Register now !    Login  
Main Menu
Who's Online
154 user(s) are online (131 user(s) are browsing Message Forum)

Members: 0
Guests: 154

more...


Forum Index


Board index » All Posts (SOS)




Re: What do the Kushners own in Jersey City?
#91
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Annod wrote:
Touting Ties to Trump Is the Only Thing That Unites the Feuding Kushners

David Kocieniewski, Wenxin Fan and David M. Levitt
May 31, 2017, 4:00 AM EDT

?Work hand-in-hand with Trump son-in-law Kushner,? said the pitch, which hasn?t previously been reported. It told the investors that by putting $500,000 in the planned apartment tower at 235 Grand Street, they could qualify for a U.S. resident visa through a program known as EB-5, aimed at attracting foreign funds to help develop neglected areas and promote jobs.


Read more here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/art ... se-white-house-trump-link



Comrade good public service message!

Don't be fooled by imitators! KRE and Murray NO GOOD!

If EB5 Visa needed stick to the real McKushner - Jared and Kushner Cos!

Posted on: 2017/5/31 15:33
 Top 


Re: Trump Our New President
#92
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Hamparkvet wrote:
Covfefe.


Comrade, Jared tried without success to set up the back channel, but failed. Tweet with code perfect solution! With this witch hunt how else to communicate with FSB?

Posted on: 2017/5/31 15:19
 Top 


Re: Shots Fired Hamilton Park.
#93
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

tern wrote:
12:15 am a string of shots fired in Hamilton Park area.

Robin.


Too bad the title couldn't be changed. Mentioned on fb, two idiots lighting fireworks on 3rd St near Coles. One guy white, beard, 20's.

Posted on: 2017/5/31 1:40
 Top 


Re: 2017 Reval ~ Property Inspections
#94
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Yvonne wrote:
Quote:

brewster wrote:
Quote:

Yvonne wrote:
Quote:

bodhipooh wrote:
Quote:

Yvonne wrote:
Quote:

tictaktoe wrote:
How would PILOT? My bldg. has tax abatement and even the recently sold apts (and hence the reflected current market price) are paying around 1%-1.2% in taxes instead ~2%. Would this reval impact such properties as well?


Tax abatements are assessed but has no impact until they are off the roles. Tax abatements are not treated as ratables but contracts. Another reason why tax abatements are unfair to the general small homeowner.


This is not entirely accurate. Depending on the tax abatement contract, the levy MOST LIKELY is a parcentage of sale value. For example, the abatement at The Oakman is 0.9% of sale. That number is low, but more or less in line with what other properties in DTJC are currently paying. The contract has stipulations that dictate when and how that abatement is adjusted to increase the percentage to be paid, one of which is how much of a differential exists between the established tax rate for properties in JC and the initial abatement rate.

Regardless, the idea that abated properties are getting a free ride has long been debunked. The city is getting a sweet deal at the expense of the county, and the BOE. Tht 0.9% is going straight to the city, which is a lot more money than why JC would have collected on those properties under a regular tax setup.


You are wrong, I suggest you look at the "Friendly Budget," it shows what the tax abatements pays and what it would pay if fully taxed. They would pay more if fully taxed. This is on the city's website. Example Gull Cove - $2,690,875 if fully taxed $3,248,967.


Wow. You're not just tone deaf, you're just plain deaf to anyone's statements, or mentally incapable. There was no argument that they were paying the same as if there were no abatement. THEN THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN AN ABATEMENT!!! Bohdipooh said they were paying .9% rather than the normal 2.2%. And Gulls Cove is paying far more than that, about 83% of their unabated tax.

0.9% happens to be about the same as you were paying on Van Vorst Park when you were ranting about freeloading abated properties, while homeowners in Greenville were paying 3x your tax rate. Somehow you just never gave a crap about them in the 3 decades you've been a tax crusader. Why is that Yvonne?


