A Trump Deal for Mueller to Look At
https://politicalwire.com/2017/08/15/one-business-deal-mueller-look/
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Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow tells Adam Davidson that at least one of the presidents business dealings should be out of scope to special counsel Robert Mueller.
One foreign deal, a stalled 2011 plan to build a Trump Tower in Batumi, a city on the Black Sea in the Republic of Georgia, has not received much journalistic attention. But the deal, for which Trump was reportedly paid a million dollars, involved unorthodox financial practices that several experts described to me as red flags for bank fraud and money laundering; moreover, it intertwined his company with a Kazakh oligarch who has direct links to Russias President, Vladimir Putin. As a result, Putin and his security services have access to information that could put them in a position to blackmail Trump.
The waterfront lot where the Trump Tower Batumi was supposed to be built remains empty. A groundbreaking ceremony was held five years ago, but no foundation has been dug. Trump removed his name from the project shortly before assuming the Presidency; the Trump Organization called this normal housekeeping. When the tower was announced, in March, 2011, it was the centerpiece of a bold plan to transform Batumi from a seedy port into a glamorous city. But the planned high-riseforty-seven stories containing lavish residences, a casino, and expensive shopswas oddly ambitious for a town that had almost no luxury housing.
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