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CousinIT

(9,087 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 02:01 AM Feb 2017

Maddow 2/27/17 - Wilbur Ross, etc.



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Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections
Trump’s Choice for Commerce Secretary Holds a Top Post With a Mysterious, Russian-Controlled Cyprus Bank

By James S. Henry

...........Ross’ involvement in the Bank of Cyprus raises many questions about his judgment, but also about the Trump Administration’s seemingly endless direct and indirect connections with friends and associates of Vladimir Putin, who all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say conspired to interfere in the November 2016 U.S. election on behalf of Donald Trump.

Whether or not these connections involve any criminality, these are the kind of relationships that most American business people would not tolerate for 30 seconds.

After all, as discussed below, since the 1990s Cyprus has served as one the top three offshore destinations for Russian and former Soviet Union flight capital, most of it motivated by tax dodging, kleptocracy, and money laundering. As of 2013, just before the banking crisis, Russian deposits accounted for at least a third of all bank deposits in Cyprus. As one leading newspaper put it, “Russian money is in fact at the heart of the island’s economy.”

The Bank of Cyprus caters to the island nation’s large Russian population.

Nor is Ross’ Bank of Cyprus in particular – now probably at least half owned by Russians, as we‘ll see —any stranger to money laundering, tax dodging, or odious finance. With a market share of 30 percent, Bank of Cyprus has long been the market leader in Cypriot financial chicanery:


https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-comes-to-d-c-with-a-long-and-profitable-history-of-russian-connections/
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Maddow 2/27/17 - Wilbur Ross, etc. (Original Post) CousinIT Feb 2017 OP
Great reporting from Ms. Maddow. Mc Mike Feb 2017 #1
Excuse me... Fritz Walter Feb 2017 #2
Video disappeared overnight. Anyone have another link? CousinIT Feb 2017 #3

Mc Mike

(9,106 posts)
1. Great reporting from Ms. Maddow.
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 05:36 AM
Feb 2017

More dRumpf Russia connections.

He's sold himself to them so greatly, so often, that film of him should be the number one result when the words "Russian" and "Prostitute" are loaded into any search engine together.

CousinIT

(9,087 posts)
3. Video disappeared overnight. Anyone have another link?
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 10:36 AM
Feb 2017

OK nevermind...someone else posted the pertinent part:



The original video I posted last night was 50+ minutes long.
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