Posted on 07/14/2017 2:44:27 PM PDT by Lorianne
From Jan 7 2011 Fusion website:
Fusion Global provides customized, premium research and strategic advice to corporations, law firms, nonprofits and investors. Our service is a fusion of information acquisition and strategy: We know how to collect and analyze information and we know how to make use of it. We are cross-disciplinary, with expertise in media, politics, legal affairs, regulation, national security and global markets.
Fusion brings to your project years of experience in collecting and sifting open source and proprietary intelligence, along with a worldwide network of sources and a proven record for accuracy and professionalism. We have high-level relationships in government and the media, law and policy communities.
Our team has special depth in matters involving financial fraud, corruption, terrorism, money laundering, and other forms of transnational crime. We have deep experience working on issues related to trade, technology, security, and economic sanctions. Our specialists can provide support in regulatory compliance, asset recovery and proxy battles.
We have the ability to present information in powerful products written by a team of specialists trained in producing material for some of the most discerning readers in the world, including the President of the United States and the readers of The Wall Street Journal.
Glenn R. Simpson is FUSION’s President and Managing Partner. Simpson has over 20 years of experience in research and investigations, including 14 years with The Wall Street Journal as the Washington bureau’s lead investigative reporter. Since entering the commercial intelligence field in early 2009, he has managed complex projects in the US, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Simpson specializes in the banking and securities sectors. He is a seasoned expert on the relationship between government and business and in particular in financial regulation, and is well known in the capital’s financial policymaking, regulatory and enforcement communities. For his articles in The Wall Street Journal and more recently for private clients, he has analyzed numerous multinational corporations including difficult international subjects such as banks in the Middle East. He is well versed in the arcana of tax havens, offshore banking, and securities and accounting fraud. He is also in expert in political influence and is widely known among Washington’s top lobbyists, lawyers, journalists and lawmakers.
In addition to his long tenure in Washington, Simpson was stationed for three years in Brussels. There he developed strong knowledge of European business practices and structures as well as many contacts in the corporate world and media. His recent research work includes a matter resulting in a significant win for a major government contractor, the exposure of political corruption in Latin America and the exposure of a case of securities fraud in the UK. In December 2010, his nearly two-year investigation of a prominent family ended in a favorable client verdict worth over $70 million.
Simpson is a recipient of numerous awards for his articles, speaks frequently in academic fora and has appeared on many broadcast news programs including CNN, Nightline, Jim Lehrer NewsHour and the BBC. He is the co-author (with Larry J. Sabato) of the book, Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics (Times Books/Random House, 1996).
2011 Bean LLC dba Fusion GPS
BINGO!!!! McCain REALLY wanted DIRT on TRUMP....what was the AIDES NAME that went and picked this crap up?? MRS> MCCAIN?
Glenn Simpson LOOKS like a PERVERT!!
Another Fusion GPS Partner
Peter R. Fritsch is a FUSION Partner and Project Leader. Fritsch is a multilingual investigator, writer and manager with 24 years of experience on four continents. As a reporter and bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, he led and participated in Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigations from Mexico, Brazil, Southeast Asia, Brussels and Washington, DC. He founded the WSJ’s Sao Paulo bureau in 1997.
Fritsch has written widely on the global petroleum industry, guided a global team investigating the oil and natural resource industries for the WSJ, and has run top caliber corporate coverage around the world. He enjoys a large network of contacts in business, media and politics in Latin America, Asia and Europe.
His U.S. bases have included Houston, Boston and New York. While based in Singapore, he worked extensively in important emerging markets like Vietnam, Indonesia and India and oversaw newsgathering across South and Southeast Asia.
Most recently, Fritsch led the WSJ’s national security and foreign affairs coverage in Washington, DC. In addition to spearheading coverage of the Pentagon and intelligence community, he has reported extensively on Iran’s efforts to evade nuclear sanctions.
Fritsch’s work has been recognized with several industry awards. His investigation of a Mexican corporate executive ended in the executive’s eventual prosecution by Mexican authorities. He was among the first to sound the alarm regarding a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme in the Caribbean. His work in Europe included major terror finance and corporate bribery investigations.
Third Partner in Fusion GPS
Benjamin S. Schmidt is FUSION’s Managing Director. Schmidt is a former government intelligence analyst. Most recently, he served as Team Lead in the Middle East and Europe office of the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
Over 7 years at Treasury, Schmidt ran complex transnational cases involving banking and other forms of financial activity. His work was often included in the President’s Daily Brief and used to guide policy decisions with global ramifications.
Schmidt has worked extensively with Middle East governments and is schooled in identifying and mapping financial networks. He has wide knowledge of financial regulation, international monetary transfer systems and open-source corporate research. At Treasury, he collaborated with the intelligence community, regulators, policymakers and foreign partners to design economic sanctions programs, and has wide knowledge of sanctions laws.
Ben has served as a mentor to a cadre of junior Treasury investigators, instructing his partners in the art of transnational discovery. He is especially adept at devising databases and customized technological solutions to research problems. He is the recipient of several prestigious internal awards for his work and holds an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
I wouldn’t piss on George W Bush if he was on fire. As for McCain, he is an enemy of the USA.
August 1, 2007, News Corporation and Dow Jones entered into a definitive merger agreement.[23] The US$5 billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch’s news empire.
