General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe just needs more attorneys that will tell him what he wants to hear.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)spanone
(135,836 posts)i think we're about to find out a lot about our democratic experiment up here...
if the republicans aren't interested in law and order we could be in big trouble.
Hope not.
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)Democratic Experiment...
... really wasn't that getting kinda stale and moldy around the edges.
Fascism is currently so in and fashionable. It might make for a nice change if we could only give it a fair chance.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Not a good thing...
underpants
(182,806 posts)I just heard someone say that didn't actually see it.
Trump may have seen or heard it too and as someone posted above wanted someone to tell him what he wanted to hear.
Ohiogal
(31,999 posts)He'll ask anyone with a law degree for advice!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Oh man, I wish we could get a transcript and let the DU lawyers tear it apart. It would provide enough fresh meat for the rest of the week and the weekend.
Response to malaise (Original post)
magicarpet This message was self-deleted by its author.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)O.J.?
underpants
(182,806 posts)Mafia
This is Yo Mama Been Bloggin's DU thread with a link to the extensive Rolling Stone Article.
Kick this thread
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10476309
Michael Cohen's bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of "Tom," a reference to Tom Hagen, the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He grew up on Long Island, the son of a physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland, and like Tom Hagen spent a childhood around organized crime, specifically the Russian Mafia.
In the 1990s, there was an informal group of federal and local law enforcement agents investigating the Russian Mafiya in New York that called themselves "Red Star." They shared information they learned from informants. It was well known among the members of Red Star that Cohen's father-in-law was funneling money into Trump ventures. Several sources have told me that Cohen was one of several attorneys who helped money launderers purchase apartments in a development in Sunny Isles Beach, a seaside Florida town just north of Miami. This was an informal arrangement passed word-of-mouth: "We have heard from Russian sources that
in Florida, Cohen and other lawyers acted as a conduit for money."
An investigation by Reuters found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in the seven Trump-branded luxury towers. And that was a conservative estimate. At least 703 or about one-third of the 2044 units were owned by limited liability companies, or LLCs, which could conceal the property's true owner. Executives from Gazprom and other Russian natural resource giants also owned units in Trump's Sunny Isles towers. In an observation that several people I spoke with echoed, Kenneth McCallion, a former prosecutor who tracked the flows of Russian criminal money into Trump's properties, told me, "Trump's genius or evil genius was, instead of Russian criminal money being passive, incidental income, it became a central part of his business plan." McCallion continued, "It's not called 'Little Moscow' for nothing. The street signs are in Russian. But his towers there were built specifically for the Russian middle-class criminal."