Todd Callender's family operated a company called Genesis Medical
Technologies, which developed needle-free vaccine syringes, and which
was the first US company permitted to do business in Cuba in the 90s. I
found a Czech translation of a press release from 1999 which I
translated to English below: [https://
Genesis Medical Technologies, Inc. ("Genesis") has worked closely with authorities in Cuba and the United States over the past year to complete the halfway point of testing its needle-free syringe for commercial sale to the mass immunization market. Genesis remains the only U.S. company to have a successful approved business in Cuba. A portion of Genesis' field test in Cuba was postponed in June due to communication and logistical issues.
In an unprecedented collaboration between the United States and Cuba, authorities in both countries worked hard to help Genesis overcome bureaucratic hurdles and move testing forward. The delays raised concerns about the vaccine's efficacy after long storage in polypropylene containers. As a result, Dr. Manuel Diaz of the Cuban Institute of Tropical Diseases agreed to burn plastic vials filled with the vaccine in the presence of Dr. Lynn Whitlock of the United States Interest Section in Havana. The event marked the first "end-user" validation of American technology and created a platform for the two governments to find common ground through trade.
Todd Callender, general counsel for the Colorado-based company, said that "end-user verifications are probably the most important tool the United States uses to improve trade relations with former enemies. I witnessed the same process throughout Eastern Europe in the early 1990s and saw the results of that process in the form of more liberal export permits and trade. I am impressed by the progress that Cuba and the United States have made in this regard."
Thanks to Cuba's cooperation in this "end-user" inspection and the efforts of both governments to improve trade relations, Genesis received a new export authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce and was able to ship replacements to Cuba in less than a month. The field test is currently scheduled to begin in mid-August and is expected to be completed in early September. Genesis expects to be attended by representatives from the United States Interest Section, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the Bahamian Ministry of Health. WHO is monitoring the field test with the goal of validating the needle-free syringe and certifying it as an approved device for use in its global immunization program. Successful completion of this important test should allow the syringe to be commercially available by the first quarter of 2000, a good start for treating diseases in the new millennium.
In the patent for the needle-free injection device by Genesis Medical
Devices, the inventors are listed as R. Samson Callender, William D.
Brown, and Jerald C. Umbaugh, but Todd Callender's middle name is
Samson. [https://
A book from 2000 said: "Genesis director Todd
Callender said his company hopes to partner with the Cuban vaccine
company. Genesis would provide the vials and injectors and the Cuban
company the vaccines." [https://
A newspaper article from 1999 said: [https://
In a step some Cuba experts saw as ground-breaking under the existing embargo, the Clinton administration late last year gave a small Denver-based medical company permission to test a new product in Cuba. Cuban officials are currently conducting a three-month test of a needle-free vaccine injecter developed by Genesis Medical Technologies Inc.
"We are the first U.S. company that's been allowed to go in and make our presence known in such a way," said Robert Jones, the company's president. It's been good for us because preliminary reports show the Cubans are impressed with the inoculation."
Based on this newspaper article, Callender's company didn't
necessarily have any secret special permission to do business in Cuba,
but they just happened to be one of the first companies to go to Cuba
after a change to the embargo rules: [https://
The vaccine used in the Cuban trial was an anti-tetanus vaccine by
the Cuban company Finlay. [https://
In 2015 R. Samson Callender wrote "I am an
orthodontist who has over 35 years of experience in treating breathing
related sleep disorders. For the last 16 years my practice has been
limited to treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with oral appliance therapy." [https://
In 2005 Todd Callender's sister Heather and mother Kathleen
co-founded a company called PharmaJet, which is the world's leading
manufacturer of needle-free syringes. [https://
PharmaJet's Tropis product is used as the exclusive delivery method
for the ZyCoV-D COVID vaccine, which was the first approved human DNA
vaccine of any kind. [https://
PharmaJet has had contracts with the WHO to produce several million
injection devices per year, initial funding for PharmaJet was provided
by the WHO, and the WHO also funded studies where PharmaJet products
were tested. [https://
During a podcast interview Callender-Potters said: "I think increasingly for DNA vaccines to come to market,
they'll come to market with PharmaJet's needle-free jet injection
technology, because we help increase the immune response so
significantly versus needles. Needles just don't move the bar at all. So
there will be categories of infectious disease, cancer, autoimmune,
allergy indications, during this coming decade, and therefore we - we
will be the standard of care - the only standard of care there."
[https://
At time 53:58 she said: "I've spoken to a few
people that were part of Project Warp Speed, which became the - the
quaint term of, you know, let's go fast and solve this, this pandemic
situation. We also were, um, in advance, already collaborating with
BARDA, which handles the some of the preparedness planning in the United
States, that was led by Rick Bright who ultimately became the
whistleblower." BARDA is a relatively small agency that employs
only about 100 people, but in 2011 Robert Malone also acquired a 21
million USD vaccine contract from BARDA. [https://
In an RCT from 2014 where a jet injector was used for influenza
vaccination, the authors wrote that they received funding from "Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
(BARDA), PATH, bioCSL, and PharmaJet".
[https://
In 2020 when EpiVax announced that their COVID vaccine was going to
be delivered using a PharmaJet product, they wrote: "Additionally, PharmaJet has been actively working with
U.S. federal agencies such as BARDA and the Department of Defense on
their global pandemic programs." [https://
In 2022 PharmaJet received a 1.5 million USD grant from USAID to test
the Tropis injector for polio vaccination in Nigeria. [https://
PharmaJet's CFO Jeff Jordan studied at the US Military Academy in
West Point. [https://
In 2023 when Todd Callender's sister Heather Callender-Potters was
interviewed on a small podcast, she said: "My father
was a very significant Rotarian - I'd say that my mother was informally
a Rotarian - but they did volunteer medicine and dentistry around the
world in their spare time. And we hosted people from 29 countries by the
time I was 18. And it included not just students but professionals. So
the culmination of international upbringing, and help your fellow man,
and work hard - and they worked together. Um, this was, you know, from
day one, really intergrated. And then you add to that, I think, the
importance of education, the importance of having a global perspective.
And I am positive that that influenced what I studied, where I did, how
I worked, how I approached work, and the whole flow through
ethics." [https://
At time 28:21 in the podcast, she said: "We're part of the global polio eradication initiative, ok, and in Pakistan 7 million children have been immunized using our intradermal platform, and they just - the WHO just placed another large order."
In 2026 Rotary gave WHO a 10 million USD grant to support polio
vaccination in Pakistan. [https://
Rotary's PolioPlus program served as a precursor to the WHO's Global
Polio Eradication Initiative, and Rotary has received over a billion
dollars from Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation for polio-related
causes. Rotary's website features the following timeline: [https://
The needle-free injection device was invented in 1938 by Robert
Hingson, who began a campaign to mass vaccinate children in third world
countries using his jet injector technology. In 1978 his Brother's
Brother Foundation handed over their polio vaccination program to
Rotary, whose PolioPlus campaign in turn served as the precursor to
WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative: [https://
By the end of the 1970s, Dr. Hingson's "peace gun" - a device capable of delivering vaccines at high pressure at the rate of 1,000 patients an hour without the use of a needle - was still one of the world's most important medical advances that few had ever heard of. Meanwhile, as one history book put it, "The World Health Organization had successfully used his gun in its mass immunization against smallpox, the only disease ever to be eradicated worldwide."
But there were yet many virulent diseases to combat around the world and so Dr. Hingson attempted to broaden support for Brother's Brother's inoculation program through any avenue available to him. One was the Rotary Club. In 1972 he became the president of the Oakland Rotary Club in Pittsburgh and was invited to elaborate on his humanitarian work. The club was moved and over the next few years support built within the local Rotary District 7300 for a way to support Dr. Hingson's work. The club and district raised money to buy polio vaccines for Guatemala which resulted in the immunization of 700,000 children against polio. In 1978, Hingson was given the opportunity to address Rotary International at its convention in Tokyo, Japan. The audience was "enthralled" by his message. It so happened that Rotary International had been in search of a world-scale program to support as a way of marking its 75th anniversary. When another Rotarian proposed the mass inoculation against polio as a worthy endeavor, Dr. Hingson found strong support within the organization. To test for viability, BBF and the Rotary collaborated on trial mission trip to the Philippines.
Given the extraordinary success of these models, Rotary International proposed to exclusively assume control of the polio eradication program from BBF. Dr. Hingson's son, Luke - yet young and impetuous - expressed strong concern to the program's transfer. This had been his father's work after all and to transfer it, he believed, was to undercut his legacy. Dr. Hingson didn't see it that way and gently told Luke, "Son, the Rotary has far greater resources than we have. It's not about me. It's not about credit. It's always been about others." By this time, the doctor had immunized 13 million children against polio and other afflictions. The program was transferred to Rotary, becoming known as PolioPlus. As Dr. Hingson predicted, Rotary International went on raise $1.7 billion to inoculate over 2.5 billion children - becoming one of the first programs incubated by Brother's Brother
The most widely used jet injector device was the Ped-O-Jet, which was
developed by Abram Berenson from the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research and Aaron Ismach from the US Army Medical Equipment and
Research Development Laboratory. [https://
So I don't know if Genesis Medical Technologies or PharmaJet were some kind of cutouts to bring military technology to a civilian market, because the risks of multi-use injectors had already been documented in the 80s, so the military might have started to develop single-use injectors long before they discontinued the use of multi-use injectors in 1997.
In 2021 Heather Callender-Potters was one of 4 directors on the board
of a cybersecurity company called Keyavi Data Corp, even though as of
2026 she was no longer listed as a member of the board. [https://
The lawyers listed as members of Callender's organization Disabled
Rights Advocates are Dawn Uballe, Todd Callender, and David Willson.
[https://
David Willson served in the JAG Corps for 20 years, where he "Provided legal and operational advice and support in the
areas of cyber, intelligence, information operations, computer network
operation (CNO) (CND,
CNE, CNA), space operations and space control to the Army, DoD,
ARFORCYBER, NSA, JFCC-NW (now
CYBERCOM)." [https://
David Willson has lectured on the "ethical use of
offensive cyberspace", and he talked about "the legal aspects of active Defense in his presentation
Cyber War or Electronic Espionage". [https://
In 2024 when CHD caught flak after Mary Holland interviewed Ana
Mihalcea about nanobots, CHD responded to the critics by saying that
Mihalcea's claims were backed up by a presentation by Lissa Johnson in a
symposium livestreamed by CHD. [clot2.
Mary Holland has written multiple articles about Russia where her
sole coauthor was Ethan Burger, who works at an intelligence training
school in DC called the Institute of World Politics, where in 2025 he
taught a seminar about legal issues related to offensive cyber
operations: [https://
In the acknowledgements of his book about counterterrorism in the
North Caucasus, Ethan Burger wrote: "I would like to
thank Paul Goble, Mary Holland, and Murray Feshbach who over the years
helped me refine my thinking on the implications of the Soviet Union's
demise, including the importance of nationality issues, the role of law
in states not governed by the rule of law, and human rights."
[https://
Mary Holland was the head of the European program of an NGO called
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, which was later renamed to Human
Rights First. A former international legal director of the NGO was a
coauthor of NATO's "Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the
International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations". [https://
Todd Callender said: "Early on in my career, I
practiced law in Poland during mass privatization right after the
Russians left. I was undoing a Soviet economic model." [https://
In 1989 Jeffrey Sachs became an advisor to the Polish prime minister,
he wrote a plan for the privatization of the Polish economy, and he was
the main architect of Poland's debt reduction operation. [https://
Todd Callender's sister moved to Poland in 1991, where she was one of
the managers of the USAID's Polish-American Enterprise Fund (PAEF), and she later became the vice president of
a company called Enterprise Investors that was set up to manage the
fund. Her LinkedIn profile says that PAEF was "Poland's first closed end private equity fund managing
$240 million for the US government (Polish American
Enterprise Fund) and $101 million in private equity investments
from well known pension fund investors and the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development." [https://
The Polish-American Enterprise Fund was authorized by the Support
Eastern European Democracy act of 1989. After PAEF completed its mission
to bring freedom and democracy to Poland, PAEF liquidated its assets in
1999, transfered about 100 million USD to the US Treasury, and
transfered about 250 million USD to the Polish-American Freedom
Foundation (PAFF), which was the successor of
PAEF. The largest single contribution to PAFF I found was a 31 million
USD grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [https://
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a board member of PAFF. PAFF's website says
that he was "a co-founding father of the
Polish-American Freedom Foundation", and that his "strong involvement in Polish affairs" included
"supporting Radio Free Europe". [https://
John Birkelund was the chairman of Enterprise Investors and also a
board member of EBRD. He served as a naval intelligence officer in
1953-1956, and in 1956 he briefly worked at Booz Allen Hamilton (where Ethical Skeptic also worked after his gig as a
department head of black ops at the Office of Naval
Intelligence). [https://
Todd Callender was an executive director of the Bahamas branch of the
Ansbacher bank, which in 2016 acquired the Bahamas branch of the Edmond
de Rothschild Group. [https://
Todd Callender's organization Vaxxchoice started out as a sister
organization of AFLDS. Todd Callender first emerged in alt media in
August 2021, when he spoke at an event organized by AFLDS. [https://
In 2021 Callender's website had a prominent advertisement for
ivermectin right at the front page, which said that "IVERMECTIN has also shown to prevent prion disease from
people who have had the Covid 19 experimental shots." [https://
In April 2020 Jerome Corsi launched a telehealth website called
SpeakWithAnMD.com, where he raked in millions of dollars by selling
prescriptions for ivermectin and the Zelenko protocol. A report about
Corsi's website said that at one point the website earned over 100,000
USD per day in consultation fees through customers referred by AFLDS:
"America's Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) - a leading purveyor of coronavirus
misinformation - refers patients to SpeakWithAnMD.com, stating that
SpeakWithAnMD.com provides phone consultations with 'AFLDS-trained physicians' willing to prescribe
hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and other unproven treatments. According
to recent reports, AFLDS referred over 255,000 individuals to
SpeakWithAnMD.com between July 16, 2021, and September 12, 2021 -
approximately 72,000 of whom paid $90 for initial phone consultations
and many of whom had follow-up consultations for an additional $60. One
investigation also found that some individuals were charged for
consultations that never occurred. In total, individuals appear to have
paid more than $6.7 million for consultations during this two-month
period, generating $113,000 per day, on average, for SpeakWithAnMD.com
and AFLDS." [https://
Corsi's site was initially partnered with an online pharmacy called
Bonsa Health, which appears to have been set up for the purpose of
selling the drugs prescribed by Corsi's site. [http://
The three products that were initially promoted on Corsi's website
were hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc, which are the three
components of the Zelenko protocol, but later Corsi started to also sell
prescriptions for ivermectin. [https://
Todd Callender, Jerome Corsi, and Craig Campbell coauthored a book
published in 2025 titled "Disease X and Medical
Martial Law: Defeating the Globalist Plan to Depopulate the World and
Enslave the Remnant". [https://
In 2004 Corsi told Jewish Daily Forward that "I
have created two mutual funds for the State of Israel for B'nai
B'rith" and "I've been a strong supporter of
B'nai B'rith and Jewish causes for 30 years". [https://
Mel Rockefeller claims to be an illegitimate son of Nelson
Rockefeller, but I haven't verified if he is correct. Mel Rockefeller
traveled to Poland with Corsi in 1995, because Corsi proposed they would
establish a mutual fund in Poland similar to his B'nai B'rith fund.
