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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInvestigative reporter Craig Unger: "Trump has had contacts with the Russian mafia for 35 years"
Salon mag. interview with Craig Unger about his book on Trump and Russia, posted in 2018.
I somehow had missed this.
But now, 2 years later, we can see and understand it more clearly.
Trump and all the Republican politicals , esp. Yertle, and Graham, and those Tea Party members who have left Gov't, who took Russia $$$ are actual real life treasonous traitors.
https://www.salon.com/2018/10/11/investigative-reporter-craig-unger-trump-has-had-contacts-with-the-russian-mafia-for-35-years/
malaise
(268,993 posts)RFN!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Saw another one from 2019 about court cases.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)read. More like a text book.
barbtries
(28,793 posts)it's a slog but I will get there.
BarbD
(1,192 posts)My inspiration to get to Part !! was extinguished along with the Impeachment vote.
barbtries
(28,793 posts)as soon as i finish this version (the WP version), the unredacted report will come out. this would once again highlight the huge role irony plays in my life.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Not nearly as readable as the Mueller Report.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)this would be fairly big news. Waiting to see if it gets picked up...
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)The article is from 2018 - It should have been picked up ages ago.
Always the possibility that pmurT is a CI - though that's doubtful - more of a UI.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)to get a clearer pic of exactly who was who and what the hell they were doing.
I remember finding out that trump hotels in Miami were being used for illegal anchor baby scams...
Russian women coming here to give birth to babies who would have citizenship, paid for by Russian mafia types.
Same scam was being done on the West Coast, by Chinese/Asian women. Lots of money involved.
Just one lil piece of the myriad crooked schemes that were going on all at the same time.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)calimary
(81,261 posts)pockets and bank accounts.
They've been at this for a long time.
After daddy sought bankruptcy protection for, I believe, the sixth time, no American banks wanted to take a risk on him anymore. So he went to Russia. And for awhile he could function under the radar because he was a private citizen and Manhattan gadabout and media playtoy. And nobody cared.
He was just that crazy New Yorker with the big mouth and bigger ego who was an amusing camera-hogging attention whore, a clown in an expensive business suit, who'd say anything and do anything to get more attention and tabloid headlines. He was someone whose marriages, divorces, hotels, and high-life you laughed at. He was the human version of candy you shouldn't eat before dinner or because it'd rot your teeth and/or make you fat, but you liked eating it anyway, even while you knew there was no nutritional value whatsoever. A cheap thrill. Empty calories. Just like the donald.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Probably the mafia here as well. Rouge FBI agents in 2016 helping to foil HRC run also.
niyad
(113,302 posts)DU of the New Year's Eve party at nightmare-a-lago 2016? One of the guests in the pic was a mobster named joey "no socks" cinque.
Ole donnie bodybags is a mobbed up traitor, and as dirty as they come.
dmr
(28,347 posts)Those agents had James Comey running nervous. I remember hearing that he was worried about what they'd do which is why he did Hillary wrong before the election.
I don't know what's true or what's not true, but that office was (and maybe still is) very toxic, and apparently had leverage .... whatever that was.
All these years later, and I'm still hoping for more information on them.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Some years ago, Rudy bragged that he had New York FBI in his pocket.
That remark stayed with me because it was so weird. And at the time I did not realize the mob connections
he had.
I imagine...I hope...that FBI issue has changed since then.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)Show someone like Trumpsky a bit of gold leaf and he becomes... aroused.
certainot
(9,090 posts)yardwork
(61,608 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Bada Bing Bada Boom Bada Bankrupt. Four bankrupted casinos. No wonder Las Vegas wouldn't give him a casino license. More corrupt than Al Capone.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)People wondered about that. Why is he building his own competition to his other casino???
Like so many things we are reluctantly learning about The Brainless Don, what he does makes sense if you look at it in terms of it making lots of illegal money.
casinos were money laundering joints,Not only did they make lots of money for him and others, but he went bankrupt to avoid paying the original bank loans back.
Herbert Ross helped him navigate the bankruptcy, he came out of it with thousands of dollars a month.
