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Gotta luv The Guardian! They are still doing Real Journalism, and apparently on a shoe-string budget too. Guardian reporters are still “connecting the dots” … while other reporters are simply repeating the “previously scheduled” Outrage-of-the-Day ...
by Wendy Dent and Ed Pilkington in New York and Shaun Walker in Moscow
theguardian.com — 24 July 2017
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A Guardian investigation has established a series of overlapping ties and relationships involving alleged Russian money laundering, New York real estate deals and members of Trump’s inner circle. They include a 2015 sale of part of the old New York Times building in Manhattan involving Kushner and a billionaire real estate tycoon and diamond mogul, Lev Leviev.
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Leviev, a global tycoon known as the “king of diamonds”, was a business partner of the Russian-owned company Prevezon Holdings that was at the center of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit launched in New York. Under the leadership of US attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by Trump in March, prosecutors pursued Prevezon for allegedly attempting to use Manhattan real estate deals to launder money stolen from the Russian treasury.
The scam had been uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, an accountant who died in 2009 in a Moscow jail in suspicious circumstances. US sanctions against Russia imposed after Magnitsky’s death were a central topic of conversation at the notorious Trump Tower meeting last June between Kushner, Donald Trump Jr, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin.
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Interesting, but where is the “collusion connection”?
Where have we heard that company name before, Prevezon Holdings?
Could it have been when Trump foot-soldiers fired Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, just as he was closing in on a $230 million Tax Fraud case involving that Russian holding company?
Shortly afterwards, the case against Prevezon was abruptly settled for ‘pennies on the dollar’ …
Nothing to see here Folks … move along now ...
by Jef Feeley and Bob Van Voris, bloomberg.com — May 12, 2017
The U.S. agreed to take $5.9 million to settle a money-laundering lawsuit tied to a $230 million Russian tax fraud, avoiding a trial that was set to begin Monday.
Both the U.S. and a Cyprus-based company controlled by a Russian businessman claimed victory in avoiding a trial that promised to shed light on an intricate web of shell companies and middlemen that were allegedly used to spirit dirty money out of Russia in violation of international financial regulations.
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"This settlement is nothing short of a victory for Prevezon [Holdings Ltd.]," Faith Gay, a lawyer for the company, said in a phone interview. "It’s almost an apology by the government."
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Sorry about that Lev, that you had to go through all that fuss, about where your Millions were going in Manhattan … That’s your Business!
Those days are over! The Real Estate {‘laundry-mat’} Business has been re-opened in the U.S.A. {wink, wink} … So don’t worry about that “secured multimillion-dollar Manhattan real estate deal” that you have with Jared, K?
The new Manhattan U.S. Attorney knows who the president’s friends and associates are now.
Maybe you have some extra funds available ‘to park’ in some other Trump properties, eh? … Divestiture is something that really should boil-down to a ‘win-win’ proposition for both parties involved.
And now we’ve got this added layer of protection, too … we call it Investors Anonymous — get in now — While Supplies last:
by Nick Penzenstadler, Steve Reilly and John Kelly , USA TODAY — June 13, 2017
Since President Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies’ real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers’ identities, a USA TODAY investigation has found.
Over the last 12 months, about 70% of buyers of Trump properties were limited liability companies — corporate entities that allow people to purchase property without revealing all of the owners’ names. That compares with about 4% of buyers in the two years before.
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This is what you call “Opening up Opportunities” — to ALL interested parties.
America IS the land of Opportunities, afterall.
Isn’t it Great!
again.
{Great for Oligarchs, that is … afterall we all bleed “Green” — no matter where you might call Home.}