There are people who only received a 5 year tax abatement, which I am not against and are now paying full taxes. They are paying close to $20,000 a year in property taxes. Futhermore, when I lived on Van Vorst Park, I paid the taxes the city mailed me. But in total I have paid over $300,000 in taxes. I have all of my bills and after the 1988 reval of I had a tax bill of $16,000 which was equal to my salary. There are people still on Van Vorst Park that are paying $33,000 and and $43,000 for a brownstone...


How are you defining "Brownstone" - more than two family?
What's the address of those two properties? I think you just make stuff up, so prove me wrong.

Posted on: 2017/5/18 17:18
 Top 


Re: What do the Kushners own in Jersey City?
#95
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Annod wrote:
What do the Kushners own in Jersey City?

Since 2012, Kushner Companies, formerly run by presidential adviser Jared Kushner, has been scooping up properties in Jersey City. So what does the firm own?

Trump Bay Street
The old Jersey Journal building
One Journal Square
Downtown warehouse
Journal Square office building

And just to clear things up ...
A project that isn't a Kushner Companies venture is the three-tower Journal Squared, located on the north side of the PATH hub. KRE Group, headed by another branch of the Kushner family, is the developer of that project.

More:
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... s_own_in_jersey_city.html


The way things are going with the Trump implosion, Jared will be working in the private sector by year's end.

Posted on: 2017/5/17 17:24
 Top 


Re: chalk messages around downtown.
#96
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Monroe wrote:
The House has a Rooskie investigation, the Senate does, and the FBI will continue its own investigation. Firing Comey doesn't change any of that-keep in mind, though-with all the leaks out of Justice we haven't heard a single piece of evidence to support the 'collusion' meme so loved by the Democrats. Isn't that amazing, not a single thing. Even the FISA wiretap was based on the former British spook who was getting paid to come up with opposition intel-and gave us the 'hooker peeing on the bed' story, lol.


Comrade is correct just like he correct on GWB closing. Firing Comey no big deal. Our dear leader taking charge to make this Russia nonsense go away. So what if Trump companies get funding by mobsters tied to Russian intelligence agency? So what if Trump allows spies into oval office? Who cares if Trump shares highly classified information with top Russin bro's?

DO NOT WATCH!!!

ZEMBLA - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: the Russians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I

Posted on: 2017/5/16 16:53
 Top 


Re: chalk messages around downtown.
#97
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

JCMan8 wrote:
Quote:

SOS wrote:
Quote:

Monroe wrote:
I may have to bike downtown today to see the billowing clouds of chalk dust, after our President took Chuckie Schumer's October suggestion and got rid of Comey. Wait, Chuckie was for it before he was against it??



Brillant move by our great leader Trump to end investigation into campaign ties with Russia. Similar move worked so well by Nixon. Liberal progressive democrats say this like throwing gasoline on fire. How can it fail?


Comey himself told Trump on three separate occasions that he wasn't being investigated for anything.

So no, not like Nixon. And "liberal progressive democrats" say all sorts of things, but none of them are usually true.


Yes Comrade, Trump wrote that in letter to Comey, "greatly appreciate[d] you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation."

These liberal progressive must think our great leader is an imbecile, actually including that in the letter. Did Trump get assistance composing the letter? If yes, they should be fired too for incompentance.

Posted on: 2017/5/10 19:20
 Top 


Re: chalk messages around downtown.
#98
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Monroe wrote:
I may have to bike downtown today to see the billowing clouds of chalk dust, after our President took Chuckie Schumer's October suggestion and got rid of Comey. Wait, Chuckie was for it before he was against it??



Brillant move by our great leader Trump to end investigation into campaign ties with Russia. Similar move worked so well by Nixon. Liberal progressive democrats say this like throwing gasoline on fire. How can it fail?

Posted on: 2017/5/10 16:36
 Top 


Re: chalk messages around downtown.
#99
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Adonis wrote:
I love the anti-Trump chalking and I hope it continues. I laugh at it every time I see it. It shows to me and everyone else how petulantly childish the left can be. And I think many others feel that way when they see the chalk. It only helps republicans for 2018 and beyond in my opinion. Chalking on the sidewalk is something many children do after all. So I say chalk away losers/haters.


