Venezuela: What's really going on? Anon's call for a DIGG links foreign construction company to FusionFPS & other orgs trying to bring down POTUS
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Initial DIGG found a Venezuelan builder of power plants (Derwick) accused of bribery & other crimes being legally represented by a sketchy American lawyer (Adam Kaufmann) who is on the Board of Daniel Jones' The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP), which has ties to FusionGPS, Chris Steels, the SSCI and recently discredited firm New Knowledge (Jonathon Morgan).
The task at this point is to sort out the role of all the players and what this can tell us about sleazy DS politics both in Venezuela and the USA.
Background
Anon called for a digg on what's going on in Venezuela that the MSM is not talking about ( >>5051684 PB). "May be time to really start digging on this situation to get some truth."
https://news.usni.org/2019/01/30/report-congress-venezuela-u-s-relations
I replied that the Alabama election fraud DIGG turned up many groups working to prove Russian interference in the 2016 election, one of which–TDIP–has a lawyer on its board, Adam Kaufmann, who is generally regarded as something of a sleazebag. This means any org in which he's involved is suspect. >>5051722 PB, >>5051752 PB.
Kaufmann in Venezuela
Daily Caller Dec. 2018 article posted yesterday:
"A mysterious nonprofit group backed in part by George Soros and linked to Fusion GPS has investigated President Donald Trump and possible Russian interference. The Democracy Integrity Project has largely remained a mystery, but The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned new details about the group’s board of directors. One board member [Adam Kaufmann] is an attorney who has worked closely with Fusion GPS in the past. [He] has worked for Derwick Associates, a Venezuelan power company accused of bribery and money laundering"'''….
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/12/democracy-integrity-trump-fusion/
What is Derwick Associates?
WSJ Aug 2014: "A Venezuelan company that became one of…Venezuela's leading builders of power plants during the administration of President Hugo Chávez….Manhattan prosecutors are investigating Derwick and ProEnergy for possible violations of New York banking law…Meanwhile, people familiar with the matter said prosecutors in the Justice Department's criminal fraud section are reviewing the actions of Derwick and ProEnergy for possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits offering foreign government officials improper payments in exchange for a business advantage."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-energy-company-derwick-investigated-in-u-s-1407516278 Aug 8 2014
So far, so good–this gives us a little bit to work with. But it's the next source that provides the "smoking gun" when it comes to Derwick and FusionGPS.