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10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Alphonso Taft.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ born: 1810-11-05
 died: 1891-05-21
 location: "Cincinnati, Ohio"
 created: 2026-10-26
-updated: 2026-10-26
+updated: 2026-10-28
 relations:
   - type: founded
     with: "[[Skull and Bones]]"
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ relations:
     fn: 2
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[William Howard Taft]]"
-    role: "son (second marriage)"
+    role: "father (second marriage)"
     fn: 2
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[Charles Phelps Taft]]"

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Cari Tuna.md

@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ relations:
     with: "[[Open Philanthropy]]"
     role: "chair"
     fn: 10
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Dustin Moskovitz]]"
+    start: 2013
+    fn: 3
 created: 2026-06-19
-updated: 2026-09-23
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Cari Tuna graduated from Yale and reported for *[[The Wall Street Journal]]*, writing, in the words of the *[[Stanford Social Innovation Review]]*, "about the California economy, gay marriage, and Turkish food in [[San Francisco]]." In December 2010, aged 25, she and [[Dustin Moskovitz]], then 26, became the youngest billionaires to sign the [[Giving Pledge]]; their pledge letter, written in Moskovitz's voice, thanked "a partner in Cari who shares my priorities" and promised to "donate and invest with both urgency and mindfulness." With Moskovitz occupied with [[Asana]], it fell to Tuna to manage their giving, and she quit reporting to study philanthropy.[^1][^2]

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Daniel Tessler.md

@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - INSLAW
 summary: "Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called 53rd Street Ventures, Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company."
+relations:
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Patricia Cloherty]]"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Daniel Tessler managed a venture capital fund called [[53rd Street Ventures]], Inc., which was formed around 1976 as an investment company. In about 1984, Tessler and his wife, [[Patricia Cloherty]], assumed management of 53rd Street Ventures through their investment management company, [[Tessler & Cloherty]], Inc. At that time, 53rd Street Ventures had a $100,000 investment in [[INSLAW|Inslaw]], representing less than 1% of the fund's total portfolio. This investment was made around 1982 under the supervision of [[Patricof and Company]], the previous managers, with [[Jonathan Ben Cnaan]] arranging the investment. The investment resulted in 53rd Street Ventures owning about 1.2% of [[INSLAW]].

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Donald Trump.md

@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ relations:
     fn: 17
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[Jared Kushner]]"
-    role: son-in-law
+    role: father-in-law
     fn: 31
   - type: spouse_of
     with: "[[Melania Trump]]"
     fn: 39
 created: 2026-06-18
-updated: 2026-10-12
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and 47th [[President of the United States]], serving from 2017 to 2021 and from 2025. His administrations appointed figures from the [[Peter Thiel|Peter Thiel]] commercial network, the [[Leonard Leo|Leonard Leo]] judicial-selection network and the [[Jared Kushner|Jared Kushner]] [[Middle East|Middle East]] network to federal office and contracts, and the second administration signed the [[Epstein Files Transparency Act|Epstein Files Transparency Act]] into law on November 19, 2025.[^1][^2]

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Dorothy Payne Whitney.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 created: 2026-10-09
-updated: 2026-10-26
+updated: 2026-10-28
 title: Dorothy Payne Whitney
 aliases:
   - Dorothy Payne Whitney
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ relations:
     fn: 3
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[Michael Whitney Straight]]"
-    role: son
+    role: mother
     fn: 3
   - type: relative_of
     with: "[[Payne Whitney]]"

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Ivan Torres.md

@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@
 title: Ivan Torres
 aliases:
   - Ivan Torres
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Jacinto Torres]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Edgar Torres]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 1
 created: 2026-05-17
-updated: 2026-05-17
+updated: 2026-10-28
 category: "Organized Crime"
 tags:
   - Person

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Jacinto Torres.md

@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ tags:
   - nicaraguan
   - contra-war
 summary: Jacinto Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who managed the East Los Angeles cocaine distribution hub for Danilo Blandón's trafficking network.
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Edgar Torres]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 Jacinto Torres was one of the Nicaraguan Torres brothers who managed the East [[Los Angeles]] [[Cocaine]] distribution hub for [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s trafficking network. Along with his brother [[Edgar Torres|Edgar]], Jacinto handled the distribution operations that moved Blandón's cocaine to street-level dealers.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Markus Wolf.md

