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Scott Young's Death and the Russian Oligarch Money-Laundering Theory

from Graveyard Shift At A Bread Warehouse · #87

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4 min

Tim recounts the mysterious death of Bravo's Ladies of London figure Scott Young, who allegedly used Russian mob connections to hide $400 million in a divorce before dying after falling from his penthouse, tying it to Boris Berezovsky and London's Russian oligarch scene.

In this bit8 moments
  • 53:54Boris Berezovsky was a Russian oligarch and Putin critic who moved to London and hung out with ex-oligarchs.
  • 54:14Tim suspects Scott Young got involved with this clique of wealthy, dangerous people.
  • 54:41Tim calls Russian oligarchs hard motherfuckers but notes Trump's foreign policy team were incompetent buffoons dealing with them.
  • 55:12Paul Manafort was involved with very dirty people and probably has reasons for not flipping beyond integrity.
  • 55:44Tim argues the FBI isn't keeping witnesses safe—they could kill Manafort and it would disappear from the news.
  • 56:04When Russia killed Litvinenko with polonium, they were sending a message; a car accident could happen to Manafort just as easily.
  • 56:28Tim announces he stands with Mother Russia and wants them to stop being brutal to gays so he can be a Stalinist.
  • 57:00After the Cold War, the U.S. let Russia collapse economically and allowed a power vacuum where generals sold nuclear warhead fuel on the black market.
Mentioned here

Vladimir PutinPaul ManafortRussiaDonald Trump JrBoris YeltsinCarter PageBoris BarasovskyAnna ArtunianNeil BushAlexander Litvinenko

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