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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas anyone read Dark Towers, about the Trump / Deutsche Bank / Russian Mob ties?
There is periodic excitement over essentially the same set of claims arising from documents allegedly possessed by Val Broeksmit, the somewhat colorful soon of a former Deutsche Bank executive who committed suicide in California some time ago.
The last go-round I recall was this one:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212834656
...but there had been previous re-packagings of essentially the same narrative.
In a nutshell, Mr. Broeksmit claims to have a trove of documents showing Russian involvement in loans made by DB to Trump entities based on false financials provided by Trump.
The death of his father adds the requisite "ooh they got him" flair to the story - bits and pieces of which are periodically re-packaged and re-published by a website called https://forensicnews.net/. The operators of that website have cheap hosting which goes down every time they attract substantial traffic, on which basis they claim to be under "attack" every time they tease one of the Broeksmit-sourced stories.
A New York Times reporter, who did some substantial coverage on Broeksmit and the his documents, was in the process of writing a book, which was released last week.
Prior to the release of that book, quite a number of DUers had expressed anticipation in receiving their pre-ordered copy.
This just occurred to me, since I figured if the book contained explosive information, then it would certainly make waves. So, I'm curious to know, from those DUers who were anticipating the book, whether there were any new tidbits of note, or whether the drip-drop previous disclosures constitute the sum of what is known from Broeksmit's cache of documents?
Has anyone read it?
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Has anyone read Dark Towers, about the Trump / Deutsche Bank / Russian Mob ties? (Original Post)
jberryhill
Feb 2020
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(50,935 posts)1. I just reserved it at the library this morning.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)2. Had this delivered to my kindle a few days ago...
Just finished history part and how deutsche got where it is , very interesting . Looks like a good book , just starting the early 90's area . Hope many read . will be checking back to see if anyone else has .