Discussion: Report: Mystery Shell Company Snapped Up 11 Trump Condos Before Election

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It was Dennis Hopper.

Sorry that was cryptic, even for me. Hoosiers Hickory=Milan, IN.

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Oh, c’mon. What happens in Vegas…stays in the shadows, or somebody could get hurt.
“Nice little country I’m gonna run here. Be a delight if something positive happened to your assets! They’d be huuuuuge!
Need a pen?”

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Milan Investment, Jun Xu and Qi Huang, . . . . a good place to start looking might be the Panama Papers:

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“so one of the most important issues last year was ‘pay to play’. While the eventual winner was thought by a pivotal section of the electorate to be a honest populist, its very clear now that he was far from it,”

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Who cares what USA Today says - it’s only read in every hotel in the…

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Remember, newborn shell companies with untraceable owners are persons, too. They can anonymously donate unlimited funds to tax-exempt political advocacy groups, even if the owners are foreigners who, as individual humans, aren’t even allowed to buy a button from or give a dollar to a political campaign.

If the owners drop their anonymity, newborn shell corporations can even gain some exclusion from legal requirements if they assert that those requirements violate their rights to practice their religion (even if the asserted violation assumes a fact that is scientifically incorrect).

Individuals used to incorporate to get tax breaks (mostly, shady ones that have been closed down over the years). It’s getting to the point where we may have to incorporate to reclaim/expand our civil rights.

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Some enterprising journalist ought to compile a list of all of the tenants renting or owning property in Trump buildings. Obviously respecting privacy of the tenants. It could be a treasure trove of interesting information.

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Chaffetz, you may have plans on not running for office in 2018. However, you are now the chairman of government oversight and based on the information that I’m reading about these fake contributors to Trump’s inauguration committee, some who cannot be verified, because their principle location is a empty parking lot.

So it sounds to me that you’ve got work to do, so why not get busy and start finding out what is going on with these wicked tricks that are being played out by the cabal occupying the White House!

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Somebody in the tweetersphere is crowd sourcing identification of donors to TrUmps inauguration which stands at twice as much as Obamas. Something like $100M. Can’t find now. One donor address was an empty strip mall. And what was it spent on?

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$100M?? That’s a dollar for every man, woman, and child who watched the swearing in on the mall!

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But what happens when a person has been incorporated without their knowledge and legal consent in order to both restrict and violate that person’s civil rights and monetize those restrictions and violations?

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Is $282,000 a “luxury” condo in Las Vegas? Is the luxury that Trump sells it to you? Sounds like “condo” would be a better description. Maybe the luxury is you get your Russian oil drilled.

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Palmer Report says Chaffetz has got some issues related to improper spending of campaign funds.

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Given that they bought 11 condos, they probably got a “fleet rate.”. . . or a preferred investor discount.

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If we ever regain control, we have got to pass what I have mentally dubbed “The Beneficial Owner and Actual Donor Act of 20__,” a law requiring that every non-publicly traded business entity that registers to do business in any state annually file a list of the actual human beings, publicly traded corporations or institution–however many shells and layers the filer has to go through–who control ownership interests and that every non-profit that engages in lobbying or political advertising file a similar list of donors.

It would be a law with a fairly involved definitions section, and the moaning of the people who are using Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming (and offshore) LLC’s to engage in fraud, deceit, tax evasion, and political manipulation would be huge, but it has to be done.

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Sheldon Adelson’s donated $5 million to the inaugural fund. Since most of his properties are in Macau and Israel wouldn’t the donated $5 million be a illegal foreign donation to a political campaign?

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Um…isn’t it illegal to file for corporation with a false address? I thought that was one of the Homeland security measures after 9/11…?

*incorporation

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Manafort…best little money launderer in Trump Towers…

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Walter Shaub Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, called the arrangement “wholly inadequate,” saying the United States “can’t risk the perception that government leaders would use their official positions for professional profit.”

Hey, here is a tip from someone whose job doesn’t depend on desperately trying to pretend everything is normal with this administration… it isn’t a perception.

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