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napkinz

(17,199 posts)
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 02:08 PM Oct 2016

Breaking New Expose: Trump's Real Estate Group Did Business With Iranian Bank Linked To Terrorism

October 3, 2016
by Samuel Warde

Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that has been linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program according to an explosive story published Monday morning by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and The Center for Public Integrity, non-profit, non-partisan news organizations based in Washington, D.C.

ICIJ reports that: “Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity. The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government.”

“U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump,” the ICIJ report continued.

The ICIJ report goes on to note that his real estate group’s “dealings with the Iranian bank shed more light on Trump’s wide-ranging business interests, which sometimes stand at odds with his blunt declarations on the campaign trail.”

read more: http://samuel-warde.com/2016/10/revealed-trump-group-business-iranian-bank-linked-terrorism/

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Breaking New Expose: Trump's Real Estate Group Did Business With Iranian Bank Linked To Terrorism (Original Post) napkinz Oct 2016 OP
He is filthy, through and through annabanana Oct 2016 #1
Paul Ryan should have stayed.... Little Star Oct 2016 #2
yep napkinz Oct 2016 #7
U.$. Media responds as they always do... BlueCaliDem Oct 2016 #3
so far crickets napkinz Oct 2016 #10
The Trump kids were right - this campaign is bad news for the family businesses! flor-de-jasmim Oct 2016 #4
True! Little Star Oct 2016 #6
For a party that supported Cheney's dirty deals, this is nothing. progressoid Oct 2016 #5
They seem to like their peas from the same pod. Little Star Oct 2016 #8
Bye Donald! smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #9
Replace Trump with Hillary in that headline, and imagine the wretching lindysalsagal Oct 2016 #11
yep, nothing from the MSM napkinz Oct 2016 #13
Let's hope the media wants to sell some pills/cars/insurance lindysalsagal Oct 2016 #12

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
1. He is filthy, through and through
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 02:10 PM
Oct 2016

There is hardly a nefarious corner of the world online or off where he hasn't dipped his beak.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
13. yep, nothing from the MSM
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 08:37 PM
Oct 2016

If it had been Hillary, there would have been a frenzy of reporting (breaking news banners).

Trump supporters chanting, "Lock Her Up!"

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