Is floating a $50 million Trump Tower penthouse for Vladimir Putin illegal?
We learned a lot of new information Thursday about President Trump’s business dealings in Russia. The big news is that they persisted during the 2016 primaries and caucuses, which Michael Cohen lied about and Trump obscured.
But another story via BuzzFeed, could be the more legally problematic one for Trump. And it could theoretically pit him against a foreign anti-corruption law that he just so happens to have spent years criticizing.
Cohen’s Russian business associate, Felix Sater, told BuzzFeed News that he and Cohen plotted to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a supposed $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow to help lure oligarchs into the project:
Sater told BuzzFeed News today that he and Cohen thought giving the Trump Tower’s most luxurious apartment, a $50 million penthouse, to Putin would entice other wealthy buyers to purchase their own. “In Russia, the oligarchs would bend over backwards to live in the same building as Vladimir Putin,” Sater told BuzzFeed News. “My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.” A second source confirmed the plan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/is-floating-a-dollar50-million-trump-tower-penthouse-for-vladimir-putin-illegal/ar-BBQj3Ja?li=BBnbcA1
It became very illegal once he got the Republican nomination.
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