[https://
Mel Rockefeller wrote: [https://
Jerome Corsi is the first person from whom I heard the phrase "preparing the mind" when he oversaw a fraud designed to discredit me in Poland at a time when the Knesset was predominantly Polish. That fraud was financed by Carl Lindner whose website then boasted that he was the largest non-Jewish contributor to Jewish causes in the U.S. I urge that you immediately engage the documentation provided. My life experience proves the common source of ongoing geopolitical duplicity, including the narrative-advancing role played by Corsi.
To portray Corsi as a conspiracy theorist misses the point. He is either an Israeli agent or a wellpaid asset of the Jewish state. Ask him about me. Better yet, subpoena me, Munther Ghazal, Ron Burd, my attorney since 1992, and Jeff Gates, a colleague since 2002. Let us provide questions to ask Corsi. Note how, while I was in London, I outed him as a Mossad operative, per the blue-tabbed material. He knows what he did - and for whom.
Mel Rockefeller also pointed out that Nicholas Rey was a principal of
an intelligence company called Intellibridge, whose CEO and chairman was
David Rothkopf who was previously the managing director of Kissinger
Associates: [https://
Former vice-chairman of the $240 million U.S.-funded Polish-American Enterprise Fund, he then became a principal in Intellibridge, chaired by David Rothkopf, former managing director of Kissinger Associates. I learned from hard experience that Kissinger's presence is a sure sign that those I profiled are nearby. In advertising their security services on the Intellibridge website, Rey (since deceased) and Rothkopf offer the on-call assistance of authorities and advisers "available to you and your employees anywhere, anytime."
Their Israel-centric "on-call" advisory corps includes: Stephen Solarz, former chair of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and a signer of the Project for a New American Century's 1998 letter to President Clinton urging regime change in Iraq; Morton Abramowitz, former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, 1985-89; John Deutch, former CIA Director (1995-1996) who succeeded Woolsey in enabling Russia's loan-for-shares fraud; and Al From, founding president of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
I found an article that said the following in Spanish (where I converted footnotes to inline links):
[https://
The operators of the Copiaport-E megaproject report that St Matthew Assurance Ltd (SMA) has owned Hacienda Castilla and Copiaport-E Operaciones Marítimas SpA since 2019. They also state that SMA is a tribal insurance company originally incorporated and authorized under the laws of the Modoc Nation. They add that, in 2023, the SMA relocated to the Chiricahua Apache Nation (CAMB) and continues to operate under insurance legislation adopted through the CAMB legislative process.
[...]
The benefits of incorporating the SMA under the laws of the Modoc Nation are similar to those conferred by CAMB, so there would be no reason for the aforementioned move. In fact, there are more companies that remain registered under the Modoc Nation. Such is the case of Rf Defense Technologies Ltd, registered by Todd Callender as its Executive Director, with the address of the Modoc Tribal Complex: 22 N Eight Tribes Trl Miami, OK, 74354-1011 United States. The lawyer and businessman Todd Callender is now praised as a promoter of Copiaport-E. [https://
www. , https://buzzfile. com/ business/ Rf- Defense- Technologies- Ltd.- 954- 957- 4402 www. ]wetheitalians. com/ news/ todd- callender- receives- the- strategic- vision- global- cooperation- award- at- the- premio- firenze- capitale- 2025 The reason for SMA's transfer to CAMB may be related to the Modoc Nation's involvement in illegal money lending cases, in a scheme called "tribal leasing." This is unacceptable, especially when trying to whitewash the image of the Copiaport-E project, whose main creator, Brazilian businessman Eike Batista, was sentenced to prison in a corruption trial, along with his partner Flavio Godinho. Their crimes included accepting millions in bribes and laundering millions of dollars in tax havens. [https://
agenciabrasil. , https://ebc. com. br/ justica/ noticia/ 2018- 07/ eike- batista- e- condenado- 30- anos- por- corrupcao- e- lavagem- de- dinheiro forbes. ]com. br/ last/ 2018/ 07/ eike- batista- e- condenado- a- 30- anos- de- prisao- em- desdobramento- da- lava- jato/ Eike Batista and his associates have long managed their businesses through offshore companies. Not counting the firms set up in Brazil and Chile, between 1989 and 2007 alone they established at least 22 of these companies: 16 in the British Virgin Islands and the rest in the Bahamas, Panama, Niue and Samoa. [https://
offshoreleaks. ]icij. org/ nodes/ 11003409 Following the failure of the Castilla Thermoelectric Plant, a change in strategy is now evident, with a push to pursue a megaproject in Chile. [https://
olca. ] This time, operators are involved, acting directly from tax havens and within US tribal corporations, such as Todd Callender, Nicholas Winters, and Gregory Stephen Arnold. This is accompanied by the promise of advantages that include "efficiencies and protections that surpass those of jurisdictions facing restrictions imposed" by regulations against white-collar crime.cl/ articulo/ nota. php? id=102712
Modoc Nation is an Indian nation in Oklahoma with a few hundred
members. The address of Callender's company Rf Defense Technologies is
located within a small area which contains the headquarters of the Modoc
tribe and a few other Indian tribes, and which also includes a casino, a
daycare center, and a tobacco shop. [https://
The Spanish article continues:
According to its website, the Modoc Nation operates several businesses in areas such as Information Technology, Construction, Aviation, Gaming, Payment Solutions, Marketing/Media, and Healthcare Management. [https://
modocnation. ] In the "Gaming" sector, its casino, The Stables, is a prominent feature. [https://com/ history/ gamboool. ] And in "Payment Solutions," its involvement in fraudulent loan schemes.com/ casinos/ oklahoma/ the- stables- casino- miami Along with the Miami Tribal Corporation of Oklahoma and the Santee Sioux Corporation of Nebraska, the Modoc Nation became involved with lender and former race car driver Scott Tucker and his attorney, Timothy Muir, in a payday loan operation (small, short-term, high-interest, unsecured loans) that was presented as tribal-controlled. This was a setup, taking advantage of legal provisions favorable to tribal businesses known as "tribal leasing." In this instance, the State sued those responsible in 2016.
In part of the case, titled "United States of America v. Scott Tucker and Timothy Muir" - Conspiracy to Collect Unlawful Debts, it is stated that until 2013, the defendants Tucker and Muir "systematically exploited more than four and a half million workers across the United States who were struggling to pay for basic living expenses, including food and housing." According to the same document, from approximately 2003 to 2012, the lenders generated more than $2 billion in revenue, of which Tucker received hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. [https://
www. , https://courtlistener. com/ docket/ 4356585/ united- states- v- tucker/ archive. ]org/ download/ 000566_ 202101/ 000566_ text.
Next the Spanish article says:
As mentioned, St Matthew Assurance Limited (SMA) transferred from the Modoc Nation to the Chiricahua Apache Mimbres Band Nation (CAMB) in 2023 and continues to operate under insurance legislation adopted through the CAMB legislative process.
The CAMB states on its website that it wholly owns only two insurance companies, Mangus Lloyd's Assurance Ltd and Tribal Re. [https://
www. ] However, according to the Tribal Association of Insurance Commissioners Global Inc. (TAIC), the CAMB owns 100% of the following three insurance companies: Mangus Lloyd's Assurance, Ltd, St Matthew Assurance Ltd (SMA), and Tribal Re. Here, the CAMB assumes ownership of SMA.cambnation. org/ insurance. html The CAMB is a member of the TAIC with TAIC registration number TG803-803-21-1, with the website www.cambnation.com and telephone number 509-212-5311 (the same telephone number as the TAIC). [https://
taic. ]online/ members
The website of CAMB Nation contains 5 pages, one of which is about
insurance services and products: [https://
The Spanish article continues:
The CAMB's board lists Devorah Whitehorse Jensen as Principal Tribal Chief and Gregory S. Redfeather Arnold (also known as Goyónimo Redfeather, Gregory Stephen Arnold, and Gregory S. Arnold) as Attorney General and Commissioner of Financial Services. Arnold states on LinkedIn that he has been on a temporary contract with the CAMB since February 2021 and has performed a number of advocacy tasks in Indian tribal courts and U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) tribunals. [https://
www. , https://cambnation. org/ government. html www. ]linkedin. com/ in/ goy% C3% B3nimo- redfeather- 6a99ba1b3/ In addition to his work for the CAMB, Gregory Stephen Arnold is the founder, Secretary, and General Counsel of the TAIC; founder and private attorney of Private Advocates Tribal Law PLLC; a consultant at Tex Lex Inc.; a member of the Tribal Advocates National Bar Association Inc.; and Secretary, Claims Counsel, General Counsel, and Director of First Sovereign Lloyd's Trust & Guarantee Limited, the firm to which the CAMB pays an annual fee of $50 to maintain its certificate of authority to conduct transactions in the insurance industry. All of these firms share the same contact number: 509-212-5311. {Footnote: Gregory Stephen Arnold manages tribal and other corporate matters from the following companies: Tribal Association of Insurance Commissioners Global Inc (TAIC) (https://
taic. ); Chiricahua Apache Mimbres Band Nation (CAMB) (https://online www. ); Private Advocates Tribal Law PLLC (https://cambnation. org/ government. html privateadvocates. ); Tex Lex Inc (https://com/ texaslexas. ); Tribal Advocates National Bar Association Inc (https://com/ www. ); First Sovereign Lloyd's Trust & Guarantee Limited (https://tanbar. org/ about- tanbar firstsovereign. ) and maintains the following LinkedIn accounts: https://org/ www. https://linkedin. com/ in/ goy% C3% B3nimo- redfeather- 6a99ba1b3/ www. and https://linkedin. com/ in/ gregory- s- arnold- 507089318/ www. }linkedin. com/ feed/ update/ urn: li: activity: 7265100352989843457/? originTrackingId=HzfcKw% 2FdAr% 2B4pHZDQCZgQQ% 3D% 3D The CAMB is not listed in the federally recognized tribal registry maintained by the BIA. The BIA database contains information on 587 tribes, as of August 28, 2025. The system has detailed information in 47 data fields for each tribe, including its territorial coordinates. There are seven Apache tribes currently registered in the BIA, including one Chiricahua Apache tribe that is not the CAMB. [https://
www. ]bia. gov/ bia
This is Goyónimo Redfeather, who is the attorney general and
insurance guru at the Chiricahua Apache Mimbres Band, and who according
to his LinkedIn profile has been admitted to the bar associations of 18
different Indian tribes: [https://
One of Goyónimo Redfeather's insurance companies has this e-commerce
website where you can conveniently purchase various insurance products:
[https://
Out of the three insurance companies owned by CAMB according to TAIC,
the company that owns COPIAPORT-E Operaciones Marítimas SpA is
St. Matthew Assurance Ltd. Their website doesn't have any products
listed in an e-commerce format, but the website says that their "policies do not have a cash value" and that "we do not actively seek out new business
opportunities": [https://
The website also says: "In 2023, SMA moved to the
Chiricahhua Apache Nation (CAMB) and
continues to operate under modern insurance legislation adopted through
the CAMB legislative process. This positions SMA within the growing
segment of the CAMB economy, benefiting from the CAMB Nation's sovereign
status and protections provided by US domestic and International Law,
such as the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People. These
advantages include efficiencies and protections that surpass those of
jurisdictions facing constraints imposed by Common Reporting Standards
and the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act." [https://
The Spanish article also pointed out that the managing director of Copiaport-E is Nicholas Winters (who is a vice president of Vision Consultancy Services whose directors included Todd Callender):
The current Managing Director of Copiaport-E is Nicholas Winters, who has also been the Chief Operating Officer of the Barbados-based Cotswold Group of Companies since 2017. [https://
www. ] Nicholas Winters also presents himself as a consultant and Vice President of Operations at Vision Consultancy Services Ltd, based in the Bahamas. He has also been the owner and director of Oasis Bahamas Ltd and the Office and Operations Manager of Phillips Sailmakers and Awning Manufacture, both domiciled in the Bahamas. [https://haciendacastilla. net/ leadership www. ] The promotion of the Copiaport-E mega-project is being carried out by Todd Callender, Chief Executive Officer of the Cotswold Group of Companies, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in 1998 and now domiciled in Barbados.linkedin. com/ in/ nicholas- w- 3aa630121/
There were only 4 tweets that matched the search phrase
copiaport callender, which all linked to a video Callender
did with Epoch Times in 2025. The description of the video said this in
Spanish: [https://
Chile is about to change global trade... and hardly anyone is talking about it. A mega-port, billions of dollars, and a geopolitical move that could defeat the Panama Canal. In this EXCLUSIVE interview on Líderes del Mundo Hispano, Todd Callender reveals what's happening behind the scenes with Copiaport, the project that could turn Chile into the new logistics hub of the South Pacific and transform all of South America.
