Bristol Palin's exotic model friend wishes the press would spend more time reporting about drugs in schools and our "screwed government" rather than focus on her. I bet.

Courtesy of the Marina Lupas Facebook page.

Here is what she wrote back when somebody asked why the Anchorage Press was "hating" on her:


Marina Lupas I don't mind what so ever ... Lol extremely funny to me 

Marina Lupas And to answer your question because apparently there is nothing more interesting to write about 

Marina Lupas I have said earlier ... I wish who ever wrote this took the time to address more important issues such is drugs in schools ...education our screwed government ect. Things that actually matter

Actually the most recent edition of the Anchorage Press has several rather diverse articles.

As it turns out you CAN report on a variety of topics and still find time to cover the fact that the abstinence mascot daughter of the one time governor is knocked up out of wedlock again and hanging out with a self identified "exotic" Russian model.

Go figure.

Speaking of the abstinence mascot here is a picture of her, Piper, and her new paternity currently unresolved daughter leaving a restaurant courtesy of the Daily Mail.

The Anchorage Press takes an interest in Bristol Palin's exotic model friend. Update!

Courtesy of the Anchorage Press:

Bristol Palin—well, all of the Palins, apparently—have a new girl in their life, and it isn’t Bristol’s newborn daughter Sailor Grace, who entered the world on December 23. 

Her name is Marina Lupas, AKA “The Exotic Russian” (as she advertises on her website, exotixllc.com, and proudly declares on t-shirts she sports in various YouTube videos). And while news of their friendship isn’t brand new—tabloids and anti-Palin bloggers featured Lupas in spring of 2015, when Bristol’s engagement to Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer was going south—Lupas was, according to a Facebook post from Mama Grizzly Sarah, in the hospital room with Sarah and Bristol’s little sis’ Piper when Sailor Grace arrived just before Christmas. 

The aforementioned blogs made much of Lupas’s small business endeavors—she apparently has a company called Exotix LLC, which seems to serve no other purpose than marketing Lupas as an exotic model.

I realize this is very old news to all of us, after all we were the ones to out Marina in the first place, however it should be noted that a whole lot of Alaskans don't read the blogs.

But many of them DO get the Anchorage Press.

So now there is a whole new audience that is learning all about Bristol's exotic BFF.

I swear that so far it seems as if just about every day of 2016 has been yet another slap upside the head for Sarah Palin and her hillbilly brood.

And there are so many delicious things yet to come that I can barely contain myself.

Update: It looks like Bristol is once again hiding behind one of her children, just like dear old mom.

Courtesy of Bristol's Instagram page:

afternoon cuddles with my girl

The Anchorage Press, which is way ahead of other Alaska journalists, has a new article which outlines some of the despicable behavior by Alaska National Guard recruiters.

The Anchorage Press managed to get their hands on a military investigation report that lays out sexual abuse, rape, and intimidation engaged in by three Alaska National Guard recruiters nicknamed the "Three Headed Monster." Which included Sgt. Jarrett Carson, Master Sgt. John Nieves, and Sgt. 1st Class Shannon Tallant.

I will warn you ahead of time that this is not for the faint of heart.

Here are but a few of the finding of the investigation:

Carson, Nieves and Tallant, all three married at the time, habitually violated military regulations by having consensual sex with women they met in their official roles as recruiters, as well as with fellow soldiers, including subordinates. Numerous liaisons took place in the “back room” of a National Guard recruiting office inside the Dimond Center shopping mall, and inside marked Alaska National Guard recruiting SUVs. One woman told investigators that in the spring of 2011, she went to the shopping mall recruiting office not long after graduating high school to inquire about joining the Guard. She said that Carson, who was 35 years old at the time, “threw her over the desk” and had sex with her, though she described the encounter as consensual. 

According to a summary of investigative findings in one AR 15-6 report, in December 2010 Nieves raped the younger sister of a soldier that he had recruited to join the Guard three years prior. According to the report, Nieves, then 35 years old, physically forced the 19-year-old woman to have sex with him after threatening to ruin her brother’s military career if she rejected his advances.

