Dominari Aces with McCourt Appointment

Dominari Holdings added Jamie McCourt, the former Ambassador of France & Monaco, to their Advisory Board.  

That board started with the elder Trump sons Don Jr., Eric and other Trump Organization executives (February 2025) before adding several crypto focused executives.  

Dominari's winning streak keeps on going.  It was only 2022 when the company shifted focus from biotech/pharma as Aikido Labs, LLC.  In June 2022:

" the Company formed a wholly owned financial services subsidiary, Dominari Financial Inc." 

By the end of March 2023 the company paid $3.4 million for the membership interests in: 

Fieldpoint Private Securities, LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company (“FPS”), that is a broker-dealer, a member of FINRA and an investment adviser registered with the SEC.

The entity (FPS) became Dominari Securities. 

Aikido Labs, LLC headquartered at:

One Rockefeller Plaza, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10020

Filings through its 2022 Annual Report (dated 3-31-2023) show that address.  

Dominari's first quarter report (filed 5-11-2023) shows a Trump Tower address.

725 FIFTH AVENUE, 22ND FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10022

That move got Dominari within the Trump deal making orbit.  

...its access to exclusive deals and the Trump family’s networks have changed its trajectory. Once obscure, the firm now sits at the intersection of politics, finance and family loyalty.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers CEO Jamie McCourt planted herself and her Monaco contacts smack in the middle of that intersection.  Accessing old European right wing money could be a sound strategy.

Dominari recently released its 2024 Annual Report.  It included:

Private Equity: Dominari Securities offers private equity investments through special purpose vehicles (“SPVs”) which allows investors to pool capital into specific investment projects while managing risk and liability. Dominari Securities structures and manages the SPVs, providing investors access to high-quality private equity opportunities in both early and late stage emerging technology, med-tech, defense, and artificial intelligence (“AI”) sectors, among others.

Dominari is a private equity underwriter (PEU).  Jamie McCourt is one as well, given her Senior Managing Director position with Steve Mnuchin's Liberty Strategic Capital.

Liberty Strategic Capital is a Washington DC-based private equity firm focused on investing in dynamic global technology companies.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.

Update 12-11-25:  Dominari stock opened today at $4.41 per share.  It announced a $10 million dividend which is roughly 44 cents per share.  That's a 10% dividend.  

With Dominari's 44 cents per share dividend, each older Trump son will get a check for $438,300.  

Trump II & Gowdy's Enriching Round

Some people think the pardon of Tim Leiweke of Oak View Group should not have happened on a golf course as Trump II played a round with Leiweke's lawyer Trey Gowdy.  Others think it should not have happened at all.

Trump's golf partner was Rep. Trey Gowdy (Red Team) from South Carolina.  Gowdy entered politics in 2000 promising to be tough on crime. GoUpstate reported:

"He has an aggressive and successful prosecution record," said Spartanburg police Sgt. Richard Banks, a veteran officer who also serves as president of the Piedmont chapter of the Police Benevolence Association. "He is genuinely interested in bringing felons to justice, and he has built a lasting partnership with law enforcement throughout the Upstate."

Yes, Gowdy is a former prosecutor.   

"He is really head and shoulders above most people in terms of preparation and integrity," said Tony Duarte, a DEA agent who worked with Gowdy in prosecuting a number drug cases. "One of the things I like about him is that he means what he says.

Integrity, aggressive, brings felons to justice in partnership with law enforcement...

What did Oak View Group's Tim Leiweke do?

..the Defendant rigged a bidding process to benefit his own company and deprived a public university and taxpayers of the benefits of competitive bidding

He ripped off the University of Texas as it built a new basketball arena and was caught red handed.

His lawyer (Gowdy) once told a group of prosecutors:

It’s my job to signal to [my elected district attorney] that I’m going to judge you based on how you work for a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales. 

I want a justice system that is not only respected but worthy of respect.

