Шарлатанская империя Брэндана Валлорани помогала мошенникам, которые в сговоре со Стивом Бэнноном собирали с лохов деньги на Стену.
One popular site, Republican Legion, has been selling a “Build the Wall” play set, including Lego-like building blocks and a Donald Trump figurine wearing a “Make America Great Again” hardhat. It also sells a “Border Patrol kit,” marked down from $40 to $34.95: a barbed-wire barrier, plus two figurines each of border dogs, gun-toting border officers and sombrero-wearing “illegal immigrants.” The man behind Republican Legion, Brandon Vallorani, once managed website design and upkeep for right-wing news sites run by Brian Kolfage, the single largest wall fundraiser. Since selling his former company, Liberty Alliance, a network of websites, Vallorani says he now concentrates on the conservative merchandise business through his company Romulus Marketing LLC. “We successfully promote many gift and novelty items that speak to a variety of conservative values,” Vallorani said in emailed responses to questions. His Thrasher coffee company offers a “Border Blend” - “our most controversial coffee ever” - promising part of the proceeds will go to Kolfage’s organization. Vallorani would not say how much. Romulus has battled consumer complaints. The Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network and the Better Business Bureau contain at least 26 complaints and six critical reviews from the past year and a half, many saying the Build the Wall toy was delivered late, or not at all. The Better Business Bureau gives Romulus an “F” rating. Vallorani says the company goes “above and beyond” to respond to customers, but will never be able to satisfy all complaints. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-borderwall-business/
Despite Kolfage’s repeated denials of owning the now-defunct Freedom Daily, former employees and competitors, most of whom asked for anonymity out of fear of retribution, provided company emails, employment documents and company checks that show Kolfage’s home address as Freedom Daily’s corporate business address. Kolfage told NBC News that he simply managed the finances and administration for Freedom Daily. He said the operation’s true owner lives in another country and is unwilling to talk about the website. The one site Kolfage does claim to be “associated with,” Right Wing News, features a chief operating officer on its website named "Steven Smith," whose headshot is a reverse image of a stock photo. Kolfage declined to provide biographical details or contact information for Smith, who former employees allege does not exist. Kolfage is listed as the site’s social media strategist. Kolfage told NBC news that Smith is real, but operates the website anonymously for fear of threats to his family “from the left.” FreedomDaily was part of a network of websites operating under the umbrella of “Liberty Alliance,” a Christian online media empire that hosts and serves advertising on the websites of the far-right’s loudest and most partisan voices. FreedomDaily and other right-wing content makers under Liberty Alliance would swap hyperpartisan content to attract readers and frequently trafficked in far-right propaganda and false articles. FreedomDaily shut down in February 2018, the same month the site was sued for publishing an article that had falsely identified the driver of the car that killed a protestor during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. While several of the other defendants have paid settlements to the incorrectly identified person, lawyers for the plaintiff told NBC News they were still trying to find the FreedomDaily's owner to enforce a default entry against the site. FreedomDaily's owner failed to respond to the lawsuit. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna957896
One popular site, Republican Legion, has been selling a “Build the Wall” play set, including Lego-like building blocks and a Donald Trump figurine wearing a “Make America Great Again” hardhat. It also sells a “Border Patrol kit,” marked down from $40 to $34.95: a barbed-wire barrier, plus two figurines each of border dogs, gun-toting border officers and sombrero-wearing “illegal immigrants.”
The man behind Republican Legion, Brandon Vallorani, once managed website design and upkeep for right-wing news sites run by Brian Kolfage, the single largest wall fundraiser. Since selling his former company, Liberty Alliance, a network of websites, Vallorani says he now concentrates on the conservative merchandise business through his company Romulus Marketing LLC.
“We successfully promote many gift and novelty items that speak to a variety of conservative values,” Vallorani said in emailed responses to questions. His Thrasher coffee company offers a “Border Blend” - “our most controversial coffee ever” - promising part of the proceeds will go to Kolfage’s organization. Vallorani would not say how much.
Romulus has battled consumer complaints. The Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network and the Better Business Bureau contain at least 26 complaints and six critical reviews from the past year and a half, many saying the Build the Wall toy was delivered late, or not at all.
The Better Business Bureau gives Romulus an “F” rating. Vallorani says the company goes “above and beyond” to respond to customers, but will never be able to satisfy all complaints.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-borderwall-business/
Despite Kolfage’s repeated denials of owning the now-defunct Freedom Daily, former employees and competitors, most of whom asked for anonymity out of fear of retribution, provided company emails, employment documents and company checks that show Kolfage’s home address as Freedom Daily’s corporate business address.
Kolfage told NBC News that he simply managed the finances and administration for Freedom Daily. He said the operation’s true owner lives in another country and is unwilling to talk about the website.
The one site Kolfage does claim to be “associated with,” Right Wing News, features a chief operating officer on its website named "Steven Smith," whose headshot is a reverse image of a stock photo. Kolfage declined to provide biographical details or contact information for Smith, who former employees allege does not exist. Kolfage is listed as the site’s social media strategist.
Kolfage told NBC news that Smith is real, but operates the website anonymously for fear of threats to his family “from the left.”
FreedomDaily was part of a network of websites operating under the umbrella of “Liberty Alliance,” a Christian online media empire that hosts and serves advertising on the websites of the far-right’s loudest and most partisan voices. FreedomDaily and other right-wing content makers under Liberty Alliance would swap hyperpartisan content to attract readers and frequently trafficked in far-right propaganda and false articles.
FreedomDaily shut down in February 2018, the same month the site was sued for publishing an article that had falsely identified the driver of the car that killed a protestor during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. While several of the other defendants have paid settlements to the incorrectly identified person, lawyers for the plaintiff told NBC News they were still trying to find the FreedomDaily's owner to enforce a default entry against the site. FreedomDaily's owner failed to respond to the lawsuit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna957896
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Here’s a pic of me and Rich with @BradParscale, President Trump’s campaign manager, at the Trump Rally here in Orlando! pic.twitter.com/rxrlan8xgp
- Brandon Vallorani (@vallorani) June 18, 2019
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