"And then the Russian came along."

[packman]

REMEMBER this??




“The Russian” was Dmitry Rybolovlev, a cardiologist-turned-potash-magnate (Russian newspapers called him “the Fertilizer King”) whose net worth was estimated in the financial press to be well north of $10 billion.

And what did this Russian buy?

Since the allegations about Donald Trump’s business connections to Russia started to fly last year in the middle of his presidential campaign, the fog of political war has made it difficult to tell the real from the shadow. Except for one very visible landmark: a sprawling, rococo seaside mansion in Palm Beach that Trump himself liked to boast about as an example of his real-estate acumen.

This sale of the mansion has now become part of U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into potential Trump links to Russia, according to Bloomberg.

“What do I have to do with Russia?” he replied to reporters’ questions at a press conference in Doral last summer. “You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach … for $40 million, and I sold it to a Russian for $100 million.

So sad, the house has been torn down and the lot sub-divided - more on the deal and the Russian with ties to the Russian underworld and his connection to politics.

http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/business/article135187364.html?__twitter_impression=true

[benld74]

1. So sad this turd is in the WH

Even sadder these Russian oligarchs grabbing the country’s wealth and using it
As if they actually earned the $$$$$$

[tikka]

2. I thought that I had read previously that Fatso didn't do anything to the property.

It just set there empty with a mold problem.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Yes, and the Russian buyer TORE IT DOWN.

Definitely money laundering.

[Wounded Bear]

4. By all reports I've heard, he never spent a day there either...

Just bought it and razed it.