Trump Hotel in Baku tied to Iranian Terror Group and Azerbaijan oligarchs

[Botany]

The hotel has no roads leading to it and it seems to have been built to launder money for
Iranian terrorists and Azerbaijan crooks.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/6/1640766/-Trump-Hotel-in-Baku-tied-to-Iranian-Terror-Group-and-Azerbaijan-oligarchs

Newsweek‘s Kurt Eichenwald reported in September that Trump’s financial filings show he’s partners in the Baku deal with the son of Azerbaijan’s transportation minister.

U.S. officials believe that official, Ziya Mammadov, laundered money for the Iranian military, although no formal charges were brought against him or his son, Anar Mammadov — who is Trump’s partner in the Baku hotel venture.

The New Yorker examined Trump’s ties to Ziya Mammadov — one of the wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs in one of the world’s most corrupt nations — and his brother, Elton Mammadov, an influential member of the Azerbaijani parliament, who signed contracts for the project and founded Baku XXI Century, which owns the tower.

The Mammadov family, described by Foreign Policy magazine as “The Corleones of the Caspian,” has a reputation for using their government positions to enrich themselves and their partners — which includes construction firms tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

[Kaotic]

1. No deal there seems unusual, as long as a check is attached,

The man has no morals. I still believe he only ran for president as a way to enrich himself. He is not a patriot..his only allegiance is to himself.

More than a dozen lawyers with experience in F.C.P.A. prosecution expressed surprise at the Trump Organization’s seemingly lax approach to vetting its foreign partners. But, when I asked a former Trump Organization executive if the Baku deal had seemed unusual, he laughed. “No deal there seems unusual, as long as a check is attached,” he said.

[Raster]

2. I think the "enrich himself (and his family)" was a side benefit...

...I believe the real reason tRump* ran for POTUS is because his owners told him he had to.