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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 07:44 PM Mar 2018

Christopher Wylie, whistleblower, tweets out 1st page of legal memo Cambridge Analytica received

from Giuliani's law firm.




https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html

Just as Dr. Kogan’s efforts were getting underway, Mr. Mercer agreed to invest $15 million in a joint venture with SCL’s elections division. The partners devised a convoluted corporate structure, forming a new American company, owned almost entirely by Mr. Mercer, with a license to the psychographics platform developed by Mr. Wylie’s team, according to company documents. Mr. Bannon, who became a board member and investor, chose the name: Cambridge Analytica.

The firm was effectively a shell. According to the documents and former employees, any contracts won by Cambridge, originally incorporated in Delaware, would be serviced by London-based SCL and overseen by Mr. Nix, a British citizen who held dual appointments at Cambridge Analytica and SCL. Most SCL employees and contractors were Canadian, like Mr. Wylie, or European.

But in July 2014, an American election lawyer advising the company, Laurence Levy, warned that the arrangement could violate laws limiting the involvement of foreign nationals in American elections.

In a memo to Mr. Bannon, Ms. Mercer and Mr. Nix, the lawyer, then at the firm Bracewell & Giuliani, warned that Mr. Nix would have to recuse himself “from substantive management” of any clients involved in United States elections. The data firm would also have to find American citizens or green card holders, Mr. Levy wrote, “to manage the work and decision making functions, relative to campaign messaging and expenditures.”

In summer and fall 2014, Cambridge Analytica dived into the American midterm elections, mobilizing SCL contractors and employees around the country. Few Americans were involved in the work, which included polling, focus groups and message development for the John Bolton Super PAC, conservative groups in Colorado and the campaign of Senator Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican.
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Christopher Wylie, whistleblower, tweets out 1st page of legal memo Cambridge Analytica received (Original Post) pnwmom Mar 2018 OP
I'm so Grateful for Cha Mar 2018 #1
I know. And I don't blame him for being a naive 23 year old who didn't understand pnwmom Mar 2018 #2
Right! I saw one interview Cha Mar 2018 #3
KNR Lucinda Mar 2018 #4
The Mercers turned out to be half baked traitors. nt oasis Mar 2018 #5

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
2. I know. And I don't blame him for being a naive 23 year old who didn't understand
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:58 PM
Mar 2018

the ramifications of everything he was doing. I'm glad he's learned something -- unlike most people who helped elect Trump.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
3. Right! I saw one interview
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:03 PM
Mar 2018

with him.. he was perfectly candid about it, and took full responsibility. Kid has a conscience. That's only to be admired, in my book, too.

he's Canadian!

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