Tallant boasted to fellow soldiers of having sex with a high school girl he met at Dimond High School through a JROTC program. Three former Dimond High School female JROTC cadets told military investigators that from 2007 to 2009, during their freshmen through junior years of high school, Tallant repeatedly asked them out on dates and offered them alcohol. One former cadet said that Tallant “talked about Jägermeister and Jäger Bombs and Southern Comfort, which could be mixed with pineapple juice so that one couldn’t taste the alcohol,” and that when she visited him at the Dimond Center recruiting office, “he would try to talk her into the ‘back room,’ which housed the recruiting giveaways such as T-shirts and water bottles.” A second former cadet said that when she was a freshman in high school, Tallant offered to give her a ride home after school. Once she was inside his car, she told a military investigator, Tallant announced they were going to his house instead. The girl “told SFC Tallant that she wanted to go home because her mother was probably looking for her,” according to an AR 15-6 report. “Tallant countered that it would only take about five minutes. When SFC Tallant stopped at a stop sign she jumped out of the car. SFC Tallant tried to convince her to get back in his car but she ran off and used a stranger’s phone to call her father for a ride.” 

Tallant was the Non Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of an Alaska Army National Guard recruiting “mobile events team” that officially represented the guard at the 2008 Arctic Man winter sports festival. The recruiters traveled to Arctic Man in Alaska National Guard RVs. Investigators found that “from the moment they arrived excessive drinking and partying were accepted and encouraged by SFC Tallant.” A female Alaska National Guard recruiter who served under Tallant and was assigned to the mobile events team at Arctic Man turned 19 during the four-day festival. According to an AR 15-6 report, Tallant, who was 34 years old at the time, sexually assaulted her twice inside a guard RV after she became so intoxicated that she passed out the night of her birthday. 

During a 2008 recruiting event at a lodge in the Copper River Basin, several recruiters serving under Tallant witnessed him persuading a civilian woman in a bar to “drink more alcoholic beverages than it appeared she wanted to,” until the woman “seemed drugged, not responsive, loose, incoherent and clumsy.” According to witnesses cited in an AR 15-6 report, Tallant pulled the woman into an Alaska National Guard RV and fondled her while she was unconscious. “The victim was asleep while this was happening, but at some points she would make efforts to have him stop before falling back into an unconscious state,” the report states. Military investigators found that Tallant then directed soldiers under his command to “stand lookout” while he pulled the woman into a bedroom behind an “accordion door” inside the guard RV. One soldier told investigators the RV soon began to rock and he heard Tallant making sounds “consistent with intercourse.” 

During a 2009 recruiting trip to Clam Gulch, a woman that Tallant had recently met during a military recruiting event at ThursdayNight at the Fights in Anchorage “showed up to party with SFC Tallant.” According to military witnesses, “Tallant strongly insisted that she drink alcoholic beverages. At times SFC Tallant seemed forceful in making the woman drink.” One witness, who at the time was a Sergeant serving under Tallant in the recruiting battalion, told investigators that Tallant at one point in the evening ordered him to go purchase more liquor at a liquor store, and to hide the woman’s car keys so that she couldn’t leave. The Sergeant did not hide the keys well because “he wanted the woman to leave for her own safety,” the report states. When the woman found her keys, Tallant ordered the Sergeant under his command to let the air out of her tires, which the Sergeant did, after first requesting that Tallant repeat the order. Upon returning from the liquor store, the Sergeant said, he offered to give the woman a ride home. “Tallant said she was not going anywhere,” the report states. “That night, the Sergeant woke up to find Tallant having sex with the woman. The woman did not seem to be enjoying herself.” 

I have to tell you that reading this article from the Anchorage Press quite literally left me shaken.That this has been going on for so long, and our Governor knew about it and did NOTHING, is beyond reprehensible.

This story deserves national attention and I urge all of you to promote it until it receives exactly that.

When scandals collide. A little vindication for Shailey Tripp.

I have been covering Shailey Tripp's story since early 2011. I even conducted the first on the record interview.

I followed numerous leads provided by Shailey, and even introduced her to Joe McGinniss, but could only get so far before I would hit a brick wall. The same has happened with others who have pursued the story of Shailey and Todd Palin.

That is not to say that what Shailey has claimed is not true, and in fact much of what she has said has been supported by facts. Just that there were numerous obstacles placed in the way of anybody who tried to dig too far into the story.

