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https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/husband-and-wife-duo-busted-in-high-end-russian-hooker-ring/amp/?__twitter_impression=trueAll, just another huge extremely impossible coincidence I am sure. Has nothing to do with Trump, Trump and Russia, or Trump also being a sex trafficker.
There are 195 countries in the world, but the Trump Tower High End prostitution ring predictably involved Russians. What are the chances? Well, 1 in 195 just to start.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)JDC
(10,082 posts)Of a trump property? It says they ran out of Brooklyn. Am I just missing it?
The Russian nationals were picked up last week in Miami at their tony beachfront pad inside the Trump Towers III, where they allegedly ran their illicit enterprise remotely.
riversedge
(69,724 posts)"The Russian nationals were picked up last week in Miami at their tony beachfront pad inside the Trump Towers III, where they allegedly ran their illicit enterprise remotely"
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)Where Russian women stay, while waiting to give birth to their "little americantsy."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)reality show freaks.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)since these two are Russian nationals if they plead out or are found guilty they should be deported yes?
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)Yes ? Then they get a free get out of jail card, a free yacht, and a free Lear Jet.
IronLionZion
(45,259 posts)unlike those shithole countries
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,100 posts)Marthe48
(16,692 posts)n/t
Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)Louis1895
(768 posts)Who should be sent across the country with no record of where they are?
elleng
(130,151 posts)Glad they're out of Brooklyn!!!
underpants
(182,279 posts)Michael Cohen especially
elleng
(130,151 posts)as I grew up in Brooklyn.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Interesting,how many other Cities are part of this network? Hmmm. Folks the Ice Berg is coming into view .
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 20, 2018, 03:29 PM - Edit history (1)
they aren't sending us their best and brightest. They're sending us the pimps, prostitutes, murders, and spies.
dalton99a
(81,068 posts)IronLionZion
(45,259 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,482 posts)president.
Phoenix61
(16,953 posts)anarch
(6,535 posts)Not to mention full of totally stupid and exaggerated characters that don't seem like something that could happen in real life. I mean, come on...a failed real estate tycoon turned reality TV star blackmailed into being president so he can sell out the country to the Russian mob? It's just absurd. I demand a refund!
triron
(21,915 posts)Response to Johnny2X2X (Original post)
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lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)... Nah.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)donnie's house of depravity.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)n/t
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LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)MontanaMama
(23,239 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)dameatball
(7,380 posts)red dog 1
(27,648 posts)The sleaze just keeps on coming, every single day.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Izzy Blue
(282 posts)Brighton Beach is the Russian Mafia and where Cohen has relatives/connections.
Real estate licensing
Trump International Hotel at Las Vegas
Trump International Hotel & Tower, Toronto
"Many developers pay Donald Trump to market their properties and be the public face for their projects.[92] For that reason, Trump does not own many of the buildings that display his name.[92] According to Forbes, this portion of Trump's empire, actually run by his children, has valuation of $562 million. According to Forbes, there were 33 licensing projects under development including seven "condo hotels" (i.e. The seven Trump International Hotel and Tower developments). Trump has generated more than $74 million in
real estate licensing deals and has $823.3 million worth of real estate in joint ventures.[6"
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Florida:
Trump International Hotel and Tower Fort Lauderdale: Anticipated completion was 2007. Trump "decided to pull his name from the marquee and end his agreement with the developers" in 2009[94] and the developers defaulted on a $139 million loan in 2010, leaving the building faced with foreclosure.[95] In November 2010, Trump announced he was no longer affiliated with the project.[96]
Trump Towers Sunny Isles Beach (Sunny Isles Beach, Florida): An oceanfront condominium development consisting of three 271-unit towers with developer Dezer Properties.
Trump Grande Ocean Resort and Residences: A three-building oceanfront enclave consisting of the Trump International Beach Resort and two residential condominium towers, the Trump Palace and Trump Royale, with developer Dezer Properties.
Trump Hollywood, a 200-unit, 41-story condominium tower in Hollywood, Florida,[97] developed by Jorge M. Pérez and The Related Companies. Announced in 2006 and began construction a year later.[98][99] Opened in 2009 and foreclosed the following year,[100][101][102] before selling out in 2012.[97]
Trump Tower: Cancelled project in Tampa, Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization#Real_estate
thucythucy
(7,986 posts)which anyone, including people from the Trump organization, can edit, I'd rather see some actual documentation on the connections between this project and the Trump family.