- Official permits already approved
- Sovereign wealth funds and unlimited capital entering the project
- Strategic connection with the Brazil-Argentina-Chile bi-oceanic railway
- A city for 100,000 people + its own airport An investment of nearly 9 billion dollars
Following the change of government, far from chaos, investment accelerated. Governments, global investors, and strategic funds are betting on Chile as the new economic standard for the region.
Callender also discussed Copiaport-E in 2025 with Jerome Corsi. [https://
Then Callender said: "I've had many conversations with people in the U.S. Navy who spent a lot of time in that region for reasons I don't fully understand. Antarctica is a huge national security interest for our DOD, and they're patrolling those waters down there, looking for some place that might be usable for them to refuel, resupply, things of that nature in South America. And so we've had a lot of discussions about it with people in the Trump administration, prior and to some extent now. And at the same time, other nations recognize its value as well. So it's not an unknown quantity. That property and that peninsula were actually early identified by the Chinese, way back at the start of their Belt and Road Initiative - as I understand it from people in the World Bank - that our peninsula was actually designated as their landing zone in South America, and of course they've performed on that promise in many respects."
Then Corsi said that China had a memorandum of understanding to buy the port from Callender's company, but it was important to not let the port fall in the hands of China. At time 11:03, Callender said: "China can get those cargo - these Chinamax ships - cargo ships into Copiaport-E, but they can't get them into the port in Peru. And they can't get them into any ports on the eastern side. They can't get them through the Panama Canal. And if they can get them into Copiaport-E, they can save 15 days sailing time and improve the efficiency of getting their food from Argentina by 800% minimum."
At time 20:30, Callender seems to have suggested that he was a member of an indigenous tribe (or I don't know if he meant that he represented the tribe even though he was not its member): "They had to go and have discussions and ensure that they were happy with what was happening in their former territorial lands as indigenous - and we've had discussions between our tribe and them. We're all indigenous. We're all in agreement. This is good for everybody. That was the last thing. That was the last part of our application to Chilean regulators, and it came back positive."
The website of Callender's group looks ultra-shady, and it doesn't
list the name of any person associated with the group: [http://
The website says "Disability, Critical Illness
and other morbidity risks were and remain our focus with world-wide
coverage with incidental qualified death benefits available." It
seems like a weird description for a company that supposedly owns the
largest private estate in Chile that has great geostrategic importance.
At first I thought the text might have just been random mumbo jumbo
generated by AI, but then I noticed that similar text was included in
Callender's bio for his PLLC Disabled Rights Advocates: "Todd Callender has worked in the disability, health and
life insurance industry for more than 20 years and focuses on the
international convergence of biomedical, morbidity and mortality risks
in the global legal context." [https://
Another somewhat more credible-looking website says that the land in
Chile is owned by a "tribal insurance
company" called St Matthew Assurance Ltd: [https://
Since July 2019, St Matthew Assurance Ltd (SMA) is the owner of Hacienda Castilla & COPIAPORT-E Operaciones Marítimas SpA.
St. Matthew Assurance Limited (SMA) is a Tribal Insurance Company originally organized and licensed under the laws of the Modoc Nation.
In 2023, SMA moved to the Chiricahhua Apache Nation (CAMB) and continues to operate under modern insurance legislation adopted through the CAMB legislative process. This positions SMA within the growing segment of the CAMB economy, benefiting from the CAMB Nation's sovereign status and protections provided by US domestic and International Law, such as the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People. These advantages include efficiencies and protections that surpass those of jurisdictions facing constraints imposed by Common Reporting Standards and the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act.
Jerome Corsi wrote: "A group of three holding
companies and one operating company (three Chilean
and one Panama organized) own approximately 850 square miles
(220,000) hectares of real estate on which
the port will be developed, including all rights to intellectual
property, programs, contracts, use and regulatory licenses, and trade
secrets. St. Matthew Assurance Ltd., a part of the Cotswold Group of
Companies, has established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chinese Representatives to purchase
equity and the rights to develop the CopiaPort-E Super Port project.
St. Matthew Assurance Company, the ultimate owner, is an insurance
company owned, organized, and operating under the laws of the Chiricahua
Apache (CAMB) Nation and is benefiting from
the CAMB Nation's sovereign Indigenous status and protections provided
by the U.S. domestic and international law, including the Declaration on
Rights of Indigenous Peoples." [https://
Corsi also wrote: "Chile is currently the world's largest producer and exporter of copper and boasts an enormous, newly discovered Lithium deposit in the same area as the port. On April 7, 2025, Reuters reported that as Chile revs up lithium plans, Indigenous people demand more control to ensure environmental concerns, including water supply safeguards, are respected. The involvement of the indigenous tribes in lithium production is another reason Chile can promote CopiaPort-E as an 'ECO-port' designed to ensure the Atacama Region's development respects international treaties on indigenous rights." So maybe that's why Corsi's people are making it seem like the Copiaport-E project is operated by Indians like Goyónimo Redfeather (apart from the additional bonus of legal benefits and tax benefits available to indigenous people).
In another interview about Copiaport-E with Corsi, Callendar said:
"My role is Chief Executive Officer of an insurance
group. And we deploy insurance reserves and investments in order to make
claims - to make payments on claims into the future. We invest in all
the kinds of things all over the planet. We had an opportunity to
acquire this piece of property. It's called Hacienda de Castilla. I
think we bought it something like 7 or 8 years ago. It's a great giant
piece of property, 150 square miles of it, in the Atacama region of
Chile. And the person we bought it from, unfortunately, went into a
bankruptcy situation." [https://
At time 8:53 Corsi said that the Cotswold Group had ownership of the property through "an insurance entity that's partly indigenous-owned". And then Callender said: "It's a group of 7 different insurance companies. And this particular investment is ultimately held by the Chiricahua Apache Nation, as the shareholders of that insurance entity that owns all of this property. And it's very interesting to watch the play between the local indigenous and Chile, and of course our indigenous owners." At time 10:06 Callender said: "And the last - the last burden, the last regulatory hurdle in this application process - was an indigenous consultation. We had to talk with the other indigenous - the other Indians in the area. Of course, coming from an indigenous company, that was a really a joy to do. But, um, but Chile respects the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Persons, otherwise known as the UNDRIP. They made efforts to actually put that into pieces of law and Chile, so it's actually really beneficial to both them and to us. And of course we love the fact that indigenous rights are growing around the world."
At time 33:12, Callender said about China buying up third world countries that "It looks a lot like what I was doing in the early days in Eastern Europe. I lived in Poland, undoing the Soviet-model economy, and it was almost predatory watching all these countries coming in and buying up the former Soviet assets."
In 2024 in an email to the Substack author Robert Yoho, Callender
wrote: "[I live in the]
Bahamas. I was the first and only American allowed to go into and do
business with Cuba in the 1990s (1996-2000).
Cuba remains an enemy nation, and in those days, the restrictions were
absolutely complete - no commerce, no travel, no money, etc. I learned a
great deal about the vaccine business while there because I was
overseeing clinical field trials of my family's needle-free injector
(for mass vaccinations) - it's why I sued the
DOD. We had tested mRNA technology for 20 years, and the test animals
died in every case. I tried to warn anyone and everyone in gov't that
the covid shots were poison, and no one wanted to hear me - because they
planned to poison everyone. Such was my launch into the Truther
Movement." [https://
I hadn't earlier heard that Callender personally oversaw clinical trials for the injector technology, or that he personally was the only American who was allowed to do business in Cuba. But he probably lied when he said that his experience with his family company led him to sue the DOD, and that the animals given mRNA vaccines died in every case.
At time 3:17 in the interview embedded in the Substack post, Callender said: "Yeah, so my journey - as it relates to the vaccine business, because I came from that business - was my family owned a needle-free mass vaccination injector - I spent three years in Cuba, an enemy nation, doing clinical trials. And because it was an enemy nation, the WHO wasn't there, Pfizer wasn't there. In fact, I was the only American there for 3 years. So I was very well placed in the Cuban government. There were moves from the US Congress to try and liberate some commerce to go with them. And I was the guy that led the way. My point in saying that is that I invited and brought both Pfizer and the WHO and others into Cuba. So I actually know these people. 20 years goes by. My sister and mom had been running the company for those 20 years. But I was able to watch the clinical trials that had happened with what they call collaborations with various experimental shots, including mRNA. And for the 20 years that we were watching these mRNA shots get tested, all the test animals died."
At time 38:40, the interviewer said: "So your family has lived in the Bahamas. That's your history with the Bahamas, right?" Then Callender said: "No, no, no, not at all. I landed here because the only way for me to get medical supplies into Cuba - again, an enemy nation, I was the only American there for three years - was to fly my own airplane in and bring the cargo with me. Commuting from Colorado in a little twin engine airplane with medical supplies was not very realistic. So I kept an apartment here and I would fly to and from Cuba because my license from the US government would not allow me to reside in Cuba. So I spent half time there, half time here. And at the end of the field trial, I met my Bahamian wife and I stayed."
At time 50:36 Callender said: "I used to be an executive director of a bank called Ansbacher that Qatar National Bank bought."
I don't know if he was the main executive director of the bank or one of many executive directors, or if he was an executive director of the Bahamas branch of the bank or the main UK branch, because I didn't find him listed as an executive director of any branch of the bank. But I think he was probably one of the executive directors of the Bahamas branch along with Ian Towell, who was also a managing director of the Cotswold Group.
In the Paradise Papers which is a collection of leaked files from
various sources, there are multiple entries for Ansbacher Bahamas. One
entry has three registered officers, which are not persons but limited
liability companies called "Ansbacher (Bahamas) Limited", "Baird One Limited Registered", and "Boyne Limited". [https://
There is also a second entry for Peter Nygard, where his only
connection is that he is listed as the director of "Nygard International (Barbados) Ltd.", whose two other directors
are Kirk Cyrus and Ricardo Knight. [https://
Someone from the US SEC said that Cotswold Insurance Barbados was
"an entity that upon information and belief is
effectively controlled by Callender". [https://
Peter J. Nygard is a Canadian fashion mogul who became known as the Canadian Hugh Hefner because of his extravagant lifestyle. He moved to the Bahamas in the 80s, where he built a huge estate where he hosted guests like George H. W. Bush and Michael Jackson.
A lawsuit against against Nygard in 2020 said: [https://
Nygard, using the Nygard Companies' resources, engaged in a pattern and practice of recruiting, luring, enticing, and obtaining underaged girls and women, and causing them through force, fraud or coercion, or knowing that the victim had not yet attained the age of eighteen years, to engage in commercial sex acts through, among other means, promising lucrative modeling opportunities, providing cash payments, drugging his victims, confiscating his victims' passports preventing his victims from exiting the Nygard Cay property in the Bahamas and properties in the United States, threatening victims with physical violence, and using physical force against them.
[...]
Nygard kept a database of potential victims that was maintained by the Nygard Companies' corporate information technology ("IT") department on the corporate server (mostly maintained in the United States). By the mid-2000s, this database was confirmed to have contained information on over 7,500 underage girls and women.
[...]
Nygard used his financial resources, influence, power in the Bahamas, and psychological manipulation to intimidate his victims and to ensure that his crimes were not reported. Those of his "girlfriends" who tried to leave him were harassed and threatened by Bahamian police who were on Nygard's payroll (and who were paid with Nygard Companies' United States currency).
Nygard made a concentrated and deliberate effort to protect and conceal his criminal activities. Specifically, Nygard initiated a scheme to purchase police protection and political cover in the Bahamas by making regular payments of tens of thousands of dollars to law enforcement, government officials, regulators, and even to a former Cabinet Minister who became the Prime Minister of the Bahamas. This scheme was so successful that victims who escaped Nygard Cay were often brought back to the Cay by the Bahamian police.
In an effort to reinforce fear, control, and dominance over his victims, Nygard regularly flaunted his political power to control the Bahamian police and the Bahamian government by inviting and parading government officials at his Nygard Cay property and in front of Nygard's victims.
In 2024 Peter Nygard was sentenced to 11 years in prison for 4 counts of sexual assault in Canada, even though his youngest victim was 16 years old which is not underage in Canada or the Bahamas.
In 2009 Nygard formed a stem cell company called Nygard Biotech, and
he initiated legislation which made stem cell research and treatment
legal in the Bahamas. [https://
One of the entries for Ansbacher Bahamas in the Paradise Papers has
two linked entities, which are the shareholder "Dunmore Properties Limited" and the beneficial
owner "Red Car Company Limited". [https://
John Furze was the head of the Cayman branch of the Ansbacher bank. He was the financial manager of Charles Haughey, who was appointed 4 times as the prime minister of Ireland, and who despite a modest salary was noted for his lavish lifestyle, which included his own mansion, yacht, race horses, and a private island. In 1997 Charles Haughey admitted he had received 1.3 million pounds from John Furze, and two weeks later Furze was reported to have died of a heart attack at age 55. At the time Ansbacher was under investigation by an Irish tribunal which sought to compel Furze to reveal details of Ansbacher's offshore accounts.
An article published after Furze's death said: [https://
In 1988, Guinness Mahon Cayman Trust, which by then employed 35 people, was bought by Henry Ansbacher Holdings Ltd. The bank's name was changed to Ansbacher Ltd.