Then don't get a pardon for your sleazy, rich, greedy client during a round of golf with a sleazy, rich, greedy Trump II.  There's no respect in that.  Winning for you and your client, but a huge loss for the U.S. Justice system.  

It's now "Just Us" rich, powerful guys watching each other's backs.  

Update:  The Department of "Just Us" website shows 89 clemency grants by Trump II as of 12-2-25.  He has golfed 79 days thus far.  That's a pardon ratio of 1.13 super rich creeps per round.  It would be far higher if the Jan 6th rioters were included but I doubt many of those people had the money to hire Trey Gowdy as their lawyer.  

Someone with integrity may wish to consider Jesse's words:

The disapproval ratings of the major Western leaders is almost shocking. This is the fashionable thing these days, to damn the public and do what they will. Their devotion to a new order of lawlessness and power is slowly consuming us.

Usurp, appropriate, subsume whatever Trump II wants in order to set up a perpetual, exponentially growing gravy train.

Apollo Sports Capital Takes Stake in Wrexham AFC

The Guardian reported: 

The Wrexham AFC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have sold a stake in the company to the US private equity investors Apollo, less than three months after the football club was given £14m in state aid. 

 The Welsh club on Monday announced the investment by Apollo Sports Capital, part of the New York-listed investor. It did not reveal the size of the investment, but said Reynolds and McElhenney, who has changed his name to Rob Mac, would remain majority owners. 

Apollo’s investment is likely to have been made more attractive by the prospect of significant government support. Wrexham AFC was awarded £14m in non-repayable grants on 17 September, after receiving £3.8m last year.

Apollo, a monstrous private equity underwriter (PEU), started Apollo Sports Capital in September 2025.  

Its Wrexham PEU investment enabled owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney to garner a sizable return of capital.  The pair purchased the club in 2021.

In just over a year, Wrexham AFC has been able to repay loans worth £15m to a company co-owned by McElhenny and Reynolds, according to its latest accounts. 

It has also attracted tens of millions of pounds in investment from the wealthy New York-based Allyn family. 

The Allyn investment in Red Dragon Ventures LLC came through their family office, 50 State LLC.  

50 State LLC invested in SpaceX and OpenAI.  Eric Allyn and his daughter Kaleen Allyn have substantial financial backgrounds.  

Eric Allyn is also an LP Advisor to Armory Square Ventures, a tech oriented venture capital firm in upstate New York. A managing partner wrote about AI and its ability to empower secondary cities in the Northeast U.S.

Kaleen Allyn is a Director for Wrexham and formerly worked as an Alternative Investment Product Specialist for Rockefeller Capital Management.  

She focuses on strategic investments across private equity, real estate, venture capital, and direct investments.

Apollo Sports Capital weighed in on the Wrexham deal:

Lee Solomon, an Apollo partner, said: “Wrexham is on an incredible journey, and we are thrilled to be a part of it and to support the club, the Wrexham community and Rob and Ryan. This is a multifaceted investment where Apollo Sports Capital can provide long-term, patient capital to help Wrexham reach its goals and to contribute to the ongoing revitalisation of the facilities and local economy.”

With £18m in public subsidy to revitalize facilities Apollo, 50 State LLC and Wrexham Holdings can be very patient.  As for revitalizing the local economy in this age of AI, that remains to be seen. 

Two month old Apollo Sports Capital bought the third oldest football club in the world.  Wrexham was established in 1864.  Is Apollo Sports Capital old enough to order a beer in the stadium?  Ah, hell,  It's Wales.  They don't care, at least not yet.  The greed and leverage boys can be very annoying, maybe more like a two year old.

Warner Brothers: Affinity and Beyond!

Trump II's son-in-law Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners joined Paramount-Skydance in their latest bid for Warner Brothers.  Affinity is a private equity underwriter (PEU) headed by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and it's chock full of Middle East money (from various sovereign wealth funds).

Trump II noted problems with the Netflix purchase, a deal accepted by Warner Brothers board of directors.

