https://frankreport.com/2018/07/31/one-more-lawyer-for-nancy-top-criminal-defense-lawyer-david-stern-nxivm-lawyers-now-total-18-and-counting/
Keith Alan Raniere
Marc Agnifilo – Brafman & Associates, P.C.
Paul DerOhannesian II – DerOhannesian & DerOhannesian
Danielle R. Smith – DerOhannesian & DerOhannesian
Jacob Kaplan – Brafman & Associates, P.C.
Teny R. Geragos – Brafman & Associates, P.C.
Brian Poe – Fort Worth, TX
Allison Mack
Steven Kobre
William F. McGovern
Sean S. Buckley
Clare Bronfman
Dennis Burke –Ballard Spahr
Susan R. Necheles – Hafetz & Necheles LLP
Kathleen E. Cassidy – Hafetz & Necheles LLP
Gedalia Stern – Hafetz & Necheles LLP
Nancy Salzman
Michael J. Sullivan
David Stern
Lauren Salzman
Hector J. Diaz – Quarles & Brady, LLP
James L. Burke – Quarles & Brady
Kathy Russell
William Fanciullo [former Assistant U.S. Attorney.]
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think- ago
What does that mean? The news reports that Girardi was a NXIVM lawyer were wrong? Or he hasn't been on the team of lawyers anymore for some time?
@Vindicator
Vindicator ago
Well, I know the guy was having serious financial problems...perhaps they dropped him as a result? Not sure about that. This bears further investigation.
think- ago
Yes, we should find out whether he really ever was a NXIVM attorney. Did Q allege he was? Is this the reason people started looking into him?
Vindicator ago
Here's the tweet that originated that claim: https://twitter.com/MilspecP/status/1093325051326353413. He says:
And then shares an image of what looks like a search result for Erika Girardi of a Daily Mail piece that appears to link the Gerardis to NXIVM. I looked up the Daily Mail article in question, and there's nothing in it mentioning NXIVM. I think what must have happened is that MilSpec Ops Monkey must have seen the search result, not read the actual article, and not realized they were unrelated. He made a mistake.
When people asked for more evidence, he followed up with this tweet:
This morning he tweeted this: https://twitter.com/MilspecP/status/1094972606082703362
And then he found a Yelp review of the Guatemalan House of Culture that looks just like NXIVM's Rainbow Cultural Garden child care pics and tweeted that:
I confirmed this picture is indeed listed for "Case de la Cultura de Guatemala" on Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/casa-de-la-cultura-de-guatemala-los-angeles | https://archive.fo/y5zxy
There are a couple really good reviews about how they work with kids, including these that Yelp suppressed, and and a really bad review saying the guy is a scammer:
What I can't tell from Monkey's tweets is whether the similarity of the Guatemalan House of Culture pics and name to the NXIVM Rainbow Cultural Garden childcare stuff is what led him to excitedly jump on that search result that put Gerardi and NXIVM in the same digest of Daily Mail articles without fully vetting it.
He seems to me like a pretty conscientious researcher, other than that one mistake.
It's also possible that he made the mistake deliberately (a strategy Trump uses on a regular basis, it should be noted) to create hype for the story (which it certainly did), either to create buzz to get people researching another arm of the Cabal, or to color our reporting on the Special Forces "training" with the taint of Fake News.
@Blacksmith21
Blacksmith21 ago
I caught all of that on MilSpec Monkey's Twitter. His wife Erika, from the Real Housewives, never missed a beat posting on Twitter: https://twitter.com/erikajayne - I would think if he was involved somehow, there would have been a social media disruption. Just an observation.
All of MSpM posts are good analysis, other than the very odd referral to the takedown operators as....I was about to castigate him for this mistake, but he corrected himself: https://twitter.com/MilspecP/status/1093910408681922560
Everything I've looked at supports the hypothesis that this was real, not training:
1) If this was a training exercise, it was extremely high risk and put civilians at risk. The military does not put multiple helos, flying on NVG, into domestic, civilian occupied areas to practice high risk maneuvers. Simulation would be preferred to this level of risk.
2) Delta Force/CAG/1st SFOD-D/etc is a counterterrorism unit. They aren't going to send in the pipehitters to arrest a mid-level criminal for _____. To conduct domestic operations, there must have been a very imminent threat - financial, physical, or cyber, to get approval to send in Nightstalkers and Operators.
3) Proximity to Wells Fargo offices (HQ is in SF). Major banking hubs are usually located along fiber/communication backbones for a variety of reasons. It is plausible this building sat on top of, or had access to, the fiber optics rights-of-way. Why is this important? https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/uncovering-echelon-the-top-secret-nsa-program-that-has-been-watching-you-your-entire-life/ - BLUF - Old tech allows fiber optic bundles to be TAPPED. Think robbing a bank with NSA-level tech.
4) Physical proof of a breach. MSpM had a follower perform recon on the site, photos show windows are boarded. My .02 - Anytime I have been involved with a training activity which damaged civilian property, there was a check waiting the minute the exercise was over. Owners were paid. Contractors were already at the ready to fix the damage. Let's keep an eye to see if this damage is repaired immediately, or if the damage left by the assaulters remains in disrepair.
My .02.
altalias ago
Someone posted pix from 10hrs ago that showed it still boarded up but a shredding company truck outside and someone on rooftop across street monitoring. Click Here
think- ago
Welll, thanks for putting all the effort in to get to the bottom of this, Vin! Much appreciated! :-)
The 'Rainbow Cultural Gardens' have a Guatemala branch IIRC, but then it's only one of many.
And 'House of Culture' is just a random name of some foreign country cultural outlet.
I think it's like you say, he might have seen a similarity where there isn't any, and didn't do a proper background research, like you did now. ;-) :-)
@letsdothis3
Vindicator ago
Yeah...this is how crowdsourced investigation works (normally, you'd have editors and/or producers verifying sources to help prevent this kind of false positive from happening. It does happen all the time, even to professionals.)
think- ago
Yes. :-)