Investigators looking at suspicious money transfers after Trump Tower meeting, election: report

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Source: thehill


By Justin Wise - 09/12/18 10:58 AM EDT



Federal investigators are reportedly looking into a pair of suspicious money transfers from some of the planners and participants in a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.

BuzzFeed News reported on Wednesday that secret documents it evaluated show that a complex web of financial transactions may play a role in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election interference.

They involve money from Russia and Switzerland being moved to places such as the British Virgin Islands, Bangkok and New Jersey, according to BuzzFeed.

Four federal law enforcement officers told the news outlet that investigators are specifically looking into two bursts of transactions that bank examiners found suspicious.

One of the bursts occurred 11 days after the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, while the other happened right after President Trump’s election.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/406252-investigators-looking-at-suspicious-money-transfers-after-trump

[lagomorph777]

1. #NRAROUBLES for Devil Nunes and Gym Jordan, bonuses to Kislyak and Manafort, lots of expenses...

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2. I'm sure it's just another coincidence.

And it's just a coincidence that they're have been umpteen million coincidences during this entire investigation into the Shithiole and his Admin.

Nothing to see here, move along.

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3. I think BuzzFeed news deserves the real credit for this story. Why not post them instead?

The Hill story is just a rehash of this one.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/trump-tower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov

The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower has become one of the most famous gatherings in American political history: a flashpoint for allegations of collusion, the subject of shifting explanations by the president and his son, countless hair-on-fire tweets, and boundless speculation by the press.

But secret documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News reveal a previously undisclosed aspect of the meeting: a complex web of financial transactions among some of the planners and participants who moved money from Russia and Switzerland to the British Virgin Islands, Bangkok, and a small office park in New Jersey.

The documents show Aras Agalarov, a billionaire real estate developer close to both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, at the center of this vast network and how he used accounts overseas to filter money to himself, his son, and at least two people who attended the Trump Tower meeting. The records also offer new insight into the murky financial world inhabited by many of Trump’s associates, who use shell companies and secret bank accounts to quickly and quietly move money across the globe.

Now, four federal law enforcement officials told BuzzFeed News, investigators are focused on two bursts of transactions that bank examiners deemed suspicious: one a short time after the meeting and another immediately after the November 2016 presidential election.

Buzzfeed was the outlet that was the first to release the Christopher Steele dossier, for which it was widely disparaged.

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4. I just don't understand

It's taken all this investigating to scrutinize these transfers? Why didn't the Feds report them at the time? We're always told the Feds are watching cash deposits, car dealerships, checking accounts for income, cash deposits, large withdrawals. Yet the bigger fish slip by undetected unless caught in a major investigation.