Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The 2018 Donk Contest in Austin, TX was organised and financed by Russians, with probable links to billionaire Trump associate Gil Dezer and Paul Manafort

The whole story started with a post made by u/Bucklander0 in u/relationship_advice, titled [Update] I'm [34/M] and caught my wife [32/f] cheating on me on our 10th anniversary trip in Bali.

The content of the post (now deleted, visible here), basically explain that u/Bucklander0's wife decided to have a midlife crisis, and cheated with a shady character she met in Bali, probably a scammer on the run.

u/petaz share the identity of the guy in this post:

the plot thickens... i found someone in your original post pointing out that this brain injured guys reddit username could be u/eljefedeykon, or el jefe deykon after checking the post history of this guy and comparing his strange writing style to OPs screenshots, i assume the same.

u/eljefedeykon answer to the post, with the now deleted comment:

look mayne u gots tdis all twisted. i aint no she had no man. she started dis all up. i offa u da money as a man so u cud walk way from dis. i sorry mayne i really is. we in luv now. u sell my house dey come fo her to. memba dat.

As u/eljefedeykon post history shows, he lost $125k he took from an auto shows he organize and invested in the a crypto-currency scam

u/brooklynwegovhard clarify the situation in this post:

throwaway because i dont want the SMOKE.

the screenshot you posted has his IG handle. that same handle is also his reddit account. the dude took $125k from a car show / event in texas.

his account: https://www.reddit.com/user/ElJefeDeykon

the theft: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/7sg74w/texas_relay_and_donk_contest_organizer_loses/

edit: he lost the money in a cryptocurrency scam https://jalopnik.com/how-an-alleged-cryptocurrency-scam-put-a-texas-car-show-1822350786

edit #2: someone needs to write an article connecting all these stories and convert that into a screenplay because this shit is a modern shakespearean dramedy in the making.

u/karadzic95 explains the original theft and scam in a post made 8 months ago on the r/Buttcoin sub:

Now I know what you're thinking, nobody would entrust $125,000 to somebody who is clearly that retarded. The guy probably can't even count to 125, let alone put on his pants in the morning. This is an obvious troll.

Well as impossible as it may seem he's the founder of the annual Donk Contest in Austin, Texas, which apparently is an actual thing that has happened at least once. I'm still not sure what that thing is, even after watching this informational documentary, but I'm pretty sure I helped pay for it in some way with my massive drug habit.

Just imagine, this guy pissed away more money in one transaction than the average /r/drama user will make in their entire lifetime. As a fellow retard I have to say this is a huge source of inspiration, oh the wonders we can achieve.

The best part of the story ? After the initial theft, another company jump in to cover the missing funds and make sure the car show can proceed, this company: DavorCoin ... another crypto-currency scam as u/Woolbrick explains in this post, also on r/Buttcoin:

This is fucking hilarious.

Guy goes out and announces to the world what a fucking sucker and a mark he is for losing someone elses money in a ponzi. Another ponzi sees how stupid this guy is and how much money he potentially has access to and offers to save the day by signing him up for their scam.

You done goofed!

As redditors pointed out, the money missing is coming from really shady characters.

In the original thread, u/SuspiciousTrick explain in this post that one of the investor is an Indonesian guy who died in really suspicious circumstances:

went to rabbit hole from those links .. damn .. there might be a reason he choose Indonesia.

His main investor was this rich Indonesian guy that killed himself (suicide?) at his home in LA last year (October 2017)

"One of da first sponsors for my first car show. He gave me a $20k check no qustions asked. So sad. Johannes was always talkin bout bringin down the govenment of indonesia. I no dey killed him. He had tapes. I heard em."

shortly before his death, Johanes was investigated by Indonesian Corruption Watch. That was a major corruption case which involved the current Indonesian Head of Parliament.

See also this post from u/FFFrank:

Was also a criminal. Dude went from having a $130k townhouse forclosed on to driving a Bugatti and living in a $10m lake house in Minneapolis. Nobody has really figured out where his money was from but it somehow involved a bogus contract to provide government IDs and services to Indonesia. Ive been following it for a few years and it's just bizarre! This relationship story is a whole new wrinkle!!

u/NullStruct points a comment made by a certain u/GilDezer in this post:

"GilDezer 14 points 4 hours ago Answer your phone RIGHT NOW."

Is that one of the investors? lmfao

The comment history of u/GilDezer is ... well ... interesting. And with a bit of googling, his Instagram page seems to indicate the account belongs to Gil Dezer, son of Michael Dezer a Israeli-American real estate billionaire, involved with money laundering, and with connections to Trump and Russia (I wish I was making this shit up).

Well, let's say this was a wild ride, I going to bed for now.

The original thread on r/relationship_advice is one of the craziest thing I have seen on reddit or this is the most improbable and elaborate way to farm karma.

Ok new twist, an interesting post from u/DeykonThrowAway on the original r/relationship_advice thread:

I've been following this forever. Made an Instagram account with one of his friend's names and this is what he just told me. He is 100% scared of someone or some people. This is getting crazier.

https://imgur.com/a/GdI8nXg

I have no idea where this is going anymore.

Ok I think I reached the bottom:

u/atxgiraffe made a really interesting post 6 month ago, asking if the Donk Contest is actually funded by the Russian government:

Now that the city has one less thing to worry about I'm back to analyzing something else that I've been following for a while. As strange as this may sound, I believe Russia is involved with the infamous Donk Contest car show in Austin. Long story short, in 2016 Russia created various marches to divide different groups and I'm seeing parallels.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/358025-thousands-attended-protest-organized-by-russians-on-facebook

I know the car show hasn't stated where the show will be held this year but from what I hear it is always at the Domain.

