Authors Note: Due to an ongoing court case in Broward County Florida, allegations about about Russian-American Businessman Edi Gurlovsky were removed due to the status of the case.

In October 2017, Curt Weldon joined the board of advisors for Monarch Air Group, which had just completed its first contract with the Justice Department’s Witness Security Division.

According to US attorney Joshua Naftalis, and judges in multiple states, Monarch Air is allegedly a Russian mob front.

Why would the Trump Administrations Department of Justice allow a company that operates as a front for the Russian mob anywhere near the sacred halls of Witness Protection, not once, but twice? What was going on in June 2017 and January 2018 that warranted these contracts?

Contract on Gov Tribe between

The only reason these people have not ended up in prison is that it seems like law enforcement is too busy to communicate crimes across state lines.

Curt Weldon is the author of the backchannel Ukrainian Peace Plan that Michael Cohen and Andrey Artemenko worked on and delivered to President Trump’s now-convicted National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent inquiry letters to Cohen and Cambridge Analytica requesting correspondence with Weldon at the end of 2017, and some refer to him as Putin’s first congressman. He is arguably the most significant tie between politicians in the United States and Putin’s Government, and given his belief that he was betrayed by his own government, it may not be hard to guess where he stands.

Monarch is significant because of the ties it represents. In USA vs. Alimzon Tokhtakhounov, Attorney Joshua Naftalis made a matter of fact statement that the defendants were using Monarch to funnel money and drugs on behalf of the Russian Mafia.

In this case, he was talking about the defendants Vadim Trincher and Anatoly Golubchik, who were in charge of the huge racketeering ring being run of out Trump Tower.

The Trincher family

While Trincher and Golubchik were running what Attorney Joshua Naftalis referred to as “ one of the biggest bookmaking operations in the world.” in New York, they were also running Monarch Air, Shuttleliner Cab of Ocala, Suncoast Air Cargo, and Skyway International out of Jacob Gitman’s Kane Concourse Suite Address in Miami. Andrey Artemenko himself runs a defense contracting company, Ancovi International, out of the same Kane Concourse address.

One of the Managers of “Ancovi” is a company named Global Assets LLC — which was founded by Artemenko AND Vadim Netscheret. Netscheret is another tie to Michael Cohen as Cohen had to go to court to discuss why he gave the alleged mobster check for $350,000.

Monarch is just one of the hundreds of interconnected companies registered out of the Same suite at the same office building in the Bay Harbor Harbor Islands, connected to one family lead by one Jacob Gitman.

Natasha Bertrand reported last year that the Ukrainian Peace Deal was able to happen because Artemenko was introduced to Felix Sater through a mutual friend named Yan Aronov. Yan is a registered agent at one of these many companies.

FAKE DEBT PORTFOLIOS AND THE RUSSIAN MOB

In 2017, Zeke Faux wrote an explosive Pulitzer Prize worthy article for Bloomberg about a topic I had no idea existed; Phantom Debt Portfolios.

As the story goes, scammers bought a whole load of personal information on the internet and packaged the information as loans that needed to be collected on. These portfolios get sold over and over and over again to hide the liability.

However, they didn’t count on the tenacity of a small town guy named Andrew. After one of the debt collectors threatened to rape his wife in a debt collection call, he transformed into what can only be described as the modern-day equivalent of the Marvel Anti-Hero, the Punisher. They threatened his family so he vowed never to stop searching.

He kept moving up the chain, taking down the payday loan industry, bit by bit when he found the supposed ring leader — Joel Tucker (and his brother Scott.)

Very interesting connections existed from the outset of my reporting about the Joel Tucker case. For instance, Pay Day Loan Financier Del Kimball had to declare bankruptcy because Joel Tucker and his allies worked with Russian Payday loan magnate and son of the oligarch Igor Provkin to extort Kimball out of millions of dollars. In the Bankruptcy filings themselves, Kimball revealed that his business partner in Russia — Notorious Russian criminal Oleg Boyko was harassing him for payment of the monies Tucker stole and that he felt afraid for his life. Interestingly enough, Boyko was using Roman Abramovich as his intermediary.

Boiko owned a condo in Trump tower from 1994 until he sold it to Gitman’s business partner and convicted criminal Vadim Trincher in 2009.

Scott was convicted on 14 charges and sent to Prison. Six months after Bloomberg Article published the story, Joel was indicted on 15 counts and is due to in court later this year.

Andrew, like Frank Castle, had finally caught his man.

Or had he?

This is where it gets truly fascinating

On 8/27/18, the Attorney General of the State of New York filed a lawsuit against Hylan Asset Management and other related companies concerning the Phantom Debts.

The Web connecting Gitman and his associates to the Fake Debt Portfolios and Private Airlines

Andrew Shaevel, a well-respected businessman from Buffalo was one of the principles involved in the Phantom Debt scheme. He ultimately claimed he was unaware of the fake debts being sold by his company, but email evidence showed that he was aware of it and did not stop buying up the fake debts.

