Was Donald Trump ever involved in "money laundering"?

[kentuck]

I saw a post the other day on DU and there was a graph of several different casino owners and how they made huge profits off their gambling ventures. But, for some odd reason, Donald Trump lost millions and millions of dollars?

Was he using his casinos as nothing more than a "money laundering" operation? How would it have worked?

Did someone come into his casino with twenty million dollars and "win" $15 million dollars and give Trump a $5 million cut of his profits? And Donald wrote off the $15 million as a loss and then put his "cut" of $5 million into a secret account, perhaps in the Caymans? How would it have worked?

How did he lose so much money in his casinos?

[BSdetect]

1. Does the Pope shit in the woods?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Is the sky wet? Nt

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Try this to get started

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/trump-the-bad-bad-businessman.html

EDIT: The part that includes the shake-down -

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This disconnect between the public’s perception of Mr. Trump as a self-made mogul and the reality of his being a rich kid who lost other people’s money and made far less for himself than he claims is still his Achilles’ heel.

Things did not end well between us. One day in early 1991, one of Mr. Trump’s senior executives, Nick Ribis, invited me to a boxing match that his boss was sponsoring in Atlantic City. I declined at first, but my editor encouraged me to go. Then, in an act of bad judgment, I accepted free tickets for my brother and father.

Weeks later, after I wrote a tough article about Mr. Trump’s finances, his public relations representative called The New York Post’s Page Six and said, as I was told later by a senior Post reporter, “How would you like to destroy the career of a Wall Street Journal reporter?” The story that resulted made a series of wild and bogus accusations, saying I had extorted the tickets, asked for a suite at the Taj, and that out of anger that I hadn’t received more favors, had written negative articles about him. My editors stood by me, but they and I agreed that I would stop covering him. By then Donald Trump had stopped being front-page news, but I had put my paper in a difficult position, and the episode stung.

Did he set me up? Did I set myself up? Several years later, I ran into a Trump executive who offered an explanation. A few months before the boxing match, I had reported that as Mr. Trump faced a cash shortfall, his father had bought $3.5 million worth of casino chips to help his son make an interest payment on the casino’s bonds. Mr. Trump was subsequently fined $30,000 by New Jersey’s gambling regulators for not reporting what was essentially a loan from his father. He was livid, the executive told me, and had vowed revenge. As Mr. Trump himself wrote in “The Art of the Comeback,” he told Nick Ribis to give me the tickets, then added, “but the next time he writes anything I’m going to blast him like he never got blasted before.”

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[Bobbie Vinton]

4. Trump, Russia and Money Laundering FBI is actively investigating.

Trump, Russia and Money Laundering – FBI is actively investigating.
Last week I read that Trump owes Deutsche Bank $300 million; that in January Deutsche Bank paid regulators from the US and UK government a total of $588 million in fines for laundering $10 billion out Russia. And moreover, earlier this month Trump’s Taj Mahal Associates LLC settled to pay the Treasury Department a $10 million civil penalty for violating anti-money-laundering program requirements.

Well, “yesterday it was revealed that the FBI is probing front-companies which Trump and Russia have been allegedly using to secretly do business with each other.”

In addition to the FBI probe, “Democratic congressman Bill Pascrell Jr, a member of the House Ways and Means committee, said the bank was under federal investigation for aiding Russian money-laundering - a “troubling potential conflict”.

In looking into the issue further I have found that: Three detailed reports by the Financial Times based on title deeds, bank records and correspondence, found that Trump and the Russian “mob” has laundered money “through the use of “anonymous LLCs” on both sides; the Trump side and the Russian crime bosses’ side.
It goes something like this: One “anonymous” LLC (Russian mobsters) forks over a monumentally bloated wad of millions for another “anonymous” LLC (Trump’s) property like an apartment worth considerably less than the “selling price.”… Trump’s organization is an ideal means of laundering Russian criminals’ dirty money because:”
“Real estate has an arbitrary value. Is that apartment worth $1 million? Two million? Why not $3 million for a buyer who really wants it? When the whole transaction is just one LLC with undisclosed ownership paying another LLC with undisclosed ownership, it’s even neater than hiding the money in an offshore account. And while some businesses require due diligence in looking at the source of funds, real estate is a bit more … flexible.”
“… American laws regulating real estate deals are nearly non-existent. … Criminals from Russia, like all money launderers, pay in dirty cash; it is precisely how Trump and the Russian criminals easily avoided prying eyes of regulators.”
“The idea of converting the Russian mobsters’ stolen cash from overseas into Trump’s properties in the U.S., and Russian cash deposited into an account of a Trump LLC listed as “anonymous,” was a dirty win for both the criminal oligarchs and the criminal Trump. The only thing Trump was required to do was just ignore deal and never pay any attention whatsoever to its particulars; something he has brought to the Oval Office for all to see.”


