Mar 072017
 

As we have seen in  recent articles here part of Trump’s standard modus operandi has been to engage in deals in which he profits from helping corrupt Russian billionaires launder money.  In this crime du jour, Trump appears to be helping to launder money for the Corleones of the Caspian, and helping them launder money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

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President Donald Trump and his eldest daughter developed a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation run by a family known as “the Corleones of the Caspian” with links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

The Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku — conceived in 2008 as a luxury apartment building but converted in 2014 into a hotel — has never opened, and both local observers and international experts are baffled by the building’s existence, reported The New Yorker.

The project was intended as an “ultra-luxury property” with both hotel and residential space, but both its location and timing are odd, according to the report.

Trump Tower Baku is located in an underdeveloped part of the city’s downtown, across the street from a discount shopping center and miles away from the main business district.

“Why would someone put a luxury hotel there?” said former top official in Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Tourism. “Nobody who can afford to stay there would want to be in that neighborhood.”…

From <Raw Story>

I encourage you to click through and read both this article and the New Yorker story it references.

Raxhel Maddow covered the story in two segments.  In the first. she clarifies the issue after setting it up with one of her magnificent wandering A blocks.

In the second, she interviews Adam Davidson, author of the New Yorker article.

There is just too much smoke here for there not to be a fire, and not just a fire.  This is a conflagration of corruption of epic proportions.

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  8 Responses to “Trump Violated Corrupt Foreign Practices Act”

  1. Bring it on!!
    Investigate him for everything, since he started, and now as POTUS. Crooked is, as crooked does. And that goes for his vile cabinet too

  2. I agree with Pat: bring it on. Better late then never!

    I distinctly remember signs of very shady Drumpf deals croping up in news reports when Drumpf was nominated as presidential candidate for the Republicans and when a few courageous people working for more progressive media wouldn't let themselves be bullied from doing some digging. But it never was very deep and the things they did bring up were soon spun out of existence and buried under the avalanche of Drumpf BS he and his team produced every day.

    At the time the general feeling was that some really deep digging would have reporters come up with a treasure trove of shady, corrupt and even criminal deals. But there was no need, was there! Drumpf would be defeated by Clinton in a landslide victory! Yeah, well… so people like Adam Davidson went back to the unearthings they had already started and dug down deeper and here are the results. Two stories in one week. And if media like the New Yorker and The New York times had more resources to put on it, they would find equally incriminating evidence of deals by the family Drumpf all over the world.And  I wouldn't be surprised if Australian reporters came up with a big bag of dirt on the Indonesian Trump Tower and his strange connections there thatmay still have direct access to him as they themselves implied after the election.

    The only question now is: will there be an independent inquiry into all of this, i.e. will the Republicans in Congress allow any committee to pursue these lines and when will the start? As I said before, I don't think it will come to that before the GOP has gotten all the use  from Drumpf it can. Again all will depend on the pressure of the American people will put on Congress, so:

    RESIST & PERSIST!

  3. Ah.  A real estate mogul who doesn't know that the three most important factors in real estate are location, location, and location.  But – in this case the location must have been the location of the people who needed the money laundered.  The Corleones of the Caspian.  Sounds like a slander against the Corleones to me.  I read the book.  The Corleones at least protected their own "little people."  Is it comic or tragic that GANGSTERS have so declined in honor as to be unrecognizable?

    My mother's Uncle Fred (see, I told you it is an honorable name) was a civil engineer who went on record saying the Golden Gate Bridge could not be built.  Since it exists, you might think he was wrong.  But actually he was right, because what he meant was that it could not be built without what he considered unacceptable loss of life.  And in that he was right.  Construction on the Golden Gate Bridge started in 1933.  Already honorable people in commerce were a minority.  Today?

    I love it that Adam used the term "risk manager."  A position that anyone in business needs as never before in history.  I have a dear friend who is now looking for work because her prior position was eliminated.  That job title:  "risk analyst."  Insanity.

    Well, what I remarked on the Open Thread is valid here too:  How are we going to get it into court?  They control all the federal prosecutors, and it needs to be a federal criminal case.  Tell me – what does it do to the morale of out nation if such obvious corruption cannot be properly dealt with?  There are already way too many people who shrug things off with "They all do it."  Or "Both sides do it."  If we can't properly address this now, will it soon be too late ever to address it?  Or to address even worse abuses?

  4. Rachel has been doing simply a stellar job of connecting dot after dot after dot.

    Can't wait until the dominoes start to really fall … fast and furious!

     

  5. Damned son of a bitch!

  6. Dirty rat bastard!

  7. "There is just too much smoke here for there not to be a fire, and not just a fire.  This is a conflagration of corruption of epic proportions." — Ain't that the truth!

    There are so many different incidences involving many major players in the Drumpf administration, and Drumpf in his business career, there must be fire.  Jail all the twits and not in a club fed. . . throw away the keys!

     

    Resist and Persist!!! 

  8. Thanks all.  Sick hugs.

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