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NY Times reporter (previously WSJ) Jessica Silver-Greenberg is married to Daniel Berkovits. Daniel Berkovits is the son of Markus I Berkovits & grandson of Lazar B Berkovits. Markus & Lazar ran a supposed "CIA front company" in CT called Sea Crest. "Everybody who gets too close to Sea Crest ends up getting clobbered," https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/15038-smugglers-dues. Markus is on Twitter and often retweets Jessica twitter.com/berkovitsm.

"Investigators discovered that many bodega activities involved Sea Crest Trading Company, incorporated in Connecticut, with its main office in Greenwich, and another in New York City. Closely tied in with Sea Crest was Capital National Bank in New York. Involved in the Sea Crest group were CIA operatives from the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco. Sea Crest started operations in 1984, and during the 1980s and 1990s was extensively used by the CIA in various activities" America's Corrupt War on Drugs: and the People by Rodney Stich

"According to Jacobson, it was the monies generated from the Sea Crest food coupon redemption fraud scheme that financed the bombing of the World Trade Center. According to Jacobson, Sea Crest is suspected of being the source of a two hundred-million-dollar a year food coupon redemption scheme… Jacobson alleges that Sea Crest has been protected by the Justice Department because of an alleged CIA operation that utilized that firm" [1]

"A DEA report (October 16, 1992) provided by Occhipinti alleged that Sea Crest was reportedly responsible for over $500 million in money laundering operations from the Washington Heights section of New York City" [1]

"Investigation of Sea Crest Blocked by Employees at All Levels of Government–Like a Secret Force" [1]

[1] Terrorism and Deadliest Enabling Scandals of 21st Century Rodney Stich

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1984 Markus Berkovits said the family decided to go full time into grocery store lending in 1984, selling the linen business and establishing Sea Crest Trading. They chose CT because of their lax banking regulations. Gov in CT at that time was William O'Neill, head of SDNY was Rudolph Giuliani.

1989 "Project Bodega was hugely successful. In one bust alone Occhipinti and crew came across a duffel bag containing more than $130,000 earmarked for a mysterious legal loan sharking operation out of Greenwich Connecticut called Sea Crest trading." [side note, "because of its many discoveries of criminal activities, the Manhattan district attorney's office was so pleased with the group's work that it assigned several of its prosecutors, including John F. Kennedy, Jr., full time to prosecute the cases that were generated"] How Doj Cover-Up of FBI Murders Enabled 9/11 Attacks Rodney Stich

1993 [Joe] Occhipinti was [set up &] convicted in 1993 on the federal civil rights charges, but his three-year prison sentence was commuted a few months later…Occhipinti blames his downfall in part on Sea Crest.

1994 By 1994, it [Sea Crest] had $33 million in outstanding loans and reported annual revenue of about $9 million

1996 "I was told by a CIA official back in early 1996 that the Clinton Administration would be embarrassed if the information about Peña-Gomez and the party's connection to drug smuggling became public." https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/15038-smugglers-dues

1998 SAVVY BUSINESSMEN OR FINANCIAL PREDATORS? https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-08-17-9808170034-story.html

Dropped the Sea Crest name on most new loans. Instead, the lender of record is Mill Street Associates, another Berkovits enterprise.

2016 10 Mar Lazar died

Joe Occhipinti is the founder of National Police Defense Foundation - NPDF https://npdf1.org/meet-the-npdf-founder/

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Businesses at 111 MILL ST., GREENWICH, CT, 06830

24 Feb 1984 SEA CREST TRADING OF CONNECTICUT #0153279 Dissolved 21 Nov 2001 (soon after Sep 11 attacks)

25 Jul 1984 DONERIGHT LEASING OF CONNECTICUT, INC. #0159107 Forfeited 20 Mar 1990

11 Feb 1985 GROCERY MANAGEMENT CO. INC. #0165835 Dissolved 8 Dec 2014

18 Dec 1987 CENTURY TRADING OF CONNECTICUT, INC. #0210087 Dissolved 9 Dec 1996

20 Oct 1994 MILL STREET ASSOCIATES INC. #0303299 Dissolved 21 Nov 2001

14 Jan 1997 WATER STREET SERVICE CORP. #0551896 Dissolved 21 Sep 2015

6 Apr 2000 LB FINANCIAL GROUP LLC #0648485 Dissolved 5 Dec 2014

Source: https://www.concord-sots.ct.gov/CONCORD/online?sn=PublicInquiry&eid=9740

Business in Scarsdale, NY

B&K REALTY MANAGEMENT CORP. (Berkovits)