According to evidence heard by the tribunal in London, before the sale the bank had been sold by Guinness Mahon to the people who had basically established it: Mr Furze, Mr Collins and Mr Traynor.
A share was also held by Mr Hugh Hart, a Jamaican national who is an ex-minister of tourism and is chairman of Ansbacher Cayman. The four men sold a 75 per cent shareholding for around £6 million to Ansbacher. They retained 25 per cent for themselves before also selling that to Ansbacher. The bulk of the bank's business was with what the new parent company referred to as "the Irish accounts".
In 1989, Ansbacher bought Cayman International Trust Company and Mr Furze continued as joint managing director of the joint entity. But change was on its way. In its London hearings, the tribunal was told that Ansbacher Holdings was concerned about the "Irish accounts" the Cayman bank was holding. (These are what we now know as the Ansbacher Deposits.)
An investigation was launched. An executive subsequently described the difficulties as a clash of cultures, saying Ansbacher was a "bureaucratic" bank, whereas the Cayman operation was an "entrepreneurial" bank. Ansbacher decided to impose a single bureaucratic culture throughout its holdings.
It was around this time that Mr Furze is known to have moved Irish accounts to a fund management company called Hamilton Ross which he controlled.
This company took over accounts, including Mr Haughey's, from Ansbacher, and moved monies from Ansbacher to open its own accounts in the Irish Intercontinental Bank in Dublin. Presumably, the move allowed Mr Furze the freedom to continue working with his Irish clients in the personal, secretive and almost informal way he had established during the Guinness & Mahon period.
It was money from the Ansbacher and later the Hamilton Ross accounts which supplied the money which in turn paid Mr Haughey's living expenses of around £300,000 per year. Mr Furze managed the accounts; it is not clear who will or has already taken them over.
The same article said:
In 1988/89, Mr Furze was district governor for Rotary International District 404, a position which involved him having to visit every club on all the 13 Caribbean islands which make up the district. All this charitable work was done in time snatched from his busy work schedule.
Mr Furze was also "an active and outstanding Freemason" who joined the Cayman Lodge No 8153 in June 1982, and served as master of the lodge in 1990, according to Mr Balls. Another colleague says Mr Furze would sometimes spend three to four evenings a week with the local lodge.
Pressed as to what he would be doing, the source says he would at times practise for the rituals involved in initiating new members or bringing members to higher levels. Mr Furze was good at remembering the words and movements and timings involved.
The article also said: "Mr Peter Balls, a former
banker and, like Mr Benjamin, a fellow Freemason of Mr Furze, says
simply: 'John Andrew Furze was a great
man.'" Peter Balls was part of a group of 3 people who
traveled from Jamaica to Caymans to form the Lions Club of Grand Cayman.
[https://
Ansbacher Cayman was originally known as Guinness Mahon Cayman Trust,
which was established in 1970 by Des Traynor, who later became a
co-managing director of the Guinness Mahon bank. Guinness Mahon's
chairman was James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness, whose daughter
Sabrina dated King Charles and Mick Jagger. Epstein called her an "old buddy": [https://
Jeffrey Epstein described Anglo-Irish banking heiress Sabrina Guinness as one of his "old buddies" ahead of a dinner in London in January 2017.
Guinness comes from the banking line of the family and her father was James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness, former chairman of Guinness Mahon Holdings - the merchant bank that compromised hundreds of Irish elites with offshore Ansbacher accounts.
[...]
Epstein, considering the guestlist, replied, "Fiona golfar. sabrina guiness. Jessica rothschild. andre belagz, stan bucky bucktahl. what a collection all old buddies".
[...]
Guinness Mahon's Irish operation facilitated illegal offshore Cayman Islands bank accounts for the state's political and social hierarchy. "The world's sleaziest bank," the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which the CIA used to transfer funds during the Iran-Contra affair and for other covert operations, had offices registered in the Guinness Mahon Building in Grand Cayman.
Under the scheme clients would deposit funds into a bank in the west Caribbean territory, allowing them to avoid tax and access the funds in Ireland through Guinness Mahon. The scheme left participants - Irish elites - deeply exposed.
Sabrina Guinness's sister married Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, who
was a son of Victor Rothschild, the 3rd Baron Rothschild. [https://
In the Paradise Papers, one of the entries for Ansbacher Bahamas is
the owner of Red Car Company, which is a shareholder of two companies
called Overseas Limited and Ark Limited, which are both shareholders of
companies linked to John Issa and SuperClubs. [https://
Ark Limited is linked to 18 companies that all appear to be connected
to John Issa. One of them is Kids Limited, whose shareholders include
Arthur Hunter and Ian Boxall: [https://
Ian Boxall is also listed as a shareholder of many other companies
connected to Ansbacher and John Issa. [https://
Appleby Cayman's Managing Partner, Norman Klein, gave a speech that recalled the firm's long history in the islands. Its origin in Cayman can be traced back to when Clifton Hunter began practising as a law agent in 1945. His son, Arthur Hunter, later became the first Caymanian to be academically qualified as an attorney, and he joined his father's legal practice to form Hunter & Hunter in 1965.
Klein noted that a key moment in the nascent firm's development came in 1969 when Ian Boxall, a newly arrived British solicitor, joined as an associate before becoming partner in 1972. Together they were involved in key legal projects, such as marking out Cayman's existing pattern of land ownership in a cadastral system, that helped underpin the jurisdiction's subsequent economic boom. They were part of "a small group of visionaries - attorneys and government officials - who are widely credited with establishing Cayman as an offshore financial centre," said Klein.
An article from 2018 said: "Mr. Hunter has been
an active member of many local civic organizations most notably the
Rotary Club of Grand Cayman of which he is a Past President."
[https://
A US senate report on BCCI said: "Initially, BCCI
was incorporated in one location only, Luxembourg. Two years later, a
holding company was created, BCCI Holdings, with the bank underneath it
BCC S.A., split into two parts, BCCI S.A., with head offices in
Luxembourg, and BCCI Overseas, with head offices in Grand Cayman.
Luxembourg was used mostly for BCCI's European and Middle East
locations, and the Grand Caymans mostly for Third World
Countries." [https://
David Livingstone wrote: "Casey had wanted to
establish an offshore entity capable of conducting covert operations
that was 'stand-alone,' financially
independent, and free from congressional oversight. Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) was the
solution.[46] BCCI was the first Third World
multinational bank, which was created in 1972 by Pakistani banker Agha
Hasan Abedi, a member of the 1001 Club.[47]
Newsweek later reported, however, that CIA officials appeared to have
been involved in the bank's founding and that Abedi had been encouraged
to found the bank after 'the agency realized that an
international bank could provide valuable cover for intelligence
operations.'[48]" [https://
A book about BCCI said: [https://
The worst of the account manipulation surrounded the bank's worst loans, according to the audit, and almost all of that manipulation was booked through ICIC in its impenetrable haven of the Cayman Islands.
Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi had discovered the Caymans back in the middle 1970s. By 1976 they had set up an offshore system that cloaked them in a virtually impenetrable veil of secrecy, both in their movements of money inside the bank and in the ownership of BCCI and its subsidiaries. That was the year they incorporated ICIC(Overseas), which consisted of three Caymanian entities - the BCC Foundation, the ICIC Staff Benefit Trust, and ICIC Business Promotions and which owned some 41 percent of BCCI itself. It was here, within the untraceable labyrinth of shares and accounts, that the dirtiest of BCCI's financial dealings took place.
The book also said: "All of the worst
manipulations were booked through opaque havens like Luxembourg and the
Cayman Islands. BCCI actually did have two buildings in the Caymans, in
which several dozen people worked." A Washington Post article
said: "The two buildings stand more than a
quarter-mile apart, separated by narrow Caribbean streets, and seem to
bear no relationship: One is a stately, colonial-style structure and
serves as the headquarters here for the worldwide Bank of Credit and
Commerce International (BCCI) Overseas
Ltd. The other is modern and nondescript, with the unimposing logo 'ICIC House.'" [https://
However I found a brochure that listed contact information for BCCI's
various branches, affiliates, and subsidiaries. There are two addresses
located in the Caymans: "Bank of Credit and Commerce
International (Overseas) Limited" at
Guinness Mahon Building and "Credit and Finance
Corporation Limited" at Genesis Building: [https://
The firm that designed the Genesis Building in 1986 listed the client
of the project as Genesis Ltd. [https://
The US congress report on BCCI says: "Both
Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar banked at BCCI's offices in Monte Carlo, and
for both, BCCI's services were essential as a means of providing
short-term credit for sales of arms from the U.S. through Israel to
Iran. Khashoggi's use of BCCI for the Iranian arms sales was first
described, in passing, in an Iran/Contra committee deposition on June 8,
1987, describing the movement of $10 million from Credit Swisse which
would to through BCCI four times to produce $40 million of sales 'and therefore, additional profit.'" [https://
Todd Callender's sister was the vice president of Enterprise
Investors, whose vice chairman was the principal of Intellibridge, and
the CEO and chair of Intellibridge was David Rothkopf, who was the
managing director of Kissinger Associates. So it's interesting that the
US congress report on BCCI has an entire chapter about Kissinger
Associates. [https://
Lucy Komisar is a conspiracy researcher specialized in offshore
banking. In a book chapter about BCCI, she wrote: "Abedi moved BCCI's headquarters to London in 1976, but
the bank actually operated through a network of offshore centers,
especially Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, as well as in Lebanon,
Dubai, Sharjah, and Abu Dhabi, the last three part of the United Arab
Emirates." [https://
Komisar wrote about BCCI: "Bribes to central bankers and finance ministry officials bought it central bank deposits, or sometimes the right to handle a country's use of U.S. commodity credits, or special treatment on processing money transiting a country with monetary controls, or the right to own a bank in a country where foreigners were not allowed to do so." So it's interesting that Genesis Medical Technologies similarly received a special permission to do business in Cuba.
Komisar wrote: "The Abu Dhabi princes also enjoyed the favors provided by BCCI's 'special protocol department,' which, according to the later investigation by Senator John Kerry, provided big investors with prostitutes, especially teenage virgins." It might tie in to Ansbacher's connection to Peter Nygard.
In the Offshore Leaks database, "COTSWOLD
CORPORATE SERVICES LTD." has 6 linked entities: "International Vehicle Solutions Ltd", "TOYA JOKER FINANCE LIMITED", "VACATION BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED", "1961 COOKY INVESTMENT LTD.", "Silverstar Property Development Ltd.", and "ZAI HoldCo1 Ltd." [https://
"COTSWOLD, LTD." has only one linked
entity, which is "HOWARD LAWRENCE", who in
turn has 2831 linked entities. [https://
"COTSWOLD HOLDINGS LIMITED" has only one
linked entity called "MEESPIERSON BAHAMAS
LTD." [https://
"COTSWOLD GROUP LTD." has only one linked
entity called "COTSWOLD CORPORATE SERVICES
LIMITED", which in turn has 249 linked entities. [https://
"Silverstar Property Development Ltd." has
3 linked entities, which are "Cotswold Insurance
(Barbados) Limited", "Ian Towell", and "Todd
Callender". [https://
Ian Towell's LinkedIn profile says that from 2006 to the present, he
has been the CEO of Cotswold and "Director of The
Cotswold Group of Companies (www.cotswoldgroup.net) specializing in
international financial planning for HNW Individuals", and that
from 1999 to 2006 he had "Overall responsibility for
Ansbacher's Bahamian operations with regional responsibility for Private
Banking and Wealth Management": [https://
An article from 2004 said: [https://
Ansbacher (Bahamas) Limited (formerly the Bahamas International Trust Company Limited or "BITCO") is the second oldest offshore bank and trust company in The Bahamas, having been established in 1957. It offers a comprehensive range of wealth management services that include Private Banking, Fiduciary and Investment Management.
Managing Director Ian Towell reports that following a recent group initiative to consolidate Caribbean Private Banking in The Bahamas, the company has a Balance Sheet in excess of $300 million and funds under administration (securities in custody and trust assets) of approximately $2 billion.
As part of an international group, Ansbacher has offices in seven jurisdictions: London, Jersey, Guernsey, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Zurich and Dubai.
A snapshot of Cotswold's website from 2007 says: [https://
Cotswold Insurance Limited ("The Company") was originally organized and licensed in the British Virgin Islands in 1997 with an unrestricted insurance license. In December of 2005, the Company was continued to Anguilla, British West Indies, where it continues to have the same licensure. The Company was created for the purpose of providing Variable Universal Life and Property & Casualty policies to persons seeking asset protection, tax efficiency and legacy planning. The Company continues to provide these services today.
With the restrictions on international private banking coming into effect from the Basel II Accords in Europe, the European Tax Savings Directive and the US Patriot Act, The Company has more recently focused its attention towards the financial institutional market, providing a wide range of sophisticated products tailored to ease the confines of the so called "Controlled Foreign Corporation" rules, which nearly every industrialized nation have adopted. Further, The Company also specializes in exotic securitizations and structured finance.
The snapshot from 2007 also says that "The Group
currently administers assets in excess of 5 billion US Dollars".
