Of Fake Feminism, Foreign Intelligence, and Gangsterism
The Wall Street Journal's story on Bobby Kotick and Sheryl Sandberg misses the foreign intelligence and mob ties
Disclosure: This is a story about criminals who are Jewish. Not all Jews are criminals. In fact most are not. Obviously most Jews, like my mentors and friends, and even ex-girlfriends, are perfectly wonderful people. My current girlfriend is a quarter Jewish which I suppose everyone is these days.
But to ignore the criminal Jews because they are Jews would be the height of anti-Semitism. When you call out this criminal behavior you might find yourself being called an anti-Semite. To ignore criminality though is to be anti-American. You can’t do it. I’m not a hater but I am an observer.
If you’d been reading this Substack you’d know all about the odd foreign and mob ties of former paramours Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Bobby Kotick of Activision.
We’ve noted Sandberg’s family ties to Mossad and Bobby Kotick’s early backing by noted casino magnate (and mobster) Steve Wynn.
Wynn got ensnared in a DOJ probe for illegally working on behalf of China. His former lawyer, Lin Wood, funded a Super PAC targeting Rep. Thomas Massie after Massie voted against a conflict with Iran. Now Wynn is facing trouble with the Nevada Gaming Commission. Tell me you are mob without telling me you are mob.
Wynn isn’t the only mobster and there are plenty of them in Silicon Valley who had hitherto eluded attention. This is how it happens when you have monopolistic tech firms who aren’t acting in the national interest. Monopolistic companies can only exist when they become national champions. That means taking seriously the common good.
One of these mobsters is apparently Bobby Kotick, the embattled CEO of Activision.
Kotick has come under a lot of attention after the Wall Street Journal reported how crazy the culture at Activision had gotten and that story prompted an acquisition of Activision to Microsoft, itself already reeling from Bill Gates’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and to Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman.
As news of that impending acquisition made the rounds Kotick reportedly tipped off his friends — billionaires Barry Diller and David Geffen — who made millions on the $68.7 billion acquisition and who are now being investigated by the SEC and DOJ for insider trading. It is not the only SEC investigation.
(Diller is the proprietor of The Daily Beast, which has targeted yours truly after I objected to his entreaties with the facial recognition company Clearview.AI I cofounded. Funny how that works.)
We know that Facebook plays favorites with what it allows to go viral and with what it doesn’t. We’d seen that before when a deal was struck between Jared Kushner and Mark Zuckerberg over the 2020 election. Now we see it when it comes to using Facebook’s power over media traffic.
I wasn’t terribly surprised when the Journal raised the tantalizing possibility that Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg was using Facebook’s power over the Daily Mail to get a story blocked.
But I was surprised to see what the Journal didn’t see fit to include.
Based upon my information Kotick even paid for the woman in question’s apartment, a curious omission from the story.
That woman, who I haven’t yet identified, admitted that she made up parts of the abuse suffered by Kotick — raising the distinct possibility that she was blackmailing Kotick. Oddly the Journal declined to name the woman. What was really going on here? Was Kotick paying her off? Was she extorting Kotick? We need to know.
Among the things neglected is a discussion of anti-trust is how trusts actually wind up furthering foreign intelligence. This is precisely why we need to give the FTC the power to break up monopolies.
The Silicon Valley approach of making the founder a dictator winds up creating lots of problems.
Compromise Mark Zuckerberg, say, and you can force him to buy WhatsApp or Oculus for many multiples of what they are actually worth. If you’re an investor in one of these smaller companies you almost want the CEO dictators to become compromised. You might even help to compromise them.
Microsoft is still compromised. This raises significant questions about every investment Microsoft makes, including in key areas like AI.
This likely means that key companies like Open AI can’t really be trusted. Nor can we trust Microsoft’s cloud business, trying as it is to get DOD business after JEDI was canceled.
In the end Kotick’s misbehavior has become a Microsoft story. Why was the due diligence so poor with the Activision deal? Why didn’t Microsoft catch these complaints against Kotick before they bought it? Did they know about them and just decline to do anything about it? How responsible is Satya Nadella in this failure?After all, his quest for a video game empire might have led him to have some blinders on. Is that even a good idea to be so focused on video games anyway? Aren’t they “spiritual opium”?
We saw how Reid Hoffman was controlled by Jeffrey Epstein who also was a close personal friend of Bill Gates. Epstein even bought stock in LinkedIn in suspiciously timed trades ahead of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn.
It’s telling that Peggy Johnson, the queen of acquisitions at Microsoft, left — and that she’s using Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services for Magic Leap where she’s CEO.
How revealing is it that a woman top executive departed Microsoft…
Sure it’s probably nothing but it’s possibly everything.