questions about the controversial outfit, including its founder – former US marine Andy Milburn.
Despite Milburn’s boasts that Mozart Group “is filling a niche no one is filling,” and his consequent belief that sizable Western government funding should be “an absolute no-brainer,” neither sponsorship nor corresponding riches have been forthcoming. The organization has, to his immense disappointment, only received
relatively small sums from unnamed US-based financiers with Ukrainian
ancestry, and from a humanitarian organization for the purpose of
evacuations.
A lawsuit taken by Andy Bain, Mozart’s former chief financial officer, against Milburn, and “defendants John Doe 1 through 10,” who are “individuals or entities who have acted together with, or under the direction of”
Milburn, might offer a clue as to why Washington and its international
lackeys have been so reticent to stump up any cash for the effort.
Bain’s suit paints a shocking picture of an utterly chaotic, corrupt, criminal organization, in which “on multiple occasions” Milburn “has taken actions which have and will continue to cause harm to the company.” A 26-point list, running from a-to-z, outlines the alleged behavior.
Milburn also “unilaterally” hired a Ukrainian woman he met on a dating app - “and with whom he had a prior personal relationship” - as his personal assistant, paying her an annual salary of $90,000, “which is at least four times more than the usual compensation rate for a Ukrainian based employee in such position.”
Milburn purportedly made “unwanted sexual advances and propositions to a female office manager” too, and when these were rejected, he “preemptively labeled her as a liar”to Bain and possibly others, “in the event she would not keep silent about his actions.”....he is said to have secretly meddled with donation links on Mozart’s
website, so money intended for the organization was actually redirected
to another company he set up. Yet another business entity with an almost
identical name to Mozart Group’s is also apparently being established “to confuse donors and continue to facilitate the diversion of funds.”
A day after Bain’s lawsuit was filed, Milburn responded
with an enormous number of counter-accusations via various social media
platforms, posts which he later deleted, claiming Bain was a
“disgruntled” former employee who himself had been accused of financial
and sexual misconduct.Milburn even said Bain at one point
attempted to sell Mozart to the Taliban. A wild charge, but believable,
given the eagerness of foreigners to line their pockets off the back of
the Ukraine conflict." RT