[https://
At the Paradise Papers, "COTSWOLD INSURANCE (BARBADOS) LIMITED" has 8 directors: Hywel
Jones, Ian Hutchinson, Christopher Towner, Kirk Cyrus, Alice Austin,
Todd Callender, Ricardo Knight, and Ian Towell. [https://
Ricardo Knight was the president of Towner Management Group. [https://
Hywel Jones was assassinated by a gunman in 2009. He was the director
of The Bankers Association of The Bahamas and The Bahamas Institute of
Bankers. [http://
In 2013 David Marchant from OffshoreAlert hosted a video video where
he discussed the Hywel Jones case with Hywel's brother. Marchant wrote:
"In 2009, offshore businessman Hywel Jones was shot
and killed outside his office in the Bahamas. At the time, he was
involved in a dispute with his former business partner, Lester
Turnquest, whom Jones had accused in a civil lawsuit of defrauding $20
million from a Canadian client. In the months preceding his death, Jones
had been viciously assaulted by intruders at his home, with the evidence
indicating that a Bahamas policeman was involved. Three years later,
no-one has been convicted in connection with the murder and although
Turnquest was arrested - and released - in late 2009 in connection with
the alleged $20 million fraud, he has not been charged with any
crime." [https://
The Callenders & Co. law firm consists of two branches which are
both in the Bahamas. [https://
In the Paradise Papers, Todd S. Callender is listed as a director of
the companies Brighton Preferred Equity Investments, Cotswold Insurance
(Barbados), Globex Group Services, Hannover
International Business Fund, Livingstone Reinsurance, Magellan
Providers, Markington Holdings, Nexe Pro (Barbados), Standard Asset Management, and Tiberon
Capital Partners. [https://
In the same way that Todd Callender and Ian Towell worked at both
Ansbacher and Cotswold, Endric Deleveaux was also the "Head of Fiduciary Operations" at Ansbacher Bahamas
and the "Head of Fiduciary & Risk" at the
Cotswold Group. [https://
Ian Towell's current position at LinkedIn is listed as executive
chairman of Magellan Financial Ltd, but in the Paradise Papers, Todd
Callender is also listed as a director of Magellan Providers. [https://
Many corporations related to Ansbacher Bahamas are linked to Ark
Limited. [https://
Ansbacher Bahamas set up Ark Limited as a trust for David Walsh, his
wife, and the wife's brother. Ark Limited was the only shareholder of
companies called Hearn Ltd. and Balogh Investments Ltd., which were
administered by Ansbacher Bahamas and which held about 15 million USD
worth of assets from David Walsh and his wife: [https://
David Walsh was the founder of the Bre-X mining company, which
orchestrated one of the most famous cases of corporate fraud in history.
[https://
The blame for spiking the tests was laid on the Filipino geologist
Michael de Guzman, who reportedly died of a suicide by jumping off a
helicopter. When his body was found in the jungle 4 days later, the body
was supposedly eaten by animals so hands and feet were missing and
facial features could not be discerned. Before the body was found, a
corpse was reported to have disappeared from a nearby morgue. A BBC
article about the case said: "De Guzman's wife Genie
also says the teeth were intact on the body that was found, and yet her
husband had false teeth." [https://
Before the Bre-X stock became worthless, David Walsh sold about 100
million CAD worth of the stock and fled to the Bahamas, where after a
few months he is supposed to have died of a stroke at age 52, before
criminal charges could be brought against him. The only executive of
Bre-X who was prosecuted was the chief geologist John Felderhof, who
sold about 84 million CAD worth of Bre-X stock before the crash, who was
charged with insider trading and authorizing press releases with false
statements about the size of the gold reserves. [https://
In 1996 before the fraud had been revealed, Indonesia's president Suharto muscled in a cut from the mining operation of Bre-X, but Bre-X was such a small company that Suharto pressured them to partner with Adnan Khashoggi's company Barrick Gold, which had better resoures to develop the mining operation. The head of Barrick's international advisory board was George H. W. Bush, who traveled to Indonesia to meet with Suharto, and Bush promised lucrative infrastructure contracts to a company owned by Suharto's daughter. In the end the partnership deal was instead given to the mining company Freeport-McMoRan. Their board of directors included Henry Kissinger and James Stapleton Roy, who was the US ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Bre-X deal, and who later became the vice president of Kissinger Associates. Kissinger Associates also performed consulting and lobbying work for Freeport-McMoRan. Grok said: "The consulting work heavily centered on advising Freeport on dealings with foreign governments, especially Indonesia, where Freeport operates the massive Grasberg copper-gold mine in Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). Kissinger's firm leveraged his and associates' diplomatic networks (including Roy's prior ambassadorship to Indonesia from 1996-1999) for strategic guidance, contract negotiations, and lobbying-like efforts to protect or extend mining concessions."
I have a hard time believing that Suharto, Khashoggi, Bush, and Kissinger would've all been dumb enough to fall for the scheme by Bre-X. So one or more of them may have somehow been complicit in the scheme. Khashoggi, Bush, and Kissinger were all key players in BCCI, and David Walsh stored his assets at the Ansbacher bank, whose building at the Caymans housed the offshore headquarters of BCCI.
Anton Chaitkin wrote about Barrick Gold in the EIR magazine in 1997:
[https://
The Canada-based Barrick is Bush's only known current business enterprise. The company, which Bush now personally leads, was created by Bush's political partners - British elite narcotics financiers, and arms traffickers and money launderers.
[...]
Barrick Gold was founded in Toronto, Canada, in 1983. The majority investment in the firm was held by Khashoggi and his arms-trafficking partners, who were just then gearing up the Iran-Israel-Nicaragua guns and cocaine tangle which would explode in 1986 as the "Iran-Contra" scandal. The nominal chief of Barrick Gold was Peter Munk, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who had repeatedly "died" as a businessman, only to be repeatedly revived by princes and principalities.
[...]
Peter Munk first became notorious in Canada in the late 1960s, as the beneficiary in an insider trading scandal. Munk and a partner named David Gilmour owned an audio equipment manufacturing company that had been heavily subsidized by the province of Nova Scotia. Munk and Gilmour quietly dumped 29,000 shares of Clairtone stock in 1967, just before publication of the company's financial report tipped off other investors that the company was failing. After Munk sold at $9 per share, the stock plunged to $1.
Dr. Morton Shulman, a member of the legislative assembly of the province of Ontario, asked government representatives if Munk would escape with his money and no legal consequences (see Ontario Legislative Library record of Ontario provincial parliamentary debate on June 3, 1969).
Ontario Minister of Financial and Commercial Affairs H.L. Rowntree responded that a court had been requested to order the Ontario Securities Commission "to commence an action in connection with [Munk's] Clairtone Sound Company ... for an action in the name of the company for the accounting of profits allegedly made by him by reason of the improper use of inside information."
But there was no government action, and Munk would indeed escape.
[...]
But, the mighty Lord Inchcape convinced Khashoggi to plunge in, and Khashoggi now provided most of the cash for the Munk enterprise.
Since this arrangement was sealed back in the 1970s, Munk has grown in favor as London's creature. He became a regular skiing partner of Prince Charles, who recently attended the opening of a Munk speculative real estate venture (a factory outlet mall) in Germany. Munk is a member of the elite "1001 Club," co-founded by Prince Philip, a worldwide grouping of aristocrats, bankers, and speculators who support a radical anti-industrial, "pro-environmentalist" looting strategy, and who provide a lion's share of the funding for Prince Philip's World Wildlife Fund.
The first Khashoggi-Munk-London venture was an attempt to build a 10,000-acre "jet set" resort complex immediately adjoining the Egyptian pyramids. As the scheme threatened to destroy the entire historical archeological area, it evoked mass protests, and could not be forced through. Munk sued Egypt's government, and was eventually awarded $17 million by an international referee.
Khashoggi and his associates, backers of the British and Bush-linked faction of the arms trade, created Barrick Petroleum Corp. in 1981, registered as a Delaware, U.S.A., corporation. Junior partner Munk, having returned from London, set up a parallel "Barrick Resources" in Canada. But Munk's name was anathema to Canadian investors. So, Khashoggi was brought in to lend his prestige to Munk. Khashoggi made a televised publicity tour of the Toronto stock exchange, and announced that he had purchased 10,000 (Canadian) Barrick shares. At that point, in fact, Khashoggi, his brother, and their international associates already controlled the company, partially through Khashoggi's Liechtenstein-U.S.A. conglomerate, "Triad."
Munk was now launched as a corporate chairman in Canada. But this first Barrick, an oil development firm, went bust and lost all its money.
In 1983, the Khashoggi-led group formed the gold company whose name was soon changed to Barrick Gold Corp. Sheik Kamal Adham was reportedly one of the new company's founding co-owners. Adham, the chief of Saudi intelligence, had coordinated royalist guerrillas in Yemen, with British arms secretly provided through Khashoggi.
Beginning in 1985, Khashoggi borrowed $21 million, using his Barrick stock as collateral, for the covert transfer of arms to Iran for the Bush-North group, during an official U.S. arms embargo against the Khomeini regime. Khashoggi made Donald Fraser, the Toronto-based businessman who allegedly provided the loan from his Cayman Islands company, president of Khashoggi's Triad American holding company. Khashoggi used the Monte Carlo office of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International to launder money for Iran arms sales. Barrick Gold Corp. co-founder Kamal Adham was later prosecuted for fraud in the BCCI case, and paid a $100 million fine.
Khashoggi's Saudi royal piggybanks also underwrote George Bush's Central American "Contras" adventures, making payments through the Swiss Bank Corp. and a Cayman Islands bank, totalling about $27 million.
[...]
In 1986-87, at the height of the Iran-Contra controversy, the Barrick Gold Corp. acquired the Goldstrike property in Nevada for $63 million. The land, proving to hold $10 billion in gold, was the property of the U.S. government. Bush was elected President in 1988, and his administration put through a special dispensation-applied only to the Barrick Gold Corp. - to speed up the normal procedures for a mining company to take official title ("patent") to the land. With the Bush Goldstrike intervention, Barrick Gold shot up from insignificance, to world power status, and Bush himself climbed onboard.
[...]
On Nov. 27, 1996, the French newspaper Le Monde leaked the news that Barrick had been granted a concession to prospect for gold in Zaire - a lead which prompted the present EIR Barrick investigation. Canadian newspapers that same day reported that Barrick Gold had convinced the government of Indonesia to award to Barrick control over the world's largest gold find, and that George Bush and Brian Mulroney had personally done the heavy lobbying to accomplish this.
The Indonesia deal is indeed startling. The small Canadian mining company Bre-X Minerals Ltd. had intended to develop the Busang gold mine, on East Kalimantan. Suddenly, the government announced that it demanded that Barrick Gold Corp. be cut in to a 75% ownership stake in the mine, which is estimated to hold 57 million ounces of gold, with a current estimated value over $20 billion.
There's no reference to USAID on the Wikipedia page about the
Polish-American Enterprise Fund. The successor organization of the fund
is the Polish-American Freedom Foundation (or PAFW
in Polish), but there were zero hits when I searched for
site: on Google.
However in 1999 the General Accounting Office published a report
about the fund, which said that the fund was overseen by USAID, and the
grants to the fund were authorized by USAID, and USAID was behind the
restructuring of the fund to operate more like a private corporation:
[https://
Under the SEED Act, the Polish Fund was formed in 1990 as a private, nonprofit entity. The Fund is governed by a board of directors composed of both U.S. and host country citizens. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided grants to and oversees the Fund, and the Department of State is responsible for overall coordination of U.S. assistance under the SEED Act, including the enterprise fund program. USAID has authorized $264 million in grants to the Polish Fund.
As early as 1991, USAID, State, and Fund officials began discussing altering the Polish Fund's structure. These changes involved spinning off the management of the Fund into a separate management company that would manage both the Fund's investments and those of an affiliated private fund. A vital part of the plan was to have Polish Fund employees leave their positions and become employees of the management company.
According to USAID, these changes were made to set up a structure that more closely paralleled a private-sector investment company that manages multiple investment funds. Polish Fund and USAID officials stated that this kind of structure would better attract private investors who would otherwise be reluctant to provide capital to an entity like the Polish Fund, which could have been perceived as being affiliated with the U.S. government. The changes also were intended to provide former Polish Fund employees with additional compensation incentives. Finally, according to USAID, the changes would lower the Polish Fund's management costs because management fees would be spread over two funds.
After the Polish Fund board of directors approved these changes to the Fund's structure, Enterprise Investors, L.P., was formed in 1992 to manage investments of both the Polish Fund and a new private investment fund named the Polish Private Equity Fund. The Polish Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development owned 60 percent and 40 percent, respectively, of Enterprise Investors. The Polish Private Equity Fund was capitalized at approximately $150 million - $50 million from the Polish Fund, $50 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the rest from other investors.
On September 25, 1996, USAID, with State's concurrence, approved a further elaboration of the process begun in 1992 by allowing employees of Enterprise Investors to purchase the company from the Polish Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It also approved formation of a second private fund, the Polish Enterprise Fund, L.P., capitalized at an additional $150 million. According to State, these changes were intended to (1) emphasize U.S. policy to expand trade and investment ties with Poland; (2) bring more money under Enterprise Investors' management, which would further reduce the fee charged to the Polish Fund;[5] (3) attract additional capital; and (4) increase compensation possibilities for Enterprise Investors' employees and thereby reduce the risk of loss of staff.
The employees of Enterprise Investors purchased their company, which had been renamed Enterprise Investors Corporation, on April 30, 1997. This entity currently manages the Polish Fund, the Polish Private Equity Fund, and the Polish Enterprise Fund.[6] According to the Polish Fund, the total management fees for 1998 were $7.5 million, with $1.5 million paid by the Polish Fund and the remainder paid by the two private funds.[7]
So part of the reason why Enterprise Investors was created might have been to de-emphasize the role of USAID.
In 2014 when USAID created a Twitter for Cuba to foment a color
revolution, USAID's subcontractor established a front company on the
Cayman Islands to hide US involvement in the operation: [https://
ZunZuneo was an online social networking and microblogging service created by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and marketed to Cuban users. Following recommendations by the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, it was covertly developed as a long-term strategy to encourage Cuban youths to revolt against the nation's government, fomenting a political spring.
