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Evidence—Trump Is A Russian Mob Associate
Decades of money laundering go back to Atlantic City Casinos, then to real estate and condos.
It’s not well hidden, but it’s not well reported in MSM.
Evidence—Trump Is A Russian Mob Associate
Decades of money laundering go back to Atlantic City Casinos, then to real estate and condos.
It’s not well hidden, but it’s not well reported in MSM.
2) To expand his real estate developments over the years, Donald Trump, his company and partners repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics — several allegedly connected to organized crime. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/98321252
3)Among Trump's partners in the SoHo project was Felix Sater, Russian immigrant who spent a year in prison for the 1991 stabbing.He later cooperated with the FBI &CIA for a reduced sentence after he was convicted in a $40 million stock manipulation &money-laundering scheme in NY.
4) “Sater introduced a Ukrainian politician pushing a pro-Russian peace proposal to Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer and former chief counsel at the Trump Organization, Cohen told NBC News.”
5) “A Bayrock investment pamphlet lists Mashkevich as a source of financing for the Bayrock Group. Mashkevich, a Kazakhstan mining billionaire, was accused in Belgium in 2011 in a $55 million money-laundering scheme.”
6) “One indictment describes Anatoly Golubchik &Michael Sall,who own condos in Trump Intntl Beach Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., &Vadim Trincher, who owns unit in Trump Tower in Manhattan, as members of a Ru-American organized crime group..illegal gambling &money-laundering.”
7) “Money laundering was an issue for Trump's Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, which was fined $10 million in 2015 for failing to report suspicious transactions.”
8) “In L.A.,federal lawsuit filed by lawyers for Kazakh city of Almaty accuses former mayor Viktor Khrapunov of owning 3 Trump SoHo units thru shell companies to hide hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly looted from state-owned assets.Kazakhstan is a former Soviet republic.”
9)”former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in a 2011 lawsuit alleged that Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, engaged in a racketeering and money-laundering scheme to hide $3.5 billion in stolen funds, much of it by buying U.S. real estate.”
10)”Manafort's co-defendants were Dmitry Firtash, a Ukranian gas executive under federal indictment for bribery, and Semyon Mogelivich, identified by the Justice Department as head of a transnational criminal organization that posed a threat to U.S. national security.”
11) “Mashkevich &principal Bayrock partner Tevfik Arif were embroiled in a case in 2010,when Turkish police alleged prostitution &human trafficking after they raided a luxury yacht Mashkevich chartered.They also found 9 young women from Russia &Ukraine — two were 16 years old.”
12) “Peter Kiritchenko, a Ukrainian businessman who owned two condominiums with his daughter at Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., was named in a money-laundering scheme involving former Ukraine prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko.”
13) “In a 2007 deposition that Trump gave as part of his unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against reporter Timothy O’Brien, he describes efforts to launch real estate ventures in Russia through Bayrock Associates, a shady Russian-connected outfit.”
http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/05/17/donald-trump-russia-2
http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2017/05/17/donald-trump-russia-2
14) “Bayrock had partnered with Trump on at least four major but failed American projects: the Fort Lauderdale Trump Tower, the Trump Ocean Club in Fort Lauderdale, the SoHo condominium-hotel in New York, and a resort in Phoenix.”
15) “..A 2015 racketeering case vs Bayrock, Sater, &Arif, et al,alleged..that: “it was..covertly mob-owned &operated,”engaging “in a pattern of continuous,related crimes,including mail, wire,&bank fraud;tax evasion;money laundering;conspiracy; bribery; extortion; &embezzlement.”
16) “According to the Washington Post, the deal to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Russia was “financed in part by the development company of a Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov.… a Putin ally who is sometimes called the ‘Trump of Russia’.”
17) “While in Moscow, Trump met with Russian oligarchs who were closely aligned with President Vladimir Putin, including Herman Gref, the chief executive officer of the state-controlled Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank.”