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rpannier

(24,304 posts)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:19 AM Mar 2022

Get out your crying towels for Petr Aven and his sad plight


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Love the "Fiddler on the Penthouse Roof" quip
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Walleye

(30,723 posts)
1. I could live for a couple years on the money that he spent on that watch
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:25 AM
Mar 2022

The guy, he’s so poor he has to wear blue jeans boo-hoo Hoo

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
2. but they are
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:45 AM
Mar 2022

handwashed, individually faded with a piece of granite from the Andes for over 84 months prior to wearing. His wifes' pair has cuts across the knees made with pieces of flint from the Ural mountains.

They are shown by appointment only.

Clash City Rocker

(3,379 posts)
4. I've been saving this for the right story
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:51 AM
Mar 2022

Last edited Mon Mar 28, 2022, 09:37 AM - Edit history (1)



This seems like the right one. It’s the world’s very smallest violin, so small a tardigrade can play it.

PatrickforB

(14,516 posts)
9. This is why I always use the word parasite when I refer to billionaires.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 10:13 AM
Mar 2022

This idiot knows nothing about taking care of himself, but he has managed to amass billions of dollars.

I have said it before and I will say it again:

THIS WORLD DOES NOT NEED BILLIONAIRES.

We don't. We need a confiscatory wealth tax that would strip these people down to $10 million or less in wealth. We need to find ways to tax capital gains fairly as well. Because a lot of these jerks own plenty of stock but never have to pay taxes on it because they get loans on the appreciation of the stock without selling it. Don't have to pay taxes on loans.

Louis1895

(768 posts)
10. Don't forget the Trump-Alfa Bank story
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 11:06 AM
Mar 2022
Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

September 23, 2021

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago.


https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/lawsuits-indictments-revive-trump-alfa-bank-story/

The article described in the OP mentions that Petr Aven was once president of Alfa and still owns interests in the bank.

SunSeeker

(51,377 posts)
11. It's an outrage that the only indictment is of the guy who reported the treason.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 11:38 AM
Mar 2022
L. Jean Camp, a professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, was among the first to publish some of the DNS data collected by the research group. In 2017, Alfa Bank sent Camp a series of threatening letters suggesting she was “a central figure” in the what the company would later claim was “malicious cyber activity targeting its computer network.” The letters and responses from her attorneys are published on her website.

Camp’s attorneys and Indiana University have managed to keep her from being deposed by both Alfa Bank and John H. Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to look into the origins of the Russia investigation (although Camp said Alfa Bank was able to obtain certain emails through the school’s public records request policy).
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The person who first brought the DNS data to the attention of the FBI in Sept. 2016 was Michael Sussmann, a 57-year-old cybersecurity lawyer and former computer crimes prosecutor who represented the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Last week, the special counsel Durham indicted Sussmann on charges of making a false statement to the FBI. The New York Times reports the accusation focuses on a meeting Sussmann had Sept. 19, 2016 with James A. Baker, the FBI’s top lawyer at the time. Sussmann had reportedly met with Baker to discuss the DNS data uncovered by the researchers.

“The indictment says Mr. Sussmann falsely told the F.B.I. lawyer that he had no clients, but he was really representing both a technology executive and the Hillary Clinton campaign,” The Times wrote.

Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to the charges.


https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/lawsuits-indictments-revive-trump-alfa-bank-story/

AZLD4Candidate

(5,567 posts)
12. My heart doth bleed Blessed are the warmongers. Blessed are the billionaires.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 12:46 PM
Mar 2022

Clean for yourself Drive for yourself. Entitled warmongering prick!

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