Right-wing Albanian party paid Trump fixer with Kremlin-linked cash

Kremlin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska is behind shell company that funded political lobbying by former Trump operative in Europe, leaked documents suggest

Great reporting by Lukas Kotkamp

#Deripaska

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/albania-conservative-party-trump-kremlin-deripaska?share=cguQCkUMNWc9wyExJR%2BPygr%2B2Fpf5Kk5acjs5x%2F80Ecg0oTPq3Lkhkko6XEKSIM%3D

Don Jr and Eric Trump combined own 12% of Dominari Holdings which owns 90% of American Ventures, lead investor for an $8M offering of Singapore-based Genius Group shares, and a deal to finance $5.5M for a small digital bank in Bermuda, Jewel Bancorp. My Latest:

https://newstracs.com/eric-and-don-jr-linked-to-genius-group-and-bermuda-bank-deal/2026/04/27/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wendysiegelman/115192866792062867

Brittany Kaiser is CEO of AlphaTon which has now called Alpha Compute Corp (symbol ALP)

The strategic focus is on "Scalable, AI Confidential Computing Infrastructure, leaning into its success with AI Confidential Computing for Telegram and other Clients"

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/20/3276894/0/en/alphaton-capital-rebrands-as-alpha-compute-corp-to-reflect-its-growing-ai-compute-business.html

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Trump Media & Technology Group has appointed Kevin McGurn as interim CEO, replacing Devin Nunes

McGurn was an advisor to Trump Media, and runs several other companies involving the Trump family and Trump Media investor Yorkville Advisors

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/21/3278552/0/en/trump-media-technology-group-appoints-kevin-mcgurn-as-interim-chief-executive-officer.html

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Opens Sweeping Investigation into “U.S. Special Envoy for Peace” Jared Kushner’s Foreign Entanglements and Staggering Conflicts of Interest

Raskin Warns Kushner’s Dual Role as U.S. Negotiator in the Middle East and Financier Funded by Middle Eastern Governments Poses Grave National Security Risks and Likely Violates Federal Law

#JaredKushner #Kushner

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-opens-sweeping-investigation-into-us-special-envoy-for-peace-jared-kushner-s-foreign-entanglements-and-staggering-conflicts-of-interest

Incredible reporting by @ZarinaZabrisky about the horrors of an underreported genocide taking place now in Oleshki, a Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region since 2022

Survivors describe a drone siege zone, mined roads, no power or food "It is hell"

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/16/escaping-the-drone-siege-in-the-humanitarian-catastrophe-of-oleshki/

FinCEN imposes $80M in penalties against Canaccord Genuity for violations related to providing trading services to stock scammers and work with a fixer tied to a sanctioned Russian oligarch and to Konstantin Malofeyev who funded Russian separatism in Crimea, my latest:

https://newstracs.com/fincen-penalties-against-canaccord-tied-to-sanctioned-russian-oligarchs/2026/03/30/

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Update on my 2024 story on Jared Kushner's investment in UK Amazon aggregator firm Unybrands which he met through former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann - last October his firm Affinity wrote off $171 mil in debt and converted it to shares.

Other investors included Morebath Ltd, firm linked to Mark Denning, and Kokkuhoideur owned by Finnish noble family the Ehrnrooths.

Affinity holds stakes in other UK companies - Revolut, a fintech firm that became a bank and OakNorth bank.

https://observer.co.uk/news/business/article/kushners-170m-bad-bet-on-obscure-british-amazon-aggregator