Before that he was in Alaska and there’s speculation there that he was a gladio operator but I don’t know too much about that. He was also involved in Russia after the collapse of the USSR as a “reporter”.

Haven't heard about this, got anything on it? Seems interesting

He was involved with a human trafficking scheme that involved illegal immigration using Eastern European women if I recall correctly. Landing them jobs as housemaids and hotel assistants and stuff like that. He got busted for it back in the late 2000s in Florida

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This short summary doesn’t get into the worst stuff he did. The DOJ only highlights that the women were in the country illegally, but there’s a longer document with testimony from the victims. It’s real bad.

To summarize what I remember (apologies if I have any details wrong I read the document a couple years ago), he would essentially lie to young Eastern European women, telling them they’d get to work as nannies for rich families for a summer and go to the beach and Disneyworld on their days off.

They’d get to Florida and instead find themselves handed a shitty hotel maid job and forced to live in a condo barracks style with like 6+ girls and women in a small condo. I think they also had to pay Justin rent to live there. Like over $200-$300 in the early 2000s to split a condo eight ways.

The women also testified about being forced to lie on their time cards so that they wouldn’t get the overtime the year qualified for when they all worked at least six days a week.

Despite working much more than they expected, most of the women came home with no money since Justin charged them a massive $2000ish visa fee that was complete bs since he lying on the visas anyways and describing the girls as coming for cultural enrichment/education.

He got away with this for years since most of these girls just wanted to go home after being exploited for a summer/months.

I would be willing to forgive even a disgusting capitalist wage thief like this if he showed real contrition, but for years he tried to spin his conviction like he was helping desperate people get into the US when that is definitely not the case. I couldn’t read the article because he charged for it, but he wrote some piece like “Why I Decided to Put Down the Gun and Take up the Pen” that from what I can tell, heavily implies that he was arrested for fighting against unjust state boundaries not for stealing wages from young women who wanted a fun visit to another country.

I haven’t watched a lot of his content, but I’m deeply suspicious of a guy like this. Maybe he’s apologized now, but he tried to paint himself as some kind of anarchist anti authoritarian immigration law hero for months if not years. I think there’s a lot of male and western chauvinism that goes into assuming that working twelve hours shifts in America for no take home pay is “saving” someone.