Now BikeJC is getting in on the chalking! They must be paid by ACLU too! If I was liberal I'd be covering every inch of sidewalk with anti-Trump slogans.

Go Trump! Time to abolish term limits...and fake elections!

Posted on: 2017/5/10 14:06
 Top 


Re: Video of Package Thief
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

neverleft wrote:
Quote:

JCSHEP wrote:
PM me if you recognize this fine upstanding citizen who is borrowing our packages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiOJA2sBCk0


Any luck getting this guy?
Was it in the Journal Square area?


.


This serves as a good reminder to package thieves reading this thread how effective it is to wear a hoodie when stealing packages.

Posted on: 2017/5/9 14:28
 Top 


Re: chalk messages around downtown.
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Monroe wrote:
Every time I see the chalk scratching it reminds me that every one is nothing but snowflake tears memorialized. I mean, who uses chalk? Children do.


Good job Comrade! You show those liberal progressive idiots something!
Resized Image


Posted on: 2017/5/9 14:11
 Top 


Re: chalk messages around downtown.
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

EasyGibson wrote:
Anybody know who's paying these people?

I've seen 3 separate people doing it. Extremely annoying. Probably should have put this energy to use BEFORE the election.


Good question Comrade! Hillary is paying them out of Clinton Foundation cash stockpile. Of course liberal progressive democrats get paid for all activism.

And if you saw 3 people doing it, why didn't you ask them? You could have said looking for work.

Posted on: 2017/5/8 20:51
 Top 


Re: Jersey City Residents Decry Offensive Murals Commissioned by the City
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

WhoElseCouldIBe wrote:
Quote:

iGreg wrote:
Quote:



There is no David Bowie in Jersey City either. Take it down!



Tigers


Mural mural, Yvonne is distressed
Mural mural, your art is a mess


Huh - well done!!!

And Yvonne is making things up as usual...

Posted on: 2017/5/8 16:41
 Top 


Re: Tell Trader Joe's to come to Jersey City!
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

sullyx wrote:
Quote:

jerseymom wrote:
Quote:

SOS wrote:
Trader Joe's in Hoboken opening May 17, 2017
Not far from the light rail.

http://www.traderjoes.com/announcement/hoboken-nj-opening-2017


It's 1.7 miles from the Hoboken stop and 1.5 miles from the Second Street stop - a good 30 minute walk.


or you could get off at the 9th St stop and hoof it from there, I just saved you half the walk


Yup. .8 miles/16 minute walk from the 9th Street/Congress Light Rail station. I'll take the light rail there and Uber back.

Posted on: 2017/5/2 16:45
 Top 


Re: Tell Trader Joe's to come to Jersey City!
Home away from home
Home away from home


Trader Joe's in Hoboken opening May 17, 2017
Not far from the light rail.

http://www.traderjoes.com/announcement/hoboken-nj-opening-2017

Posted on: 2017/5/2 15:19
 Top 


Re: 2017 Reval ~ Property Inspections
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

biggoron wrote:
He was leaving the stickers, but because my wife was home he took care of the inspection then and there. Just as well to get it over with in my opinion.

Maybe something was lost in translation when my wife communicated what he said. Maybe it won't be inspections lasting a year, but instead up to a year to get the new valuation mailed to people. If the new numbers come out at the beginning of 2018Q2, I guess that gives enough time for people to challenge them.


Thanks for your reply. Good to know that they are finally hitting the streets downtown.

Posted on: 2017/4/28 18:01
 Top 


Re: 2017 Reval ~ Property Inspections
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

biggoron wrote:
Inspector came by today at my house on 1st St in downtown. The inspector told my wife he expects it to take 8 months to a year to complete the inspections.

The Tax year starts in April right? So maybe even the next tax year will be on the current assessments.


