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Oleg Deripaska-Linked Firm Was Raided

Filings in U.K. reveal ā€˜live and ongoingā€™ U.S. criminal probe

Laundering invā€™n grew out of Muellerā€™s work

The investigators are seeking evidence of ā€œmoney laundering, tax offenses and fraud offensesā€ from 18 individuals and...
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Companies including Deripaskaā€™s Terra Services Ltd., a real estate firm.

Assocs of Dmytro Firtash were working to dig up dirt on former VP Biden last summer in an effort to get Rudy Giulianiā€™s help in the oligarchā€™s legal case for which he is fighting extradition.
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Giuliani pushed Trump adm to grant a visa to a UKR official (Shokin) promising dirt on DEM

Tapping pro-Trump lawyers like diGenova and Toensing looked like a useful way to help get his case thrown out.

DiGenova and Toensing have billed Firtash about $1 million.
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There is a Federal Inquiry of Trumpā€™s Friend Thomas Barrack (Trump Inauguration Chair) Focused on Middle East Foreign Lobbying nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/ā€¦
In May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speechā€™s contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/ā€¦
Mr. Barrack was, in fact, coordinating the language in a draft of the speech with Persian Gulf contacts including Rashid al-Malik, an Emirati businessman who is close to the rulers of the United Arab Emirates.
nytimes.com/2019/07/28/us/ā€¦
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Trump enjoyed a two-decade relationship with Bear Stearns, otherwise Trump Ocean Club Panama likely would never have been built.

BS agreed to underwrite a $220 million bond issue for TOC Panama.

Quite the coincidence that acronym, no?
Bear Stearns & Trump had worked together on a variety of endeavors. For example, he and a Bear Stearns exec, Trumpā€™s investment adviser, had launched Trump University, which later collapsed among accusations of fraud.

Trump paid $25M to settle a suit.
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And as far back as 1988, Trump paid a $750,000 civil judgment to the DOJ for having Bear Stearns make purchases of casino stocks in the bankā€™s name rather than in his. (the DOJ asserted that the concealed purchases violated antitrust laws.)

features.propublica.org/trump-inc-podcā€¦
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