It's the money laundering

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It's money laundering. That's what the #Dossier really highlights and that's what #Trump and the #GOP are really going after.
They are both awash in money Putin has stolen from the Russian people and are desperately trying to run cover for it.#MuellerIsComing

8:36 AM - Feb 4, 2018

[Bradshaw3]

1. Believe you are correct

It's in the Virginia legal system so we'll see where that goes too. It's been going on for years, especially as dump started running out of American banks to fleece. GOP officials just saw a lot of loose cash and couldn't help themsleves.

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4. The temptation was too much for them

Along with the help to undermine.

[Bradshaw3]

7. They are at heart just greedy amoral bastards

This would be par for the course.

[beachbum bob]

2. trump took russian mob money nearly 30 yrs ago and has never stopped

this man is corrupt at every level that he couldn't even get a casino license in Vegas

[shraby]

3. My question is this. Why was it allowed by law enforcement to go on for so long?

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6. That is a big question for me also

[sharedvalues]

24. Book: The Chickenshit Club. we need to prosecute white collar crime

The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives










Also Trump may have had a Whitey Bulger type deal witht the FBI NY office.

[Bleacher Creature]

11. That really is the key question from my perspective. NT

[Bradshaw3]

12. It's white collar crime

So it's just not as important as some black guy selling a bag of weed or ripping off a coin operated laundromat. Anyone's guess as to why our criminal justice system works this way.

[dflprincess]

18. Bingo! Nt

[sharedvalues]

25. Explained in The Chickenshit Club

but its also a consequence of wealth inequality.

[Bradshaw3]

35. Yes the oligarchs rule is the main reason

Race is just a tool to them. Thanks for the book recommendation. I will check it out.

[sharedvalues]

39. +1

[malaise]

15. +1,000

They should have been stopped ages ago

[shraby]

19. Especially in light of the fact that after 911 bush and co. made it a huge crime, so huge that if

one of us peons deposit $10,000 to our account they question us and send the info to the government.

Go figure. I guess a couple or three million dollars is not $10,000. amIright?

[malaise]

22. The crap I have to go through when my siblings send me wire transfers for my

birthday or Christmas. I have to fill out a form to send $42 to DU every year and these fucking criminals are dealing with millions without scrutiny - I don't get it.

[cstanleytech]

17. Part of the problem is the FBI has zero power inside other countries to conduct investigations thus

its easier to conceal things like money laundering when its done overseas.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Yep, that's how he's still in business despite multiple bankruptcies.

And why so many of his buildings have entire floors full of units owned by people with Russian-sounding names.

[mrJJ]

8. Trumps Russian Laundromat

How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

[TwistOneUp]

36. This is scary! Something every American should read. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. thanks for link!

[secondwind]

9. Ive said this from day one. This is how they will bag Trump.

Cyprus Banks, Felix Sater, Manafort etc. AND these are not pardonable.

AG Schneidermann is working hand in hand with Mueller. It’s only a matter of time.

[Quixote1818]

10. The BBC and Dutch news programs have been reporting on Trump and money laundering for a year now

&t=186s

[ffr]

13. It sinks in more and more every day that we really are under attack by Putin's Russia

His aim? One way or another, we're going down.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. And Putin, using the traitor rump (refuse to use his real name) CANT do JACK

if 45 million Americans dont give them cover by cheering them on.

With total patriotism here in America, we stop putin real fast. If your neighbor who works at Walmart wasnt cheering on putin, we could do this thing fast.

Thus why Hillary had to be destroyed, she would have destroyed putin

[Historic NY]

14. Yup...

green backs or rubles.

[erronis]

23. And they, $s/rubles, can both be manufactured at will and spent without accountability

Black budgets - just a way to move money through the US system of of laundering.

Offshore accounts, fraudulent real-estate, huge cash payments for yachts, donations to campaigns, "non-profits", LLCs/LLPs. All these are instruments that the average taxpayer doesn't have access to. Of course, if you pay taxes you are, by their definition, a SUCKER.

[malaise]

16. And it's on tape

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html
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A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

[questionseverything]

27. to me this is ryan obstructing justice

[SWBTATTReg]

31. Absolutely...it 100% does!

Why would he otherwise swore the others in that conversation to secrecy? Why?

I'm glad this was brought up on DU, I tried to recall/remember this Ryan blurb some time ago and couldn't recall! I guess I was having a senior moment then!

[questionseverything]

32. if it was democrats taking russian money and covering it up

they would be awaiting trial by now

the only hope is Mueller rounds these repub congress critters up before he goes after the executive branch...then the "execs" won't have cover

[malaise]

33. Did you listen to the clip?

Ryan and everyone else including McCarthy obstructed and continue to obstruct justice

[questionseverything]

34. i am in total agreement,now we just need the ptb to enforce the law

[dembotoz]

20. Netflix dirty money trump episode worth the hour

It's the money

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21. thanks!

[lunasun]

26. It's called dirty money ? I'll check it out this week when home thank you for the rec

[Kablooie]

29. Netflix "Dirty Money" documentary explains how Trump got in bed with shady Russians.

Like the previous poster said, it's worth watching.

In short - his Taj Mahal casino was horrendously expensive and failed completely leaving Trump in desperate debt to many big banks.
They wouldn't lend him more money so he was forced to go to the underworld where he linked up with the Russians to keep his cash flow coming.

[lindysalsagal]

30. and refusing to alert u.s. government knowing they were convicted crooks.

They've got 45's autograph on contracts after the NYTimes outed them all as crooks. That's why 45 hates the NYT and calls them fake news. It's not about the election or any other crap he tweets: NYTimes proves he knew before he signed that they were crooks.

And that's how mueller's taking him down. Signed on the bottom line.

[TomSlick]

38. It's the money. It's always the money.

Even when people swear it's not about money, it's always the money.