Trump’s Moscow Partner Was Apparently Financed by a Russian Bank Under US Sanctions

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Shortly before taking office in January, Donald Trump tweeted that he had no business deals involving Russia. That may have been technically true at the moment, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. His decades-long record of attempting (and failing) to launch big real estate deals in Moscow was already in the public record. Yet new revelations Monday showed that when he was running for president in 2015, Trump signed an agreement to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow. And Trump’s partner in this project was a Russian development company that apparently previously obtained financing from Sberbank, a state-owned Russian bank hit with sanctions from the United States and the European Union due to Russia’s annexation of Crimea. This Trump project, though, fell through before any Russian financing was obtained.  

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trumps-moscow-partner-was-apparently-financed-by-a-russian-bank-under-us-sanctions/

 

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According to a Washington Post report, Trump signed a letter of intent on October 28, 2015—the same day he participated in a key GOP primary debate—with a Russian firm called IC Expert Investment Company to develop a Trump-branded tower in Moscow. Information on the company is sparse, but a website that appears to be for the company describes it as a developer of an apartment complex in a suburb of Moscow called Reutov. The website lists the company’s development and banking partners, including Sberbank, a Russia banking goliath. A website that appears to be the official site for the apartment complex, Novoskino-2, notes that Sberbank and Otkritie Bank, a privately-owned Russian bank, provided financing for the project. The apparent IC Expert site also states that another one of its strategic banking partners is Gazprombank, one of the biggest banks in Russia. It owns Gazprom Media, the largest media holding company in Russia.

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Indeed. I, for one, have my eye on Paulie.

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These fake Russians keep coming out of the woods. Meanwhile, no tax returns from so-called president. 

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10 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

These fake Russians keep coming out of the woods. Meanwhile, no tax returns from so-called president. 

Mueller has them.

Courage mon brave!

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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/29/politics/mueller-manafort-attorney-spokesman-subpoenas/index.html

 

special counsel subpoenas Manafort's former attorney.

interesting that he's rep by Kevin Downing, a DoJ tax prosecutor...

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18 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

 

AP Photo/Evan Vu

Shortly before taking office in January, Donald Trump tweeted that he had no business deals involving Russia. That may have been technically true at the moment, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. His decades-long record of attempting (and failing) to launch big real estate deals in Moscow was already in the public record. Yet new revelations Monday showed that when he was running for president in 2015, Trump signed an agreement to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow. And Trump’s partner in this project was a Russian development company that apparently previously obtained financing from Sberbank, a state-owned Russian bank hit with sanctions from the United States and the European Union due to Russia’s annexation of Crimea. This Trump project, though, fell through before any Russian financing was obtained.  

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trumps-moscow-partner-was-apparently-financed-by-a-russian-bank-under-us-sanctions/

 

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Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!

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According to a Washington Post report, Trump signed a letter of intent on October 28, 2015—the same day he participated in a key GOP primary debate—with a Russian firm called IC Expert Investment Company to develop a Trump-branded tower in Moscow. Information on the company is sparse, but a website that appears to be for the company describes it as a developer of an apartment complex in a suburb of Moscow called Reutov. The website lists the company’s development and banking partners, including Sberbank, a Russia banking goliath. A website that appears to be the official site for the apartment complex, Novoskino-2, notes that Sberbank and Otkritie Bank, a privately-owned Russian bank, provided financing for the project. The apparent IC Expert site also states that another one of its strategic banking partners is Gazprombank, one of the biggest banks in Russia. It owns Gazprom Media, the largest media holding company in Russia.

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4 hours ago, Teddy B said:

 

You know what they say: the bigger the nose, the smaller than hands!