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Haitian government claims ousted dictator Baby Doc Duvalier laundered stolen money through Trump Tower
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/haitian-government-claims-ousted-dictator-baby-doc-duvalier-laundered-stolen-money-through-trump-tower/#.Wlj2NSbIlsI.twitter
President Donald Trump insulted Haiti during an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers, but he once signed off on a shady real estate deal with the nations ousted dictator. More than a fifth of Trumps condominiums in the U.S. have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive cash transactions that fit a Treasury Department definition of suspicious transactions, reported Buzzfeed News.
Records show more than 1,300 Trump condos were purchased through shell companies, which allow buyers to shield their finances and identities, and without a mortgage, which protects buyers from lender inquiries. Those two characteristics raise alarms about possible money laundering, according to statements issued in recent months by the Department of Treasury, which has investigated transactions just like those all over the country.
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According to the Buzzfeed News report, the Haitian government complained in the 1980s that former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier laundered money stolen from the Caribbean nations treasury by purchasing an apartment in Trump Tower.
Duvalier, nicknamed Baby Doc, was overthrown in 1986, but three years earlier used a Panamanian shell company called Lasa Trade and Finance to buy apartment 54-K in Trumps Manhattan tower for $446,875 cash.
Trump, the future U.S. president, signed the deed of sale.
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Haitian gov't claims ousted dictator Baby Doc Duvalier laundered stolen money through Trump Tower (Original Post)
KelleyKramer
Jan 2018
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global1
(25,253 posts)1. If Trump Ran A Money Laundering Scheme Out Of Trump Tower.....
How did he communicate that service to the bad element that needed their money laundered?
shanny
(6,709 posts)2. Starting to connect the dots
regarding why shithole nations like Haiti are that way.