Go Pats? Kroenke Executive Paid Russian Spy Maria Butina To Create Pro-Putin TV Show

[SaintLouisBlues]

Yes, I know this is from Dec. 2018, but please allow me to bash Kroenke today.

https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2018/12/kroenke-executive-paid-russian-spy-maria-butina-to-create-pro-putin-tv-show/12512/

The head of a major Colorado media company hired now admitted Russian spy Maria Butina to help him create a television show starring Vladimir Putin as a conservation-minded outdoorsman.

With Butina changing her plea to guilty last week, it’s now official: a Kroenke executive hired a Russian spy to help him pitch a pro-Putin television show starring the Russian President himself.

Jim Liberatore, CEO of Outdoor Sportsman Group (OSG), a division of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment (KSE), met Butina through their shared ties to the National Rifle Association. KSE purchased the Outdoor Channel, with Liberatore at its head, in 2013. He was promoted to CEO of OSG in 2017.

Butina invited Liberatore and his wife to Moscow in 2015 as part of a National Rifle Association delegation she organized along with her Russian handler Alexander Torshin.

[CentralMass]

1. What do the Patriots have to do with this article ?

[bullwinkle428]

2. Kroenke owns the Rams.

[CentralMass]

3. Oh, (dope slap) thank you.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Is he the one building some enormous arena thing?

Hmmm...

[SaintLouisBlues]

4. Thanks to DU'R angka for bringing this to my attention back in December

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142226905

[CentralMass]

5. +1

[SaintLouisBlues]

7. There are many reasons to loathe Kroenke: Evicts the poors from his trophy land purchase.

Thanks to DU'r modem77 for this post from a few years ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028094688


Stan Kroenke tells hundreds of fixed income residents in Texas to get off his newly-bought land
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/commercial-real-estate/headlines/20160811-la-rams-owner-stan-kroenke-tells-longtime-waggoner-ranch-residents-to-get-off-his-trophy-land.ece


Los Angeles Rams owner and billionaire Stan Kroenke is making people move again.

This time, hundreds of Texas residents will have to leave their homes around Lake Diversion on the historic Waggoner Ranch near Wichita Falls.

Last week, residents received eviction letters that their current leases will not be renewed and they have until Jan. 31, 2017 to leave their homes. According to the Wichita Falls Times Record News, the letter stated that the new owner and management, including Kroenke, has decided to change the land use and return the lake to its natural landscape.

Lake Diversion sits on 535,000 acres of ranch land that Kroenke bought back in February. Terms of the sale were not disclosed but the property was listed for $725 million. Prior to his purchase, the Waggoner family had offered leases for property on the lake's northern end after establishing the ranch 164 years ago.

According to the Times Record News, Kroenke issued a statement that he was" deeply committed to continuing the proud legacy of W.T. "Tom" Waggoner, his family and his descendants" after he purchased the property.

[SaintLouisBlues]

8. Sorry, in my Kroenke-bashing zeal I double-posted

[SaintLouisBlues]

9. And how did this a-hole get all his money? He married a Walton heiress

Must be nice:

Honey? Can I buy a football team?
Yes, dear.
Honey, Can I buy a hockey team?
Yes, dear.


from Wiki:


Ann Walton Kroenke (born December 18, 1948)[5][1][2][3] is an heiress to the Walmart fortune. Kroenke and her sister, Nancy Walton Laurie, inherited stock from her father, Bud Walton (died 1995), who was the brother and an early business partner of Walmart founder Sam Walton. She is the owner of the Denver Nuggets of the NBA and Colorado Avalanche of the NHL.[6]

Her husband, Stan Kroenke, is the majority owner of the Los Angeles Rams (NFL), Arsenal (English Premier League),[7] Colorado Rapids (Major League Soccer), and Colorado Mammoth (National Lacrosse League).

[rockfordfile]

10. Kroenke is just as un-American as the Pats owner.