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In reply to the discussion: Ivanka is 100% complicit, maybe even a Russian pigeon [View all]Tanuki
(14,944 posts)in the Azerbaijani "Trump Luxury Hotel" in a seedy section of Baku that never opened and appears to be a cesspool of money-laundering and payoffs. The cast of characters includes a notorious family of Azerbaijani kleptocrats and under the table payments to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. And Ivanka was right in the thick it.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/10/ivanka-trump-played-key-role-in-her-fathers-failed-and-potentially-corrupt-azerbaijan-hotel-deal-report-says/amp/
"A lengthy new investigative story in the New Yorker reveals that Donald Trump and his Trump Organization helped build a hotel in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a project that the magazine says appears to be a corrupt operation, Trumps worst deal ever and possibly a conduit for illegal activity by Irans Revolutionary Guard.
The U.S. government has regularly accused the Guard of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, sponsoring terrorism abroad, and money laundering, Davidson added.
And while an attorney for the Trump Organization said that the president only played a passive role in the development of the property merely a licensor who would allow his famous named to be slapped onto it Davidson found, among other things, that daughter Ivanka Trump was a key player in moving the hotel project along. In fact, in her own words, she oversaw the project since its inception......(More at link)