Disbarred former lawyer Jon Purzihansky was his Partner in the venture. In 2006, Purzihansky, himself a Russian born American Citizen was found guilty of helping a Russian mobster obtain a VISA on false pretenses. Hylan was accused of purchasing the Phantom Debt Portfolios through a Chicago area intermediary, Stark Law.

Attorney Dennis Vacco is the lawyer Purzihansky and Shaevel hired to defend them. He is the former New York Attorney General, serving while Giuliani was Mayor of New York City .

Vacco is well known in New York circles for becoming the lobbyist for Waste Management months after settling an anti-Trust lawsuit against them. Michael Caputo also hired Vacco as his attorney in the “Trump Russia” scandal.

Along came the Gitman Family. Jacob Gitman, through a Brazilian Investment Company “Prudent Investimentos” purchased 200 million in the fake debt portfolios, while allowing Hylan to continue managing the portfolio.

Bizapedia lists Prudent as being registered in 2014, by Jacob Gitman, LGN International, and Roman Faizulin. Despite being registered by Gitman, Prudent was being run in public by Dennis Klemming. He has no connection to the company on any registrations forms that I’ve seen.

According to Open Corporates, the directors of Prudent are a Brazillian man, Edson Luis Paulino, and what appears to be a “KSB International.”

KSB International is a Maltese company, formed six months before Prudent invested in the fake debt portfolios. In April 2016, KSB itself entered into an agreement to purchase part of the Phantom debt portfolios from Hylan. Roman Faizulin was the point of contact.

LGN International, a registered agent for Prudent Investmentos, filed a lawsuit on behalf of KSB International, in 2017. The Lawsuit alleges that KSB International and Mordechey Shahak along with other Russian Businessmen allegedly reached an agreement to form KSB Holdings and work together to collect on the 60 million of phantom debts KSB had purchased from Hylan.

The Assets for KSB Holdings were transferred to a new company, MBG Financial, run by one of the Defendents in September 2016. This includes the aforementioned fake debts. This Racketeering Case is still active in Broward County

Living in a world where two debt collectors can sue each other over debts that don’t even exist is mind-boggling when you stop and think about it.

Kocharov Partner Alexander Nogueira with the Trump family.

Michael Kocharov is yet another tie from Gitman to Trump. He is an owner of two Trump Tower Panama Properties, and also a registered agent for one of Jacob Gitman’s companies. Kocharov’s business partner Alexandre Ventura Nogueira was the primary broker for the Panama Project and is now a convicted felon.

“SIPHONING OFF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR PERSONAL PROJECTS”

Jacob and his son David are embroiled in a contract dispute being played out in the Miami County court system. The Plaintiffs allege that the Gitman’s siphoned 11 million dollars off of the contract they signed in 2012 for personal use through one of his companies, Basta Holdings (now known as Blackpoll Fleet International.)

Aside from this, the former Basta CFO, Andrew Logullo had his FINRA membership suspended due to corruption. This case connects a lot of dots the federal government should have connected long ago.

Jacob, David, and the Gitman family businesses have attempted to turn the case into one that blames another party. They started the case by convincing everyone around them that Boruch Freedman was the real decision maker and that they were unaware of the situation and just following directions.

Evidence Freedman’s lawyers collected throughout the case revealed that Freedman supposedly wasn’t an officer in the company involved, nor did he fill out any of the bank paperwork. The Plaintiffs were able to convince the court to request his arrest with false information, but he had already fled the country due to receiving threats from the plaintiffs.

During the case, it was revealed that the Plaintiffs “E.R. Troika” are actually the mobsters known as the Khazakh trio. The Trio — Patokh Chodiev, Alijan Ibragimov and Alexander Machkevich — built their fortunes in the mining, oil and gas industry. They’ve partnered with the Bayrock Group on developing Trump SoHo in the past and share extensive ties to Felix Sater.

While this court case was ongoing, two of Jacobs children (Larry and David) were being served eviction notices for breaching their rental contracts. Interestingly enough, at least one of the brothers used their mother, Alisa, as a real estate agent. Alisa works for Sib Realty, the real estate agency that almost exclusively deals with Trump properties in Florida

Sources have placed Michael Cohen in the same world as Jacob Gitman on multiple occasions as well. There are pretty significant indirect ties between the two, but no smoking gun as of yet.

These aforementioned crimes mentioned above would send anyone to jail. Certainly, the Fake Debt scheme harmed more people than Hollywood Celebrities wasting money to get their kids into reputable colleges, but this happened because authorities across the country fail to share notes and lack the manpower to do the research needed to find the crimes.

The very fact that Monarch Air was able to sign two major Witness Security contracts with the DOJ while being tied to the Russian Mob is a story that should have been told months ago. My only hope is that somebody important in the Mueller investigation reads this article and acts appropriately.