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UpInArms

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Wed Aug 29, 2018, 08:20 AM Aug 2018

U.S. probing whether laundered funds used to pay Chris Christie, Trump lawyer

Source: Wall Street Journal via Marketwatch

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a fugitive Malaysian financier laundered tens of millions of dollars through two associates and used the funds to pay a U.S. legal team that includes former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and a lawyer who represents President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Jho Low, the Malaysian businessman, has been described in U.S. court filings as playing a central role in the alleged embezzlement of $4.5 billion from a Malaysian fund called 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

Malaysian authorities this week separately charged Low with money laundering in the case, which investigators suspect may be one of the biggest financial frauds in history. He has been moving around Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China in recent months, according to people with knowledge of his whereabouts.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-probing-whether-laundered-funds-used-to-pay-chris-christie-trump-lawyer-2018-08-29

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Laundered russian money duforsure Aug 2018 #1

duforsure

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1. Laundered russian money
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 09:10 AM
Aug 2018

Will be exposed for many of the people in this administration , and from many kgop people in Congress , and that knew it was funneled through th eNRA. I'd be reallt scared if I was any of them now, because justice is coming after them all.

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