Dailybeast, too. Not sure if he's the author of this story, but he would likely have friendly contacts inside AMI.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
33. Something smells fishy,
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 01:16 AM
Feb 2019

So was the lover married? If so I assume she lived with her husband, I assume she didn't live with her brother. How did her brother get possession of her phone unless she was involved?

SDNY needs to investigate these sleeze balls. Also, Pecker was looking for money, did Saudi Arabia give Pecker money? I read where Pecker bought out one of his competitors, where did he get the money?

Finally, why the hell is Saudi Arabia considered our ally?

underpants

(182,627 posts)
34. That was my question too. Did he have access to her phone?
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 01:42 AM
Feb 2019

Maybe he picked it up and copied or sent the texts to himself. Other than that it seems strange.

OnDoutside

(19,948 posts)
37. There surely would have been a record of that on her phone ? In any case, de Becker
Mon Feb 11, 2019, 03:37 AM
Feb 2019

had originally said that a Government agency were responsible, so why say that ?

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