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October 3, 2016
by Samuel Warde
Donald Trumps real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that has been linked to terrorist groups and Irans 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 Irans 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 Irans 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 groups dealings with the Iranian bank shed more light on Trumps 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/
annabanana
(52,791 posts)There is hardly a nefarious corner of the world online or off where he hasn't dipped his beak.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)not there yet because he's now on the
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You miserable, filthy piece of crap.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)"Hillary loves terrorists!"
napkinz
(17,199 posts)If it had been Hillary, there would have been a frenzy of reporting (breaking news banners).
Trump supporters chanting, "Lock Her Up!"
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)with this little detail.....