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Jerome Corsi & the alt-right’s Russian hackers

 

Alt-right “author” and scummy disinformation specialist Jerome Corsi’s wild roller-coaster week may have another dip left.

Corsi, InfoWars’s DC bureau chief, as well as the man many think invented the alt-right, was riding high earlier this week,  after USA Today, the country’s highest-circulating paper, published an opinion piece he wrote.

Then, yesterday, he was kicked off YouTube… for life.   He had only recently received his first two You Tube strikes—for harassment and/or bullying—late last month.

Since his banishment, he’s been posting increasingly irate tweets that make it clear than his relationship with the truth is currently a bit stand-offish.

One of his headlines reads:  “Dr Jerome Corsi: My YouTube Channel Restored! Alex Jones Infowars.”

A screenshot of Corsi’s shut-down site gives the lie to that little bit of fake news. Maybe it was just wistful thinking. 

Say what you want about him, Jerome Corsi traffics in pro-style disinformation. He delivers the goods. He knows what makes his people’s blood race.

 

 

Dr. Jerome Corsi may know a few Russian hackers

Jerome Corsi has more to worry about than how many views his video rants are currently receiving. He may be involved in a half-visible criminal conspiracy powering the Russiagate scandal, which is beginning to unravel.

If, as expected, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicts a gaggle of Russian hackers next week, it will be surprising if some of the Americans who facilitated and helped pay for the hackers aren’t taken down as well.  

Many are waiting impatiently for the American fellow-conspirators of the Russian hackers’ to be fingered and publicly shamed.

The notion that this number “might could” include Jerome Corsi is enough to set bitter hearts aflutter. But, is this just wishful thinking?

Under America’s racketeering laws, everyone involved in a criminal organization is supposedly guilty of the crimes committed by other members of the group, which could truly trigger a bloodletting.

 

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The Russiagate conspiracy has been around — in one form or another— for 15 years, since March of 2003, when a Russian hacker later to become famous named Pavel ‘Red Eye’ Vrublevsky moved into a house in Howard Beach, Queens which was already occupied by a company owned by a Tampa Mobster named Mike Muzio.  

Vrublevsky’s re partners LLC listed its business address as 158-49 90th St, a single family residence in Howard Beach. So too Mike Muzio’s blue moon group Inc.  involved in pornography and cyber crime. Vrublevsky’s company handled the back end, taking credit cards, through his Moscow company Chronopay.

And this is where things begin to get interesting. 

In 2004, Muzio’s Blue Moon Group was a subsidiary of GenesisIntermedia, an Internet start-up used by Saudi arms dealer and ‘fixer’ Adnan Khashoggi in what will become a massive and masterful stock fraud generating a sweet $300 million dollar payday.

Whether Muzio was an active participant is unknown. But he was not shy getting involved in stock fraud later, after he went from working for Adnan Khashoggi t0 an “alt-right” stock fraud ring run by a business partner and Breitbart collaborator of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Sarasota’s own Andrew Badolato.

It does not seem to have been a difficult leap, especially since Khashoggi is a charter member of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach ‘homies.’

It was at this time—in 2003—that Russian Mobsters, including Semion Mogilevich, Russia’s Mob’s Mr. Bigski, began colluding with elements of the American Mafia, the nascent alt-right, and Adnan Khashoggi, who was right at home in this company, having been in operations for over 40-years in his long career as a CIA fixer.

Khashoggi’s longevity owed partly to being able to offer the requisite plausible deniability (he’s a foreigner!). As well, they offered the chance to meet starlets, like Paul McCartney’s future wife Heather, in decidedly relaxed circumstances.

Until his death last year in New York Adnan Khashoggi was a fixture in nearly every American scandal since Watergate. He was around for so long that clips from his first big scandal—something to do with bribes and Lockheed—are in black and white.  

 

The staple of spammers everywhere was Viagra, in all its hundreds of mutations. Penile enlargers sold well. Aftersales might include an antenna booster.

 

The secret life of an agent provocateur

Jerome Corsi, alt-right rabble-rouser, led a secret second life.

Who knew?

