Wendy Siegelman

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Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jun 10

US Dept of Energy created an Office of Fusion and published a 'Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap' that includes leveraging public private partners One of 13 companies listed is TAE Technologies which plans to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group www.energy.gov/documents/fu...

Table of fusion companies - page 11 of link in post

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· May 1

Talk about a big payday - Asher Genoot (31 yrs old) and Michael Ho (32) run American Bitcoin with Eric Trump who owns 9.3% Genoot & Ho also run Hut 8 (8B market cap, owns American Bitcoin) 2024: Genoot & Ho salary+bonus+stock was $10M 2025: Genoot's comp $239M, Ho's comp $121M

Image shows a table with header Executive Officer Compensation showing annual amounts from several executives, link in next post.

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· May 1

Here's the SEC filing for Tron Inc, majority owned by Justin Sun's father, which notes they signed a lease agreement through 2028 in Trump Tower in NYC www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Image shows text from Tron Inc SEC filing sub section 'Item 2. Properties' showing Trump Tower lease agreement details.

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Feb 14

Feb 2015 email in which Epstein said he will lend Kates 6 million to buy Golden Gate out, and to offer 5 to start "my name cannot be involved. of course." www.justice.gov/age-verify?d...

Image shows email from Epstein to Kates - Feb 2015 email in which Epstein said he will lend Kates 6 million to buy Golden Gate out, and to offer 5 to start "my name cannot be involved. of course."

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Feb 3

SEC filing for IPO of Swarmer where Erik Prince is Board Chairman - filing includes list of company executives and beneficial owners www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

part of Swarmer registration statement showing blue and white table with list of beneficial owners

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jan 30

Here's the SEC filing for Dominari Holdings showing the 2025 Executive Compensation packages worth over $66 million www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

SEC filing showing Executive Compensation - at this link - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12239/000121390026007779/ea0274100-pre14a_dominari.htm#a_003

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jan 7

2022 chart on Erik Prince's Unplugged newstracs.com/new-erik-pri... Unplugged US, LLC registered in Nevada in Dec 2025 opencorporates.com/companies/us... Unplugged US, LLC registered in North Carolina in Jan 2026 opencorporates.com/companies/us...

UNPLUGGED US, LLC on Open Corporates - link: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nv/E53873222025-0

UNPLUGGED US, LLC in North Carolina on OpenCorporates - link: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nc/3194179

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Dec 19

An example of what I mean by grandiose, from the AlphaTON X account

Image shows 'Join the AlphaTON Capital World Tour' and 'Starship Alpha is Boarding' in call cap letters and 6 people including Brittany Kaiser dressed in space suits looking at a futuristic map on a starship

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Nov 28

Don Jr is an investor in Thumzup which plans to acquire Dogehash Technologies A filing this week reveals Titan Multi-Strategy Fund I Ltd - run by Jonathan Honig - loaned Doge $1.9million After acquisition former Doge shareholders will own over 60% of combined company www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Image shows text with header 'Amendment to Merger Consideration' from section of the Thumzup SEC filing - the link to full readable filing is in the post.

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Nov 26

Trump, Crypto and a New Age of Corruption Report on how Trump profits from crypto deals (World Liberty Financial, memecoins, Trump Media etc) and $ from foreign actors & corp interests, while regulations scale back, from @democrats-judiciary.house.gov democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Image shows 'TRUMP, CRYPTO, AND A NEW AGE OF CORRUPTION' in bold white letters at the top (Corruption is in red) and below a chipped gold coin with the face of Trump

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Nov 11

From 2023: Brad Parscale is working for Trump 2024 campaign and is linked to Texas billionaire Tim Dunn, Hexagon and Angel Protection a company piloting technology to detect school shooters Story mentions Campaign Nucleus, Dyspatchit, BCVM Services work for Trump PACs newstracs.com/brad-parscal...

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Nov 11

A few notes on the 1730 page Jack Smith subpoena released by Chuck Grassley Jan 6th is mentioned almost 100 times Various Trump PACs (200+ times) Bradley Parscale (286) Andrew Surabian (262) Gary Coby (236) Along w/Parscale, Surabian, Coby companies www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Request for Documents list, excerpt from Jack Smith Subpoena, link in post

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Nov 9

Don Jr is a partner at 1789 Capital founded by Omeed Malik, Chris Buskirk, Rebekah Mercer - all part of the Rockbridge Network An item not getting enough coverage: 1789 initially raised $150M+ from Rebekah Mercer per an SEC filing communication from Malik www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Image displays the text: Malik’s 1789 Capital — named for the year the Bill of Rights was adopted — has raised more than $150 million from GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, who backed news site Breitbart, researchers Cambridge Analytica and former Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters.

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Nov 6

My 2024 piece featuring Chris Buskirk - Chart and overview of key links for J.D. Vance with mentor Peter Thiel, the little-known Rockbridge Network and 2016 kingmaker Rebekah Mercer newstracs.com/chart-and-ov...

Image shows sections labeled Rockbridge Network, 1789 Capital, Rumble, Colombier Acquisition, Parler, Heritage and the people connected - click link to go to article that is html readable

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Oct 11

Here's my 2019 chart on the alleged Kazakhstan Bayrock money laundering scheme involving Felix Sater - this recent trial was against Sater (not Bayrock) newstracs.com/alleged-kaza...

