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Trump Media executives worried over murky $8m loans, emails reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/trump-media-executives-worried-over-murky-8m-loan?CMP=share_btn_twThe executives had good reason to be concerned: a subsequent examination revealed that the trustee of ES Family Trust was simultaneously a director of Paxum Bank, and one of the part-owners of the bank would turn out to be the relation of an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Even at that stage, there was some concern about the origin of the payment given the fact that it was being routed through an offshore bank and Orlando declined to provide any further information about the lender, telling Trump Media associates that the lender was extremely private.
“The financing itself also got approval at the Trump family level, when Don Jr, who had become increasingly involved”
Criming all the live long day…
