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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUSA Today: Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters
To expand his real estate developments over the years, Donald Trump, his company and partners repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics several allegedly connected to organized crime, according to a USA TODAY review of court cases, government and legal documents and an interview with a former federal prosecutor.
The president and his companies have been linked to at least 10 wealthy former Soviet businessmen with alleged ties to criminal organizations or money laundering.
Among them:
A member of the firm that developed the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York is a twice-convicted felon who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia.
An investor in the SoHo project was accused by Belgian authorities in 2011 in a $55 million money-laundering scheme.
The president and his companies have been linked to at least 10 wealthy former Soviet businessmen with alleged ties to criminal organizations or money laundering.
Among them:
A member of the firm that developed the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York is a twice-convicted felon who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia.
An investor in the SoHo project was accused by Belgian authorities in 2011 in a $55 million money-laundering scheme.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/28/trump-business-past-ties-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/
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USA Today: Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters (Original Post)
spanone
May 2017
OP
But Trump had a certified letter using parsed legal language that went back only ten (?) years...
Freethinker65
May 2017
#2
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1. What took them so long? Old news.
It is old news, the article was published 5:05 p.m. ET March 28, 2017
Freethinker65
(9,930 posts)2. But Trump had a certified letter using parsed legal language that went back only ten (?) years...
Hahahahaha
bdamomma
(63,652 posts)4. it takes one to know one or many!
isn't Mr. Trump a mobster too.
cilla4progress
(24,587 posts)5. Re "old news"
we should have noticed that Rachel's fabulous reporting in many cases is not new breaking info, but "old news" she has gleaned from scouring reporting that is right out there in the public domain. Why in the world it was ignored at the time is a never ending mystery
I think this arti le and factoid is another example.
senegal1
(535 posts)6. Not old news to people in
This papers demographic.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)7. Wow!!!
The Gannett Family is turning against their Dictator. When USA Today runs this story holy cow.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)8. k & r
jalan48
(13,797 posts)9. Looks like even the most mainstream media outlets are going after Trump.
He's on his way out. Hopefully all of this will mean more Democrats in Congress in 2018.