Wine Collection Mgmt: $120M AUM. Authentication, Purchasing & Liquidations, Appraisals, Expert Witness | Web3 Btl Provenance & Authenticity @ChaiVault
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Chinese Court Seeks Over RMB 111M From Lady Penguin Wine Company vino-joy.com/2026/10/19/chin… #wine #fraud
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My grandfather built McCormick Spices from nothing after your ancestors tomahawked his wife and kids. I'll be damned if you take another scalp from my family fortune!
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Nothing but truth in this advert. Can’t imagine what they’ll complain about. dutchbarn.com
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The power, the beauty and the colours of a breaking wave
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This is bad. @ABC must take responsibility for their failed journalism. Basic journalistic ethics requires it.
A quiet unexplained withdrawal of a false article does not constitute a proper error correction.
@ABC News continues to lie, this time privately to their friends in the press. This was a coordinated influence operation planted by our competition, not "premature publication".
7:01 AM October 7th, story goes live. Within minutes, dozens of high-profile commentators, politicians, and news outlets are sharing it with tens of millions of followers. We immediately contact ABC and demand they correct their false claims - after multiple rounds of refusal, they finally make a single one-word grammar edit. The editors stand by the reporting and insist the false claims are true.
Finally, eight hours after I was forced to call them out publicly, they delete everything. The editors hide all the comments, the author deletes his X account, and the story is completely wiped from their website without any explanation, directly violating SPJ ethics standards and ABC's own internal rules.
ABC is currently running a coverup operation, ignoring all of our requests for correction/retraction while telling their buddies to spread the word that this was nothing more than a CMS publication timeline error.
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You hit the nail on the head during our recent chat. Highly recommend everyone listen to the interview to understand the world of wine crime and why it won’t go away.
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Huge loss for the producer & the legitimate wine trade. Until the supply chain is trans parent it’s very simple for these fraudsters to move the product. #ChaiVault #provenance #traceability #supplychain #winefraud lnkd.in/p/gVeanwDk
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This Sacramento cannabis dispensary says its products are taxed at a RIDICULOUS 38% rate and is demanding an audit of the money.
We looked into it ourselves and found that $350 million meant for substance abuse programs instead went to Democrat voter machines!
ENOUGH with the fraud. ENOUGH with crushing small business.
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It's that time of year when all of the wine deliveries that didn't happen in the hot months start piling up. Here's a spot of advice from @ChaiConsulting whether you have 4 bottles or 40,000 bottles. bestversionmedia.com/article…
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J-Cal to Nick Shirley: You’re Kicking Ass at Exposing Fraud. They Want to Stop You. Don’t Stop.
@Jason:
“The fact that they're creating laws to try to stop you from doing basic journalism means you're kicking f***ing ass, Nick. Don't stop.
What you represent to them is a threat, because they came up and they wanted to do what you're doing.
They were idealistic, these journalists, and they wanted to be brave enough to uncover these things, and they've become captured and politicized, and they have picked a side. You haven't.
That's why they criticize you, and the criticism they have of you is, ‘Oh, he wasn't fact-checking here, wasn't thorough enough here.’
Yeah, okay, fine. On the margins, you're learning on the job, and I've had conversations with you privately about little nuances of things that you need to tighten up.
None of that is important. What's important is that you find fraud. You find actual, real fraud, and you put the people on camera, and you shame them, and then they get arrested.
And you're forcing the AGs in this country to face it, and it's just you. It's just you and your pure desire and energy to do it, and that's what journalists hate about you.
Because they could do it, too. And they should be ashamed that they don't.
This was the job of 60 Minutes and Frontline, and they forgot how to do their job, and you're picking up the mantle of what Frontline and 60 Minutes used to be.”
@nickshirleyy:
“I agree. Give me some.”
Jason:
“You’re my guy.”
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