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Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
Special counsel Robert Muellers indictment against international lobbyist and Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, and pleading by Trump campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos, cast long shadows over other top Trump administration officials, starting with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose previous financial deals involved the European money-laundering hub of Cyprus.
The banking sector of that small island nation in the Mediterranean appears to be a crossroads where top Trump campaign associates, such as Manafort and Papadopoulos, and senior administration officials like Commerce Secretary Ross, crossed paths and had layered financial and political dealings with Kremlin-tied Russian oligarchs.
The Manafort indictment, apart from its detailing of how he spent millions of untaxed overseas earnings for luxury properties in the U.S. that the government wants to seize, listed more than half a dozen pages of overseas wire transfersadding up to $12 million. Almost all of them originated in Cyprus.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/wilbur-ross-next-trump-official-targeted-mueller-probe/
Calling Wilbur Ross, Calling Wilbur Ross....................I think you need to do some explaining, after all you were at this organization
and all the dots go back to this Bank of Cyprus, all of it
kentuck
(111,110 posts)If they indict him, they are very close to the Dotard himself.
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)But, Mueller will get him.
And oh hey, Wilbur...you won't be allowed to take your $500 slippers with you to the big house. Sorry.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/02/28/commerce-secretary-wore-slippers-to-trump-address/98565280/
Which may explain why he decided a pair of slippers that cost hundreds of dollars was the proper footwear for his first time attending attending a presidential address as the newly confirmed Commerce secretary.
An eagle-eyed reporter noted that they were a pair of Stubbs Wootton slippers, which start at $495 for men, with a custom Commerce Department logo, which we imagine would cost extra:
(OK, maybe they are $600 slippers. Hard to know for sure.)
-JB
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)I am hoping all of these wall street scumbags are going down.