The FBI did wiretap Trump Tower in 2013because it's filled with Russian mobsters

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/21/1645719/-The-FBI-did-wiretap-Trump-Tower-in-2013-because-it-s-filled-with-Russian-mobsters

Years before Donald Trump rode his golden escalator into the presidential campaign, the FBI really did “tapp” some phone lines in Trump Tower. For a pretty good reason.

For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower.
The FBI was particularly after Russian mafia boss, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, whose money-laundering ring was bringing millions into the US from former Soviet republics. And where did these money-laundering mobsters chose to set up shop?

Some of the Russian mafia figures worked out of the 63rd floor unit in the iconic skyscraper –- just three floors below Trump’s penthouse residence -- running what prosecutors called an “international money laundering, sports gambling and extortion ring.”
Well, isn’t that a funny coincidence. It’s not like the floors in between are occupied by a “real estate development company” owned by post-Soviet oligarchs and operated by securities fraudster Felix Sater. Otherwise known as those guys who built the Trump SoHo where Trump filmed The Apprentice, but who Trump claims not to know.

“I don’t know who owns Bayrock,” Mr Trump said. “I never really understood who owned Bayrock. I know they’re a developer that’s done quite a bit of work. But I don’t know how they have their ownership broken down.”
Those guys. It looks like Trump Tower was a one-size fits all money-laundering superstore. And while the FBI grabbed some of the mobsters they were looking for in 2013, at least one of them slipped past them—only to turn up at Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

[MagickMuffin]

1. Russia, I never heard of Russia

Is that the name of someone I should know. I tells ya I never heard anything about anyone named Russia!!!