Posted on 02/12/2025 8:04:30 AM PST by hardspunned
“OCCRP’s Work is Not Political,” said the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project last week, apparently in response to our story about its involvement in the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump. “OCCRP has recently become the target of a conspiracy theory suggesting that we worked with one of our donors, USAID, to undermine President Donald Trump during his first administration. This is simply untrue, and it’s not how OCCRP operates.”
But the allegations in our report, that USAID effectively created and oversees OCCRP, are true. Senior managers at USAID and the co-founder of OCCRP confirmed that USAID must sign off on the hiring of key OCCRP personnel and its annual work plan. OCCRP created a central piece of evidence in a CIA analyst’s whistleblower complaint that resulted in the House of Representatives voting to impeach President Donald Trump in December 2019. OCCRP admits all of this in its response: “Here are the facts: One of our storieswas cited in a 2019 whistleblower complaint filed against President Donald Trump. The complaint then sparked his first impeachment.”
OCCRP defended itself against accusations that it was part of a conspiracy. “That story, like all stories we do, was reported without our donors’ knowledge or input. OCCRP had no contact with the whistleblower, and was unaware of the complaint until after it was reported by U.S. domestic media.” In an email to Public, OCCRP’s Editor in Chief noted that OCCRP published an article about how Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, “had received millions from a reputed organized crime associate” as evidence that OCCRP has no political bias.
But neither we nor any other media outlet claimed that OCCRP had the direct input of USAID for its story, nor that it had any contact with the whistleblower. It’s not clear that such communication would even be needed for USAID and OCCRP to participate in a scheme to develop evidence against Trump for a supposedly impeachable offense.
As for OCCRP’s article about Hunter Biden’s business partner, it repeatedly stressed that Hunter Biden was not involved. “While the younger Biden had previously been involved with RSTP [Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners],” OCCRP wrote, “there is no evidence that he played a role in the mbloom [startup fund] deal.” OCCRP went on to say that it had confirmed Biden’s lack of involvement after reviewing “financial records.” It did not specify how it obtained those records.
And despite the extensive evidence of influence peddling by the Bidens in countries routinely covered by OCCRP, including Ukraine, the organization does not appear to have thoroughly investigated them.
OCCRP describes itself as a cost-effective arm of the US government’s anti-corruption efforts, writing that “our stories have helped return more than $11 billion to public coffers through seizures and fines” and that “OCCRP has brought in at least ten times more money to the U.S. government than it has received in grants.”
But if it’s an arm of the US government, it’s one that was weaponized against Trump. A new investigation by Public shows that OCCRP played a significant role in developing the narrative that Trump and his associates had ties to Russian banking and Russian money laundering, as well as other undisclosed conflicts of interest with Russia.
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Can we all agree that we are at the point where we want heads on a stick. Arrests and prosecutions across the board. If we dont they will do it again
I think the group is more aptly named than they intended?
(Now, a new investigation finds that USAID’s OCCRP drove the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Blockbuster new investigation led by @galexybrane)
Has to be Hillary Rotten Clinton
The point to take away from USAID is not that millions were spent on a lesbian opera in Denmark. It is that those millions were shorn by administrators kicking back to politicians, NGOs set up by the left and the like. Even this criminality is small. It was a MULTIPLE-TRILLION DOLLAR MONEY LAUNDRY FOR LEFTISTS AND THE SWAMP.
I think DOGE and others are helping to point out where the crimes are happening.
RFK Jr will get in and join DOGE in pointing out where the crimes are happening.
Tulsi and Patel need to get in and then they can make the arrests and put some heads on pikes.
This party is just getting started.
Your post is well taken. There’s a cycle of corruption that starts with leftist politicians funneling money to favored organizations (and political supporters) who in turn kick back some of the money to the politicians or their friends, relatives and associates. The organizations also help out the politicians at campaign time to ensure they remain in office to keep moving money into the organization.
The very definition of corruption, all on the taxpayers dime.
I will add for example that there are 14 billionaires in the Pritzker family. There are 64 NGOs and foundations they control. When the USAID wants favored funnels the routes are well known.
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