Say, for instance, Trump's more recent tax returns. But I guess those are still being "audited."
CCExile
(456 posts)Do any of those arrested have children we can take from them and lose? Is Russia sending us her best? How did Clinton make this happen? What is their relation to that Ben Gauzy guy?
Fla Dem
(23,351 posts)With all the hair pulling about illegal immigration, I want to know how these people came to the US. Why are we granting visas to Russians, work, vacation or otherwise. Same with all the Russian and Chinese women getting visas to come to the US to deliver their babies, so the babies become US citizens (anchor babies). These are the "foreigners we need to be worried about, the ones sent by their governments to infiltrate our society and "legally" become US citizens by "Chain Migration". Russian women have babies in the US, who automatically become citizens, then the same woman, and supposedly the baby's father, can then immigrate to the US legally. Sort of like Melania did.
TUE, JAN 09,2018
These kids will have the right to live and work here, receive social services and, when they turn 21, they will have the right to sponsor their parents for an American Green Card.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/growing-number-of-russians-are-coming-to-the-u-s-to-give-birth-1133247555963
These two companies help pregnant Chinese women obtain visas and fly to Hawaii so their children are born here and get U.S. citizenship
Goen Gao runs a tourism company for Chinese visitors called Hawaii Lulutrip, and a side business called HI Baby USA Center, which helps pregnant women from China to safely deliver babies in Hawaii.
The side business is part of maternity tourism, a growing business sector in Hawaii, California and other parts of the U.S. in which pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to give birth so their children become American citizens and can get American passports.
But the service is not cheap: A baseline package for three months is $33,000, according to the HI Baby USA Center website, which is almost entirely in Mandarin Chinese. The deluxe package, with better accommodations, is $47,000. (Update: The website was taken down after this story was posted online.)
This reporter spoke with Gao on the phone in Mandarin; during the call, I identified myself as a reporter. After that, he did not respond to repeated phone calls and texts.
On the states online registry of businesses, the address listed for Hawaii Lulutrip is 1340 Kaihee St. in Makiki. I visited the home twice; during the first visit, I met with Gao. On my second visit, nobody answered the door though four minivans were parked in front of the house. On the phone and in person, Gao repeatedly said he currently had no clients.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to any child born in the country. The children who are born here to foreign parents are sometimes called anchor babies.
Most Chinese parents go back to China one month after the child is born, when the childs passport is ready, but the passport and citizenship open the door to future opportunities in America.
More>>>
https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/maternity-tourism-in-hawaii/
relayerbob
(6,509 posts)that at least some of these prostitutes that came in to the country weren't spies.
Initech
(99,915 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Izzy Blue
(282 posts)"Khodukina's Miami arrest report, which New Times obtained today, states the Florida Department of Law Enforcement executed a fugitive arrest warrant at her Trump Towers III apartment, number 1802, at 7 a.m. Wednesday, July 11. The arrest document says the Manhattan District Attorney's Office contacted FDLE April 17 for help locating the two alleged ringleaders. Documents show Khodukina voluntarily agreed July 12 to be shipped back to New York City to stand trial.
Manhattan prosecutors allege the pair spent three years, from 2015 to 2018, flying women from Russia to New York City. The couple and a third defendant, Arkady Bashkatov, then housed the female sex workers in Brooklyn while booking them hotel rooms and hiring drivers.
New Times called multiple phone numbers listed for Khodukina's South Florida beauty service the calls either failed or went directly to voicemail.
It's perhaps not surprising that two sketchy Russian nationals would flee New York for Sunny Isles Beach. Even without the connection to the president, Sunny Isles is home to so many Russian immigrants that the neighborhood has even earned the nickname "Little Moscow." Likewise, Russian nationals also seem to have a habit of buying or renting spaces at Trump properties in Miami, New York, and other cities around the world.
Trump Towers III is owned by Miami's Dezer family, who are personal friends of Donald Trump's. They have a licensing agreement with the Trump Organization, which is run by the president's family. There is no tie between the president and the prostitution ring.
://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/russian-prostitute-ring-busted-in-miami-trump-tower-10546831