Anonymous ID: 50fbd8 Oct. 9, 2020, 1:52 a.m. No.10994308   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4421 >>4497 >>4709 >>4831 >>4928 >>4930

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Several of WE Charity's board members served on Counterpart International

 

Looks like they received ~$750M according to USASpending.gov. (TY to anon who posted this in the lb.)

 

RAUL HERRERA, Board Chair

Raul Herrera is Partner of Arnold & Porter’s Corporate and Securities Group where he concentrates his practice on international arbitration and international corporate and financing transactions. Mr. Herrera has been involved in transactions in every country of Latin America and the Caribbean. He represents multilateral and bilateral agencies as well as sponsors of their project financing and private equity transactions. He previously served as General Counsel for the Inter-American Investment Corporation, a multilateral financial institution affiliated with the Inter-American Development Bank.

 

In 2017, Mr. Herrera served as Interim General Counsel and Legal Director of the Green Climate Fund, based in South Korea. In 2019, Mr. Herrera was appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the Board of Visitors of Virginia State University.

 

LOIS BRUU, Board Member

Lois Bruu is Vice President on the Humanitarian & Development team at MasterCard, where she designs financial services solutions that foster financial inclusion and economic development in developing countries. She currently leads product development for the micro-commerce sector, which is focused on connecting consumers and merchants to the formal economy primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has also held key partnership management roles, including managing MasterCard’s relationship with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the grant from which funded the Lab for Financial Inclusion in Nairobi.

 

DR. THOMAS E. LOVEJOY, Board Member

Tom Lovejoy is an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term “biological diversity”. He currently serves as Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, teaches Environmental Science at George Mason University, and serves as the U.S. Department of State’s Climate Ambassador. He serves on numerous multilateral institution climate advisory committees (World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, etc.), corporate boards, and non-profit boards. His honors, recognitions, innovations, and publications are prodigious, and include the 2012 Blue Planet Prize — known as “the Nobel Prize for the environment.” He is credited with founding the field of climate change biology.

 

DIANA WALKER, Board Member

Diana Walker is the Founder and CEO of Walker Impact Strategies and works with today’s most influential global thought leaders – businesses, governments, organizations, entrepreneurs and philanthropists – to develop innovative, effective collaboration strategies to maximize their opportunities for positive social impact within their work. For over 10 years, Diana worked with the UN Foundation to build and facilitate partnerships between large corporations, governments, non-profits and foundations, entrepreneurs and high-level individuals to help further the United Nations’ work and create larger social impacts in communities around the world. In September 2012, Diana was named by the Diplomatic Courier and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy as one of the top 99 foreign policy leaders under the age of 33.

 

BRIAN DOTSON, Director, USDA Portfolio

Brian Dotson joined Counterpart in 2020 as Director of its USDA portfolio. Brian brings to Counterpart more than 25 years of international development experience, with expertise in applying private sector approaches to agricultural and agribusiness development in emerging markets. He has a deep expertise in financial and market analysis, enterprise development, and supply chain structuring in emerging markets, and is skilled in the development of global, regional, country, and business-level strategies that lead to sustained revenue growth and real socio-economic impact.

 

Previously, Brian was Chief of Party for Population Services International-Benin, where he managed a $6.5 million per year country program funded by USAID, KfW, and UNICEF and oversaw the social marketing of 12 health-related products and services.

 

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'Anons, Population Services International (PSI) has been awarded and granted $1.8B to date according to USASpending.gov. It's partners include Bill & Melinda Gates, Children's Investment Fund, Global Fund, World Bank, UNICEF, David & Lucile Packard foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, and William + Flora Hewlett Foundation'.

 

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Links here:

https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/%22Counterpart%20International%22

https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/035150e4-6a43-e04e-1f99-0e53b0b375c8-P/all

https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/"population%20services%20international"

https://www.psi.org/partner-with-us/

Anonymous ID: 50fbd8 Oct. 9, 2020, 2:36 a.m. No.10994459   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4482 >>4563 >>4578

Alleged mastermind of lavish mansion casino raided by police met twice with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

 

Wei Wei met at least twice in 2016 with Trudeau, including at a controversial Liberal fundraiser in the home of another wealthy entrepreneur

 

Author of the article:Tom Blackwell

 

Publishing date:Oct 07, 2020 •

 

The news that emerged last week about Wei Wei was attention-grabbing to say the least.

