Committee members asked Prince about Glencore, the UAE’s Mubadala fund, his former employee Joe Schmitz and his relationship to Charlier and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
From DC to the DRC, Erik Prince keeps pitching new ideas — from proposals for privatized wars and spy agencies, to Frontier Services Group’s Belt and Road plans, to a new company that revives the infamous Blackwater brand.
To better understand the role Erik Prince and the UAE have played in the Trump-Russia story — and in the much broader story of global political influence, and often corruption — here is a timeline tracking some key events.
Chart of Emerdata Limited, the new Cambridge Analytica company.
This has been a big weekend for news on the data firm that claimed to help get Donald Trump elected — Cambridge Analytica and the U.K. parent company SCL Group Limited. And now there’s one more twist, connecting SCL and Cambridge Analytica to someone else grabbing recent headlines, Erik Prince.
Daniel Ridloff and Felix Sater did business with the Khrapunov family, who are accused of laundering money through the Swiss Development Group — which created the SDG Investment Fund.
In 2015 Kushner Companies bought a stake in the old New York Times building from Soviet-born oligarch Lev Leviev who has close ties to Putin.
Chart shows failed deal to purchase the Drake Hotel and the Trump Soho development and some overlapping connections between the two.
Chart displays open-source information showing organizations and people connected to President Trump and Brad Parscale as of June 2017
The two chart views show the December 2016 Rosneft 19.5% privatization deal with Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority.