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Trump’s "Russian" Laundromat/international crime syndicate

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its very bad situation if Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov and Semion Mogilevich can make business in the USA with the reality Stars ...why its possible?

""Trump’s Russian Laundromat
How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

In April 2013, a little more than two years before Trump rode the escalator to the ground floor of Trump Tower to kick off his presidential campaign, police burst into Unit 63A of the high-rise and rounded up 29 suspects in two gambling rings. The operation, which prosecutors called “the world’s largest sports book,” was run out of condos in Trump Tower—including the entire fifty-first floor of the building. In addition, unit 63A—a condo directly below one owned by Trump—served as the headquarters for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States. The entire operation, prosecutors say, was working under the protection of Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, whom the FBI identified as a top Russian vor closely allied with Semion Mogilevich. In a single two-month stretch, according to the federal indictment, the money launderers paid Tokhtakhounov $10 million.....


Trump has offered broad denials. “I tweeted out that I have no dealings with Russia,” he said at a press conference in January, when asked if Russia has any “leverage” over him, financial or otherwise.....”"

https://newrepublic.com/article/143...ses-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate
 
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I think you got lost. This is not modern politics, this is history.

no, its at least 20 years old story
"Waking Up With Sam Harris #69 - The "Russia" Connection (with Anne Applebaum)"
 
OK, maybe Conspiracy Theory is more appropriate then.
Conspiracy Theory about Trump (the new "Russians") mentality?


New Russians
- Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Russians
The New Russians are newly rich business class in post-Soviet Russia. It is perceived as a stereotypical caricature. According to the stereotype, "New Russians" achieved rapid wealth by using criminal methods during Russia's chaotic transition to a market economy. Having a modest education and social background, New ..
 
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