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applegrove

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Wed Jan 10, 2018, 04:48 PM Jan 2018

Whos buying in to Trumps real estate empire? Its a mystery

MATTHEW ROZSA at Salon

https://www.salon.com/2018/01/10/whos-buying-in-to-trumps-real-estate-empire-its-a-mystery/

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Fresh questions are being raised about how President Donald Trump's real estate empire has conducted itself since he took office.

Roughly 70 percent of the real estate purchases that benefited the Trump business empire were done by individuals who created shell corporations to conceal their identities, according to USA Today. The trend began in mid-2016, right about when Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, and continued throughout last year.

Before 2016, only 4 percent of the buyers of Trump properties used the LLC tactic to maintain their secrecy.

Bobby Burchfield, an attorney appointed by Trump as an ethics adviser to review real estate deals, has refused to disclose any information about what he has learned through his reviews. He has instead insisted that he uses a four-part test when evaluating the ethics of potential deals, that has been sufficient in protecting the public interest.

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Whos buying in to Trumps real estate empire? Its a mystery (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2018 OP
Here is a kicker in case Wellstone ruled Jan 2018 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. Here is a kicker in case
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 04:53 PM
Jan 2018

some have forgotten. Feinstein said in a Q&A in a Senate Hallway last year. When the Money Numbers come together for Trump,I expect him to be gone shortly after. Is that what this last Republican Tax Give Away was all about? The Price Is Right?

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