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Monday, May 15th, 2017

Donald Trump’s Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands

Author:     Steven Rosenfeld
Source:     Alternet
Publication Date:     May 12, 2017
 Link: Donald Trump’s Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands
Stephan:   Trump has always struck me as a Mafioso. His taste runs that way, and that seems to be the way he does business. The American media is lost in the purgatory of tweets  and campaign verbal bumper sticker statements by which he dominates this country's media, and keeps it from seeing what is really going on. Other journalists in other countries don't seem to be as susceptible to the toxic fog Trump produces. And this is what they see. It is a nasty little picture.

Credit: YouTube / ZEMBLA-Onderzoeksjournalistiek

Donald Trump’s business partners have included Russian oligarchs and convicted mobsters, which could make the president guilty of criminal racketeering charges.

That’s one of the eyebrow-raising takeaways from a 45-minute Dutch documentary that aired last week, titled The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump, Part 1: The Russians. The first installment of the investigative reporting series, produced by Zembla, does what no American TV network has yet dared to do—take a deep look at the organized crime links and corrupt international business strategies used by Trump and his partners in his properties.

It starts with Trump’s luxury tower in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Soho, where his partner in building that highrise was Bayrock LLC, whose primary investor was a Russian mining oligarch and another major investor was a convicted Russian mobster named Felix Sater.

“Why did 60 Minutes pass on the Bayrock story in 2016? Why did ABC News’ Brian Ross pass on the Trump Soho [Tower] story in 2015? Why has no major network done any kind of documentary on what the Dutch just […]

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