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#7 The Front Company: How Russian Intelligence Built a Business Inside Trump Tower

Bayrock Group set up shop in Trump Tower, staffed by a Soviet commerce official and a convicted felon turned FBI informant, funded by Kazakh oligarchs, and designed to move Russian money through luxury real estate. 77% of Trump SoHo units were bought with cash by shell companies formed days before purchase. This is the KGB front company playbook with expensive suits.

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#2 The Test: Trump Tower Was Open for Business and the Mob Came Shopping

Trump Tower opened in 1983 and immediately became a magnet for dirty money. Baby Doc Duvalier, Russian mob operative David Bogatin, and mob-connected gambling kingpin Robert Hopkins all bought condos with cash through shell companies. BuzzFeed found 1,300+ suspicious shell company purchases totaling $1.5 billion across Trump properties. He never asked where the money came from.

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