 

Police announced the Toronto-area real estate developer had been charged after officers raided a lavish, well-armed and illegal casino that was uniquely located inside a sprawling mansion.

 

Wei is alleged to have been the mastermind behind the high-end “Mackenzie No. 5 Club,” where police seized an assault rifle from his bedroom, gaming tables and more than $1 million in cash.

 

“The money moving through these underground casinos leads to huge profits for criminals that fund other ventures such as prostitution and drug trafficking,” York Regional Police said in a statement last week.

 

Not long ago, however, the businessman accused of being at the centre of it all was moving in some of Canada’s loftiest business and political circles, partly as an advocate for China.

 

Wei met at least twice in 2016 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, including at a controversial Liberal fundraiser in the home of another wealthy entrepreneur.

 

Wei also was among a delegation of four representing a Chinese government-endorsed industry group that met separately with Trudeau. Another member of the delegation donated $1 million to the Trudeau Foundation and the erection of a statue honoring the prime minister’s father.

 

Wei Wei, far left, at a 2016 meeting between delegates of the Chinese government-run China Cultural Industry Association and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. PHOTO BY CHINA CULTURAL INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

 

Both the fundraising event and the gift fed a controversy over alleged cash-for-access schemes that gave rich donors face time with Trudeau. The uproar prompted the Liberals to reform their fundraising rules.

 

Liberal spokesman Matteo Rossi did not address questions about Wei specifically, but said the party now has the toughest and most transparent standards for fundraising in federal politics. That includes allowing media coverage of events and hosting them in publicly accessible spaces.

 

“As his party’s new leader, it’s time that Erin O’Toole also did the right thing and committed to stop barring journalists from the Conservative party’s behind-closed-doors fundraising events,” said Rossi.

 

York Regional Police painted an eye-opening picture of the underground casino they found in the suburbs north of Toronto. Wei and his wife, Xing Yue Chen, bought the opulent, 20,000-square-foot estate in 2015 for $4.7 million, with a mortgage of $3 million, property records indicate. Police say it’s now worth $9 million.

 

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Anonymous ID: 50fbd8 Oct. 9, 2020, 2:41 a.m. No.10994482   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4488 >>4514 >>4515 >>4563 >>4578

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As part of a series of raids carried out in July, but only announced last week, officers seized $1.5 million in high-quality liquor and wine and 11 guns as well as gambling equipment.

 

The mansion at 5 Decourcy Court, near Major Mackenzie Blvd. and Warden Ave., in Markham, Ont., on Wednesday September 30, 2020.

 

As part of a series of raids carried out in July, but only announced last week, officers seized $1.5 million in high-quality liquor and wine and 11 guns as well as gambling equipment. Oh, and shark fins.

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reflected in a TV monitor as he holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016.

 

Conservatives call on Trudeau Foundation to ban foreign donations after 10-fold increase in three years

 

The house appeared to have bedrooms for the use of its clients, and allegedly may have been trafficking women for prostitution, officers said. Police who had approached the home earlier allegedly faced intimidation from guards posted there, they said.

 

Wei, 52, his wife, 48, and 25-year-old daughter were charged with keeping a common gaming house and other offences.

 

But the operation’s existence was not exactly a closely held secret. The National Post obtained an elegantly printed invitation from Wei that announced a “soft opening cocktail party” for what it called the “Mackenzie No. 5 Club.”

 

Hundreds of people attended the event in November 2019, including a number of local politicians, said an acquaintance of Wei’s who asked not to be named. She remembers line-ups of people waiting to take selfies with the “VIPs.”

 

Though the source did not notice formal casino equipment, she said she saw many of the guests playing cards and gambling there.

 

How Wei went from a well-connected property developer to an alleged black-market gaming boss is not clear.

 

Wei couldn’t be reached for comment, but the source said he came to Canada about 10 years ago under the investor-immigrant program. As head of Skywalk Investment, he’s known for buying and selling real estate in the Toronto area, serving on a committee of the Canada-China Realty Professional Association, which says it is dedicated to encouraging development and investment opportunities in the two countries.

 

A person named Wei Wei owns almost 50 properties in Toronto alone, land-registry records indicate.

 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/alleged-mastermind-of-lavish-mansion-casino-raided-by-police-met-twice-with-prime-minister-justin-trudeau

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/dozens-charged-millions-in-property-cash-seized-in-alleged-illegal-casino-bust

 

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