People wondered why he built Trump Tower with concrete, since it cost him so much more.
Duhhh...the mob owned the building trades.
Etc.
etc.
He's handling the pandemic just fine, for him. We will belatedly discover how bad it is.
The price he has to pay is to listen to complaints from his own party/ supporters about votes.
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 30, 2020, 10:18 PM - Edit history (3)
Ever since SHITLER decided to inflict himself on us, it has been inexplicable that he has cozied up to the Russians at every turn, down to a few days ago when hes sending ventilators to Russia. Ive been calling him a cartel mobster for a couple of years just based on his behaviors the LOYALTY thing, the demands for total authority.
So there have been bits here or there about Russians laundering money via condos in his properties, high prices and empty buildings. The mysteries have nagged the attacks on MUELLER and COMEY, the weird alliances (GUILIANI).
So this lays it out: Not PUTIN, but a Russian mobster/banker/SEMION MOGILEVICH. And GUILIANI + TRUMP is that they have the worst dirt on each other and hate each other but cant throw each other under the bus. And SHITLER trashes the FBI guys because they know him as an FBI Confidential Informant (CI) and cant expose him, hence why MUELLER hinted at everything but left it all hanging. I did the long reading of the links to outline it easy for you.
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/bloody-mob-sht-an-interview-with
We talk Trump, Mogilevich, Epstein, Giuliani, Fred Trump, Roy Cohn, and more.
Greg Olear
.... LB (Lincoln's Bible) : ... Fred (Trump), ... all (his construction projects) were done with known mafia partners, in Genovese-controlled territory, and eventually with a fully Genovese-owned construction company (HRH Construction). ....
... Remember donalds quote, Even my father, he said, you dont want to go to Manhattan. Thats not our territory? Thats because Manhattan, for construction, was Gambino territory. They controlled the concrete and unions. And Fred was a very loyal, shrewd front for the Genovese. To get his idiot, greedy kid into Manhattan, Fred and Roy Cohn had to get those two mob bosses to agree on a joint venture. ....
GO (Greg OLEAR) : Rudy Giuliani, whose father was a lesser mobster, built his reputation prosecuting Italian mobsters. In the process, he made it easier for the Russians to move in. ... ....
LB: Heres the thing and its NYC mob gossip, but I trust the source. Rudy and donald hate each other. Capital H hate. They both have dirt on one another. And, for both, its as bad as it gets. Cocaine, corruption, and bloody mob shit. So theyre stuck together. Dont look for one to turn on the other. Unless drugs/alcohol/dementia takes over, and they burn each other down as they internally crumble. ....
GO: ... We know he (Jeffrey EPSTEIN) was associated with the Russian mafiya, through his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, Robert, was business partners with Semion Mogilevich, head of the Vor. ...
LB: Epstein laundered money for global arms dealers. ... ....
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http://www.citjourno.org/mission
POKE THE BEAR
.... ... There is a man who controls our President. And his name is not Vladimir Putin. ....
... the most brilliant, dangerous, powerful, criminal mastermind the world has ever seen. This is not hyperbole. This is SEMION MOGILEVICH. ....
... Mogilevich, the "Boss of Bosses," is also known in Russia and to international intelligence agencies as Don Semyon, The Brainy Don. ....
... The Soviet Union collapsed. In the vacuum of leadership of policy of governmental order, a few hungry souls made a mad grab for state resources. They were the original seven oligarchs, called The Magnificient Seven. And they were all bankers. One of these first seven bankers, Mikhail Fridman the founder of ALFABANK, is Semion Mogilevichs partner. ... ....
... Putin was used to help execute Semions strategy for turning Russia into a Mafiya State. ... ....
... SEMION TRADES IN NUCLEAR MATERIAL AND ARMS WITH IRAN ... ....
... This aspect of Semions criminal enterprise is one thing (of many) the Iran Deal sought to eliminate. ... ....
... the Russian Mafiyas infiltration of America. ... the Russian take-over of Americas mafia crime families, the Five Families, ... ....