So after many of the leads grew cold I moved onto other topics and other sources, while Malia Litman and other bloggers took the lead on Shailey's story.

However just recently new information that lends new credibility to Shailey's amazing story has emerged.

You might remember this from that Anchorage Press article:  

A former pornography company owner and co-founder of an “end times” fundamentalist group who joined the Alaska National Guard in 2003 is now the guard’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, despite military investigators finding him directly responsible for empowering Alaska guard recruiters to sexually assault and harass female soldiers, recruits and civilians. 

Lt. Col. Joseph R. Lawendowski, 46, was recommended for “other than honorable” discharge in a confidential report that military investigators submitted to high-ranking Alaska National Guard officers on March 3 of this year. The findings of this “AR 15-6” report were not released to the public. (AR 15-6 refers to Army Regulation 15-6, covering the investigation of misconduct by officers.) 

The March 3 report finds that Lawendowski failed to act on multiple complaints of serious misconduct, including sexual assault, against four senior noncommissioned officers under his command. The report covers the period from November 2007 to May 2012 when Lawendowski was commander of the Alaska Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion (RRB). 

What is interesting is that Lawendowski's name popped up over a year ago in an online archive of  information about Shailey Tripp's case.  Specifically right here:

Joseph Lawendowski 

- several men under his command saw Shailey Tripp for sexual services
 - knows Todd Palin through the Iron Dog.

That last part is confirmed a little further down in the Anchorage Press article:

The investigators also found that Lawendowski had condoned and furthered illegal steroid use by RRB personnel, and had violated National Guard codes of conduct on multiple occasions. These included using government vehicles for outings to strip clubs, and Lawendowski being publicly intoxicated at the 2012 Iron Dog Race after-party. (Lawendowski arranged for the Alaska National Guard to become the presenting sponsor of the Iron Dog snowmobile race beginning in 2010. According to the AR 15-6 report, he improperly exchanged more than 10,000 text messages with a female Iron Dog employee during sponsorship negotiations in April and May 2010.)

A connection to Shailey Tripp AND to the Iron Dog?

Look I am not one who does not think that coincidences are possible, but THIS one?

How could Shailey possibly know the name of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Alaska National Guard, who coincidentally once owned a porno company, was directly responsible for some of the sexual assault happening under his command, frequented strip clubs, AND had a connection to the Iron Dog race, if not through Todd Palin?

If any of you have a better answer I am certainly interested in hearing it.

About that confrontation between Todd Palin and Levi Johnston. Another confirmation of my Splitsville post!

"We can do what we want. Nobody dares to rat us out!"

One of the risks you run when you post articles based on information from sources speaking only to you, and that other media outlets may not be able to confirm, is that it opens you up to charges of rumor mongering or, as Palin likes to charge, "makin' things up."

As most of you know I have been accused of that quite a few times.

However this last e-mail dump has been very helpful in FINALLY providing some validation for previous posts, that up until now were considered questionable by certain people.

In my August 2009 post "Splitsville," I was the first person to publicize trouble in the Palin marriage, that the Palins had screaming fights, and that Sarah was shopping around for a radio gig (Which in fact turned out to be a television gig with Fox News.), all of which have since been confirmed by various books and newspaper articles.

However some of what I talked about in that post was NEVER confirmed, and may never be confirmed, by other media outlets, like Sarah's wedding ring resting on the bottom of Lake Lucille, or the land purchase in Montana.

However there was ONE story that I had been assured was about to break in another publication, and which never did, that I have been particularly troubled by. And that is the alleged confrontation between Levi Johnston and Todd Palin.

This is how I described it in the post:

I also learned that there was an incident back in the summer of 2008, before the McCain campaign officially tapped Sarah, where Todd Palin pulled a gun on Levi in a heated exchange concerning his relationship with Bristol. This news will be hitting the local papers here in town next week. Stay tuned.

Now as you all know that story never did come out, and in fact was also left out of Levi's book.

So reasonable people may have assumed that in fact it did not take place.

But then Palin's final treasure trove of e-mails were released. And guess what?

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Joel Kelley wrote: 

hey Bill - this is an unfortunate inquiry for me to make, if you haven’t gotten it from other outlets already then it’s just a matter of time, but does the governor’s office have anything to say about what transpired late saturday night between the first gentleman and levi johnston? 