The word "zunzuneo" is Cuban slang for a hummingbird's call.[10] The origins of ZunZuneo result from USAID allocating millions of dollars concealed as humanitarian funds designated for Pakistan.[1][11] Contractors funded by USAID "set up a byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank account, and recruit[ed] unsuspecting executives who would not be told of the company's ties to the U.S. government," according to an Associated Press (AP) report which traced the origin of the service.[12][13] Private companies Creative Associates International and Mobile Accord were reported to have designed the network.[13][14] According to Creative Associates, the idea arose after they were provided 500,000 stolen Cuban cellphone numbers from a "source" who said they were available on the black market.[9][15] NiteMedia, an organization in Nicaragua run by a relative of a Creative Associates International manager, was chosen as a subcontractor.[16] Creative Associates International won the contract for their proposal in October 2008, and grant funding for ZunZuneo began in June 2009.[15]
ZunZuneo was founded in 2010, shortly after the arrest of USAID contractor Alan Gross in Cuba.[17] The network, dubbed the "Cuban Twitter," reached about 60,000 subscribers.[1][18] The initiative also appears to have had a surveillance dimension, allowing "a vast database about Cuban ZunZuneo subscribers, including gender, age, 'receptiveness' and 'political tendencies'" to be built, with the AP noting that such data could be used in the future for "political purposes."[1] This data would then be used for microtargeting efforts towards anti- and pro-government users.[5] The developers aimed to use "non-controversial content," such as sports and music, to build up subscribers and then introduce political messages through social bots to encourage dissent in an astroturfing initiative.[4][12][19][20][21]
The AP released an exposé on ZunZuneo in April 2014 after reviewing thousands of document pages about its function.[1] Following the report, the U.S. government acknowledged that it funded the service but denied that it was a covert program.[12]
Todd Callender is the CEO of a social media platform called CloutHub, which he advertises as an alternative to Zoom that is fully private and that doesn't allow the CCP to spy on its users (which sounds just like how the CIA would advertise a platform for spying on its users).
A report on ZunZuneo by the USAID's Office of Inspector General said:
[https://
Mobile Accord also created a company - MovilChat - in the Cayman Islands. According to one of Mobile Accord's final activity reports, "to distance Mobile Accord from its involvement with ZunZuneo," MovilChat was established and "owned by a bank in the Cayman Islands ... and serves as a depositor for ZunZuneo and owner of the ZunZuneo assets, and the bank keeps records and filings for the company." Later, Cayman Management Ltd. was paid to "own, manage and keep the books for Movilchat."
According to a Mobile Accord report, MovilChat had two accounts in a Cayman Islands bank - one for U.S. dollars, one for Cayman Islands dollars. Mobile Accord transferred money to the U.S. account, and then Cayman Management Ltd. transferred the money to the Cayman account. Cayman Management Ltd. paid outside entities, such as Lleida.net, from the Cayman account. Mobile Accord officials said this was done for security, to prevent the Cuban Government from tracing the money back to a U.S. company.
Mobile Accord was the subcontractor that was hired by the primary
contractor Creative Associates International. Creative Associates
International has received a total of about 2 billion USD worth of
grants from USAID. [https://
PharmaJet is generally said to have been founded in 2005. [https://
But anyway, the snapshot from 2003 lists only 3 members of the
PharmaJet team, who are director Kathleen Callender, director Todd
Callender, and director of R&D Robert Steinway: [https://
There's an image next to Todd's name which shows a person writing a
press release, so I don't know if his responsibilities included writing
press releases. Heather was not mentioned in the snapshot, even though
she is supposed to have co-founded the company. There were no snapshots
of the domain name from 2004, and a snapshot from early 2005 said that
the domain name had expired. But by 2006 the domain now hosted a new
website, which said "Inquiries to the Director -
Kathleen Callender", "Investor Relations -
Heather Potters", and "Inquiries to Financial
Director - Maureen Cullum", but Todd was no longer mentioned on
the website: [https://
Apart from Todd Callender's sister and mother, Maureen Cullum was the
only person mentioned on PharmaJet's website in 2006. Her LinkedIn
profile says that from 1984 to 1993 she worked for an American company
that published telephone directories, from 1993 to 1995 she worked in
Poland for a company that published telephone directories, in 1995 to
2000 she was the VP and CFO of HBO Poland, from 2005 to 2007 she was an
interim CFO and financial consultant at PharmaJet, and later she worked
with the Indian television operations of Sony Pictures Entertainment:
[https://
In 2021 when the US Securities and Exchange Commission investigated a
case of fraud involving Todd Callender, an accountant at the SEC said
that "Cotswold Insurance (Barbados)" was "an
entity that upon information and belief is effectively controlled by
Callender". [https://
There were only a couple of hits on Google Search for the phrase
"Toya Joker" in double quotes, but Toya
probably refers to a Polish cable TV company founded in 1991, which also
provides internet services. [https://
One of the 7 people listed on the board of directors of PharmaJet is
Markus Pedriks, whose bio says that he is "an active
investor and entrepreneur, including Managing Partner of Baring
Communications Equity (private equity closed end
fund covering the Central and Eastern Europe and CIS
regions)", even though his profile at LinkedIn says he
only worked as a managing partner of the fund up to 2015. [https://
Heather's fund might have served as a covert channel for US agencies to fund media operations in Eastern Europe, especially if you consider that she previously worked for USAID's Polish fund, and that PharmaJet received a 1.5 million USD grant from USAID.
Grok said: "Baring Communications Equity (Emerging Europe), commonly referred to as BCEE, was a closed-end private equity fund established in December 1997 to invest in media, communications, and telecommunications companies across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). With a final close of approximately $70-74 million, the fund targeted unlisted firms in broadcasting, publishing, cable television, telecom infrastructure, and content production, capitalizing on the privatization boom, market liberalization, and rapid sector growth in post-communist countries such as Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. Managed through BCEE Advisers Ltd., it operated as a joint venture between Baring Private Equity Partners - leveraging the Baring group's emerging-markets expertise - and Communications Equity Associates (CEA), a U.S.-based media and telecom specialist founded in 1973. CEA played a significant role as co-founder and primary operational manager, contributing its deep industry knowledge and global investment experience to guide deal sourcing, portfolio oversight, and strategic decisions, with long-term leadership including Managing Partner Heather Potters through much of the fund's life. As a limited-life vehicle, BCEE focused on growth and late-stage opportunities, eventually liquidating after successful exits in the mid-2000s to early 2010s. It remains notable as one of the pioneering dedicated media-focused private equity funds in the emerging Europe region during a transformative economic period."
CEA was founded in 1973 to "provide financial
expertise for a select group of cable industry clients", and
CEA's founder Rick Michaels was also the VP of "Cable Funding Corporation, a firm specializing in cable
television financing and investments". He later became a "Vice Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Naval
Academy", a "co-founder of the National Cyber
Partnership, a non-profit dedicated to training military veterans for
jobs in the Cybersecurity industry", and a "co-founder and Chairman of CyberStratos, LLC which is a
company formed to provide advisory services and to acquire cybersecurity
companies". [https://
CEA's website says: "National Cyber Partnership
is a 501(c)(3)
based in Tampa, Florida founded in 2013 by Rick Michaels, Chairman &
CEO, and Michael Shapiro, President and Executive Director. The
Partnership began when Rick Michaels and Michael F. Shapiro, an engineer
with senior management, information technology and intelligence skills
concluded the need for veterans to be employed when they return to
civilian life." [https://
CEA is based in Tampa, and Rick Michaels is a member of the Tampa Bay
CFR. [https://
The "Vice President of Cybersecurity" at
CEA is Roy Collins, whose bio says that he holds an active security
clearance, he was the Tampa city liaison to MacDill Air Force Base, and
he served as an airborne ranger under Special Operations Command. [https://
A senior advisor to CEA Group is John Parke Wright IV, who served as
the "Florida Representative of Rockefeller &
Co., Inc., serving high net wealth families and philanthropy",
and who supports "scholarship awards for MacDill Air
Force Base participation in Leadership Tampa each year". [https://
The BCEE fund was one of CEA's 9 private equity funds. The head of
CEA's private equity group was a Jew called Harold Ewen, who was
previously the president of CEA. [https://
Before Ewen joined CEA, he was the vice president of the Jewish
banking house Warburg Paribas Becker, and he was a principal of the
bank's venture capital operation that invested in cable TV companies,
called Becker Communications Associates. [https://
The ultra-Zionist televangelist Pat Robertson had his own cable
channel called Christian Broadcasting Network, which was structured as a
non-profit entity. The majority of his wealth was likely derived from a
deal with the TV mogul John Malone, who set up a shell company called
International Family Entertainment which enabled restructuring the
channel as a corporate entity while maintaining tax-exempt status for
CBN, and who paid Robertson 250 million USD for assets of CBN. The
person who hooked up the deal was Rick Michaels: [https://
If you've ever wondered why Pat Robertson's The 700 Club appears twice daily on a cable channel owned by past enemy Disney Co., ask media broker J. Patrick "Rick" Michaels, chief executive of Communications Equity Associates in Tampa.
It all goes back to a deal sketched out on a napkin in 1989 by Michaels, Robertson and media mogul John Malone. The deal guaranteed that Robertson's daily program of news and religious commentary would always have a place on what was at the time Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network cable channel, regardless of who owned it.
[...]
Pat Robertson still remembers how Rick Michaels introduced him to John Malone over a dinner in Washington in mid-1989. By the time dinner was over, Malone had invested $45-million in Robertson's cable channel, which was being spun off from his church-owned Christian Broadcasting Network, and worked out a deal to carry the channel on his TCI cable system.
"Rick brought John Malone into the mix," Robertson said last week. "And the channel went on to be enormously successful."
An article from 1988 said that "Michaels has
represented Pat Robertson's CBN", so apparently Michaels had
already represented Robertson before the 1989 deal with Malone. [https://
Peter Levenda wrote: "Investing heavily in
Africa, Robertson created the African Development Corporation, or ADC.
This was allegedly not connected in any way with his religious
broadcasting operations, although it is hard to tell how these two
companies are financed. What is known for sure is that, in 1992, the ADC
entered into negotiations with the Zairean government of President
Mobutu for the development of the diamond trade in the southern mining
town of Tshikpa, along with projects including logging in other areas of
Zaire. [...] Robertson initiated Operation
Blessing as a tax-exempt humanitarian mission to help those less
fortunate in Africa, buying three Caribou aircraft in the process, for
the ostensible purpose of flying medical supplies and doctors to those
areas of Zaire being flooded by refugees, both internal refugees as well
as those from the growing Rwandan crisis across the border. [...] Unfortunately for the poor Zaireans and
Rwandans, Operation Blessing was largely a sham. Pilots who had been
employed by the organization revealed to newsmen that their job was not
hauling medicine to Goma or the other regions where people were starving
to death or dying from a host of treatable illnesses; rather, they were
involved with moving mining and dredging equipment to Robertson's
diamond mines. It got so bad that one of the pilots had 'Operation Blessing' removed from the plane's
tailfins. Out of forty flights that had been flown in Zaire for
Operating Blessing, only one or two had actually had anything to do with
humanitarian aid." [https://
In the book "Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of
the Christian Right", Sara Diamond pointed out that CBN raised a
large amount of funding from "sympathetic
corporations", and that the billionaire Howard Hunt donated 10
million USD to Robertson to help launch his broadcast in Costa Rica. She
also wrote: "'Total
warfare' relies, to a large degree, on the concept of 'humanitarian aid' which itself is a major
component of 'psychological operations.'
'Humanitarian aid' is a euphemism frequently
used to describe the millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars channelled to
corrupt military regimes. The term 'psychological
operations' (PSYOPs) had been used to
describe the practice of dropping propaganda leaflets from helicopters
or campaigns in which smiling, 'humanitarian'
soldiers give candy to peasant children. But PSYOPs is much more than
that. 'Humanitarian aid' and 'psychological operations' are two areas of 'total war' where the Christian Right serves U.S.
foreign policy objectives best. Acting either as 'private' benefactors or as agents of the U.S.
government, Christian Right 'humanitarian'
suppliers and promoters of anticommunist ideology use religion to mask
the aggressive, cynical nature of 'humanitarian' projects. Cloaked as missionary
evangelism, the 'spirual warfare' component
of counterinsurgency escapes serious attention by anti-intervention
activists who are justifiably preoccupied with stopping massive, direct
forms of U.S. militarism." [https://
In 2007 Rick Michaels "joined with former
Attorney General John Ashcroft of The Ashcroft Group to form an
alliance, AshcroftCEA, to provide strategic consulting and investment
and merchant banking services to middle-market and growth companies in
the global security area". [https://
Wikipedia says that Ashcroft is a "professor at
the Regent University School of Law, a conservative Christian
institution affiliated with the late televangelist Pat
Robertson". [https://
Blackwater's chairman Red McCombs co-founded Clear Channel
Communications, whose subsidiary Premiere Networks syndicates Coast to
Coast AM and manages the operations of Coast to Coast. Joel van der
Reijden wrote: "As for Red McCombs, in March 2011
he, together with apparent friend Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former
deputy director of the CIA and head of the Office of Naval Intelligence
(ONI) and the NSA, as well as Bush's former
attorney general John Ashcroft, took over mercenary firm Blackwater USA.
Earlier Blackwater had been exposed as a CIA asset firm that worked
alongside Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in assassinating Middle Eastern terrorists.
Both JSOC and Blackwater were considered personal tools of the Bush
White House. Founder and chairman Erik Prince himself admitted he had
been recruited as a 'CIA asset', something
which was already rather obvious in 2005 when Bush's CIA
counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black, joined the firm as vice chairman,
together with his CIA operations chief, drug dealer and mafia hitman
Enrique Prado. CIA associate deputy director of intelligence Robert
Richer, accused of having been involved in the forging of a bogus link
between the 9/11 hijackers and Saddam Hussein, also joined the
firm." [https://
The LinkedIn profile of Markus Pedriks says that in 1992-2001 he was
a chairman of Levicom N.V., which was a holding company based in the
Dutch overseas territory of Curaçao: [https://
BCEE Advisors had also registered a company in Curaçao called BCEE
Advisors N.V., and a company in Guernsey called BCEE Advisors (UK) Limited. [https://
A bio of Pedriks said: [https://
Markus spent nearly 20 years with Baring Communications Equity investing in and sitting on the Boards of some of the largest mobile and cable tv operators in the CEE region, including what are today, Tele2 Baltics, Vodafone RO and CZ, together with one of Liberty Media's Czech operations.