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Oct 11

Brittany Kaiser is CEO of AlphaTON, formerly named Portage Biotech co-founded by Brexit supporter Jim Mellon, who is a large investor Selling shareholders lists Yat Sui's Brisk Thrive Int'l with 17.59% and Hogarth Ventures (at same address) with 11.59% www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

AlphaTON Capital list of Selling Shareholders from recent SEC filing (see link in post)

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Sep 4

AlphaTON Capital leadership team and advisors Strategic advisors, include "Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of SkyBridge; Michael Terpin, widely recognized as the “Godfather of Crypto” and author of The Bitcoin Supercycle; and Jaime Rogozinski, founder of Wall Street Bets." www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

AlphaTON Leadership Team - Brittany Kaiser, Enzo Villani and Yury Mitin - from this SEC filing - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1095435/000117184325005707/f424b3_090325.htm

AlphaTON Strategy Advisors - include Anthony Scaramucci and others - from here: AlphaTON Leadership Team - Brittany Kaiser, Enzo Villani and Yury Mitin - from this SEC filing - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1095435/000117184325005707/f424b3_090325.htm

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Sep 4

The Financial Times reported that Brittany Kaiser was in discussions with Canadian investment group RSV Capital I noted there is an RSV Capital aka Red Shark Ventures in Canada led by several businessmen from Russia and many had been involved with Russia's Skolkovo newstracs.com/eric-trumps-...

Image shows text from Newstracs.com on Kaiser and RSV Capital - link here: https://newstracs.com/eric-trumps-stake-in-american-bitcoin-corp-may-be-367m-after-ipo/2025/08/06/

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Aug 13

Yesterday I published this piece on PragerU spending tens of millions on Facebook/Google advertising newstracs.com/prageru-is-m... Today PragerU published a 55 min interview with their CEO Marissa Streit interviewing (aka reputation laundering) Hungarian PM Viktor Orban

Image of post on X by Viktor Orban quoting a PragerU post on his interview with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Aug 13

For anyone not familiar with PragerU here is an overview of the nonprofit (which is not accredited to award any degrees) and some of their largest donors I report on top 5 contractors 2018-2024 with $44.5M spent on Facebook and $38M on Google newstracs.com/prageru-is-m...

Image shows table of Top 5 contractors for PragerU from their 990s from 2018-2024 - this link has an html version of the data -
https://newstracs.com/prageru-is-making-inroads-with-wh-and-spent-millions-on-facebook-and-google/2025/08/12/

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Aug 5

The prospectus shows beneficial owners of New America Acquisition 1 Corp before and after the offering with a footnote saying CEO Kevin McGurn "only has a direct economic interest in a limited number of the shares held by New America Sponsor I LLC" - begging the question, who owns the other shares?

Image shows SEC prospectus for New America Acquisition I Corp and the beneficial owners before and after the offering

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jul 30

My story from 2023 on Rowland Marcus Andrade How a crypto case involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff links to Maria Butina, Paul Erickson and a U.S.-Ukraine businessman with oligarch ties newstracs.com/how-a-crypto...

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jul 22

An entity called Etoiles Trust gave $50K to Empower NYC - but I can't find any information on who is behind them (let me know if anyone can find more info) www.transparencyusa.org/ny/committee...

Image shows 'Top Contributors' on left and 'Top Payees' on right for Empower NYC, link is post goes to the web page with more information.

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jul 10

I put together a compilation of some 5 min PragerU videos for older students, with titles: As the rich get richer, the poor get richer Why you should love Fossil Fuel Income inequality is good Why I don't want and don't deserve reparations Gun rights are women's rights newstracs.com/financial-hi...

Image shows a compilation of Prager U videos with bright blue, orange and yellow graphics and guest speakers - titles include "As the rich get richer, the poor get richer" and "Why you should love Fossil Fuel"

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jul 5

I searched SEC database on part of note from the World Liberty Financial Form D filing - "excludes amounts offered and sold to non-US persons" - and those words don't appear on other Form Ds It's striking that almost 100% of offering will be paid out to Trump and friends bsky.app/profile/wend...

Image shows 13. Offering and Sales Amounts $52,133,139 and the note: "The TAS excludes amounts offered and sold to non-US persons in a separate concurrent, offering consistent with Regulation S." from the World Liberty Financial July 3 Form D filing

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jun 12

Since Trump likes it so much when other people get media coverage, can Time please do one of these for Stephen Miller?

Image shows cover of Time Magazine, with text that says 'The Great Manipulator' Steve Bannon and below a headline "Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?"

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Jun 9

In March I published a story on a Russian-American businessman who loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022 and apparent links to Don Jr. and Eric Trump's new business ventures I found that Brittany Kaiser was Gryphon Board Chair during a deal linked to that network newstracs.com/news-on-russ...

Image of text from article that is linked to - text shows section on former Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser, Gryphon Digital and links to people in Trump's orbit

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· May 19

It's good to see the media finally covering Dominari - I reported a lot of the information in the Bloomberg article previously - including that Dominari paid $750K in rent to Trump Tower and that in addition to Eric and Don Jr, 3 other Trump Org execs own Dominari shares newstracs.com?s=dominari

Image shows the website Newstracs.com and the 'Search Results' for Dominari, listing 4 articles available at this link - https://newstracs.com/?s=dominari

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· May 12

In March I reported on some of Don Jr and Eric Trump's business partners and found a connection with Gryphon Digital where Brittany Kaiser had been board chair I noted "maybe there is more to these connections than meets the eye" - today's news shows I was right newstracs.com/news-on-russ...

Screenshot shows text excerpt from the article for a section that starts "It would be a coincidence..." The link in the post goes to the full article.

Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman· Apr 10

Oh the irony - Trump Media & Technology Group which operates Truth Social (Truth+ and FinTech brand Truth.Fi) announced today that Trump Media streaming apps are now available in Canada and Mexico "Truth+ Apps Can Be Downloaded North and South of the Border" www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...