In 1995, before his career peddling smears began to take off, reported The Boston Globe, Corsi was involved in ripping off two dozen investors in Minnesota by convincing them to give him money which then magically disappeared, supposedly for investments in Poland.

The FBI didn’t charge Corsi. Several investors sued and won judgments against him, but were unable to collect.  Corsi reportedly transferred all his assets and funds to his wife’s name.

Another leader in the American wing of the Russiagate conspiracy was  stockbroker Gregg M.S. Berger. Gregg M.S. Berger, however, is not his real name. His real name is Gregg StickelBerger.  Easy to see why he changed it.

Both Berger and Corsi worked at shady Gilford Securities, widely rumored to have Mob ties.

Stockbroker StickelBerger used Gilford Securities to serviced two sets of players, in what looks to be the same ongoing conspiracy. One is a Mob-Mafiya strand; the other is Khashoggi’s GenesisIntermedia fraud.

From Reuters:

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) – A New York stock broker has been charged with orchestrating a fraudulent $30 million scheme to illegally “pump-and-dump” thinly traded Chinese and Israeli penny stocks, the U.S. Justice Department said.  Gregg Berger, 47, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. district court in Detroit. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

In a related case, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against Berger, seven other people, and three companies involved in the alleged scheme, including one company in Canada.

 

A “China-Israeli micro stock play”

Gregg Berger worked with Alan M. Ralsky, known as America’s Spam King. The two men commit financial fraud together, then plead guilty in 2009 to conspiracy.

In their joint effort, Berger ran a $33 million international microcap stock scheme involving the stocks of eight small U.S. companies “headquartered” overseas, in the People’s Republic of China, Canada, and Israel.

The companies were used in reverse mergers with local non-U.S. companies looking for a back door into U.S. financial markets.

Stockbroker Berger ran two conspiracies. One was the China-Israeli micro stock play, for which Berger was eventually indicted, along with Al Ralsky, a cast of virtual unknowns… and a Russian named Peter Severa.

Make that Russian hacker Peter Severa.  Who was safe in Russia, until, five years after his American partners are convicted,  makes the mistake of going on 

vacation in Spain…. Or… he was lured to Spain.  

In either event, under Spanish skies, the Russian hacker was arrested by Spanish police, where it turned out Peter Severa was not his real name. 

It was Peter Levashov, #7 on the world’s Top 10 Worst Spammers list, according to a Russian cyber-security company. A Justice Department indictment asserts Levashov is the long-time Russian partner of American Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield Michigan.

After the U.S. won a titanic struggle with Russia for control of where he would be extradited, he was recently extradited to the United States.

It’s a simple declension. Jerome Corsi has ties to Gregg Berger. Berger was partners with America’s Spam King Al Ralsky. He partnered with Peter Levashov. As well as with Jonathan Curshen.

One of Khashoggi’s partners named Michael Farkas bought a spy store in Miami. The group began soliciting sales over the Internet in earnest.

“Need a pair of sunglasses fitted with a fiber-optic video camera? A shirt button concealing a surveillance microphone? How about a bullet-proof umbrella, or a baseball cap strong enough to repel a hatchet blow?

 

Uber-hackers working  for uber-oligarchs

At the same time he was working with Ralsky and his crew, busy fraudster (but on whose behalf?) Gregg Berger was also part of a criminal conspiracy involving Sarasota native Jonathan Curshen, another example of that Florida city’s lack of either ethics or charm.

With Curshen’s lavish assistance, Berger helms an effort to pump and dump the stock of a little nothing company (literally, there was nothing there) called CO2.

Back to the first conspiracy.  One of the eight American shell companies located overseas that Berger and Ralsky are using is something called “China Digital.”

Which leads back to Jonathan Curshen, part of Berger Conspiracy No. 2.

In Berger’s Conspiracy no 1. Curshen helped manipulate “China Digital’s stock price.  So Berger’s two known criminal conspiracies must be part of one larger overarching conspiracy.

Which means that — in the best of all possible worlds —  each and every ‘connected’ miscreant who has helped move the conspiracy forward is now, as a matter of law, guilty of every crime committed by each one of their fellow conspirators.

