So how were these payments to the Clinton Foundation handled on AGT's income tax returns? On AGT's official reports?
It's interesting to note that a company this large with the Clintons on-board is privately-held.
Maneuver helps them escape scrutiny by the SEC. Nevertheless, they created a long and useful paper trail.
<><> how did AGT list the Clinton donations on their tax returns?
<><> how did AGT list its contribution to Clinton on its corporate statements?
<><> Did AGT list these payments as "business expenses?"
<><> were official AGT documents falsified?
The biggie, of course, is the tax element.
<><> Did AGT deduct Clinton donations as a “business expense”,
<><> were Clinton donations listed as payments on organization balance sheets
<><> were donations listed as a "liability?"
AND THE CLINTON FOUNDATION?
<><> Did Clinton Foundation document AGT payments as "income"?
<><> Was AGT given a tax-free certificate from the Clinton Foundation?
<><> is the Obama Foundation on the payment list?
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REFERENCE In and around 2007, Martin L. Edelman a New York attorney with Paul Hastings LLP, a Bill and Hillary Clinton close friend, and one of their largest donor bundlers met Mati Kochavi, who reportedly made his fortune in NYC real estate market. They came up with the idea of forming a group of companies and purchasing other companies that would develop and sell Homeland Security and intelligence solutions in the US and world-wide.
REFERENCE-—Leadership Profile:
Mati Kochavi, Founder and CEO, AGT International
October 7, 2011 Homeland Security Today
The study of history and philosophy might seem like an odd preparation for a career in homeland security, but for Mati Kochavi they represent a natural foundation for tackling questions of public safety and disaster preparedness.
A native of Haifa, Israel, and a graduate of its university, Kochavi was always interested in information and its uses. “Information and the ability to understand information is the key interest for me from a very young age,” he recalled. “My background in education is not in technology. It is in history and philosophy.”
Accordingly, Kochavi takes a very philosophical approach to security. He notes, for example that despite all the information that was publicly available, the revolutions that swept the Middle East in the Arab Spring took everyone by surprise.
“When you look at all those events and you ask yourself: ‘How come with all the intelligence that we have over there, all the relationships we have over there, with all the business the world is doing over there, how come we were quickly unable to predict such a dramatic historical change in the region while basically all the information was out there for us?’”
He continued, “If you cannot predict events then you cannot manage them properly. Prediction is not only a question of looking, it’s a question of where to look, where to find information. It is understanding where the voices are and being able to bring those voices in the right way to the right people.” This is the goal of Kochavi’s company, AGT International.
A global company
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, AGT was founded by Kochavi in 2007. From the beginning, it was conceived as a global company that would make the most of international connectivity and the Internet.
Today it employs about 2,000 people from 30 different nationalities. Since its founding it has managed $8 billion in projects, and it has a backlog of $5 billion, according to Kochavi. As a private company AGT does not release its revenue, but Kochavi said it was over $1 billion.
The company now has a presence on five continents with branches in India, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and Singapore. A facility in Germany is the focus of its research and development efforts, which have been funded at $400 million.
The company provides security services and research in a wide variety of areas, including industrial, urban, cyber, transportation, maritime, border and corporate security. It protects transportation hubs, manages urban information systems, assists law enforcement and provides intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance solutions. Its professional services also include risk and vulnerability assessment, evaluation and personnel training, and it will provide customized security solutions built to particular needs.
While AGT is doing a considerable amount of business, it is very discreet about its clients and Kochavi discusses them only in the vaguest terms. As an example, he cited a country on one of the world’s five largest rivers that was having trouble with floods and needed a system to predict their onset. AGT provided sensors to collect early warning information and created what he called a “smart dike” to hold back the waters. In another case a European country was having difficulty with flooding that originated in the mountains of another country. Again, the solution was to place sensors in the client country to provide early warning.
Kochavi also said that AGT had provided security solutions for some of the world’s largest chemical and petroleum plants. The company’s website states that it “protects the equivalent of 109 years of German oil consumption.”
A personal vision
Kochavi is similarly reticent about his own background. He has founded or invested in technology companies in software, telecommunications and technology management. He is also chairman of the company 3i-MIND, an outgrowth of another company called Mastermind that integrated information from a variety of sensors and databases and provided comprehensive analysis. However, 3i-MIND was much more Internet-oriented than its predecessor.
Going forward, Kochavi sees security being both global and intensely local, with clients having very specific and focused needs.
“My personal vision and mission is to bring the best brains in the world to solve the very specific needs of security and stability that each one of us is exposed to and worries about,” he said. “At the end of the day it’s all about our families, but it’s different from one country to another. And we want people to be really proud in joining this company and be able to say, ‘This is an issue that millions of people are worried about’ and we will bring the best brains to our R&D, develop great ideas, turn them into a product and then bring them to the market.”
He continued, “We’re building this company as a global company—which has many different faces, many different voices, many different languages, many different religions, many different accents—to be able to provide an overall view of the world and what people are really concerned about.”
HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY-——LATEST POSTS
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www.hstoday.us/people-on-the-move/leadership-profile-mati-kochavi-founder-and-ceo-agt-international/
It's time for our 'intelligence royalty' to look into this even if the court ball is coming up soon. ( I refuse to call these lowlife thugs a 'community'... when at best they're a corrupt bureaucracy - royalty works as sarcasm..) Thanks for the ping, Liz.
pretty brazen in your face operation
no biggie.....binez as usual in the big time espionage & arms sale binez.
until trump got elected.
Liz- Post 17 - Hitting on all cylinders again.
Thanks
RICO. Plain and Simple.
Thx, Liz.