“Trump Lie Exposed With Proof He Is Indebted To Russian Mobsters”

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/18/trump-lie-exposed-proof-indebted-russian-mobsters.html

In which the author states his opinion:

“As calls for a comprehensive investigation into Trump’s conspiring with Putin to award him the White House become deafening and lead to an all-inclusive independent investigation, all of this illegal money laundering for Russian criminals will become common knowledge. It is why Trump is attempting to sully the media as “dishonest” and that any reporting on his deep ties to the Russians is “fake news” in hopes the public will ignore the truth in reporting as it develops going forward; and it is going to develop going forward. The IC will see to that and a fed up at being labeled dishonest media will do its part.”
“Trump’s terror at being exposed as a Russian collaborator is also why Trump continues to demean the intelligence community. He knows for a fact that the IC has mountains of devastatingly incriminating documentation that he does, in fact, have very deep ties to the Russians and is heavily indebted to them. The good news is that Trump has made very public claims, including on Thursday at his bizarre press conference, that in no possible way does he have now, or has ever had, any business relationships or ties to the Russians.”
“That latest rash of lies will be a damning piece of evidence that Trump lied on national television about something that is becoming such common knowledge that even congressional Republicans will have difficulty pretending there is no impeachable offense. They can’t cover up Trump’s lies any more without implicating themselves in a conspiracy involving the criminal in the White House and crime bosses and oligarchs in Russia. Those Russian mobsters saved Trump’s businesses with dirty money he gladly aided them in laundering because like every common criminal on the planet, Trump will do anything for money; including jeopardize the security of the United States of America for the nation that “earned” his devotion and allegiance with dirty money, Russia.”

This is a very conclusive report from the Financial Times.

“Dirty money: Trump and the Kazakh connection”
https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923

A Financial Times investigation has found evidence that one Trump venture has multiple ties to an alleged international money-laundering network. Title deeds, bank records and correspondence show that a Kazakh family accused of laundering hundreds of millions of stolen dollars bought luxury apartments in a Manhattan tower part-owned by Mr. Trump and embarked on major business ventures with one of the tycoon’s partners

…The revelations raise questions about what steps his business takes to ensure that the funds that pour through it are clean.

Jennifer Shasky Calvery, then director of the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, warned in January “corrupt foreign officials, or transnational criminals, may be using premium US real estate to secretly invest millions in dirty money”.


“FBI probes Trump-Russia front companies, after Trump’s bank caught laundering Russian money.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cyber-idUSKBN15X0OE

“Two parallel investigations on two different continents into illegal financial activities by Russia, both connected to Donald Trump, may turn out to be the same investigation. Three weeks ago Deutsche Bank in Germany, which has been almost single handedly keeping Trump afloat with loans in recent years, was caught in a massive Russian money-laundering scheme. And yesterday it was revealed that the FBI is probing front-companies which Trump and Russia have been allegedly using do secretly to business with each other.”

“So here’s the billion dollar question: is this FBI investigation into Trump’s clandestine Russian financial connections based on what was exposed in the Russian money laundering probe into Deutsche Bank? More will inevitably leak out from the intel community one way or the other.”

https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/fbi-probes-trump-russia-laundering-bank/1599/



“U.S. inquiries into Russian election hacking include three FBI probes”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cyber-idUSKBN15X0OE

in which the reporter states: “[The] counterintelligence inquiry includes but is not limited to examination of financial transactions by Russian individuals and companies who are believed to have links to Trump associates. The transactions under scrutiny involve investments by Russians in overseas entities that appear to have been undertaken through middlemen and front companies, two people briefed on the probe said.”


And last here are the posts that I put on Facebook last Wednesday when I stumbled upon the article in the Wall Street Journal that reported on the Taj Mahal’s settlement.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Robert%20Veltkamp%20money%20laundering

I can only imagine what it means if the FBI comes to the same conclusions as the Financial Times. Trump will be indicted for money laundering and obviously impeached.