Looks like the money laundering aspect of this investigation is the key that unlocks the door to
the Trump criminal empire.
American banks wouldn't finance him, so he turns to Deutsche Bank, with it's
well-verified connections to Russian mob money.
How else can you explain that Trump has any money at all after his decades-long
“During the ’80s and ’90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money,” says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration. “It didn’t matter that you paid too much, because the real estate values would rise, and it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money. It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.” When Trump Tower was built, as David Cay Johnston reports in The Making of Donald Trump, it was only the second high-rise in New York that accepted anonymous buyers.
Russian mobsters used trump property for money laundering.
A stunning report in The New Republic alleges that, whether Donald Trump knew it or not, for decades he made a large portion of his personal fortune from Russian mobsters & oligarchs.
GREAT AGAIN: Speaking of Trump's connections, Wal-Mart to raise hourly wages AND give out bonuses of $1,000, capitalizing on Trump's new tax plan. If Trump is "crazy", then let's all hope that Trump gets even *crazier* over the next 7 years!! Article below.