Putin’s state bank financed Trump Toronto through a chain of KGB-linked companies. A broker for Trump Panama admitted half his buyers were Russian mafia. Kushner bought property from a Putin-allied oligarch and financed it through Deutsche Bank. Same network, three continents.
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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.
Read More#6 The Lifeline: Deutsche Bank, Russian Money, and Trump’s Only Option
Every bank in America said no to Donald Trump. But Deutsche Bank – which was simultaneously laundering $10 billion for Russian oligarchs through its Moscow mirror-trading scheme – kept writing checks. Over $2 billion in loans.
Read More#5 The Laundromat: How Trump’s Atlantic City Casinos Became Money Laundering Machines
Trump didn’t fail at the casino business. He succeeded at something else entirely. His Atlantic City casinos racked up 106 Bank Secrecy Act violations and the largest fine in history for anti-money-laundering failures. The Taj Mahal was a laundromat.
Read More#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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