It's not clear which deal will advance but the amount of foreign money could trigger a CFIUS review.  Should that happen, former Affinity Partners Head of  Global Research Kevin Hassett could be in the room as  the head of the National Economic Council.

It's also not known if a review would take place before Hassett leaves to take over as Fed Chair.  There are a lot of moving parts.  

Oddly, one of those involves another PEU, former Carlyle Group co-CEO Glenn Youngkin.  As his Virginia Governorship grows to a close, Youngkin is under consideration for replacing Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Director.  That role also comes with a CFIUS spot.  

Former PEUs could be approving a PEU aided Paramount deal for Warner Brothers.  That's the kind of conflict of interest they like.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and increasingly, more are one.

Trump II Goes After Bit Cons & D Mules

At the start I wish to declare the following:  All fraud is bad.  It is a dishonest appropriation of someone else's resources by manipulative person/agents.

On Face the Nation Treasury Chief Scott Bessent noted that IRS enforcement had caught fraudsters in Minnesota.  

"These are money via bureau services and they are wire transfer organizations outside the regular banking system."

That sounds like fintech and its twisted sister, crypto.  TechGods have long wanted their own system of money outside government inspection.  To my surprise they were willing to work with serial child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in that endeavor.  

Byline Times reported:

The Edge Foundation was not just a talk-shop. For Jeffrey Epstein, it was a route to influence the direction of Silicon Valley, AI, Big Tech and cryptocurrency at their most pivotal period. One of the most crucial moments of impact was on Bitcoin, the world’s most recognised, valuable and widely used cryptocurrency. 

At the very moment Bitcoin’s future was in jeopardy, Epstein’s money and access placed him inside the institutions that were beginning to frame the cryptocurrency as a tool to route around nation states – and consolidate power among a new class of networked tech elites.

Back to all fraud is bad and Bessent's IRS enforcement.  The Big Beautiful Bill impacts that very thing:

....IRS units auditing the wealthy have faced huge cuts. As of March, the Pass-Through Entities office of the IRS had lost 27% of its staff, while the Global High Wealth unit had lost 38%. These staff reductions bode poorly for tax enforcement: When the IRS was crunched for resources in the 2010s, there was a 71% drop in audits of millionaires.

.Bessent made it clear that fraud by recent immigrants is not acceptable and it will be investigated:  

"When you come to this country you need to learn what side of the road to drive on,you've got to learn to stop at stop signs and you've got to learn not to defraud the American people."

Trump appears interested in catching or killing only small time persons in the drug trade as he recently pardoned convicted drug smuggler former President of Honduras Juan Hernandez.  One does not get convicted in the U.S. without evidence.  The Guardian reported:

Thanks to Trump’s shocking pardon, Hernández’s drug crimes are now more well known than ever. But the rest of his repressive, thieving, dictatorial history, backed by the United States year after year, has evaporated from the story.

Trump II must feel the same way about fraud as he does about drugs.  Let's catch the little guy and make him pay while the President pardoned fraudster after fraudster in the finance world.  

"Fintech appropriates depositor money based on lies."  That's Synapse Financial Technologies, an Andreessen Horowitz affiliate.  We will see who gets prosecuted first, Synapse or Somalis.

Trump II protected Jeffrey Epstein as he worked on the currency of criminals.  He pardoned the Honduran President after he had stolen government money and facilitated the movement of 400 tons of illegal drugs into the United States.  That fit with Trump II's earlier pardon of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.

Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.

Ross Ulbricht was a dark marketplace TechGod.  Jeffrey Epstein ran in the same circles as major TechGods:

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who sat on MIT Media Lab’s advisory council, invited Ito and Epstein to an August 2015 dinner in Palo Alto with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel – the PayPal co-founder and driving force behind Palantir. 