According to Appraisal Systems, the reval, physical inspections , will be completed by Thanksgiving of this year, and the new rate will go into effect Q3 of 2018.

Did you buy your house within the last several years or do a major renovation during that period? Were the inspectors leaving notes on your neighbor's doors?

Posted on: 2017/4/27 20:26
 Top 


Re: 2017 Reval ~ Property Inspections
Home away from home
Home away from home


Trump tax plan would sock N.J. by killing property tax deduction

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... benef.html#incart_m-rpt-2


Posted on: 2017/4/27 15:21
 Top 


Re: Russell Maffei and Marie Tauro Killed by Hit & Run Driver
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

rcjcinsider wrote:
200 more Police Officers today than 4 years ago. Are we doing at least basic enforcement on JC streets? It's a rhetorical question. I know this accident happened in North Bergen but it could have very easily happened on Newark Ave or Grand Street in JC


You should meet up with Yvonne and do lunch. You two have much in common.

RIP Russell Maffei and Marie Tauro.

Posted on: 2017/4/12 0:00
 Top 


Re: Fulop ties to Kushner?
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

CatDog wrote:
Quote:

Sutherland wrote:
That's ok, Dan. But you're nobody's Mayor.

Quote:

DanL wrote:

#notmymayor


hahaha


Me too,,,,,,HYSTERICAL

Posted on: 2017/4/3 14:46
 Top 


Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Monroe wrote:
Quote:

SOS wrote:
Quote:

Monroe wrote:
Quote:

mfadam wrote:
what a stand up guy Christie is letting his staff take the fall...


He was a stand up guy when he fired everyone he could once he found out he was lied to about the traffic jam.


Do you really believe that? One of the few times I agree 100% with the Donald -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb2OQvVUjCM



Yup, because that's exactly what he did-he fired everyone who lied to him about their involvement in the traffic jam.


Agreed. Except one person didn't get fired. Chris Christie. Members of his team took the fall. In Trump's words - "sad."

Posted on: 2017/3/30 20:38
 Top 


Re: Flooding in Jersey City
Home away from home
Home away from home


Heads up...

Torrential downpours Friday could dump 2 inches of rain, cause flooding
Updated March 30, 2017
Posted March 30, 2017

By Jeff Goldman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The dry, reasonably mild conditions of Wednesday will stick around for one more day before New Jersey gets smacked with a bout of heavy rain. ...


http://www.nj.com/weather/index.ssf/2 ... tml#incart_river_home_pop

Posted on: 2017/3/30 16:36
 Top 


Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

Monroe wrote:
Quote:

mfadam wrote:
what a stand up guy Christie is letting his staff take the fall...


He was a stand up guy when he fired everyone he could once he found out he was lied to about the traffic jam.


Do you really believe that? One of the few times I agree 100% with the Donald -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb2OQvVUjCM


Posted on: 2017/3/30 15:19
 Top 


Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam
Home away from home
Home away from home


Christie aide gets two years in prison for role in Bridgegate scandal
By Kaja Whitehouse and Bruce Golding
March 29, 2017 | 12:22pm | Updated
Cristie aide gets two years in prison for role in Bridgegate scandal
Chris Christie won't face criminal charges in Bridgegate scandal


Former Port Authority exec Bill Baroni was sentenced Wednesday to two years in the slammer for his role in the ?Bridgegate? scandal that scuttled the presidential aspirations of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Baroni, a Christie appointee to the bistate transit agency, and Bridget Kelly, a former top aide to the embattled governor, were convicted last year of scheming to close approach lanes to the George Washington Bridge in a political revenge plot that snarled rush-hour traffic for nearly a week in September 2013.

Kelly faces sentencing Wednesday afternoon.

Earlier this week, prosecutors asked Newark federal Judge Susan Wigenton to sentence Baroni and Kelly ?at the bottom or modestly below? guidelines of 37 to 46 months behind bars.

Key testimony against Baroni and Kelly came from cooperating witness David Wildstein, another Christie appointee to the Port Authority, who admitted conspiring with them to ?punish? Democratic Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich for refusing to endorse the Republican governor?s 2013 re-election bid.

