Silver’s team reports that Michael Justman, in the months before and continuing up to the date he was murdered, had been the lead U.S. negotiator with the Russian Foreign Ministry on a proposed multinational, multitrillion-dollar carbon sequestration program. The project involved taking out of cultivation tens of millions of acres in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and eleven Central and South American countries, along with matching acreage in Russia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and restoring these spaces to native grasses and/or reforestation. The aim of the program, for which negotiations remain ongoing, is to retard and possibly begin to reverse the course of global climate change.

The program, according to Silver’s team’s report, was and is opposed vehemently both by fossil fuel interests (very powerful in Russia and Central Asia as well as in the States) and agribusiness conglomerates, whose financial interests, and even survival, are perceived by the parties themselves as being set at jeopardy by the proposed agreement. All three murder victims—Golokoff, Davis, and Justman, and indeed the fourth, Alexei Tcheckousky—share histories of clashing with the Kremlin, Rosneft, Gazprom, Lukoil, and other Russian petro-giants and in fact of being threatened, harassed, and intimidated by them. The two Russians indeed had been imprisoned for their activism.

Gleason’s conclusion: the Rooskies, specifically these of the Brighton Beach Brotherhood, are the trigger-pullers, bigger than shit.

GLEASON

Here in my hand are the warrants for these motherfuckers’ arrests. You and I are about to serve them.

The last items of intel that Manning and I receive before boarding the ESU vehicles come via text from Uribe.

Amos Ben-David, Uribe says, has within the hour flown in from London, where he was the featured speaker at a conference on global climate catastrophe. He has traveled by Uber directly from JFK to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was met by his longtime friend and colleague Ms. Ellie Landau, the celebrated attorney and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, author of the mega-bestseller Landau for the Defense, and omnipresent talking head on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and all the networks.

Uribe reports that Ms. Landau arrived at Maimonides in possession of a judge’s order, mandating the release from custody of Rabbi Rachel Davidson. (Yes, that is our mystery woman’s name and profession.)

Ms. Landau’s office is in the process now, Uribe continues, of filing a $10 million lawsuit against the city of New York and the NYPD, citing Manning by name for his role in the unlawful detention of her client, Rabbi Davidson, and naming Uribe as well for his part in illegally impounding Ms. Davidson’s vehicle.

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