@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ summary: "Markus Wolf (1923-2006), 'the man without a face,' directed the Stasi'
 born: 1923-01-19
 died: 2006-11-09
 location: "Berlin, Germany"
+relations:
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Friedrich Wolf]]"
+    role: "son"
+    fn: 1
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Konrad Wolf]]"
+    role: "brother"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Markus Wolf was born January 19, 1923, in Hechingen, [[Germany]], into a left-wing intellectual Jewish family. His father, [[Friedrich Wolf]], was a playwright and physician; his brother [[Konrad Wolf]] became a prominent East German filmmaker. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1934, eventually reaching the [[Soviet Union]]. Markus Wolf spent the years of the Third Reich in Moscow, where he received his education and became integrated into Soviet communist networks. He died November 9, 2006, in [[Berlin]], on the seventeenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Michael Townley.md

@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ tags:
   - WitnessProtection
 summary: "American-born assassin for the Chilean secret police who killed Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and Orlando Letelier in Washington with car bombs, made sarin in his basement, served five years, and lives under witness protection."
 location: "United States"
+relations:
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Mariana Callejas]]"
+    fn: 1
 created: 2026-09-21
-updated: 2026-09-21
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 Michael Vernon Townley is an American electronics specialist who worked from 1974 to 1978 for the [[DINA|Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional]], the secret police of General [[Augusto Pinochet]]. He built and detonated the bombs that killed General [[Carlos Prats]] and his wife in [[Buenos Aires]] in 1974 and [[Orlando Letelier]] and [[Ronni Moffitt]] in Washington in 1976. [[Chile]] expelled him to the [[United States]] on April 8, 1978. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the Letelier case, was sentenced to ten years, was released after about five, and has since lived in the United States under another name in the federal [[Witness Protection Program|witness protection program]].[^1]

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Payne Whitney.md

@@ -164,8 +164,44 @@ relations:
     with: "[[Joan Whitney Payson]]"
     role: "father"
     fn: 20
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]]"
+    role: "uncle"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Harry Payne Bingham]]"
+    role: "cousin"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Henry F. Dimock]]"
+    role: "nephew"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Henry W. Payne]]"
+    role: "nephew"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Charles W. Bingham]]"
+    role: "nephew"
+    fn: 3
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Willard Straight]]"
+    role: "brother-in-law"
+    fn: 63
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Michael Whitney Straight]]"
+    role: "uncle"
+    fn: 64
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[Clarence Hay]]"
+    role: "brother-in-law"
+    fn: 50
+  - type: relative_of
+    with: "[[John Hay]]"
+    role: "son-in-law"
+    fn: 20
 created: 2026-10-26
-updated: 2026-10-26
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 to May 25, 1927) was a New York financier and sportsman, son of [[William Collins Whitney]] and [[Flora Payne]] of the [[Whitney family]], a member of the [[Yale University]] class of 1898 and of [[Skull and Bones]], and, with his sister [[Pauline Whitney Paget]] and four other nephews and nieces, a beneficiary of the holding company that his uncle [[Oliver Hazard Payne]] of [[Standard Oil]] set aside for the family. His brother was [[Harry Payne Whitney]].[^1] His estate, appraised in November 1928 at $194,328,514 gross and $178,893,655 net, was described as the largest ever appraised in the United States.[^2]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(T-Z)/Vivian L. Wagner.md

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ tags:
   - Lawyer
   - LawEnforcement
 summary: "Her letter detailed the alleged corruption within the Mariposa County local government, including unlawful and corrupt activities by officials and departments, and the failure of the State Attorney General John Van de Kamp and federal agencies to investigate these allegations."
+relations:
+  - type: spouse_of
+    with: "[[Ben Wagner]]"
+    fn: 1
+updated: 2026-10-28
 ---
 
 [[Vivian L. Wagner]] is the wife of attorney [[Ben Wagner]] and a legal secretary. On February 19, 1988, she sent an emotionally gripping letter to President [[Ronald Reagan]] at the [[White House]], titled "Restoring Equal Rights to the Citizens of Mariposa County."[^1]