Before joining Barings he had over 12 years of operating experience, in telecommunications and media companies in developed and developing markets. He was the Chairman of Levicom N.V. [sold to Tele2], the largest private telecommunications and media company in the Baltic Republics. Levicom's activities included cable television, fixed and mobile telephony, ISP, e-commerce and web consulting/services, TV Guides, printing and publishing and distribution.
In 1997 an Estonian newspaper published an article about how Levicom
expected to receive 30 million USD in foreign investments, even though
Levicom was a fairly small unlisted company at the time, so the amount
of foreign investment seemed unusually large: [https://
According to Prümmel, most of the money will go to the development of three Lithuanian cable television companies, to cover additional financing for AS Tallinna Kaabeltelevisioon, and to accelerate the expansion of AS Ritabell's GSM network.
[...]
Among the Levicom group companies, there are already strategic foreign investors in Ritabell, where 48 percent is owned by Millicom, and Tallinna Kaabeltelevisiooni, where 30 percent is owned by Telglob.
Besides Palts, Levicom's major shareholders are Toomas Peek and Markus Pedriks, with a smaller shareholding owned by Liivi Pehk and Meelis Palts.
[...]
Aadi Remmik from Tallinna Pank's issuance department called Levicom's issuance a relatively unique solution in world practice. "The amount of money to be raised is quite large compared to Levicom's current turnover," he explained.
According to Prümmel, Levicom wants to list its shares on the Tallinn Stock Exchange after the issue is completed.
Last year, Levicom Group's turnover was 131 million kroons [about 8 million euros] and profit was four million kroons [about 0.3 million euros], the company's share capital is 10.44 million kroons [about 0.7 million euros].
The Levicom group includes eight Estonian companies, one company in Latvia and three in Lithuania. The largest share of turnover is generated by Levi & KuTo, which sells mobile phones, Parimenta, which publishes TV guides, and Levi Kaabel.
I don't know if Pedriks invested in Levicom through the Baring
Communications Equity Eastern Europe fund, which was "a $74.25 million private equity fund, established in
December 1997 to invest in unlisted media and telecommunication
companies throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS on behalf of
its investors". [https://
One of the companies in the Levicom group was Levicom AS, which operated Estonia's third largest mobile provider Q-GSM. Levicom AS was co-founded in 1993 by Tõnis Palts and his long-time friend Tomas Peek, who later became known as the three "P-boys" along with Markus Pedriks, who was the third major shareholder of Levicom AS. Palts later became the mayor of Tallinn and the finance minister of Estonia.
In January 1999, the three major shareholders of Levicom AS transfered their shares to the Dutch holding company Levicom International Holdings B.V. at a price of about 700,000 euros, but two days later the shares were bought by the Swedish company NetCom for about 48 million euros. The scheme allowed about 45 million of the sale price to be classified as a non-taxable capital repayment from Levicom International Holdings B.V. to Levicom Investments Curaçao N.V., because the Curaçao company had previously lent the capital to the Dutch company, and the rest of approximately 3 million euros was paid as dividends by the Curaçao company to its shareholders, but the dividends were taxed by only 8.3% in the Netherlands but not taxed at all in Estonia.
An article from 2001 said: "Levicom International
Holdings is a company linked to Toomas Peek and Tallinn mayoral
candidate Tõnis Palts, which owned 81% of Levicom Broadband's shares.
Toomas Peek, Tõnis Palts and Markus Pedriks each owned 31% of the shares
by Levicom International Holdings shares, while the company's minority
shareholders included Liivi Pehk, who worked as the head of Tele2's
customer service unit, and Tõnis Palts' brother Meelis Palts."
[https://
In 2003 Palts, Peek, and Pedriks were investigated for tax evasion,
the former offices of Levicom were raided by the Estonian security
police, and the P-boys were reported to face 3 to 7 years in prison.
[https://
Somehow people connected to the Callender siblings appear to be above the law, and they have a tendency to get away with outrageous schemes and fraud without being held accountable.
An Estonian article from 2013 said that "Markus
Pedriks led the game" where Levicom AS was sold to the Swedish
company: [https://
The Tax Board began compiling a new file on Tõnis Palts (50), one of the leading figures and biggest financiers of the ruling Res Publica party, even before the businessman became a minister.
[...]
Palts's most grandiose and covert transactions took place between 1999 and 2001. Their focal point was the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Levicom International Holdings BV is a company registered on Leidsekade Street in central Amsterdam. In recent years, this company with a long name has sold assets located in Estonia for hundreds of millions of kroons.
These included Q-GSM mobile communications, Internet connections, cable TV, e-business, and dozens of other activities. These businesses were consolidated by the Tallinn-based company Levicom.
The chairman of Levicom's board and a major owner was Tõnis Palts. He owned 31 percent of the company's shares.
The same number of shares belonged to Palts's long-time friend Toomas Peeg, who led the Res Publica election campaign during the last parliamentary elections.
The third most important shareholder was Markus Pedriks, an investment banker with roots in Saaremaa who graduated from universities in Montreal and London and received a master's degree in Switzerland.
It was on Pedriks' recommendation that Palts and Peek created Q-GSM, which Estonian bankers initially considered to be an extremely poor venture, but which later paid off handsomely.
In January 1999, the Swedish telecommunications group Tele2 announced that it was buying a majority stake in Palts and his friends' businesses. The stake in Q-GSM and one-fifth of the other businesses changed hands for nearly 800 million kroons [about 51 million euros]. The rest was sold off two years later for approximately 290 million kroons.
However, the Estonian state did not receive a single cent of these enormous sums.
The reason was that Palts and his partners pulled a "little" trick. They sold Levicom's shares to the aforementioned Amsterdam company immediately before the big deal. The profit remained in the Netherlands.
[...]
Markus Pedriks led the game. He found a buyer - Tele2, which already had a subsidiary in the Netherlands. Pedriks had previously lived in the Netherlands and was familiar with the laws there. Pedriks' personal investment company, Canesto Investments, was also based in the Netherlands. So was that of Kenn Robson, the Dane who helped build Q-GSM.
Levicom's law firm was also of Dutch origin.
After the Levicom deal, Tõnis Palts bought a yacht for himself, but
in order to avoid having to pay income tax, he set up a fake boat rental
company to buy the yacht, and then he paid money to the company for
renting the yacht to himself. [https://
Offshore Leaks includes Markus and Anders Pedriks. [https://
NewSat was based in London and run by Markus Pedriks, Robert Wardrop,
and Jack Albert, who had earlier established a company based in Bermuda
called ISC "with a view to exploiting investment
opportunities in regard to orbital slots registered by the Russian
Federation". [https://
One of the directors of NewSat Holdings Limited is Prisma Consulting
Ltd. [https://
An article from 2002 said: "And other smaller
startups are hanging in there, such as little Newsat, which is trying to
carve a niche in third world markets with no fiber by selling
lower-priced capacity on an end-of-life satellite, according to its
Chairman, Markus Pedriks, a London finance executive who now oversees
the company." [https://
The USAID famously funded an operation where satellite internet
technology was smuggled to Jews and Freemasons in Cuba so they could
communicate without being monitored by the Cuban government. [https://
An article from 1997 said: "Among the Levicom
group companies, there are already strategic foreign investors in
Ritabell, where 48 percent is owned by Millicom, and Tallinna
Kaabeltelevisiooni, where 30 percent is owned by Telglob." [https://
An article from 1997 said that Telglob was an Israeli company: "65 percent of Tallinn Cable Television is owned by
Levicom, 30 percent by the Israeli company Telglob, and five percent by
the Tallinn City Government." [https://
In Estonian the word "levi" means spread, reach, or coverage, and "raadiolevi" means radio reception or radio broadcast, and "mobiililevi" means mobile reception. But I wouldn't be surprised if the name Levicom had a double meaning, and there was a Levi or Cohen pulling the strings behind the scenes at Levicom.
The shareholders of NewSat Holdings include people named Salvator
Levis and Robert Cohen. [https://
The biggest cell phone provider in Bulgaria was Mobiltel, which was
acquired in 1997 by the Jewish gangster Michael Cherney from the Jewish
gangster Grigory Luchansky. [http://
In 2003 Tele2 Eesti paid off a debt obligation of about 200,000 USD
to Telglob Amsterdam BV. [https://
An article from 1996 said that Tallinna Kaabeltelevisioon was seeking
a contract to build a cable TV network in Tallinn, and the article said:
"To finance the construction of the network,
Tallinna Kaabeltelevisioon also plans to take out a $15-20 million loan
from a fund called the Central European Telecommunication Agency Line.
The fund's shareholders are the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, the World Bank, and ABN Amro Bank." [https://
Initially 60% of Enterprise Investors was owned by the
Polish-American Enterprise Fund and 40% by the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development. [https://
An old Russian website said that the "capital of
the Baring Communications Equity Emerging Europe Fund is provided by the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)". [https://
Earlier I had found only three people affiliated with the BCEE fund,
where the third person was David French, who was the president of BCEE
Advisers Ltd., and who was listed as the contact person for the fund.
[https://
The EBRD's original mandate was to support the transition of former
Soviet countries to a market economy, so EBRD served a similar role as
Enterprise Investors. [https://
During a podcast interview in 2020 when Callender-Potters was asked
how her company started, she said: "Well, we
actually - and again we is actually my mother and I, um, who co-founded
the business - really wanted to make sure that we made a contribution to
healthcare. And she's nearly 79 next Monday. And she had experienced
needle stick, she'd seen reuse. And there was actually a call to action
by the World Health Organization, because they were experiencing -
witnessing needle reuse - about whether or not somebody could develop an
immunization tool - needle-free immunization tool - and so we decided to
rise to that occasion." [https://
At time 9:18 she said that her mother "actually became a dental hygienist. Yeah. She worked with my father, ran his practices. My dad has three board certifications. He's also retired and older. But they did volunteer medicine and dentistry together in various countries." It seems weird for some random dentist family to think they have to start manufacturing medical devices that the WHO will use to vaccinate millions of people.
I found a similar story about the origins of the company on an old
snapshot of PharmaJet's website: [https://
Headquartered in Golden, CO, Kathleen Callender and Heather Callender-Potters founded PharmaJet in 2005, to enhance developing world healthcare and patient experience at a reduced cost.
Kathleen Callender, a hands-on healthcare practitioner with 35 years of experience, was aware that the World Health Organization ("WHO") was searching for a low-cost alternative to needle-syringe use for their UNICEF vaccine programs. Their search was driven by evidence that 40-70% of needles were being re-used in many developing world countries and the concern about the resulting 20 blood borne pathogens transmitted from person to person. (Each year unsafe injections cause 1.3 million early deaths and 26 million years loss of life).
Kathy had personally experienced needle-stick injury (a profound problem in the developed and developing world), and had worked in developing world healthcare environments where she witnessed needle re-use first-hand. Passionate about developing a technology that would eliminate needle-stick, needle-re-use, and the dirty sharps in healthcare environments, she sought to develop the technology into a business and raise capital.
Kathleen's daughter, Heather Callender-Potters spent 20 years in Eastern Europe, primarily investing in and helping to develop early stage and start-up businesses, mostly in emerging markets. Together, Kathleen and Heather formed PharmaJet in mid-2005, based on a prototype needle-free device.
Both during this podcast and the other podcast, I noticed that whenever Callender-Potters talked about Bill Gates, she referred to him as "Mr. Bill Gates", but there was no other person who she seemed to consider important enough that she affixed a "Mr." or "Mrs." or "Ms." to their name. Maybe it has something to do with how Gates has donated over a billion USD to the WHO's polio vaccination program, and PharmaJet is backed by WHO and the Gates Foundation, and a primary use of PharmaJet's products is in polio vaccination.
At time 46:29 she now said that the reason why she was working with BARDA before COVID was for influenza preparedness: "We're part of 14 separate pharmaceutical developments today for coronavirus. So in February we had that check-in with BARDA, who are in charge of pandemic preparedness. We were already working on pandemic preparedness for influenza with them and the FDA, and that quickly turned to coronavirus."
At time 51:59 she said: "One thing I should call
out is that we've been supported by high net worth and family office
investors to date. And I come from a private equity background
historically prior to PharmaJet." So I don't know if PharmaJet is
funded by shady off-shore money. A lot of companies in Caribbean tax
havens describe themselves as providing services for "high net worth" individuals. Todd Callender and
Ian Towell were directors of the Cotswold Group, but Ian Towell wrote
that at Cotswold he did "international financial
planning for HNW Individuals". [https://
If you go to the website of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, view the trademark for PharmaJet, click "Assignment Abstract Of Title Information", and
expand the assignments, there is one assignment from 2015 where a
security interest for the PharmaJet trademark was assigned to
Hearthstone Investments Ltd., and there's another similar assignment
from 2020. [https://
An article from 2025 said: "Hearthstone
Investments Ltd. sued PharmaJet Inc., its co-founder, and its directors
in April, alleging a scheme to sideline the medical technology company's
scientific advisers and block its largest investor's attempts to buy
more stock. Hearthstone seeks summary judgment to enforce what it says
are its contractual rights to acquire more shares. PharmaJet, co-founder
Heather Callender-Potters, and other defendants dispute Hearthstone's
characterization of the sales process, which has been paused due to the
pending litigation." [https://
Hearthstone Investments has a minimal single-page website where they
describe themselves as a "private investment
company", and the only person listed on the website is the CFO
Kate de Wolff, who is also on the board of directors of PharmaJet. [https://
She is also the CFO of Rivers Capital Group. Her bio on their website
says: "Kate de Wolff has been CFO for the
Hearthstone Group of Companies since 2001 and is responsible for all
aspects of financial, investment and operational decision making for the
numerous Hearthstone entities. Ms. De Wolff began her career with
Deloitte in Toronto in 1988, earning her CPA and subsequently moving to
their office in Geneva, Switzerland. Ms. De Wolff then went on to serve
as CFO in the film industry for a decade starting in Nice, France and
continuing into Vancouver in 1995." [https://
The president of both Rivers Capital Group and Hearthstone
Investments is Tony Allard, whose bio describes Hearthstone as a "family office" firm: "Tony
Allard is President of Hearthstone Investments, a single- family office
and private investment firm holding primarily commercial real estate and
public equities. Prior to founding Hearthstone Mr. Allard was a
securities lawyer and television broadcast and production executive.