Wildstein also testified that Christie laughed while discussing the snarled traffic with him and Baroni during a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero.

Under terms of his plea deal, Wildstein agreed to spend up to 27 months in prison. His sentencing hasn?t been scheduled.

In 2015, Christie kicked off an unsuccessful campaign for the White House and later became the first failed GOP candidate to endorse now-President Donald Trump, who said on the stump that Christie ?totally knew? about the lane-closure scheme.

Christie publicly blamed the scandal as the reason he was passed over as Trump?s pick for vice president, and he also got shut out of a spot in the president?s cabinet.

Poll results released Monday put Christie?s approval rating at a dismal 20 percent, with 72 percent of registered voters saying they disapproved of the job he?s doing.

The Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind survey marked a slight improvement over the 17 percent Christie notched in a January poll by Quinnipiac University.

That finding tied him for the lowest-ever job approval rating with former Gov.s Brendan Byrne and Jim Florio, whose popularity plummeted for enacting and hiking state taxes, respectively.

http://nypost.com/2017/03/29/christie ... le-in-bridgegate-scandal/

Posted on: 2017/3/29 17:33
 Top 


Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam
Home away from home
Home away from home


Looks like Christie finally landed a job in the Trump Administration!


Christie to take on role in Trump's fight against obesity in the heartland: report 3/29/2017

By Rebecca Savransky

Christie to take on role in Trump's fight against the obesity epidemic in the heartland: report Provided by The Hill.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will take on a role in President Trump's White House to combat the country's obesity epidemic, ABC News reported, citing White House officials.

A draft order, obtained by Politico, talks about forming a commission to make recommendations related to treatment of obesity and promoting a healthy, low fat diet in the heartland.

The president rarely spoke about tackling the country's obesity epidemic during his campaign. During the hectic campaigning candidate Trump subsisted mostly on fast food - which included his favorites - McDonalds and KFC.
Trump told Anderson Cooper in February 2016 that McDonald's was "great stuff" during a Republican presidential town hall.

A source in the White House speaking off the record said that it was an ideal fit - having Christie to head up the new commission. "Christie is a big man. He's been facing a struggle with obesity for much of his adult life. I can't think of anyone else that could fill the large role that this job requires."

The president told The Wall Street Journal during a past interview that "at some point, we're going to do something with Chris that will have something to do with what he know best."

Last month, the New Jersey governor dined with the president at the White House, where they discussed the country's obesity epidemic. Mr. Christie started the meal with an appetizer of foie gras followed by broccoli soup, stuffed hazelnut mushroom, and sweet potato with Parmesan. For his first entry he had lobster burger with Gruyere and Green Chili Mayonnaise, followed by orange glazed duck breast for the second entree, and for dessert assorted tropical fruit and aged cheese.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03 ... e-white-house-job-2346632


Posted on: 2017/3/29 15:27
 Top 


Re: Trump Our New President
Home away from home
Home away from home


Comrades, there is very fine horror movie from 2008, ?Paranormal Activity? ? perhaps you hear of it?

In the movie Micah has big problem and decides to use Ouija board. His wife Katie tell Micah not to use Ouija board, since unintended consequence of using Ouija board is that devil is conjured from hell! So what does Micah do? If you guess used the Ouija board ... you are correct!

During election against Crooked Hillary Trump needed help when things look very very bad. Campaign needed something ?magic? to turn it around. What did Trump do? HE USED THE OUIJA BOARD! His operatives met in secret to do deals with the country I will not name. He praise and encourage wikileaks. Say wikileaks good.

In movie all hell break loose. In Washington all hell break loose now.

Trump campaign operatives had deep ongoing contacts with Russia. Trump did lots of business with Russia. Donald Jr. in 2008 admit Trump Organization do many deal with Russians. Jeff Sessions spoke to Russian Ambassador, then got caught LYING TO CONGRESS! Trump wanted Sessions to be rooster. Now he capon. Now Trump say wikileaks no good after latest leak.

