Really, I think money laundering was Trump’s primary business model:
The net is closing around a duo of fugitive oligarchs and their kin accused of laundering Kazakh money in posh U.S. real estate — including Trump Organization properties.
In a complicated case with potential implications for President Donald Trump’s business empire and associates of the real-estate-developer-turned-president, Switzerland has revealed it is considering an extradition request from Ukraine to hand over the son of a former Kazakh energy minister — and both men are facing money-laundering allegations in the United States and charges in Kazakhstan.
It’s the latest development in a saga that is reaching into Bayrock Group, an international real estate and investment company that paid the Trump Organization a license fee for the use of its name and an 18 percent ownership stake in the New York hotel and condo project.
The Khrapunov family is accused in U.S. lawsuits of “cleaning” illicit money through the purchase and quick resale of U.S. luxury properties, including daughter Elvira Kudryashova’s purchase of three Trump-branded condos in New York and a 9,000-square-foot Studio City mansion flipped in months to pop singer Bruno Mars for $6.5 million.
I’ve thought for a long time he was semi-legit. He doesn’t know how to make money honestly. And how do you bankrupt a casino?
Gosh if only we had a free press who could have looked into this before he got elected.
Yesterday the Chinese government arrested Hua Haifeng and two associates and charged them with “illegal surveillance.”
The trio had been investigating complaints concerning the misuse of student interns, excessive overtime, and low pay at a factory manufacturing shoes for the
Ivanka Trump clothing line.