Discussion: New Clues Emerge About The Mystery Mueller Grand Jury Case

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They’re coming to get you, Donnie. Wall or no wall…

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Vnesheconombank helped finance Donny’s DC hotel, so that’s my guess.

Mueller may just go down in history as the second man to save the union.

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All kinds of Russian connections to that firm. If it involves Mueller it probably involves a Russian financial institution that Trump was involved with. Alpha Bank?

More likely VTB Bank. Wasn’t it connected to the Trump Tower Moscow project and isn’t it run by Putin and tied to Deutsche Bank. Trumps principal bank and money laundering bank of choice for Russian oligarchs.

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Donnie might end up having first hand experience with walls and steel bars.

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I hope Donnie’s fans have umbrellas, because the fecal matter is about to become airborne.

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I’ll take Deutsche Bag for $200… Alex

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Follow the Money

Every.
Single.
Time.

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Alfa Bank is not owned by the Russian Government (officially). More likely VTB.

Alston & Bird should be ashamed of themselves. Then again, they take dirty money for lobbying, so there is no shame.

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As well as becoming his cell blocks favorite slat.

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Was it Alpha Bank that had the direct link to the offices in Trump Tower?

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Yep!

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Is Potinin the guy who bought a mansion for $100M and then sold it to Donald J Trump for $80M (or something, a HUGE drop in price)?

Rachel Maddow mentioned an oligarch who had done that a while back, it was part of the wonky business deals DJT had with Russian oligarchs.

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Rybololev bought a florida mansion from trump for 85 mil. 4 years earlier trump had paid 45 mil for it.

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Not DB. DB is shareholder owned.

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Alpha Bank is a Greek bank. You’re thinking of Alfa Bank – a privately owned Russian bank, which cannot be the company in question because it’s, ahem, privately owned.

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VTB Bank is under U.S. sanctions. Is it “doing considerable business in the U.S.” despite being sanctioned?

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2011_03-23 Deutsche Bank guilty of fraud
The German Bank, according to the Federal Court of Justice concluded that Deutsche Bank had failed to adequately warn its customers about the risks of the transaction, knonw as a CMS Spread Ladder Swap.

In addition, the swap was rigged against the customer so that Deutsche Bank would be able to resell its side of the transaction to the other investors.

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The bank “deliberately designed the risk structure of the transaction to the disadvantage of the client, in order to immediately resell the risk at a profit,” the court said in a summary of the decision.

The decision against Deutsche Bank, which found that “the bank had a grave conflict of interest,” was reminscent of accusations last year the Goldman Sachs fraudulently sold a mortgage security to customers just as enormous risks were discovered in the housing market. That security, called Abacus 2007-ACI, allowed a prominent hedge fund manager, John A. Paulson, to place a bet against the mortgage bonds Goldman was selling as AAA rated investment grade bonds.

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Deutsche Bank Raided in Laundering Probe Going Into 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/deutsche-bank-headquarters-searched-in-money-laundering-probe

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Deutsche Bank fined $630m over Russia money laundering claims
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/deutsche-bank-fined-630m-over-russia-money-laundering-claims

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Yep.
That’s how your clean up that dirty ex USSR money. Works like a charm…