Hey Bannon: Call FOX and Get
This On the Air Right Now, Hot…
(@theRealDonaldTrump)
Русская мафия подсчитывает
деньги внутри
(Russian Mafia Counting Money Inside)
ABC REPORTS there was indeed a
FBI wiretap
involving Trump Tower (in 2011). It was tracking Russian mafia, not at the
behest of Barack Obama and the target was not the Trump campaign of 2016.
For
two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on
a sophisticated Russian organized crime money
laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower.
The
FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment of more than 30
people, including
one of the world’s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alim-zhan Tokh—takh-ounov. Known as the
“Little Taiwanese,” Tokh-takh-ounov was the only target to slip away, and he remains a
fugitive from American justice.
Five
months after the April 2013 indictment and after Interpol
issued a “red notice” for Tokh-takh-ounov, the fugitive appeared near Donald
Trump in the VIP section of the Moscow Miss Universe pageant. Trump had sold
the Russian rights for Miss Universe to a billionaire Russian shopping mall
developer.
Tokh-takh-ounov
is a major player into alleged mafia money laundering and gambling who has extremely
good connections in the business world as well as the criminal world both overseas
in Russia, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan and other countries said the FBI lead
investigator who also who ran the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime unit in NYC.
The Russian ring is suspected of moving more than $50 million in illegal money
into the United States. The Russian money was ultimately laundered from Russia,
Ukraine, and other locations through Cyprus banks and shell companies based in
Cyprus, and then ultimately here to the United States.
That
FBI investigation did not implicate Trump.
The
Trump building was also home to one of the top men in the alleged ring, Vadim
Trin-cher who pleaded guilty to racketeering and received a five-year prison
term. He is due to be released in July.
Trin-cher
would have people come in and meet; use phones and communicated through e-mail
or other communications in Trump Tower – his base of operations.
In
court papers, the FBI described two years of intercepts of phone conversations
and text message exchanges of the key figures in the gambling ring.
For example: Trin-cher on one occasion spoke with a customer about
a gambling operation who owed him a debt of $50,000. Trin-cher told the gambler
about an enforcer who works with him named Maxin and he threatened the customer
saying Maxin would come and find him, find the money, and that he should be
careful unless he wanted to be tortured and wind up underground.
ABC News conducted a review of
hundreds of pages of property records and reported in September that
Trump-branded developments catered to large numbers of Russian buyers who had brushes with the law.
Russian
buyers it seems were particularly drawn to Trump licensed condo towers in Hollywood
and Sunny Isles, Florida with real estate agents calling the coastal Miami
community “Little Moscow.”
Trump organization lawyer Alan
Garten told ABC News at the time that the firm did not track
the nationality of buyers and that the company rarely plays a role in
recruiting buyers – a job typically left to developers who buy rights to use
the Trump name. Neither
Garten nor the Trump Organization spokeswoman Amanda Miller responded this week
to questions from ABC News about the 2013 poker raid.
NOTE: The 2013 poker raid case was not the first to target
Tokh-takh-ounov. He had been indicted years earlier in the U.S. for bribes to
Olympic judges so that Russian figure skaters would win gold medal.
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Then add this to the mix, and from a man
who knows White House and Presidential obstruction and cover-up’s and abuse of
power: John Dean was Nixon’s W/H
lawyer also charged with obstruction of justice during Watergate. He says that
he concerned Trump is getting close to obstructing justice and could do so in
the future saying in part that he thinks President Trump's White House is in cover-up mode since they are distancing itself from the testimony – and that signals
a “cover-up” adding: “There's just never been any question in my mind about
that. I've been inside a cover-up. I know how they look and feel. And every signal
they're sending is: We are covering
this thing up. Even
experienced investigators know that aspect when they see how people react when
they're being pursued, and this WH is not showing their innocence, they're
showing how damn guilty they are, that is what we're seeing.”
Dean continued: “There's also the
question of whether this White House will obstruct essentially, an
investigation. You now have the head of the FBI with a target painted on its
back, the front-line investigators with targets painted on their backs; you
have a U.S. attorney the president said he was going to retain who has been
summarily fired in Preet Bharara, and it strikes me that there is in some ways
a kind of obstruction land-mine ... that the entirety of the White House now
has to tip-toe through.”
Trump
last week fired Bharara after previously saying he could stay on during his
administration.
Then
reports have emerged that Bharara was investigating HHS Secy Tom Price for
insider stock trading before he was fired.
Lots
of smoke and you know what they say about that, just like in Watergate: “Follow
the smoke” (I just made that up) – it usually leads to the fire.
Stay
tuned.
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