MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail *edit*

This is going to be a great episode of possibly seeing the tabloid paper and its own ceo who has always helped the jackass in office over the past couple decades might soon be in trouble himself (ie: Mr. Pecker and his company AMI)

Here is thread and link to NY Times article and also to Bezos' own tweet.

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Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142261457

https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1093643321732464646

I’ve written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI.
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Here is a different thread with one of the posts that links to Vanity Fair's article.

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Rick Wilson's response to what Jeff Bezos did today
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211791037
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Most important part of the thread is this post...

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11791670

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Trying to Blackmail Him with Nude Photos

JEFF BEZOS ACCUSES NATIONAL ENQUIRER OF TRYING TO BLACKMAIL HIM WITH NUDE PHOTOS
BY BESS LEVIN
FEBRUARY 7, 2019 7:10 PM

The Amazon C.E.O. says the Trump-friendly publication threatened to release a “d--k pick” if he didn’t make a public statement that A.M.I. was never “politically motivated or influenced by political forces.”

According to Bezos’s post, his legal and investigatory team was approached by American Media Inc., publisher of The National Enquirer, with a demand to halt their investigation and tell the press they had “no knowledge or basis for suggesting that A.M.I.’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.” And if Bezos refused? Well, A.M.I. would have no choice but to make certain photos, detailed by its “Chief Content Officer” in the e-mail below, public:

From: Howard, Dylan [[email protected]] (Chief Content Officer, A.M.I.)
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 3:33 P.M.
To: Martin Singer (litigation counsel for Mr. de Becker)
Subject: Jeff Bezos & Ms. Lauren Sanchez Photos
CONFIDENTIAL & NOT FOR DISTRIBIUTION [sic]
Marty:
I am leaving the office for the night. I will be available on my cell -- 917 XXX-XXXX.
However, in the interests of expediating this situation, and with The Washington Post poised to publish unsubstantiated rumors of The National Enquirer’s initial report, I wanted to describe to you the photos obtained during our newsgathering.

In addition to the “below the belt selfie -- otherwise colloquially known as a ‘d--k pick’” -- the Enquirer obtained a further nine images. These include:
· Mr. Bezos face selfie at what appears to be a business meeting.
· Ms. Sanchez response -- a photograph of her smoking a cigar in what appears to be a simulated oral sex scene.
· A shirtless Mr. Bezos holding his phone in his left hand -- while wearing his wedding ring. He’s wearing either tight black cargo pants or shorts -- and his semi-erect manhood is penetrating the zipper of said garment.
· A full-length body selfie of Mr. Bezos wearing just a pair of tight black boxer-briefs or trunks, with his phone in his left hand -- while wearing his wedding ring.
· A selfie of Mr. Bezos fully clothed.
· A full-length scantily-clad body shot with short trunks.
· A naked selfie in a bathroom -- while wearing his wedding ring. Mr. Bezos is wearing nothing but a white towel -- and the top of his pubic region can be seen.
· Ms. Sanchez wearing a plunging red neckline dress revealing her cleavage and a glimpse of her nether region.
· Ms. Sanchez wearing a two-piece red bikini with gold detail dress revealing her cleavage.
It would give no editor pleasure to send this e-mail. I hope common sense can prevail -- and quickly.
Dylan.

entire article at: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-ami-medium

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Another important part of same thread is this post that links to Maddow's blog where Maddow shows the agreement that may have been violated after the recent extortion against Bezos. Expect agreement to be canceled and criminal charges to eventually appear.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11792053

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1093710640160612353

The non-prosecution agreement AMI has with SDNY prosecutors is contingent upon, among other things, them not committing any crimes.
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A different thread where one of the better posts gives the best clue of why Bezos was being blackmailed.

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CNN legal analyst: Yes, National Enquirer tried to extort Bezos

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211791621

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11791713

They wanted Bezo to personally write something and to have the Post back off the investigation into the Saudis murder of one of their journalists.

They were blackmailing him for influence. Big business pays influencers when they uptick their message, so it financially should have value. That one attorney on MSNBC was wrong with it not having any monetary value. It does.
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The blackmail attempt against Bezos was to humiliate him if he didn't intervene and threaten Washington Post reporters to end their news story investigations into Saudi Arabia after what had happened to their WAPO colleague J. Kashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate building inside Turkey in October 2018.

As for my guessing (edited) of how this was played out:

a. Saudi Arabian ruler talks to the 'jackass in office' probably with some bribe or something knowing the jackass is a 'compromised' target ('kompromat asset' as described in Russian terms)

b. 'jackass in office' or someone else in administration then contacts ceo David Pecker of AMI corp to look into what can be done about Bezos and WAPO paper.

c. AMI probably contacted someone with connections to some hackers to intercept Bezos' cell phone data and fish out any data that might be damaging to Bezos personally. Or the text and data could have been intercepted by a government entity according to someone that was hired to represent Bezos.

d. hackers or government entity found the 'compromised evidence' and sent copies of data back to AMI

e. AMI attorney then proceeds to threaten Jeff Bezos with humiliating evidence if Bezos refuses to meet their demands.

Great to see Bezos refusing to give in and instead begin process of going after AMI and the corporate lackeys that work with the 'jackass in office'. Maybe Bezos will be acquiring another news print empire within a few months after the main culprits get sent to prison because I am certain they will be prosecuted after what has been reported because the evidence is now in plain sight.

The 'jackass in office' will soon have one less ally helping him, but maybe both Pecker and the jackass can eventually be 'prison mate pen pals' sometime later.

Edited by gregf (02/08/19 10:20 PM)