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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is what a RICO charge would be based on for Trump AND Guiliani.
The American real estate development company Bayrock, through which Donald Trump constructed hotels and apartment complexes, used Dutch letter box companies in a network suspected of being involved in money laundering. A ZEMBLA investigation suggests that Bayrock siphoned off $1.5 million dollars by setting up a corporate structure in the Netherlands in 2007. In New York, Bayrock also stands accused of large-scale tax fraud. This incriminating information could place Donald Trump in an extremely difficult position, claims attorney F. Oberlander, who is prosecuting Bayrock on behalf of the State of New York: The maximum jail term would be 30 years. So youre in really serious trouble.
In 2005, Donald Trump became 18% owner of an hotel-condominium known as Trump SoHo. Bayrock, the other owner, is accused of perpetrating fraud on a grand scale through, among other things, Trump SoHo. According to US law, this means that Trump is jointly liable for Bayrocks criminal activities. Oberlander concludes:
Anybody running a business through a pattern of crime is guilty of racketeering. Anybody knowing what theyre doing and are helping is guilty of racketeering conspiracy. They go to jail.
All Bayrock wants is to make clear to ZEMBLA that the Dutch corporate construction was established on the advice of an external legal counsel. ZEMBLA discovers that the firm in question is Bracewell & Giuliani.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and part owner of the law firm at the time, is also a Trump confidante. ZEMBLA has access to correspondence between the law firm and the Dutch director of a trust company in Amsterdam, which leaves no doubt as to the ultimate beneficiary owners of the Dutch business construction: the director of Bayrock and the Khrapunov family from Kazakhstan.
Viktor Khrapunov is a fugitive ex-mayor and governor from Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan government accuses Khrapunov of embezzling hundreds of millions of state assets. In 2007, Bayrock and the Khrapunov family founded the Dutch joint venture KazBay B.V. ZEMBLA has copies of the act of incorporation, bank statements and internal communications showing how the suspected money laundering scheme was set up. It was designed to get millions of dollars out of New York into Europe. Through KazBay. KazBay was just a conduit, asserts attorney Oberlander.
https://zembla.vara.nl/dossier/uitzending/trump-business-partner-accused-of-involvement-in-dutch-based-money-laundering-schemeIn 2005, Donald Trump became 18% owner of an hotel-condominium known as Trump SoHo. Bayrock, the other owner, is accused of perpetrating fraud on a grand scale through, among other things, Trump SoHo. According to US law, this means that Trump is jointly liable for Bayrocks criminal activities. Oberlander concludes:
Anybody running a business through a pattern of crime is guilty of racketeering. Anybody knowing what theyre doing and are helping is guilty of racketeering conspiracy. They go to jail.
All Bayrock wants is to make clear to ZEMBLA that the Dutch corporate construction was established on the advice of an external legal counsel. ZEMBLA discovers that the firm in question is Bracewell & Giuliani.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and part owner of the law firm at the time, is also a Trump confidante. ZEMBLA has access to correspondence between the law firm and the Dutch director of a trust company in Amsterdam, which leaves no doubt as to the ultimate beneficiary owners of the Dutch business construction: the director of Bayrock and the Khrapunov family from Kazakhstan.
Viktor Khrapunov is a fugitive ex-mayor and governor from Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan government accuses Khrapunov of embezzling hundreds of millions of state assets. In 2007, Bayrock and the Khrapunov family founded the Dutch joint venture KazBay B.V. ZEMBLA has copies of the act of incorporation, bank statements and internal communications showing how the suspected money laundering scheme was set up. It was designed to get millions of dollars out of New York into Europe. Through KazBay. KazBay was just a conduit, asserts attorney Oberlander.
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Here is what a RICO charge would be based on for Trump AND Guiliani. (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
May 2017
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(6,474 posts)1. Its Not Uncommon for Attorneys to Be Convicted and Disbarred
for knowingly recommending, engaging in and participating in illegal tax schemes
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. Every fibre of my being has been waiting for Guiliani to get caught.
His sleaze come thru like waves to me, just like Nixon's did.
Their Achilles heel is their cockiness, from having a lot of money and believing their own press.
They get that "invincible" swagger....