The Honduran President worked directly with TechGods to establish Propsera:

Próspera is a special economic zone, specifically a “Zone for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE),” as established by the Honduran government in 2013. The legality of these zones was originally enshrined in the Honduran Constitution by former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to attract investment and for economic development. In 2017, Honduras Próspera Inc., a U.S. based company, signed an agreement with the Honduran government, taking control of the zone. Its identity as a semi-autonomous zone is unique; the Honduran government has little control over it, Honduran law does not apply there, and the zone does not pay taxes. For example, labor laws and regulations are different, as well as the court system, which is not headed by Honduran judges. The zone is effectively governed by the corporation. 

Libertarian-leaning tech billionaires such as Peter Thiel and Marc Andressen have invested in Próspera’s development.   

And that corporation is owned by a PEU, NeWay Capital.  It's founder spoke at the Federalist Society.

Trump II effectively made the U.S. a fraud non-prosecution zone for the wealthy.  My wise friend wrote after Trump pardoned David Gentile, a private equity underwriter (PEU) who ran a Ponzi scheme:

By pardoning Gentile, the Trump administration made it a moot point to go after people skimming off others assets for personal gain and enrichment. If you're a prosecutor, even if you prove wrongdoing, what's the point? 

Instead of raising the bar on white collar crime we will remove the bar altogether. Therefore party on and no need to fear. Hopefully lack of trust grinds the market to a halt.

I'm sure the full force of the law will come down on Somali immigrants.  

Politics is an insufficient way to explain our world, given its ever shifting sands, serial mistruths and mind numbing double standards.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  And their sons shall be far richer than their fathers. 

Update:  Trump pardoned another financial criminal after a round of golf with the perpetrator's lawyer, Red Team former Rep. Trey Gowdy. 

Trump pardoned Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke.

...the Defendant rigged a bidding process to benefit his own company and deprived a public university and taxpayers of the benefits of competitive bidding

Oak View was funded by PEUs.

A golf fan noted:

“Another pardon, another GOP representative owned by Trump, another millionaire owned by Trump. And all owe him huge favors in the future. This is the new government. Congress needs to legislate out these kind of pardons, this is a top priority. Why waste DOJ money prosecuting?”

 Sounds an awful lot like my wise friend...

Update 2-9-26:  Kidnappers of Nancy Guthrie want their ransom paid in the currency of criminals, $6 million worth of Bitcoin.

What has been done over the last eight years to deal with anonymous crypto ransom's to criminals? 

This Holiday Season, Let's Not Consider Peter Thiel's Teachings

Joe Lonsdale, TechGod of intrusive spying & masculine public executions, wrote a defense of Peter Thiel's Anti-Christ teachings.  It's dated December 2, 2025.

Londsale began by lauding Thiel's ability to play the long game in various tech ventures and political wins for the Red Team.  

Translated Biblically, Thiel may have been an early aggregator of olive orchards, traded spices from Asia, profited from the bars and whorehouses of Sodom and Gomorrah and been an early supporter of Pontius Pilate when everyone else thought he was a dolt.  Surely a Biblical Thiel would have hated the tax collector Zacchaeus, like everyone else (except Jesus who dined with him).  

The Bible is full of people living earthly lives who, after their interaction with Jesus or one of his disciples, repents and pursues more heavenly ends.  Peter Thiel has not done that.  He may rue an investment that went bad or a candidate that didn't win.  

Thiel's ends of unrestrained economic and political power remain firmly intact.  In fact that's his Anti-Christ message.  Anyone who can interfere with TechGods and restrain them is evil.

Lonsdale said this of Christians:

In Christian thought, the only throne for the whole earth is that of Christ

There's a bit more.  We have the Father (God), the Son (Christ) and the Holy Spirit.   The Gospels of the Bible reveal story after story about Christ's teachings of rejecting earthly ways and creating heaven on earth.  

I doubt Jesus would compliment Peter Thiel or Joe Lonsdale for putting digital Roman soldiers on every street corner of the internet.  I'm pretty sure he would not endorse Christ's return via artificial intelligence, Jesus with an 85% accuracy rate as suggested by Joe Rogan.  Is the other 15% Satanic or just plain drivel?

