Pierce: Robert Mueller Is Not Done Following the Money

[mcar]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20266990/robert-mueller-trump-organization-money/

Robert Mueller Is Not Done Following the Money
It's the only thing that’s ever mattered to Donald Trump.


BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 7, 2018

...Over the weekend, The Washington Post dropped a 200-pound dungbomb on the president* that clarified once and for all why Robert Mueller is chasing the president*’s dubious business practices as well as the campaign’s involvement with Russian ratfcking. From the Post:

In the nine years before he ran for president, Donald Trump's company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties—including 14 transactions paid for in full, without borrowing from banks—during a buying binge that defied real estate industry practices and Trump's own history as the self-described "King of Debt." …

Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession's hammering of the real estate industry. Why did the "King of Debt," as he has called himself in interviews, turn away from that strategy, defying the real estate wisdom that it's unwise to risk so much of one's own money in a few projects?

That’s one explanation. It’s a dumb one, but it’s an explanation. There are several others, most of them coming from Eric Trump, and none of them make sense, either. But there is an explanation that can cover all the questions arising from this mysterious mid-career course correction in how the president* did business. Perhaps someone–or several someones–needed to wash some money. A possible reason that Mueller’s people are looking into this kind of maneuvering is that they suspect the Trump Organization was laundering money for the kind of people who need their money laundered. A possible reason for the president*’s having gone bouncing off the wall recently concerning the Mueller probe is that the president* thinks Mueller’s after that, too.

That is why you’re hearing so much about how Mueller is exceeding his mandate. But, should the speculation be correct, Mueller absolutely has the duty to look and see if the relationship between the president* and various Russian oligarchs began with a business transaction prior to the obvious political transaction in 2016. It was always going to be the money. That’s the only thing that’s ever mattered to the man.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Let me through this at this story.

Hiding Assets from the Bankruptcy Referee via moving cash and other hard assets to a shell companies. Daisy Chaining Shell companies is nothing new. Especially using Foreign Shell Companies.

Remember,Trump loaded his Cacino's to the Max with debt,both borrowed money and a Stock issue that he cashed out a few days before it went to zero.

Follow the money.

[mcar]

2. Follow the money

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Worked for a Distrabution Company that

pulled off one of these type of deals. Our Bargaining Unit filed Liens and Levees on dozens of Shell Companies that were set up to Mine the Assets and dump the trash in Bankruptcy Court. On a hunch,we had our Legal Beagle check a certain LLC set up in Caribbean,and that happened because of someone doing a Island day trip while on a Cruise. Just happened to spot a sign on the front of a non nondescript office building on one of the Islands he visited. This Name Plate was one of many near the entrance.

Hey,it took our Guy ten years to the date,to recover several millions owed our Pension Fund as well as repayment of funds used to pay members Health and Welfare Insurance that members had to pay in order to stratify claims .

With some luck following the money paid off. BTW,the so called Corporate Front Man and his Spouse did do Federal Prison time in Florida. Hiding Assets from the Bankruptcy Court.

[BigmanPigman]

4. None of the 49 questions that Mueller gave to

the moron's attorneys mention money laundering so a lot of people are thinking that the omission was purposeful. They may not need him to testify about his financial, real estate practices because all of that info is easily proven with documents. There is a ton of info to go through for this group of Mueller's attorneys that are focusing on this crime. They have to get info from a lot of other countries and that is not easy.

I wonder why Jared almost sold his soul to get loans to purchase his 666 property right before the real estate market collapsed? Why didn't he just launder money like his Daddy in law? We know he has made nefarious deals since then and he has no problem being involved in financial crimes.

[mcar]

5. I continue to believe Mueller has the goods

and is just working on tying them up with a bow.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Since Mueller knows many answers, he may be looking for Trump confederates in the conspiracy

... while using confederates to nail tRump.

It's a Confederacy of Dunces

an epigram from Jonathan Swift's essay, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

The genius in this case would be none other than Barack Obama. Trump has sworn revenge against him ten times over and is turning himself inside out in the effort, including trashing his brand and the country in the process.

[BigmanPigman]

9. He is so infantile...holds onto a grudge and vows revenge to his dying days.

He is a giant racist and an egomaniac. That is why I doubt he would never resign. They will have to take him dragging and kicking the whole way out of the W House since he can never admit he made an error or isn't the best person and leader in the world since the dawn of man.

[erronis]

7. I like your analysis. We concentrate on the 40+ questions dealing with collusion

and the prosecutor has the actual goods on criminal acts involving this family.

How's that go?

Nobody likes me,
Everybody hates me,
Guess I'll go eat worms.

Long, thin, slimy ones,
Short, fat, juicy ones,
Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms.

Down goes the first one,
Down goes the second one,
Oh, how they wiggle and squirm.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. The collusion occurred because of the money laundering Putin blackmailed him with, I think. . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. RepubliConMen in House REFUSED to Follow The Money. Not because of difficulties.

It is difficult Following The Money when multi-national billionaires are involved on three continents. There are many numbered companies hiding assets and cash flows. Much of it is done to avoid taxation and to avoid money laundering laws.

Nunes toadies in the House did not dare Follow The Money, only because they knew where it would lead.

Note: Russians in Russia have lots of ties to organized crime.

