Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Do yourself a favor and read this entire story that is bound to get more and more attention over time.
While it is interesting, but not surprising, that Mar-a-Lago is easily breached, the real story here is who this Russian speaking Ukranian woman was actually pretending to be.
For a time, Anna de Rothschild boasted of her family roots to the European banking dynasty, donning designer clothes, a Rolex watch, and driving a $170,000 black Mercedes-Benz SUV.
She talked about developing a sprawling luxury housing project on Emerald Bay in the Bahamas, a high-rise hotel in Monaco, and a Formula One race track in Miami, say people who knew her.
A pivotal moment for the woman who was fluent in several languages took place last year when she was invited to Mar-a-Lago, where she mingled with former President Donald Trump’s supporters and showed up the next day for a golf outing with Mr. Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham among other political luminaries.
Rothschild. The family that groomed Trump since the 80s and saved him from various bankruptcies. The family that first introduced him to Wilbur Ross, when he was a Rothschild attorney, and ended up being on his cabinet. The family he tried to distance himself from and create an aura of animosity with when he ran for president in 2016.
And then… all this fake heiress has to do is drop the Rothschild name and she gets full access to the former president, his castle and all of his amenities.
It’s so easy to con a mark once you know their weakness — vanity.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project learned that numerous records have been turned over to the FBI as part of the inquiry, including copies of two fake passports from the U.S. and Canada — bearing her photo and the name Anna de Rothschild — and a Florida driver’s license with the same name that shows the address of an opulent $13 million mansion in Miami Beach where she has never lived.
In addition to the FBI, law enforcement agents in Canada have confirmed that she has been the subject of a major crimes unit investigation in Quebec since February.
And now that both Canadian and US authorities have begun their investigations into the breach, I would keep a close eye on this topic. Of particular interest will be the overlap of the secret documents being stored at Mar-a-Lago and what access this Russian speaking implant had. Was she able to access any of the confidential information while it was stored there?