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As it turns out, that may have been an understatement.
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As it turns out, that may have been an understatement. Human rights lawyer Scott Horton, whose work in the region goes back to defending Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents, has gone through a series of studies by the Financial Times to show how funds from Russian crime lords bailed Trump out after yet anther bankruptcy. The conclusions are stark.
Among the powerful facts that DNI missed were a series of very deep studies published in the [Financial Times] that examined the structure and history of several major Trump real estate projects from the last decadethe period after his seventh bankruptcy and the cancellation of all his bank lines of credit...
The money to build these projects flowed almost entirely from Russian sources. In other words, after his business crashed, Trump was floated and made to appear to operate a successful business enterprise through the infusion of hundreds in millions of cash from dark Russian sources.
He was their man.
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The second Financial Times article puts Trump at the middle of a money laundering scheme, in which his real estate deals were used to hide not just an infusion of capital from Russia and former Soviet states, but to launder hundreds of millions looted by oligarchs. All Trump had to do was close his eyes to the source of the money, and suddenly empty apartments were going for top dollar.
- Alternet
This is right up tRump's alley. Russian crime bosses, a foreign leader that would puff up his ego and help him win an election he had no business being a part of, and real estate riches to hide his multiple bankruptcies after all other American banking institutions had washed their hands of his poor investment decisions.
B C Butler
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(297,249 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Welcome to DU!
OldYallow
(90 posts)Now.
Add money laundering to the list.
ffr
(22,670 posts)PEOTUS
Can you believe we are where we are? I cannot.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)that stupid golden showers news? OK, so he might have done some gross sexual fantasy on a hotel bed in Russia but I am more concerned that he is mixed with the crime boss of Russia. Who is more dangerous to our country? The Russian crime family or a couple of female hookers? I tend to think the Russian crime family is worse.
Sex means zip and apparently so does brains and ethics and blind trusts and morals and any damn thing else that means anything to Americans. Give Tweety Bird 6 months and maybe someone with actual guts will he suggest that someone will do to him what he himself suggested should be done to Hillary by the NRA. Just a thought! Remember, it was his own idea FIRST, not mine! I can't stand this light weight piece of crap and he should not be surprised at whatever comes his way when he is sworn in and he starts fiddling with healthcare, social security, medicare, our military, homeless , hungry masses who need a resident who need HIM but he doesn't need US, as long as he has Russia. This is is going to be a very interesting SHORT lived administration lived by a macho shithead Tweety Bird based on a cartoon character who uses his PHONE to make POLICY. What has the GOP come to???? Thank God I am a democrat and a woman (yes Tweety, I bleed, Oh, NO!) and I can THINK! You better watch out because at least 51% of us can read and vote, and make little democrats and and even form opinions that will eventually either recall or impeach your ass!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)ago on CNN/Lemon
going into some detail about manafort's real estate dealings as I type
when is this octopus going to be ensnared?