LNG Escapades: Global Megatrend, Aires, Aster & A $2 Million "Loan"
Lawyer Charles Aster of First Wall Street Capital is a player. A Hunter Biden buddy?
Nothing you think is quite what it seems regarding the ownership of LNG Assets. Relationships are set up months in advance and then the asset transfer happens long thereafter, potentially. (At least when Hunter Biden knows people involved in these transactions.)
I was very new to these dealings. There are many angles, people, documents, and time horizons to wait out to see if these deals ripen to making money.
People well-versed in this field, on the ground, probably would have a better story to tell. If ONLY, I could tour these localities: the coast of Louisiana, Houston, Texas, New York City or the British Virgin Islands. Then, I could really give you some insights, or maybe: wind up dead.
Global Mega Hustle?
Global Energy Megatrend Ltd was formed in September 2019 by William “Bill” Mardsen Miller. Hunter Biden knows “Bill” from his pre-Ukraine Burisma days. Then, Bill was representing “Pytrole Energy” while also involved in China, Fosun Pharma, and Oregon LNG.
Bill has a shady background - federal wire fraud conviction from the 1980s, overturned later - regarding oil and gas leasing contracts. [United Kingdom Board of Director filing for Global.]
This post reaffirms the shady part never went away.
Megatrend put in a THEN WINNING bid for Magnolia LNG in May 2020 of $2.25M. But that was NOT when the relationship first began. First though, from the UK liquidation report in April 2023 a summary of key players and abbreviations tied to them.
Global Megatrend began the quest in October 2019, getting a $2,165,000 loan from Aires International Investment, Inc. (This was not delineated in the company’s founding documents reviewed many months ago. Meaning: I never knew there was any money sought this early by GEML.)
Aires is headquartered in the British Virgin Islands and was connected to SunVesta (Florida, resort projects) and Switzerland too. Swiss investor Dr. Max Rӧssler whose biography is interesting (to say the least) was listed in older SEC filings as the chief owner. Rӧssler is well-connected to Swiss Private Banks.
This however CHANGED in May 2019…just one month after Glenfarne Group (now Energy Transition) acquired Texas LNG from Third Point LLC, (also connected to Hunter Biden).
Aires bought out the position of Rossler at that time. But little was reported thereafter regarding Aires’s dealings because they are located in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). One did find some linkage however.
Below, one can get a feel for one Simon Filmer who is connected to Aires directly according to OFFSHORE LEAKS. Two short videos found on YouTube reflected his role for operations in the BVI and his reoccurring role on Vistra’s YouTube channel. Simon discussed asset holdings (possibly, Nerine Trust Company BVI - as it ties to Aires).
In a second video, Simon quickly discusses how this operates in the BVI (made too for Chinese no less). Simon was to have left Vistra in August 2020 according to Open Corporate filings. But this video made two months later seems to state he was still at Vistra.
[This too seems to be a PATTERN with all these Cayman, BVI, Guernsey Island operations. People are connected, then move around, but never really leave. Advisors when needed?]
Why is this important?
For some mysterious reason, Bill Mardsen Miller, who the Ukrainians (according to Time Magazine) wouldn’t touch with a rusty LNG pipeline from Russia, suddenly gets $2 million plus dollars kicked into his project via an Aires International “loan.”
HOW did a “shady guy” like Miller make this connection?
Hypothesis: Charles Aster is a lawyer/director at Kane Russell Coleman Logan & and advisor at First Wall Street Capital (FWSC) which financed the key target property (Magnolia LNG) that Miller put a winning bid in on, then he backed out quickly.
Aster as a FWSC advisor worked alongside CIA Director R. James Woolsey & Federal Judge Eugene Sullivan (who left in 2023, it appears). Hunter emailed Sullivan in 2016 regarding Louis Freeh and meetings in D.C.
Miller’s LNG Fake Deal
Liquified Natural Gas Ltd (LNGL) was an Australian Company that went belly up around February-April 2020. LNGL was then financed by First Wall Street Capital.
Miller’s Megatrend/LNGEI dropped out after putting in a $2.25 million winning bid. Kane Russell Coleman Logan, who was Megatrend’s lawyer, refused to provide information to the UK governing body at its dissolution.
Below is the basic deal information made in October 2019. Notice the last two paragraphs.
Glenfarne Group, headed by an Aussie (Brendan Duval) then acquired Magnolia for exactly $2,000,000 in late May 2020. Thereafter, doing an IPO in 2021 for $250,000,000. He then closed up shop on the IPO March 2023. This is included in my analysis: The Hunter Biden Dossier. Brendan still holds these assets.
In the UK filing, they mention the Ukrainian angle (below). This too was noted in a TIME MAGAZINE that spent 5,000 words on the Trump administration while ignoring HUNTER BIDEN’S connections to LNG projects, directly back to Mardsen Miller, who was mentioned liberally in that Time article.
Time Article on Rick Perry, Bensh, and Miller
Bill Miller was using UK incorporated Global Megatrend to control LNGE, knowing then Energy Secretary Rick Perry through Robert Bensh (Miller’s brother-in-law). From Time, Miller was pissed about not getting in on Ukraine through Naftogaz, the #1 LNG supplier in Ukraine.
But then, he attempted to do the same sort of deal in May 2020 for Magnolia LNG (which is a U.S. export-approved project).
Shipping U.S. gas via Poland to Ukraine and then reselling it in the European Union would “make money for LNGE,” Bensh explains [Miller’s relation by marriage]. It could also make a lot of money for an American company like Energy Transfer that was looking for long-term buyers of gas from its export terminal.
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“In emails obtained by our reporting team, Miller, the director and co-founder of the Louisiana company {LNGE}, lashed out at Naftogaz for telling the government in Kyiv about Miller’s overturned conviction on corruption charges.
“This is the guy who went to the U.S. Attorney for the SDNY?” Miller wrote indignantly to his colleagues, referring to Andriy Kobolyev, the Naftogaz CEO. Indeed, the U.S. attorney’s office for New York’s Southern District had contacted Kobolyev in the fall of 2019, and he says he agreed to speak to its investigators.
Miller was like many others connected to Hunter Biden or Donald Trump. Soon finding out that the Southern District of New York was busy on bringing all sorts of charges to keep the pot of BS stirring to critical mass.
Charles E. Aster’s CV
Houston, Texas based Charles E. Aster is a director at Kane Russell Coleman Logan. His big areas of expertise are stadium projects and banking (distressed loans) resolution. He has a laundry list of both in his bio.
Representing American entities purchasing manufacturing facilities or investing in Chinese entities owning manufacturing facilities in China.
Representing Chinese and Korean companies setting up entities in America.
Representing Chinese companies in product liability litigations.
Aster donated to Hillary Clinton in 2007 ($500). This makes complete sense since his boss, Glenn Myles at FWSC, is a Clinton and Ukraine guy as well. Myles and R. James Woolsey are on the board of titanium company Velta (July 2019), and are members on the U.S.-Ukraine Council.
This picture above was updated a few months ago, with Sullivan removed.
Simon Properties
Simon’s geographic position in BVI is very close to the key places of interests regarding the Jim Biden’s property on Water Island and its proximity to Little St. James (of Epstein infamy).
Ukraine’s Burisma has a British Virgin Islands connections too!
All and all, there is a concerted effort to guise money transfers and relationships that were made regarding the control of Magnolia LNG and who ultimately has control of this project is still in question.
But a few hints start with: Hunter Biden and/or CEFC.
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