Jonathan Curshen was in business with Steve Bannon’s alt-right business partner Andy Badolato in Sarasota, Florida.

According to a criminal Complaint filed Sept 4, 2008, Curshen, along with someone named Bruce Grossman, schemed to defraud investors in a company called Industrial Biotechnology Corporation (“IBC”) by paying secret cash kickbacks to an undercover FBI agent, who was posing as a middleman willing to recruit corrupt stockbrokers.

Who controlled Industrial Biotechnology Corporation (“IBC”)?  Serial alt-right fraudster Andy Badolato.

 

Teddy bears. Some Viagra? A mail-order bride? Fake diplomas were steady earners. But of course they didn’t sell nearly as well as hard-core pornography videos.  Nothing did. 

Before there was Jesus there was John the Baptist

Before there was Donald Trump, there was Jerome Corsi. His supremely distasteful “Swift Boat” book, filled with lies and calumny, did in an authentic war hero (no matter what you thought of his politics), 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.

 

Later Corsi lobbed another grenade over the transom called  “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President.”

Slight problem: in a bit of horrific timing that makes you question whether there might not be a God after all,  Corsi’s book came out three weeks after Obama’s birth certificate had been released, and promptly tanked.

That’s when Alex Jones told his audience he and Corsi were receiving warnings from “top government officials”—presumably because a mid-level functionary wouldn’t convey the seriousness of the matter—while preparing to publish the true story of something or other.

“Threats started pouring in,” Alex Jones told his listeners. Even his own lawyers, he said, advised him against breaking the story.

It’s enough to give you chills.

 

The real story of the Russian hackers is a story of the increasing levels of expertise they began to display.  They were working hard to master the Internet’s arts of persuasion.

As the Russians began stretching their computer skills beyond the reach of their American cousins, Adnan Khashoggi and sidekick Ramy El Batrawi’s GenesisIntermedia provided the only outfit who could stay with them.

Spammers—in Russia and the U.S.—sold vacation giveaways, mortgages, work-at-home opportunities…Loans! 

Successful spammers were soon living large.

This is what hackers, Russian and American, did. Control millions of servers. Write a zesty little sales pitch. Slam some cloak-and-dagger software through a massive database of e-mail addresses.

Then deluge the planet like the wrath of a vengeful God.  

 

A threat to proto-fascists everywhere

Not since the glory days of Iran-Contra has the group Donald Trump is fronting for—the so-called “Alt-Right”—received so much bad publicity. Yet even after all this time the group— as a long-standing drug trafficking, financial fraud and money laundering operation— remains recognizable. One anchor over the decades, for example, has been Adnan Khashoggi.

Khashoggi, and his lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi, both of whom were deeply implicated in Iran Contra, would have a last hurrah in Russiagate.

So too would Americans like Tampa Mobster Mike Muzio,  currently away doing 13 years at a federal penitentiary in Minnesota. There he tweets about looking forward to getting out in 2020.

While the players on the ground were releasing press releases announcing orders from each other for billions of dollars worth of product that didn’t exist, from other businesses which were members of the conspiracy.

The phony companies were often led by former agents from U.S. military intelligence, the CIA, and the NSA (at Skyway Aircraft, which we’ll get to presently), as well as alt-right factotums like Andy Badolato, Jerome Corsi, and Jonathan Curshen. 

Facing them across the table was a roving posse of Russian hackers, as well as a squadron of Russian Mobsters like Oleg Deripaska.

The story of our time is about Donald Trump and the globalization of organized crime. It’s intrinsically more interesting than the one being surfaced so far.

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Daniel Hopsicker
Daniel Hopsickerhttp://www.madcowprod.com
Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist and the author of two books on transnational crime, Welcome to Terrorland and Barry & the Boys.
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4 COMMENTS

  1. thank’s hop, masterful job, my mind is blown, itll take me a couple days to understand what i just read and how to even react to it; brilliant.

  2. There is stuff online about Corsi and Mel Rockefeller. Mel knew an Iraqi in San Diego who is tied up in this whole 911 thing. not sure how much there is to it.

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