Trumps Russian Laundromat

[workinclasszero]

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. BY CRAIG UNGER July 13, 2017

In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. The 38-year-old had arrived in America seven years before, with just $3 in his pocket. But for a former pilot in the Soviet Army—his specialty had been shooting down Americans over North Vietnam—he had clearly done quite well for himself.

Bogatin wasn’t hunting for a place in Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn enclave known as “Little Odessa” for its large population of immigrants from the Soviet Union. Instead, he was fixated on the glitziest apartment building on Fifth Avenue, a gaudy, 58-story edifice with gold-plated fixtures and a pink-marble atrium: Trump Tower.


In 1987, on his first trip to Russia, Trump visited the Winter Palace with Ivana. The Soviets flew him to Moscow—all expenses paid—to discuss building a luxury hotel across from the Kremlin. Maxim Blokhin/TASS

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

[awesomerwb1]

1. Just read it.

Very informative, thanks for posting.

[workinclasszero]

4. Trump is all mobbed up Russian style

We now have an organized crime family in the White House, controlled by a hostile foreign government.

The entire republican party, the entire right wing conservative movement, the entire religious right is protecting him.

Fox news and Hate radio are the official fake news organs of Trump's fascist Russian coup.

Trump makes Nixon look like a saint. If this traitor and his crime family are not brought to justice, I fear America will never recover.

[marylandblue]

2. Now I see why he likes gilded decor nt

[Kleveland]

3. "She's a man, baby" n/t

[dalton99a]

5. Kick.