Red flags went up for me earlier this week when a Reddit user pointed out that there is a Donald Trump support rally the same day as the Donk Contest and that it would be held in the Domain. I know there is a lot of controversy with the Texas Relays crowd and the majority of visitors are minorities. This sounds like history repeating itself with Russian events. Bring people with opposing political views together to help divide them.

Now this is where it gets really weird. Last week a member of the Donk Contest stepped down and posted this strange message on Twitter. Beyond the bombshell news that they actually lost over a million dollars (who is investing in this?) the person also stated they were getting paid from an entity in the British Virgin Islands, which is a frequent money laundering location.

https://twitter.com/TexasRelaysShow/status/973959262312583168

Furthermore, some of the rumored investors have Russian and Donald Trump ties but have worked hard to cover those tracks. My theory is that someone pumped money into this event to get a particular outcome but did not account for the fact that the owner of the show would squander the funds in a Bitcoin ponzi scheme.

Let's not forget Russian trolls have made the news recently in Travis County

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/possible-russian-trolls-try-register-texas-democratic-convention-n856801

The more I read about it, the more it makes sense.

The whole idea was to have the Donk Contest (with mostly a young black population in attendance) on the same day (31 March 2018) and same place (the Domain) as a Trump Support Rally/Meetup organized by the obscure "Austinites for Trump" group. And watch the chaos that would surely follow.

The process is similar to what happened in Houston a year before:

A Russian Facebook page organized a protest in Texas. A different Russian page launched the counterprotest.

The person that left the strange message on Twitter, actually did an AMA on Reddit exposing the whole thing as russian (the whole AMA is hilarious, it's well worth a read):

Former Donk Contest employee - AMA

The only organizer left of the whole mess and still active is u/TravisDonkContest, and we learned along the way that he is an Irish guy living in Ireland, and working remotely.

And he made for me the most interesting statement in this post:

Wow where to begin? I was hired remotely from a job posting in November 2017 by staff members in Texas, USA. I don't know all of the investors but they are mostly car collectors I believe. The corporate entity that issued payments from British Virgin Islands was handling payroll I was told and is separate from the Donk Contest. It is a tax issue.

The interesting part is the "I don't know all of the investors but they are mostly car collectors I believe.", that would be again pointing in the direction of Gil Dezer according to wikipedia:

Dezer collects cars and has over 1,000 cars in the Miami Auto Museum in North Miami. The collection has diverse types of cars like European classics, American classics, microcars, movie cars, supercars to military vehicles. Adding to the cars, he has hundreds of other vehicles like Motorcycles, Scooters, Bicycles and the largest collection of Vespas displayed at the museum.[4][11] As his collection went on growing, he launched 2 outposts of his main Miami Auto Museum. In 2014, he opened Hollywood Cars Museum in Las Vegas by partnering with classic and exotic car dealer Hot Rod City to display more than 100 cars from movies, TV shows and videos.[12] In 2016, he bought a space in Xtreme Sports Park in Fort Lauderdale to open the second outpost of his main museum to display about 200 cars.[13]

Ok now we enter the realm of crazytown (but with less solid proofs).

As I posted at the end of the first post, u/DeykonThrowAway made a fake Instagram with the name of a friend of u/eljefedeykon, contacted him and posted the resulting conversation online in this post:

I've been following this forever. Made an Instagram account with one of his friend's names and this is what he just told me. He is 100% scared of someone or some people. This is getting crazier.

https://imgur.com/a/GdI8nXg

It seems from the conversation that a certain Paul, now in prison, paid and flew u/DeykonThrowAway to Virginia to fuck his wife.

Hum ... a Paul from Virginia now in prison, that could be Paul Manafort whose main residence is in Alexandria, Virginia.

But that seems a bit too far stretched.

Well unless you remember that we learned from the leaked text messages from his daughters that Manafort is into black porn and forcing his wife to have group sex (I wish I was kidding), as u/_austinight_ pointed in this post :

Originally in 2017: https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-daughter-text-messages-ukraine-2017-3

There was a lot of shady stuff that was released in them about Manafort's involvement in the Ukraine, etc.

A few months ago, someone posted all of them in a searchable archive: https://ia802805.us.archive.org/19/items/ManafortTextMessages/Manafort%20text%20transcript.pdf

But lawyers from Andrea Shand, the daughter, sent legal letters to Twitter to try to suppress screenshots and things: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm5ebj/manafort-daughter-lawyer-twitter-hacked-phone-messages-remove

The texts provided a lot of buzz on Reddit about the daughters talking about how their father would force their mother into gang bangs and he had a bit of a thing for black porn: https://ia802805.us.archive.org/19/items/ManafortTextMessages/Manafort%20text%20transcript.pdf start reading on page 3044

Also not very convincing by itself, but could make sense in the whole context, u/Bucklander0 the guy who was cheated on and started the whole saga, is now posting that he was offered a big some of money to reveal the address of the scammer on the run, in this post:

The guy offering to pay $300,00 is some Israeli/Russian business magnate who is connected with some dangerous and very powerful people. I doubt he only wants fingers. I do not want that on my conscience no matter how upset I am.

And this one:

Anyone who will pay you $300,000 dollars for an address is probably not going to want to do anything I want on my conscience.

And here too:

I already have his home address. I'm just not willing to sell it to anyone. I will let him get himself caught.

The Israeli/Russian business magnate part would also point again to Michael Dezer, whose real name is Michael Dezertzov and father of Gil Dezer.

I looked for article putting Dezer and Manafort together, I only could find this article:

The refund of Dezertzov’s contribution came on Aug. 18, 2016, according to Make America Great Again’s amended FEC filing. The next day, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned under scrutiny of his own business dealings with wealthy Russian businessmen.

A bit circumstantial, but it could lead somewhere


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