Jesus, the victim of a public execution to dissuade others, might not endorse Lonsdale's recent call for same.   Joe also expressed interest in investing in Iran.  Apparently, he's a quick study, emulating mullahs who similarly enact masculine executions, although less publicly than Joe recommends.

Lonsdale went on to explore aspects of Revelations.  Dreams and myths are kaleidoscopes, enabling people to see and experience different things. 

What is Peter Thiel really arguing against with his "Anti-Christ" teachings?  Thiel opposes any coordinated cross government approach to rein in the power of TechGods or slow the exponential growth rate of their already obscene wealth.  

Jesus called us to embrace and uplift, to listen and truly hear, to be thankful, to willingly give of one's self and resources and to render unto the earthly powerful that which they must have.  I'd hate to think that is my biometrics.

For all the talk of Christianity, Peter Thiel sponsored politicians straight from the Old Testament.  There is no discernable evidence they follow Christ's teachings.  Fortunately, Old Testament monarchs don't tend to band together into one world governments.  They are too busy trying to conquer one another while controlling their people.

If TechGod/PEU Peter Thiel must have a "One World Government" Anti-Christ, like Caesar in the Bible, let's render that unto him.  He and his disciples will soon be old and infirmed and they can't stand losing, caring or sharing.  

Jesus fed the crowds he spoke to.  Billionaire Peter Thiel charged $200 a head for the series.

Trump Accounts Have PEUs Cheering

Semafor reported how Trump baby accounts can morph into Social Security's replacement, a new public pension system:

The model, former SEC chairman and current SDNY Chief Jay Clayton suggested to me at our The Ledger live event this week, is “a well-run pension fund… invested across American industry as much as possible” — like, he said, Australia. There, a national system of mandatory wage-garnishment has created a $4.5 trillion complex of “superannuation” funds — an astounding $300,000 per worker — that’s invested mostly in Australian stocks and property, with enough left over for the country to punch well above its weight as an international investor. The US Social Security trust fund has about $15,000 per employed person today, and it’s clipping Treasury coupons.

For it to work here, there have to be wages. 

Many TechGods believe jobs are going away, thus wages will do likewise and disappear.

Michael and Susan Dell are kick starting Trump II's baby accounts with $6.25 billion, or $250 per 25 million children.  That is in addition to the government contributing $1,000 per child.  Michael Dell started MSD Capital, L.P. in 1998 and added MSD Partners, L.P. (for outside investors) in 2009.  MSD Capital rebranded as DFO Management LLC in 2022.  

MSD Partners was ranked #40 in size among global private equity underwrites (PEU) in 2025 by Private Equity International.  #1 for 2025 was KKR.  My wise friend informed me of KKR's early success in the Pacific Northwest, the Blue states of Washington and Oregon.  That was a key time as LBOs began rebranding as private equity and needed a beachhead 

Here's a gem from Buyouts September 2000:

In raising capital for their New Millenium Fund, KKR revisited the deep green wells of well-heeled public pension funds such as the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System and the $60 billion Washington State Investment Board.

PEUs have long been the answer for public pensions to chase greater returns.  

Over the last twenty five years PEUs sent U.S. jobs by the yacht-load from the U.S. to India and Southeast Asia.  What PEUs started by exporting jobs and reducing domestic affiliate headcount, TechGods plan to finish with AI and robots of various sorts.

Given that Trump II's manufacturing renaissance  is based on automated factories, it remains to be seen how many human jobs are created once those factories are built.  

I purposefully have no private equity, private credit or alternatives in my IRA and don't want Social Security or its evolutionary successor to hold that junk either.  I know who elected officials have listened to since before the New Millenium.  It's been the subject of PEUReport (started July 2007).  

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.

Update 12-7-25:  Trump baby accounts are being recognized for the Trojan Horse they are.