So is left for Trump to do? Blame Obama!


FBI investigation continues into 'odd' computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization

By Pamela Brown and Jose Pagliery, CNN
Updated 6:00 AM ET, Fri March 10, 2017

(CNN)Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.

Questions about the possible connection were widely dismissed four months ago. But the FBI's investigation remains open, the sources said, and is in the hands of the FBI's counterintelligence team -- the same one looking into Russia's suspected interference in the 2016 election.
One U.S. official said investigators find the server relationship "odd" and are not ignoring it. But the official said there is still more work for the FBI to do. Investigators have not yet determined whether a connection would be significant.
The server issue surfaced again this weekend, mentioned in a Breitbart article that, according to a White House official, sparked President Trump's series of tweets accusing investigators of tapping his phone.
CNN is told there was no Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on the server.
The FBI declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
In addition, companies involved have provided CNN with new explanations that at times conflict with each other and still don't fully explain what happened.
The story -- of a possible connection between computer servers -- is a strange tale because there are no specific allegations of wrongdoing and only vague technical evidence.
Internet data shows that last summer, a computer server owned by Russia-based Alfa Bank repeatedly looked up the contact information for a computer server being used by the Trump Organization -- far more than other companies did, representing 80% of all lookups to the Trump server.
It's unclear if the Trump Organization server itself did anything in return. No one has produced evidence that the servers actually communicated.
Slate and The New York Times were first to report the unusual server activity.
The Times said the FBI had concluded there could be an "innocuous explanation." And cybersecurity experts told CNN this isn't how two entities would communicate if they wanted to keep things secret.
But for those who have studied the data, the activity could suggest an intent to communicate by email during a period of time when ties between the Trump Organization and Russia are being closely scrutinized because of Russia's alleged involvement in hacking the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta.
This issue intrigued a dozen computer researchers at a recent business conference in Washington, D.C. that pulled together the world's top network operators, the ones who help run the internet. To them, it's a strange coincidence that merits further scrutiny.
Another computer researcher, Richard Clayton of Cambridge University, said it's just plain weird.
"It's not so much a smoking gun as a faint whiff of smoke a long way away. Maybe there's something else going on. It's hard to tell," said Clayton, who has independently examined the scant evidence available.
What is known:
Last year, a small group of computer scientists obtained internet traffic records from the complex system that serves as the internet's phone book. Access to these records is reserved for highly trusted cybersecurity firms and companies that provide this lookup service.
These signals were captured as they traveled along the internet's Domain Name System (DNS).
These leaked records show that Alfa Bank servers repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a particular Trump Organization computer server in the United States.
In the computer world, it's the equivalent of looking up someone's phone number -- over and over again. While there isn't necessarily a phone call, it usually indicates an intention to communicate, according to several computer scientists.
What puzzled them was why a Russian bank was repeatedly looking up the contact information for mail1.trump-email.com.
Publicly available internet records show that address, which was registered to the Trump Organization, points to an IP address that lives on an otherwise dull machine operated by a company in the tiny rural town of Lititz, Pennsylvania.
From May 4 until September 23, the Russian bank looked up the address to this Trump corporate server 2,820 times -- more lookups than the Trump server received from any other source.
As noted, Alfa Bank alone represents 80% of the lookups, according to these leaked internet records.
Far back in second place, with 714 such lookups, was a company called Spectrum Health.
Spectrum is a medical facility chain led by Dick DeVos, the husband of Betsy DeVos, who was appointed by Trump as U.S. education secretary.
Together, Alfa and Spectrum accounted for 99% of the lookups.
This server behavior alarmed one computer expert who had privileged access to this technical information last year. That person, who remains anonymous and goes by the moniker "Tea Leaves," obtained this information from internet traffic meant to remain private. It is unclear where Tea Leaves worked or how Tea Leaves obtained access to the information.
Tea Leaves gave that data to a small band of computer scientists who joined forces to examine it, several members of that group told CNN, which has also reviewed the data.
Possible explanations
The corporations involved have different theories to explain the server activity. But they haven't provided proof -- and they don't agree.
Alfa Bank has maintained that the most likely explanation is that the server communication was the result of spam marketing. Bank executives have stayed at Trump hotels, so it's possible they got subsequent spam marketing emails from the Trump Organization. Those emails might have set off defensive cybersecurity measures at the bank, whose servers would respond with a cautious DNS lookup. Alfa Bank said it used antispam software from Trend Micro, whose tools would do a DNS lookup to know the source of the spam.
