Interesting article in Rolling Stone Magazine yesterday
It seems that Trump's attorney, has a lot of Russian Mafia ties and that Trump's towers have been a vehicle to launder money from Russian criminal activity.Here's an excerpt;
In response to:
......An investigation by Reuters found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses
have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in the seven Trump-branded luxury towers. And that was a conservative estimate.
At least 703 – or about one-third – of the 2044 units were owned by limited liability companies, or LLCs, which could conceal the property's true owner.
Executives from Gazprom and other Russian natural resource giants also owned units in Trump's Sunny Isles towers.
In an observation that several people I spoke with echoed, Kenneth McCallion, a former prosecutor
who tracked the flows of Russian criminal money into Trump's properties, told me, "Trump's genius – or evil genius – was,
instead of Russian criminal money being passive, incidental income, it became a central part of his business plan."
McCallion continued, "It's not called 'Little Moscow' for nothing.
The street signs are in Russian.
But his towers there were built specifically for the Russian middle-class criminal."....
......An investigation by Reuters found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses
have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in the seven Trump-branded luxury towers. And that was a conservative estimate.
At least 703 – or about one-third – of the 2044 units were owned by limited liability companies, or LLCs, which could conceal the property's true owner.
Executives from Gazprom and other Russian natural resource giants also owned units in Trump's Sunny Isles towers.
In an observation that several people I spoke with echoed, Kenneth McCallion, a former prosecutor
who tracked the flows of Russian criminal money into Trump's properties, told me, "Trump's genius – or evil genius – was,
instead of Russian criminal money being passive, incidental income, it became a central part of his business plan."
McCallion continued, "It's not called 'Little Moscow' for nothing.
The street signs are in Russian.
But his towers there were built specifically for the Russian middle-class criminal."....
You can read the complete article by going here;
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Some people just keep giving the orange man excuses...