Glad somebody’s looking at this.
Manafort owed as much as $17 million to pro-Russia interests before he joined Trump’s campaign, where he requested no salary in his capacity as chairman.
I don’t see anything suspicious about this at all. Move along.
So let me get this straight. Trump draws a red line in attempt to intimidate Mueller from investigating Trump’s finances. We then immediately get information that Mueller is looking into Trump’s money.
Did Trump mistakenly use the color ‘finish line’ instead of ‘red’ when he was drawing that?
This is how the Good Guys tighten the screws to get Manafort to flip on Trump (somebody he probably does not like or respect anymore) and tell all about the dirty dirt he knows (offshore banking, Bank of Cyprus schemes, money laundering thru real estate deals, etc). With the right kind of Fed. Immunity, Manafort can go back to his sleazy international deals, independent of Trump.
He’ll flip because he can’t be pardoned for state charges.
Sucks to be Trump.
“Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the federal probe into Russian meddling, began an inquiry several weeks ago into possible money laundering.”
So they use the orphans to launder the money?
I’m not sure I understand just how that works…
Their hands are very clean.
Well, he’s burning down the White House at the very least.
It’s Russia, they use child labor, very cheap.
They stuffed rubles in their diapers.
Perhaps he’s like those criminals who are so tired they want to get caught. Ha…kidding!!
It’s not pretty.
No
‘45’ likely thought it sounded cool
Russia, oligarchs and money laundering go together like rice, beans and plantains.
Money laundering, like bananas, comes in several forms. Trump already was on the hook for casino money laundering. Trump owns bank buildings, but not bank businesses. He does have financial investment companies. So money laundering through banks would be a two-step business. Third, he could transmute dirty money into real estate or other assets. This seems to be the line investigators are working. Property owned by Russian shell companies has tended to focus on high-profile areas, French Riviera, London Green Zone, Manhattan, Aspen, Georgetown, Bel Air, Pasadena, Presido district in SF, Boca, etc. So far, so good. But what happens when they start looking in more down-market places? In recent years the Chinese have been piling into US real estate in places you might not expect, e.g Lubbock. A hundred million buys a lot of property in these markets. If any of these transaction get undone or properties get confiscated and governments notified, you could see a pull back.
But this is bigly outside of the scope of Mr. Mueller’s investigation? Sad!
LOL. As a kinda sorta courtesy we are supposed to talk about “possible” money laundering of the man who at one time had ties with 15 bank accounts and 10 LLCs in Cyprus… until he’s locked up in the big house.
How soon will they start looking into Wilbur Ross as well?
$100 million of Lubbock is way more Lubbock than anybody should have. < shudders>
“Russia, oligarchs and money laundering go together like rice, beans and plantains.”
If they manage to nail Trump with legal violations, money laundering looks like the place that it all starts. Trump’s properties look to be sink holes for laundered Russian money.
$100 million would buy about a million Luchenbach, Texases.