What's up with the guy from DC who got caught trying to help a coup in the Congo?

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Yes, I think his wife is a victim and I feel sorry for her. Maybe there were red flags before they got married, maybe there weren't. But now her husband is in deep trouble and her world has been turned upside down. She herself has not done anything criminal.

We don’t know if she’s done anything criminal. In any case, she had to know that her husband was engaged in exploitative business practices in Africa and was happy with the lifestyle that gave her. Did she never ask how he was qualified to be a legitimate gold miner?

NP but what is a legitimate gold miner? Mining in general is always held up as a backbreaking job for people with no education or other prospects, and gold mining is either that "heading down the shaft with a pickaxe" model or shaking a pan in a creek. If someone told me they were a gold miner I would not demand credentials.

LOL he wasn't doing the mining himself. He was in the business of trying to buy & flip mining concessions. Who knows if he was actually successful.

So then he should have expertise in mining exploration and international conflict minerals investment and reporting requirements.

There is no way to spin this that shouldn’t have caused his wife to have serious red flags.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say both of them are cool with red flags galore:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/LyhQP79sENrj8atZ/?mibextid=K35XfP

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Yes, I think his wife is a victim and I feel sorry for her. Maybe there were red flags before they got married, maybe there weren't. But now her husband is in deep trouble and her world has been turned upside down. She herself has not done anything criminal.

He’s a registered Republican in DC. So many red flags with this guy.

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Gaslighting, love bombing, bread crumbing.. so many men do this. Stop heaping misery on a family.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Blaming victims, now?

There are many of us with spouses who developed serious personality problems or judgment failures, yet who presented very well for years before and after marriage. In the course of decades of life, things can definitely change for the worse.

When was she a victim? This woman was enjoying her home on the dolphin coast of South Africa raising her home schooled kid and feeding them from an upscale organic farm.

Yep. They seemed to live a nice lifestyle. Absolutely no sympathy.

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Anonymous wrote:The spouses of these people don’t even know the extent of their work activities. They are not allowed to tell them much at all about what they do at work.

Pretty sure this guy is not a 3-letter agency employee. He seems to be a get-rich-quick type of schemer based on what I've found online. He also has a federal conviction for trafficking pot.

He and his wife are home schooling their kids in some rural coastal town in South Africa.

I'll add - he appears to have grown up in the Cleveland Park/Tenleytown area. His step-father was a Georgetown Law professor. So definitely a local native.

Geez. Too much privilege.

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Yes, I think his wife is a victim and I feel sorry for her. Maybe there were red flags before they got married, maybe there weren't. But now her husband is in deep trouble and her world has been turned upside down. She herself has not done anything criminal.

He’s a registered Republican in DC. So many red flags with this guy.

Biggest red flag. What money was he living off. He seems like a grifter and she's clearly unemployed, yet having many unschooled babies.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m more interested in his wife. Going all in on an obvious loser.

Blaming victims, now?

There are many of us with spouses who developed serious personality problems or judgment failures, yet who presented very well for years before and after marriage. In the course of decades of life, things can definitely change for the worse.

When was she a victim? This woman was enjoying her home on the dolphin coast of South Africa raising her home schooled kid and feeding them from an upscale organic farm.

Yep. They seemed to live a nice lifestyle. Absolutely no sympathy.

I'm pretty sure you could go do that if you wanted. Don't hate because someone lives life more imaginatively

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Anonymous wrote:Tbh, who doesn’t dream of taking over a 3rd world country and be its petty dictator?

Only a fool would believe that this would be possible in a country as massive and complicated like the Congo.

It sounds like the coup leader was actually a delusional egomaniac that probably should have gone to therapy.

Fair. What country is your go-to in grand strategy coup domination?

Small, poorly governed countries with resource wealth are the obvious targets: Guyana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Brunei. But you need an insider as the titular leader or else you won’t have legitimacy. A lot of coups fail because it’s relatively easy to take over the Presidential Palace but what next? You cannot hole up in there indefinitely if no one will follow your orders.

The easier it is for you to coup, the easier it is for you to get couped. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Coupntry.

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Free Congo signs I've seen recently make more sense now.

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Some people are just criminals. I dated a guy who is now an executive in the pharma industry who sold guns and drugs in high school. More people than you think sold drugs in college.

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Yes, I think his wife is a victim and I feel sorry for her. Maybe there were red flags before they got married, maybe there weren't. But now her husband is in deep trouble and her world has been turned upside down. She herself has not done anything criminal.

We don’t know if she’s done anything criminal. In any case, she had to know that her husband was engaged in exploitative business practices in Africa and was happy with the lifestyle that gave her. Did she never ask how he was qualified to be a legitimate gold miner?

NP but what is a legitimate gold miner? Mining in general is always held up as a backbreaking job for people with no education or other prospects, and gold mining is either that "heading down the shaft with a pickaxe" model or shaking a pan in a creek. If someone told me they were a gold miner I would not demand credentials.

LOL he wasn't doing the mining himself. He was in the business of trying to buy & flip mining concessions. Who knows if he was actually successful.

So then he should have expertise in mining exploration and international conflict minerals investment and reporting requirements.

There is no way to spin this that shouldn’t have caused his wife to have serious red flags.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say both of them are cool with red flags galore:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/LyhQP79sENrj8atZ/?mibextid=K35XfP

Did you not read the headline? Presumably the wife had a good idea of who she married.

American detained in failed Congo coup is former DC drug dealer and married father-of-three who was running gold mining and e-cigarette business with slain mission's leader

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Anonymous wrote:State department passport too?

Smh no all passports say distributed by DOS if you're in the DC metro region.

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Spook.

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Anonymous wrote:Spook.

Can’t rule it out, but the social media presence and drug conviction point to privileged weirdo.

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Anonymous wrote:Spook.

Can’t rule it out, but the social media presence and drug conviction point to privileged weirdo.

I would think the drug conviction would be a no-no for our triple letter agencies.