Alfa Bank said it brought U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant to Moscow to investigate. Mandiant had a "working hypothesis" that the activity was "caused by email marketing/spam" on the Trump server's end, according to representatives for Alfa Bank and Mandiant. The private investigation is now over, Alfa Bank said.
Computer scientists agree that such an explanation is possible in theory. But they want to see evidence.
Alfa Bank and Mandiant could not point to marketing emails from the time period in question. "Mandiant has found evidence of an old marketing campaign, which... is too old to be relevant," Alfa Bank said in a statement.
CNN reached out to the Trump Organization with detailed technical questions but has not received answers.
Cendyn is the contractor that once operated marketing software on that Trump email domain. In February, it provided CNN a Trump Organization statement that called the internet records "incomplete" and stressed that they do not show any signs of "two-way email communication." That statement lends credibility to the spam marketing theory, because it says the Trump server was set up in 2010 to deliver promotional marketing emails for Trump Hotels. But Cendyn acknowledged that the last marketing email it delivered for Trump's corporation was sent in March 2016, "well before the date range in question."
Spectrum Health told CNN it "did find a small number of incoming spam marketing emails" from "Cendyn, advertising Trump Hotels." But it pointed to emails sent in 2015, long before the May-through-September 2016 time period examined by scientists. Spectrum Health said that it "has not been contacted by the FBI or any government agency on this matter."
Having the Trump Organization server set up for marketing also doesn't explain why Alfa Bank and Spectrum would stand out so much.
"If it were spam, then a lot of other organizations would be doing DNS lookups. There would be evidence of widespread connectivity with devices," said L. Jean Camp, a computer scientist at Indiana University who has studied the data.
Cendyn has also provided another possible explanation, suggesting a highly technical case of mistaken identity.
Cendyn routinely repurposes computer servers -- like the one used by the Trump Organization.
Cendyn's software, like its event planning tool Metron, sends email and thus relies on the 20 different email servers rented by the company. After "a thorough network analysis," Cendyn has said that it found a bank client had used Metron to communicate with AlfaBank.com.
But Alfa Bank starkly denies "any dealings with Cendyn." And, it says, it's unlikely that it received any emails from that server. "Mandiant investigated 12 months of email archives and it found no emails to or from any of the IP addresses given to us by the media."
On Wednesday, Cendyn provided another explanation to CNN. Cendyn claims the Trump Hotel Collection ditched Cendyn and went with another email marketing company, the German firm Serenata, in March 2016. Cendyn said it "transferred back to" Trump's company the mail1.trump-email.com domain.
Serenata this week told CNN it was indeed hired by Trump Hotels, but it "never has operated or made use of" the domain in question: mail1.trump-email.com.
Upon hearing that Cendyn gave up control of the Trump email domain, Camp, said: "That does not make any sense to me at all. The more confusing this is, the more I think we need an investigation."
Other computer experts said there could be additional lookups that weren't captured by the original leak. That could mean that Alfa's presence isn't as dominant as it seems. But Dyn, which has a major presence on the internet's domain name system, spotted only two such lookups ? from the Netherlands on August 15.
Alfa Bank insists that it has no connections to Trump. In a statement to CNN, Alfa Bank said neither it, bank cofounder Mikhail Fridman and bank president Petr Aven "have had any contact with Mr. Trump or his organizations. Fridman and Aven have never met Mr. Trump nor have they or Alfa Bank had any business dealings with him. Neither Alfa Bank nor its officers have sent Mr. Trump or his organization any emails, information or money. Alfa Bank does not have and has never had any special or exclusive internet connection with Mr. Trump or his entities."
Scientists now silent
The bank told CNN it is now trying to identify the person or entity who disseminated this internet traffic. "We believe that DNS traffic in mainland Europe was deliberately captured - in a manner that is unethical and possibly illegal -- in order to manufacture the deceit," it said.
Fear has now silenced several of the computer scientists who first analyzed the data.
Tea Leaves refused to be interviewed by CNN and is now "hiding under a rock," according to an intermediary contact.
Paul Vixie, who helped design the very DNS system the internet uses today, was quoted in the Slate story saying that Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization "were communicating in a secretive fashion." Vixie declined to go on the record with CNN.
Even the skeptics have unanswered questions.
Robert Graham is a cybersecurity expert who wrote a widely circulated blog post in November that criticized computer scientists for premature conclusions connecting the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank.
But he's still wondering why Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health alone dominated links to this Trump server.
"It's indicative of communication between Trump, the health organization and the bank outside these servers," he told CNN. "There is some sort of connection I can't explain, and only they are doing it. It could be completely innocent.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politic ... p-organization/index.html