Mr. Allard is also a Director of PharmaJet, a vaccine delivery company
based in Golden, Colorado." [https://
I didn't find any other people associated with Hearthstone, so it's interesting that Hearthstone's CEO has a background in television and the CFO has a background in film, because CEA's TV-focused fund was managed by two directors of PharmaJet, and an early employee of PharmaJet was the VP of HBO Poland.
Somehow a lot of Canadians seem to pop up in connection to the
Callender siblings. Hearthstone Investments is Canadian. The Canadians
Peter Nygard and David Walsh were clients of Ansbacher Bahamas. Hywel
Jones was assassinated after he accused Lester Turnquest of defrauding
funds from a Canadian client. Markus Pedriks and Toomas Peek both
studied in Canada. [https://
When I asked Grok to list Canadians connected to the Bahamas or Cayman branches of Ansbacher, Grok pointed out that Leo Kolber "Set up the Kolber Trust in the Cayman Islands in 1991 via Ansbacher, holding funds potentially for tax advantages in Canada, the US, and Israel. Loans and financial ties intertwined with the Bronfman family's Claridge investment firm. His son Jonathan Kolber (also Canadian) was named a beneficiary and involved in related Israeli business ventures."
Leo Kolber met Charles Bronfman in college, which led to Kolber becoming the main financial manager for Sam Bronfman and his children, including Charles who later co-founded the MEGA Group with Leslie Wexner. Kolber was the head of Cemp Investments, which was a holding company Sam Bronfman set up to manage the assets of his children, and which was one of the largest private companies in Canada. Kolber later also managed Claridge which is the Bronfman family office corporation.
Leo Kolber was appointed to the Canadian senate by Pierre Trudeau.
Kolber was known as the "bagman" of Trudeau's
Liberal Party of Canada, because Kolber was the chief fundraiser of the
party for about three decades, until he was eclipsed by his godson
Stephen Bronfman. The Guardian said that Stephen Bronfman and Justin
Trudeau "are childhood friends who in recent years
have revived their bond to assist Trudeau's meteoric rise. Bronfman, 53,
raised $2m for Trudeau's leadership campaign and was was rewarded by
being made the Liberal party's chief fundraiser with a seat on its
national executive." [https://
An article from 2017 said: [https://
In 1983, Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, who was then finishing his tenure as one of Canada's longest-serving prime ministers, appointed Kolber to the Canadian Senate. "How often do I have to go?" Kolber asked. "Just show up once in awhile," Pierre Trudeau responded. "It's no big deal."
The next year, Trudeau's Liberal successor, John Turner, appointed Kolber the party's chief fundraiser. Kolber flew around Canada on the Bronfmans' jet, raising millions for the party and eventually adopting another joking nickname, "the Bagman."
[...]
During his time as an influential political figure, Kolber, along with his son, Jonathan, moved assets offshore, with help from the Bronfmans. According to leaked Ansbacher records, Leo Kolber set up the Kolber Trust in 1991 in the Cayman Islands to hold those funds, naming Jonathan Kolber and his "legitimate issue" as the trust's beneficiaries. Millions of dollars in loans from the Bronfmans helped fund the Kolber Trust in its first months, the records show. The first, a $9.7 million loan from Charles Bronfman in May 1991, contained an unusual provision: "The Loan shall bear interest at such rate as may be determined between the parties from time to time."
By the mid-1990s, the Kolber Trust held $38.5 million in assets, according to Ansbacher documents, and its activities were entwined with the Bronfmans' via financial advisers, lawyers, and loans, mostly from Bronfman trusts to the Kolber trust.
In 1996, Canada's then-Auditor General L. Denis Desautels put the issue of tax fairness on the public agenda when he released a blockbuster report detailing an unusual 1991 ruling by the Canada Revenue Agency that had allowed a wealthy family, which the report did not identify, to move 2 billion Canadian dollars out of the country untaxed.
The report concluded that "the transactions may have circumvented the intent of the law" and that the ruling had deprived the treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars. It also revealed that senior officials had overruled agency staffers who opposed the decision.
Desautels never revealed the identity of the family, but press reports did: Charles Bronfman and his children, Stephen and Ellen.
In the Paradise Papers, Kolber Trust is not directly linked to any
company named Ansbacher, but only to the company "Appleby Trust (Cayman)
Ltd.", because Appleby acquired Ansbacher's Cayman branch in
2006. [https://
Leo Kolber had a close friendship with Shimon Peres going back to the 1950s. In 1951 when Shimon Peres traveled to Canada to acquire arms for Israel, Sam Bronfman negotiated a deal with the Canadian government to buy surplus armaments from Canadian military stocks at half price, and Bronfman held a fundraiser which covered the entire cost of the purchase.
Stephen's father Charles Bronfman co-founded the MEGA Group with Les
Wexner, who was a sex-trafficking fashion mogul like Peter Nygard. The
financial backers of the NXIVM cult were Clare and Sara Bronfman, who
are first cousins of Stephen Bronfman. Alex Jones's lawyer Elizabeth
Morgan also served as the lawyer of Holly Bronfman, who is another first
cousin of Stephen Bronfman. [https://
Stephen Bronfman's grandfather Edgar Bronfman Sr. was the president
of the World Jewish Congress from 1979 to 2007. His successor Ronald
Lauder co-founded an Eastern European TV company in 1991 together with a
Kissinger aide. Whitney Webb wrote: [https://
Lauder swam in the same social circles as Epstein's former patron Alan Greenberg as well as Donald Trump, another friend of Lauder and Greenberg who began his friendship with Epstein in 1987.[100] Lauder's parents were also close friends of Roy Cohn, Trump's mentor who was the lawyer of Epstein's client in the 1980s, Adnan Khashoggi.[101] In 1987, Epstein also began his formal relationship with Leslie Wexner, who shares strong "philanthropic" connections to the Bronfmans with Lauder. Lauder would later take over Edgar Bronfman's role as head of the influential Zionist lobby organization the World Jewish Congress in 2007. Wexner's role in co-founding the Mega Group with Charles Bronfman and other intersections of their philanthropic endeavors are detailed in chapter 14.
Lauder also possessed some apparent connections to US intelligence as well as close ties to Israel's government, particularly during Benjamin Netanyahu's first term as Prime Minister, as Netanyahu's successful 1996 campaign was largely bankrolled by Lauder. Regarding a potential US intelligence connection, Lauder co-founded the Eastern European broadcasting network CETV with Mark Palmer, a former US diplomat, Kissinger aide, and Reagan speechwriter. Palmer is best known for co-founding the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization often described as an accessory to US intelligence. NED's first president confessed to the Washington Post in 1991 that "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."[102]
A bio of David French says that "in 1994 he
joined Toronto Dominion Bank as Director, Communications Finance, with a
mandate to concentrate on increasing the Bank's presence in the media
and communications sectors in continental Europe", and that then
he joined the board of Callender's sister's fund because
Toronto-Dominion had invested in the fund: "Formerly
the Director and Head of Structured Finance and Loan Syndications at
Toronto Dominion Bank (London), David French
was previously a member of BCEE's Board of Directors on behalf of the
Bank as an investor in BCEE." [https://
Leo Kolber had a close relationship with Toronto-Dominion's chairman
Allen Lambert. The skyscraper that houses the headquarters of
Toronto-Dominion was constructed by Kolber's real estate company
Cadillac Fairview, which initially had a 50% ownership share in the
building but now owns the whole building. [https://
In his autobiography, Leo Kolber wrote that for a long time the Bank
of Montreal had refused to accept Sam Bronfman on their board, until
1962 when Bronfman held a party to celebrate the construction of the
Toronto-Dominion skyscraper. He invited the chairman of the Bank of
Montreal to the party, who worried his bank was going to lose their
business with the Bronfmans to Toronto-Dominion, so Kolber told the
chairman "if I were you, I would put Mr Bronfman on
your board", and then Sam Bronfman finally made it to the board.
[https://
Kolber wrote that Toronto-Dominion's chairman Allen Lambert "liked the notion of being partners with the Bronfmans, which was pretty gutsy on his part. To some members of the Toronto financial establishment, the Bronfmans were still regarded as bootleggers." And Kolber wrote that the TD Centre made "TD into a national bank, where until then it had been regarded as a regional player in Ontario", and that "Allen Lambert would later tell me many times that he could trace the remarkable growth of the TD Bank to the opening of the TD Centre". Kolber also wrote: "The TD Centre also put Fairview on the map - it made our name, it made our company, and it took us to the big leagues of real estate development."
Toronto-Dominion was complicit in a massive 1.2 billion USD Ponzi
scheme orchestrated by Scott Rothstein. [https://
Rothstein's scheme consisted of staging fake lawsuits and then
selling a type of financial instruments to his investors where he
promised a payback after the lawsuits were settled. He staged several
fake lawsuits against Epstein, so he was sued by Epstein. Rothstein
fabricated Epstein flight logs and he hired a stripper to act as a fake
Epstein victim, but he also worked with a lawyer who represented real
Epstein victims. So the Ponzi scheme might have been some kind of an
operation to muddy the waters regarding the Epstein case, since the
Ponzi scheme received a great deal of publicity and it had an effect of
making people mistrust accusations by Epstein victims. Over the years
Epstein and Ghislaine repeatedly brought up the Ponzi scheme as evidence
that their accusers were lying. [https://
Toronto-Dominion is such a large bank that the Rothstein case is probably not related to the Callender siblings, and it might just be a coincidence that the president of the BCEE fund happened to work for TD, and I don't know if TD was even a major source of investment into the BCEE fund. But what might be relevant to the Rothstein case is that the Bronfmans helped make TD into a large bank, and a money manager of the Bronfmans chose to set up his overseas trust via Ansbacher, which is a relatively small bank but which also happens to be connected to Peter Nygard. Kolber managed the assets of the co-founder of the MEGA group, whose nieces financed the NXIVM cult.
A bio of Heather Potters from 2007 said this in Polish: "Ms. Heather J.C. Potters is 42 years old and a graduate
of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a
Master of Business Administration in 1991. Ms. Potters is also a
graduate of Claremont McKenna College, where she earned a Bachelor of
Arts in International Management in 1986. From 1984 to 1985, she worked
in the state office of Senator William L. Armstrong in Denver (USA). From 1986 to 1990, she worked at Image
Enhancement, based in Denver (USA), and in
1990 at Braxton Associates, based in Washington, D.C. (USA). From 1991 to 1996, she was employed at
Enterprise Investors Sp. z o.o., based in Warsaw, where she served as a
partner and vice president. Since 1997, she has been a managing partner
at Baring Communication Equity. She is also a managing partner at BCEE
Advisers Ltd. Guernsey, and 'President' of
BCEEC Sp. z o. o., Poland, and also serves as 'Director' at the following companies: Baring
Communications Equity (Emerging Europe) Ltd.,
Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK, BCE (Emerging
Europe) Ltd., Netherlands Antilles, Devaynes Holdings Ltd.,
Cyprus, BCEE Holdings N.V., Netherlands Antilles, PharmaJet, Inc., US,
Genesis Medical Technologies, US, BCEE Publications - Luxembourg,
Consolidated Communications Corporation PLC, UK, and 'Secretary' of NDNT Acquisition LLC, USA.
Ms. Potters serves on the supervisory boards of several
telecommunications and media companies on behalf of Baring
Communications Equity. Ms. Potters is also a member of the founding body
of the Polish Private Equity Association. Since 2002, she has served as
a member of the board of directors of PharmaJet, Inc. In 2004, she
became a member of the Supervisory Board of the Center for the Study of
the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. Ms. Heather Potters is a
managing partner at Baring Communication Equity and BCEE Advisers
Ltd. Guernsey." [https://
Here's my notes about the bio:
Senator William Armstrong was a radio and TV executive, who
bought a radio station at age 22 after returning from active duty, and
who later also owned 3 TV channels. [https://
Braxton Associates was a consulting firm based in Boston and DC.
It was acquired by a company called Deloitte Consulting, which later
briefly changed their name to Braxton. An article from 2016 said that
Deloitte had a competitive intelligence team for the purpose of spying
on their competitors, which was led by two former CIA agents, and that
Deloitte was looking to hire a "federal
cybersecurity consultant and is even advertising for military officers
with top-secret government clearances". [https://
Devaynes Holdings Limited was based in Cyprus. It was one of the
shareholders of a Romanian telecommunications company called MobiFon,
which was sold to a Dutch holding company called Deraso Holdings B.V. in
2004. [https://
One of the companies Potters was a director of operated a
telecommunications company in Russia: "Consolidated
Communications Corporation Plc operates a telecommunications company.
The Group's principal operating subsidiary, JSC SatCom-Tel, provides
voice, data and internet services that utilize satellite and terrestrial
delivery technologies in Moscow and St. Petersburg." [https://
NDNT Acquisition LLC appears to have been set up for the purpose
of acquiring a Russian telecommunications company called DirectNet.
[https://
It's interesting that Heather Potters was said to have been on the board of PharmaJet since 2002, because PharmaJet is generally said to have been founded in 2005.