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Has anyone else seen this Reddit thread?
Jim Breyer is married to "shipping executive and philanthropist Angela Chao, the youngest sister of Elaine Chao." Wiki
There is way too much info and documentation to post, but here is a taste.
It's worth the time to click on the Reddit thread.
Jim Breyer, Mitch McConnell's brother-in-law, Facilitates Russias Takeover of Facebook through Yuri Milner
In 2005 Jim Breyer, a partner at Accel Partners, invested $1 million of his own money into Facebook and gained a seat on the board (1).
In Feb 2009 Jim Breyer visited Russia with a number of other Silicone Valley investors. While there, Yuri Milner, a Russian tech entrepreneur who founded DST with close ties to the Kremlin, hosted a dinner to cap the entire event (2). As one Moscow source put it:
DST has the backing of the big boys at the top in the Kremlin, which is why it will go from strength to strength (5)
Milner found out Breyer liked Impressionist art and took him to Russians Hermitage Museum to view Matisse paintings otherwise closed off to the public. Three months later Yuri Milners DST invested into Facebook at a bloated value. (2)
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Jim Breyer and Rupert Murdoch
Then in Nov 2010 Jim Breyer invested into Artsy.net, run by Rupert Murdochs then-wife, Wendi Deng, and Russia oligarch Roman Abramovichs then-wife, Dasha Zhukova. Jared Kushners brother, Josh, also invested in the fledgling company (1).
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Jim Breyer, Blackstone Group, and Saudi Arabia
In 2011 Schwarzman was named to the board of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (2), headed by Kirill Dimitriev.
In June 2016, during Trumps presidential campaign, Jim Breyer met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman, or MBS (8). The next month Breyer joined the board of Blackstone Group (1) alongside Stephen Schwarzman and Jacob Rothschild (3). In the past Blackstone Group had loaned Kushner Companies a combined $400 million over multiple projects (7). In the 2018 election cycle, Schwzarman donated $5 million to the pro-McConnell superPAC, Senate Majority PAC (13).
Jacobs brother, Nat, is business partners with both Oleg Deripaska (4), Rupert Murdoch, and Dick Cheney (5). Nat is also a major investor in Glencore, one of the purchasers of Rosneft stock detailed in the Steele Dossier (6), and RusAl.
In January 2017, Breyers business partner at Wickr, Erik Prince, was introduced to Dimitriev by MBSs emissary, George Nader, and the Crown Prince of the UAE (10).
On October 22, 2018, three weeks after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, when most American investors were spooked away from Saudi Arabia, Jim Breyer showed up at an MBS-hosted Saudi business summit alongside Kirill Dimitriev of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (9). That same day, MBS pledged $20 billion for Blackstone Group's new infrastructure fund (11) to fund Elaine Chao's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan (12). Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnells wife and Jim Breyer's sister-in-law, is Trump's Secretary of Transportation.
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BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)tied to Russia in one way or another? I have never heard of so many Russain connections in my whole life. Even Pence and his brothers are connected to Russia.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Firestorm49
(4,004 posts)How many laws were broken?
Who covered anything up and why?
Whos going to do anything about subversion?
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)in Russian money.
delisen
(6,039 posts)still are beholden to facebook and turn over their personal information.
oasis
(49,152 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)backtoblue
(11,324 posts)I can't even attempt to try to figure out their tangled web.
2naSalit
(86,072 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)I really really hope Rachel's on this!
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)all get away with it. Nothing but a complete overhaul of our Constitution and laws will save us. You know the Illuminati and other conspiracy theories about a group of wealthy running the world always sounded nuts but that doesnt mean we aren't heading there.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Thanks for posting this deep rabbit hole of corruption.