Brendan Joel Kelley 
Associate Editor 
Anchorage Press 

On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:50 PM, b.mcallister@alaska.comwrote: 

Please put a finer point on that question. Thanks 

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Brendan Joel Kelley wrote: 

you know how this media game works Bill, it’s one of my favorite things about you - it’s what makes you so effective - so i can’t overplay my hand here. but i’ve got information, good information, about an incident between the two of them - which i agree shouldn’t be the business of state employees - that i can’t say more about, the first gentleman having a confrontation with the father of the first grandson, let’s say. it’s blowing up, much like the first daughter’s pregnancy prior to the official confirmation of it. and although i doubt it’s a viable proposition, i’d like to think that the guv’s office wants local media to have things first, unlike, say, one-on-one interviews. IMO - to use internet slang - the best thing the guv could do right now is make good with local media, not seem to be the vp candidate that won’t go away, to quote chris matthews on hardball last night, this thing about the levi/bristol situation isn’t our making, and i’d prefer that young people’s relationships not be newsworthy, but we both know that it is. if it matters at all, i’d love a sitdown one-on-one interview with the guv, no questions about the kids asked, just policy and governance; consider that a formal request, but the stuff i’m referring to now is something that’s gonna be out no matter what you say to local journos, i’m not driving this bus 

From: b.mcallister@alaska.com [mailto:b.mcallister@alaska.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:15 PM 
To: Brendan Joel Kelley 
Subject: Re: inquiry 

Interesting comment from Chris Matthews, who I talked to on the phone today regarding his willingness to go to any lengths, including Alaska, to get an interview with the governor. There’s a lot of hypocrisy in comments like that. Everyone wants to talk to her, no matter how much they trash her for speaking to someone else. Campbell Brown did the same thing. It would be funny if it weren’t so mean-spirited. 

The governor wants to have a relationship with local media, and just got done giving an interview to Channel 2. 

So let me be clear: you’re asking me to respond to something the details of which you’re not going to share? You might consider the possibility that I really don’t know what you’re talking about. But just in case, what’s your direct phone line, or cell phone, whichever is best to reach you? 

That is where the e-mail ends concerning this particular story, but I doubt that McAllister responded further. Instead he probably contacted Palin and they performed the Alaska version of damage control.

There is only one other e-mail string that I can find between McAllister and Brendan Joel Kelley, and that was one that took place three days later concerning John Ziegler. (It is also interesting that Brendan talks about a phone conversation he had with Palin in between these two sets of e-mails.)

 Now as I am sure that many of you already know, my source on this story was Tank Jones, who obviously got his information directly from Levi.  And the journalist who was supposed to publish the story was the above mentioned Brendan Joel Kelley.

However the interview with Levi came out in the Anchorage Press on August 6. 2009, sans the confrontation story between Levi and Todd. I e-mailed Brendan about it and he said that at the last minute Levi had refused to go on the record. However he did confirm that he heard the same story that I had.

Now a couple of things.

In the e-mail Brendan is talking about a confrontation that JUST happened. This was back in January, and it is VERY unlikely that Brendan got this story from Levi, who was extremely suspicious and closed mouth in those days, so that means he got the story from another source.

He also claims that he is NOT the only news outlet working the story, and further states, "but the stuff i’m referring to now is something that’s gonna be out no matter what you say to local journos, i’m not driving this bus." However, regardless of who had it besides Brendan, the story was clearly squashed.

I am also aware that in MY version of the story it took place in the summer, but according to Brendan it had just happened in January. That is a minor quibble (But I did just check my notes and I wrote it down as taking place in the summer), though it actually makes more sense that it happened around the time that Bristol unceremoniously kicked Levi to the curb which (According to Levi's book) was on January the 8th.

I am not sure exactly HOW Palin manages to bully people, as well as the press, into keeping these stories quiet (Especially these days!), but it is worth noting that to this day the ONLY place to write about this story, which remember various news agencies were pursuing, was right here on IM.

And for refusing to allow myself to be intimidated by the Palins I suffered no end of verbal abuse and attacks on my character.  And as Paul Harvey used to say, "Now you know the rest of the story."