Russian Who Bankrolled Trump's Truth Social Set Up Dodgy Sex Pill Sites
Source: Daily Beast
Published Apr. 22, 2024 4:52AM EDT
The Russian who loaned Donald Trumps social media platform Truth Social $8 million previously set up websites selling dodgy sex pills, according to records seen by The Daily Beast.
The flagship product sold by these sites, Vimaxwhich promises longer sex and a firmer erectionhas prompted warnings from health regulators in the U.S. for containing hidden ingredients that may endanger health. The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers not to buy the supposedly natural male enhancement supplements, and told anyone who had bought the tablets to throw them out.
The sites where the pills were sold included vimaxtrialoffer.com which was registered in the name of Anton Postolnikov, 40, according to public domain ownership records. The Gmail account used to set that up was also used for vimax-detox-trial.com and vimax-trials.com. For communications regarding the pills, a series of email addresses @vimaxgroup.com were also set up and registered in Postolnikovs name.
The Russian entrepreneur, who reportedly has family links to the Kremlin, has a history of success in niche online businesses such as providing financial services to porn stars and camgirls. Postolnikovwhose aunt is reportedly married to Aleksandr Smirnov, a former Russian deputy minister of justice and Kremlin insideremigrated to the U.S. in 2018.
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NoMoreRepugs
(9,463 posts)riversedge
(70,306 posts)This chap sounds like a no-good schemer!
..............In 2021, he gave $30,000 to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In the same year, documents show that a company listing Postolnikov as its authorized person owned two dwellings on Miamis private Fisher Island worth $13 million. The company that owns the luxury properties, 7812 Fisher Island LLC, is the subject of ongoing divorce proceedings in Florida where Postolnikov is splitting from Olga, a fellow native of St. Petersburg who describes herself as a photojournalist.
Postolnikov has also been suspected by U.S. federal agents of making nearly $23 million in 2021 from alleged insider trading on Trumps social media platform, according to court documents filed by defense attorneys. The accusation was revealed in court documents related to three men, financier Michael Shvartsman, his brother Gerald, and Bruce Garelick, who were arrested last June and charged with insider trading. In February, the government also added money laundering charges. Both Michael and Gerald Shvartsman pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud in early April.
Postolnikov has not been charged in the case, but court documents filed by the other defendants seeking to have the evidence discounted, reveal that he has been included in the FBIs investigation. Postolnikov is alleged to have taken part in the insider trading scheme following good times spent in the company of two of the defendants ahead of official announcements by listed company DWAC, according to an FBI affidavit included in court files obtained by The Daily Beast.
niyad
(113,576 posts)IronLionZion
(45,534 posts)they don't trust the socialist sounding Food and Drug Administration, which is obviously Deep State.
Republicans somehow manage to be victims and perpetrators of their own undoing.