Note: Cohen has ties to organized crime.

http://fortune.com/2018/05/06/michael-cohen-business-russia-mafia/

The Many Hustles of Michael Cohen

...
Cohen’s business dealings have spanned big-city taxis and real estate in addition to a legal practice focused on personal injury cases. A new examination of Cohen’s record by the New York Times finds that he has frequently crossed paths with unsavory characters. In one case, Cohen was reportedly tasked with delivering a payment to one Vitaly Buslaev, who has been tied to the Mafia. That’s just one of Cohen’s many connections to individuals from former Soviet states. Those connections are of particular relevance given special counsel Robert Mueller’s focus on the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia, and Cohen’s personal role in exploring Trump Organization deals in Russia in the midst of the 2016 campaign.

Cohen also helped set up a half-dozen clinics and medical billing companies in the early 2000s, including registering medical practices headed by doctors Alexsander Martirosov and Zhanna Kanevsky. Just a few years later, Martisorov and Kanevsky were charged with defrauding insurance companies by faking auto accidents. Cohen was not implicated in those allegations, and charges against Martirosov were later dropped. But according to the Times, the scam was of a kind dominated by criminal organizations from former Soviet countries.
...

Note:

14. Here's the link between Blavatnik, Vekselberg and Deripaska. Blavatnik has donated MILLIONS to the GOP and to Trump. Vekselberg is the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus. WILBUR ROSS was on the board of the bank till 5 mins before joining WH admin.

Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the Brooklyn Nets, ran against against Vladimir Putin as the designated liberal candidate in 2012. To the right of Prokhorov is fellow billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, an oil and aluminum magnate who is a business partner of Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. RT

[longship]

17. Isn't that Jill Stein at the other table?

Sure looks like her.

And who is she sitting with?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Yep, that's the infamous RT Dec 2015 dinner w Putin, Flynn, and Stein. . . . nt

[mcar]

20. I do think some Congressional Rs are in on it

[Achilleaze]

11. KGOP Comrade Casino* is a freaking crime kingpin

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[DoctorJoJo]

12. The REAL Pee Pee Tape May Have Been Made When ...

... the Ruskies showed Trump all the blackmail they had on him for money laundering, and he started pee peeing his pants!

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Interesting that during that timeframe, he was seeking a gaming license here in Philly

proposing a $350 million dollar complex called "TrumpStreet" (PDF).



There was some fierce opposition, particularly since it would be located right smack in the middle of a residential area and the license was eventually denied, but the timing is interesting nonetheless.

[mcar]

21. He seems to have been on quite a spending spree

[BumRushDaShow]

24. What is interesting is something from one of my links

And then there is that most bizarre of his virtual developments, Trump Tower Philadelphia, which is actually being financed and developed by an obscure Lower Manhattan firm; the man who calls himself the “spokesman” and “a principal of the company” refuses to explain exactly how he became involved with Donald Trump and calls the day after our interview demanding that his name be removed from this story, even though, it turns out, his name is an alias.

Read more at https://www.phillymag.com/articles/2006/05/16/philadelphia-magazine-wheres-donald/#IGhgt1kgVfRroPp6.99

Makes me wonder whether this was "John Barron".

[mcar]

25. Wow! This whole thing is so shifty

And greetings from a fellow Keystone Stater. I've lived in FL for decades but was born in Harrisburg, raised in Scranton.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Everything he has done

for decades, has been shifty!

Good to see a Keystone Stater! Have been to Harrisburg & Pittsburgh a few times but have not been to Scranton (at least the downtown) - but have driven past it.

[mcar]

27. We have great pizza!

Good restaurants, good bars.

I'm hoping to get there next month for my niece's HS graduation.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Congrats and good luck to her!

Hope it turns out to be a beautiful day!!!

[mcar]

30. Me too!

She's a smart kid, just like her auntie.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. !!!!

[tblue37]

32. I lived in Avoca, PA, from age 13 to 20. nt

[mcar]

33. Ahh, the airport!

For a short time in the early 80s, I was able to fly from Boston, where I lived and worked, to Avoca. Don't recall the airline and it didn't last long.

[tblue37]

34. They destroyed our beloved woods to create the highway to the airport. Before

the airport was expanded, I waited tables at the airport.

[mcar]

35. I loved that little airport!

[House of Roberts]

14. How much of this money laundering involves violating sanctions?

.

[B Stieg]

15. Ari Melber is covering this right now. (nt)

[Hekate]

16. Nice Harry Potter reference, too

[mcar]

22. HP references are always good

[Strelnikov_]

19. "We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia."

- Eric Trump 2014

“So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.”

[mcar]

23. That will come back to haunt them

[Civic Justice]

28. Russian and Mob Money, and the money from the "global money washing machines"

Quote:

"In the nine years before he ran for president, Donald Trump's company spent more than $400 million in cash on new properties—including 14 transactions paid for in full, without borrowing from banks—during a buying binge that defied real estate industry practices and Trump's own history as the self-described "King of Debt." …

Trump had access to far more cash than previously known, despite his string of commercial bankruptcies and the Great Recession's hammering of the real estate industry. Why did the "King of Debt," as he has called himself in interviews, turn away from that strategy, defying the real estate wisdom that it's unwise to risk so much of one's own money in a few projects?"

When the fact is, its Russian and Mob Money, and the money from the "global money washing machines".... it is obvious how he could buy so much !!!!!

[Uncle Joe]

36. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread mcar.