Alex FinleyOct 11, 2024
A #YachtWatch update looking at the difficulties of selling off those Russian floaters https://open.substack.com/pub/alexzfinley/p/a-yachtwatch-update-the-trouble-with?r=k2zbm&utm_medium=ios
A #YachtWatch Update: The Trouble with Russian Floaters

Turns out auctioning off seized yachts of sanctioned oligarchs is hard, with lots of money getting flushed down the toilet

Rant! with Alex Finley
wet forest moon folkloristJul 7, 2024

Liva super yacht, worth $250 million, is cruising Lingít Aani (southeast alaska) right now.

Liva is owned by billionaire Stephen Orenstein, real estate oligarch and former majority owner of Supreme Group, which supplied the US in Afghanistan. Supreme Group subsidiaries admitted to defrauding the US government and paid $434 million to avoid prosecution and yet the Liva sails on

#YachtWatch

https://www.abeking.com/en/launch-of-superyacht-liva/

https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/liva-o/owner/

Launch of superyacht Liva°

Liva° the largest superyacht ever built at Abeking & Rasmussen.

Abeking & Rasmussen
Alex FinleyJan 19, 2024
Mega yacht AMADEA for sale? Plus, who is the luxury vessel’s true owner? A #YachtWatch update. https://open.substack.com/pub/alexzfinley/p/a-yachtwatch-update-amadea-for-sale?r=k2zbm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
A #YachtWatch Update: Amadea for sale?

Turns out, owning a mega yacht is expensive.

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Alex FinleyDec 1, 2023
Putin, Russia’s humble servant, used a Russian navy shipyard to build himself two luxury yachts. With an aircraft carrier that always breaks down and half the Black Sea fleet underwater, I wonder how the military feels about that. Also, huge shout out to our NATO ally Turkey, who’s hosting the yachts! #YachtWatch https://open.substack.com/pub/alexzfinley/p/a-yachtwatch-update-a-tale-of-two?r=k2zbm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
A #YachtWatch Update: A Tale of Two Yachts in Turkey

What kind of NATO ally is this?

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Alex FinleyOct 27, 2023
This week’s Rant! takes another look at the Strategic Lawyer Reserve (it’s running low!). Plus: A #YachtWatch update and a look at using classified information as currency. https://open.substack.com/pub/alexzfinley/p/is-it-bad-when-all-your-lawyers-plead?r=k2zbm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Is it bad when all your lawyers plead guilty to crimes?

Plus: What are the US plans for seized yacht AMADEA? And just how much intelligence has Trump given away?

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Alex FinleyJul 7, 2023
The drama unfolding over the auction of the seized Russian yacht Alfa Nero helps explain why sanctioning oligarchs isn’t enough. We must sanction their family members too. #YachtWatch https://open.substack.com/pub/alexzfinley/p/alfa-nero-and-the-billionaires-who?r=k2zbm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Alfa Nero and the Billionaires Who Own Nothing

A #YachtWatch drama unfolds in Antigua and Barbuda

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Show threadAlex FinleyMay 5, 2023
Clarence Thomas really enjoyed the hell out of this yacht #YachtWatch #SCOTUS
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This needs a #YachtWatch tag https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1654481074657845250
https://twitter.com/alexzfinley/status/1654562270460952577
Eric Umansky on Twitter

“BTW, we found two more cruises that Thomas took on Crow's superyacht. Including one to the Baltics and Russia, where they a rented helicopter & visited Yusupov Palace, site of Rasputin’s murder. (Another guest on that vaykay was the prez of @AEI) https://t.co/qzZz2yE52u”

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Show threadAlex FinleyMay 5, 2023
Here’s some background on Harlan Crow’s yacht, MICHAELA ROSE
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A little #YachtWatch thread on MY MICHAELA ROSE, the yacht owned by Harlan Crow on which Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas vacationed. 1/
https://twitter.com/alexzfinley/status/1643985017096531972
Alex Finley on Twitter

“A little #YachtWatch thread on MY MICHAELA ROSE, the yacht owned by Harlan Crow on which Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas vacationed. 1/”

Twitter
Alex FinleyMay 5, 2023

This needs a #YachtWatch tag
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BTW, we found two more cruises that Thomas took on Crow's superyacht.

Including one to the Baltics and Russia, where they a rented helicopter & visited Yusupov Palace, site of Rasputin’s murder.

(Another guest on that vaykay was the prez of @AEI)

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus
https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1654481074657845250

Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.

Crow paid for private school for a relative Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” “This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer.

ProPublica
Alex FinleyMay 1, 2023
#YachtWatch
Reminder: Flying Fox had been detained by the Dominican Republic at the request of the US under suspicion of arms trafficking. But Dominican gov let her go and she has enjoyed months of cruising in Turkey, a NATO ally. Geopolitics is wild
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Cayman Islands support vessel Sputnik, owned by Oleg Deripaska, who was indicted by @TheJusticeDept for criminal sanctions violations after Russia invaded Ukraine, & mega …
https://twitter.com/YorukIsik/status/1653156431472865281
Yörük Işık on Twitter

“Cayman Islands support vessel Sputnik, owned by Oleg Deripaska, who was indicted by @TheJusticeDept for criminal sanctions violations after Russia invaded Ukraine, & mega yacht Flying Fox, owned by Dmitry Kamenshchik, owner of Moscow Domodedovo airport, are side by side in Göcek.”

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