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In reply to the discussion: Rachel - dropping the bomb tonight.. [View all]Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)in FLA from some crooked creep for 40 mil, sells it to a russian oligarch for a hundred million after two years. neither ever lived there, and it's being torn down.
the guy was involved in a 4.5 billion dollar divorce settlement, and was hoovering up properties like this (and the Ari Onassis island for 150 mil), and the most expensive apartment in NYC (88 mil, for his 22 year old daughter), all to keep it out of the hands of his wife....it just goes on
the oligarch was tied to deutsche bank, who was fined by the US==630 mil over a 10 BILLION russian money laundering scheme, leading to the exit of the head of DB, who ended up at the bank in Cyprus, whose first or second biggest stockholder/investor is none other than....Wilbur Ross!
not making this up.....all off the top of my head from listening to the show
absolutely mind boggling stuff
this circles back to why Manafort is a major player, and why his little blackmail contretemps last summer led to his leaving the campaign
that complicated web posted above needs to be explained in words, and god knows how many text pages it would take. where's that diagram come from?
don't think I've ever seen anything like this before!