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| Trump’s Russian Laundromat | |
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| _g R_ | Jul 26 2017, 01:30 PM Post #1 |
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New Republic July 13th 2017 In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. The 38-year-old had arrived in America seven years before, with just $3 in his pocket. But for a former pilot in the Soviet Army—his specialty had been shooting down Americans over North Vietnam—he had clearly done quite well for himself. Bogatin wasn’t hunting for a place in Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn enclave known as “Little Odessa” for its large population of immigrants from the Soviet Union. Instead, he was fixated on the glitziest apartment building on Fifth Avenue, a gaudy, 58-story edifice with gold-plated fixtures and a pink-marble atrium: Trump Tower. Edited by _g R_, Jul 26 2017, 01:34 PM.
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| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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| _g R_ | Jul 26 2017, 01:33 PM Post #2 |
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From the article; In 1987, just three years after he attended the closing with Trump, Bogatin pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive gasoline-bootlegging scheme with Russian mobsters. After he fled the country, the government seized his five condos at Trump Tower, saying that he had purchased them to “launder money, to shelter and hide assets.” A Senate investigation into organized crime later revealed that Bogatin was a leading figure in the Russian mob in New York. His family ties, in fact, led straight to the top: His brother ran a $150 million stock scam with none other than Semion Mogilevich, whom the FBI considers the “boss of bosses” of the Russian mafia. At the time, Mogilevich—feared even by his fellow gangsters as “the most powerful mobster in the world”—was expanding his multibillion-dollar international criminal syndicate into America. |
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| BuckFan | Jul 26 2017, 01:34 PM Post #3 |
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There was a professor out of Toronto on the radio the other week that made the case that the real danger to Trump and the Russia investigation is his using Russian money to finance his U.S. deals. That is why he is so anxious to curb Mueller. |
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| CautionaryTales | Jul 26 2017, 01:40 PM Post #4 |
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The Russian mob seems to have their hooks deep into our government |
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Have you paid your internet taxes? | |
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| BuckFan | Jul 26 2017, 01:51 PM Post #5 |
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Here is an interview with the professor. https://www.vox.com/2017/7/18/15983910/donald-trump-russia-putin-natalia-veselnitskaya-collusion I don't put much stock in the Russia mob and buying condos. People with money buy condos, I'm not sure it is on Trump to know where they got their money. If there can be a link shown that the Trump organization knew it was mob money then there would be a case. The simple fact a mobster bought a condo (or five) is not enough. But the professor's case is much more interesting... |
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| _g R_ | Jul 26 2017, 03:15 PM Post #6 |
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| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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| _g R_ | Jul 26 2017, 10:50 PM Post #7 |
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