... the mobster Vyacheslov Ivankov set him off on Semions trail. Ivankov was Semions lieutenant, sent to America to set up operations. If you recognize his name, its because Ivankov is the mobster who landed in a condo in Trump Tower, hid out regularly at Trump Taj Mahal, and was eventually caught by the FBIs organized crime unit. ... ....
... Mogilevichs crime syndicate is also THE case that puts the history of Donald Trumps business partnerships into context. It explains why the #TrumpRussia investigation ... shifted from counter-intelligence to CRIMINAL. ...
It also answers what lurks beneath Trumps flailing tweets, firing of Comey, and strategic undermining of the integrity of our independent press. ... ....
... The equation for finding the perfect mark is simple: 1) identify a businessman who has what you need like a vehicle to wash your blood money, + 2) find their weak spot, and + 3) squeeze. ....
In the United States, there was one businessman at the top of Don Semyons list. One who was the easiest mark and could reap the greatest return. One who was sheltering Mogilevich's Men. One who was already in business with the American mafia, when "the" RUSSIAN MOB rolled over them all. ....
And thanks to Fred Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Five Families of American mafia, the United States already had a perfect front for Mogilevich to take. A man a brand, that could wash the devils blood money clean. ....
... Semion Mogilevich took over American mafias territory, he took Donald Trump with it. ....
... Semion Mogilevich took over his second brand: TRUMP ENTERPRISES. ....
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https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1150239448649866&id=100009914652603
.... A confidential informant, or CI, is a mole run by law enforcement within a criminal enterprise. Not a rat, whose treachery is well known to his comrades, but a craftier, more duplicitous breed of rodent. Crimes committed by the CI are overlooked, or allowed to continue unabated, in exchange for good intelligencetreasure, as Control calls it in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. ....
The only way to know for sure if Donald John Trump is a Confidential Informant is if he admits it himself (unlikely), or if law enforcement comes forward (illegal). But the circumstantial evidence is compelling. The pattern is: 1) Trump deals with mobsters as usual; 2) Law enforcement begins investigating Trump; 3) Mobsters suddenly get busted, while 4) investigation into Trump is scuttled. This happened three times that we know about. Im not counting the first known instance of Trump providing information to prosecutors, concerning Cody and concrete, in the late 70s: ... ....
... (Trump in) 1995? Failing tremendously. That was the year when he declared a loss of an unfathomable $916 million on his tax returns. It was also at this time that Trump Tower became a sort of Moscow on Fifth Avenue, with any number of Russian mobsters scooping up apartmentsan arrangement that began in 1984, when the Russian mobster David Bogatin purchased five condos for $6 million. Trump Tower was one of just two buildings in all of New York City that allowed units to be purchased by shell companies. Why did Trump, virtually alone among New Yorkers, allow these fishy deals?
As the indefatigable Craig Unger writes in the Washington Post, the shady Bogatin deal began a 35-year relationship between Trump and Russian organized crime. Mind you, this was a period during which the disintegration of the Soviet Union had opened a fire-hose-like torrent of hundreds of billions of dollars in flight capital from oligarchs, wealthy apparatchiks and mobsters in Russia and its satellites. And who better to launder so much money for the Russians than Trump selling them multimillion-dollar condos at top dollar, with little or no apparent scrutiny of who was buying them. ....
... what made Trumps attacks on Mueller so ironic. He impugned the former FBI director as corrupt, while depending on his incorruptibility to not reveal his (alleged) CI status. ....
Notes
This piece was written under the expert guidance of Lincolns Bible. If you dont already do so, please follow her on Twitter, and check out her own mafiya reporting at Citjourno.
I encourage everyone to read the State of New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement investigation report on the allegations against Donald John Trump in the Wayne Barrett book Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.
The late Bob Levinson was the FBIs best Russian mob fighter. His Ivankov testimony is also essential reading.
Greg Olear, Substack
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and you come bearing gifts...lottsa gifts...wow.
I know the bits about MOGILEVICH, in a general way. Bill Browder's Red Notice provided an excellent timeline of Russian mobs and how/why the spread out globally.
the insight of Fred's comment about "territory" explains a lot, there are many stories in bits and pieces floating around, but your post helps with connecting them.