Posted on: 2017/3/10 15:13
 Top 


Re: Trump Our New President
Home away from home
Home away from home


White House dodges term Trumpcare
With the president unwilling so far to embrace Trumpcare, critics are hijacking the branding process with Ryancare, Obamacare-lite, and Obamacare 2.0.
By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM and JENNIFER HABERKORN 03/08/17 01:46 PM EST

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03 ... g-obamacare-repeal-235831


Posted on: 2016/11/11 16:09
Quote:

SOS wrote:
Quote:

hero69 wrote:
i hear scumbag is looking at tweaking obama care and dodd-frank....not repealing it.


Obamacare will be referred to as "Trumpcare" with certain unnecessary provisions gotten rid of like same rates for pre-existing conditions. It's gonna be GREAT!

Posted on: 2017/3/8 19:18
 Top 


Re: Trump Our New President
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

JCMan8 wrote:
Trump's first full month in office has shattered expectations, leading to the most new jobs being created in many years. I'm looking forward to 8 more years of this!

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/privat ... bs-february-2017-adp.html


Comrades - BLAME IT ON OBAMA!

No, wait...this is GOOD news. Attribute to Trump in this instance. Good job Mr. Trump!

Posted on: 2017/3/8 17:46
 Top 


Re: Moving Cross Country to Jersey City - Need Advice
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

akk4zd wrote:
So do I need to use a broker or no?


Use both, but Craigslist is best. Many landlords that actively manage their rentals use Craigslist.

Posted on: 2017/3/7 15:47
 Top 


Re: Trump Our New President
Home away from home
Home away from home


Quote:

JCMan8 wrote:
Obama is a real piece of crap, who wants to see this country torn apart. He's been leading the effort to impeach Trump, because he's a raging narcissist (far more than Trump) who only cares about his "legacy."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... -moves-Kaloroma-home.html


Thank you Comrade JCMan8! You are TRUE PATRIOT! Good work follow my advice! Yes true - Trump not narcissist, Obama narcissist!

Quote:

SOS wrote:

SS Trump ship sinking! What to do?
-Blame on Obama
-Blame on Hillary
-Mention isolated examples of minority or immigrants doing bad things
-Continue to spread fake new stories!
-And most important - use Muslims and immigrants as scapegoats!

Posted on: 2017/3/6 17:00
 Top 



TopTop
« 1 2 3 (4) 5 6 7 ... 28 »






Login
Username:

Password:

Remember me



Lost Password?

Register now!



LicenseInformation | AboutUs | PrivacyPolicy | Faq | Contact


JERSEY CITY LIST - News & Reviews - Jersey City, NJ - Copyright 2004 - 2017