POLITICOTwo WSJ reporters launch new company
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Two WSJ reporters launch new company
Wall Street Journal reporters Sue Schmidt and Glenn Simpson are leaving the paper to launch a new company where they’ll do investigative work for private clients.
It’s a big loss for the Journal, and could be a harbinger of things to come, as investigative reporters dealing with less space in major newspapers begin looking outside the industry.
In addition to the new company, SNS Global LLC, the two top journalists will also be affiliated with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, a nonprofit foundation focused on security issues. (Former Washington Post investigative reporter Douglas Farah, who’d covered the Colombian drug war and African blood diamonds, is also at the IASC).
Schmidt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who only joined the paper last year from the Post, told POLITICO that she and Simpson are “sort of shifting gears.” However, she said, they’ll still be investigating areas they covered while doing traditional journalism — everything from counterterrorism to international organized crime.
http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/72333-1/Glenn-Simpson
Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics by Glen R Simpson..... Program Air Date: June 30, 1996
Any bets that Simpson ended up working for the CIA as he stepped on their toes a few times.
The CIA and Riggs Bank
On the last day of 2004, Simpson published a Journal story about the Justice Department’s investigation of purported money-laundering at Riggs Bank, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Previous news reports had connected Riggs to the dubious financial machinations of Saudi diplomats and despots from Africa and South America, including Chile’s former maximum leader, Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Banking regulators fined Riggs $25 million last year for its violations, the institution put itself up for sale, and a Justice Department investigation was started.
Simpson’s Dec. 31 piece—inexplicably appearing on Page A-4 instead of A-1—locates what may be the common denominator shared by Riggs, the Saudis, the Africans, and the South Americans: the Central Intelligence Agency.
Citing unnamed U.S. government officials and people familiar with Riggs operations, Simpson reports that the bank has enjoyed a “relationship” with the CIA for some time. “That relationship, which included top current and former Riggs executives receiving U.S. government security clearances, could complicate any prosecution of the bank’s officials, according to private lawyers and former prosecutors,” he writes. By “complicate” one can safely assume that Simpson means “make impossible.” He writes:
The relationship with the CIA could prove problematic because it could cast a different light on the bank’s dealings with two U.S. foreign-policy allies, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to Washington.
It was on the house... /s
To me, this refers to Jeb Bush's campaign. They are the only ones with that kind of money.
Yep, McDemocRat! ...
gotta hand it to Grassley - he’d been asking stonewallComey this for months:
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-seeks-explanation-fbi%E2%80%99s-inconsistent-info-dossier-inquiry
Riggs Bank was connected to Bush. And to Saudi 9/11.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3554353/posts
Definitely a suspect.
It was supposed to be Bush & Clinton.
BTW: from the JB interview with John Fund re: Glenn Simpson’s wife (min 8:30)
“Over the last few years I think his partisan leanings and those of his wife MARY JACOBY, who is a long-time ally of the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democrat Party (she is from Arkansas), have become known.”
“Over the last few years I think his partisan leanings and those of his wife MARY JACOBY, who is a long-time ally of the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democrat Party (she is from Arkansas), have become known.”
I did not know that, but figured that was the case. I wanted to do a “Political Contribution” search but did not have the time. Thank you for sharing the comment. Do you have a link to the source?
The source is the JBS show interview (min 8:5)
https://audioboom.com/posts/6105826-who-paid-fusion-gps-for-the-steele-dossier-johnfund-marykissel
I searched to see what Mary Jacoby is doing now (was a WSJ reporter) and found nothing.
I searched to see what Mary Jacoby is doing now:
Per LinkedIn:
Consulting Editor
Company Name Law Business Research Ltd.
Dates Employed Mar 2015 – Present Employment Duration 2 yrs 5 mos
Location Washington D.C. Metro Area
In March 2015, I sold Just Anti-Corruption, a subscription publication I founded in 2010 for law firms seeking indepth coverage of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and global anti-corruption enforcement. The purchaser was Law Business Research Ltd. of London. Just Anti-Corruption was the sister publication of the free Main Justice site that covered the U.S. Department of Justice. After the sale I ceased regular publication of the Main Justice site to concentrate on Just Anti-Corruption and our anticipated future integration with LBR’s Global Investigations Review (GIR) publication. I remain editor of Just Anti-Corruption and joined LBR as a consulting editor to Global Investigations Review. GIR covers cross-border, multi-jurisdictional corporate enforcement and trends for a subscription audience of law firms, corporate counsel and consulting firms.
Founder, Editor
Main Justice
Dates Employed 2009 – Mar 2015 Employment Duration 6 yrs
Location Washington D.C. Metro Area
I founded Main Justice in 2009 to cover the politics, personalities and policies of the U.S. Department of Justice, with a focus on corporate law enforcement. We also cover the U.S. Attorney community closely.
In September 2010 I launched a subscription-only sister publication, Just Anti-Corruption, which focuses on anti-bribery law including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.K Bribery Act and the World Bank’s anti-corruption programs. Subscribers to Just Anti-Corruption include major law firms and corporate and compliance counsel at Fortune 500 companies.
I’m proud to have trained numerous young journalists now in prominent positions writing about business and law at the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Reuters and the National Law Journal.
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