I go thru periods where I have to put it all down and walk away for a spell, it all gets too overwhelming.
On the helpful side, Netflix has a documentary called Operation Odessa, in which the post Russia break up figures largely in a wild ass conman scheme to sell a submarine to Pablo Escobar. funniest true story I have heard in ages.
Good stuff! Thanks for posting.
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)... vet this traitorous criminal BEFORE electing him?
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cp
(6,628 posts)House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia.
Completely fascinating, well worth one's time.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)A book so eye-popping and jaw-dropping that I read it in two days. And that's no mean feat. Unger documents, references, footnotes, researches EVERYTHING with a thoroughness that is nothing short of inspired. If he writes it, you can bet your bottom dollar it's true.
certainot
(9,090 posts)2008 when he forced palin on mccain - with manafort as mccain's campaign co-chair and palin beign wooed by russian oil and gas. limbaugh started to diverge from GOP establishment about then. everything trump has done has followed the limbaugh lines
llimbaugh gets material from 'sources', blows it up ad leader of 1500 radio staatitons, and then it's truth to the base - like the 'deep state' bullshit that started right after inauguration.
a lot of everything 'RW' in this country has been russian for at least a decade. and they were going to use another ebola scare like in 2014 but along came COVID and trump was stupid enough to think he could use it like ebola.
librechik
(30,674 posts)if you are GOP.
kimbutgar
(21,144 posts)And sadly the MSM media wont report this. I doubt CNN, MSNBC nor CBS nor ABC will report it.
TheBlackAdder
(28,193 posts)Hugin
(33,140 posts)Throw it on the heap.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)Just like everything he's done, the truth lays buried in a magazine investigation. Nothing has or will come of it.
DEbluedude
(816 posts)and who has been underwriting the loans made to him.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)who threatened to pitch a national conniption when President Obama wanted to go public with what they had on trump
niyad
(113,302 posts)Confirming that the toddler tyrant is a russian asset, although perhaps an unknowing one.
triron
(22,003 posts)triron
(22,003 posts)StClone
(11,683 posts)
Brazils far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, is facing growing calls to explain his familys alleged links to the heavily armed and notoriously violent paramilitary gangs that control large swaths of Rio de Janeiro.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/13/jair-bolsonaro-paramilitaries-marielle-franco-suspects
karin_sj
(808 posts)Unbelievable that this traitor is still in the White House.
bluestarone
(16,939 posts)We need eyes OPEN, ears OPEN, and our BEST lawyers ready for the NOV> 2020 election!! THEY are going to use every trick in the book, and will be ILLEGAL as hell!!
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,419 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Really---now what? Mueller didn't help us. He made it harder for the Democrats to scream from the rooftops how corrupt Trump is.
Now it just seem like the Democrats doing more of the same.
My last hope is Schiff. And maybe the AG of New York.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)I'm of the mind that it isn't Donald Jenius tRUMP. He's the figure head the mouthpiece the show pony. But the real owners are to be found in tRUMP's financial records, tax returns and loan documents. Just sayin..
H2O Man
(73,537 posts)Outstanding. Thank you for this.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)as we've known all along. Trump is totally compromised and in the pocket of the Russians.
Sigh...
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I hope Biden uses every resource he has to show how dirty Trump is, how in debt he is.
Use Bloomberg and every other big money source you can tap Joe and fully expose this crass fraud.
I hope that crude mean jerk winds up where he belongs. I try not to use the word hate but this abomination I hate and despise, he is a waste of space and oxygen.
I hope we beat him so badly it makes LBJ vs Goldwater look like a squeaker.
Then I hope we go after him like the Low Life Criminal he is. No bygones be bygones with this loathsome Jerk.
hkp11
(275 posts)wish it was covered by MSM and the newspapers!
I knew about the FBI had arrested some Russian mafia dudes in Trump Tower for money laundering before Drumpf ran, but didn't know the extent of his Russian mafia involvement and Rudy's mafia involvement...
eye opening!!