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@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell <Thread>
1/ Reference to the "Dakotas" and Michael Cohen's brother Bryan in @PortlusGlam's in-depth and meticulous investigation caught my eye: (more...)

https://twitter.com/PortlusGlam/status/1068186331300298752

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam 2/ In Aug 2013, Michael and Bryan Cohen purchased an 11th-floor unit at 10 Madison Square West from Christopher Escoffier for $6.55 million. Escoffier then apparently high-tailed it to the same building where Ivanka's sold her "Fine Jewelry:" (con't)

https://twitter.com/PortlusGlam/status/1009224262991990784

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam 3/ Loved this Dec 22, 2017 article by @SchreckReports, which begins: "Throw a dart at a map of the world and there’s a solid chance it will land near a spot where a Trump family business has allegedly gotten caught up in a money laundering scheme. (con't)

https://twitter.com/PortlusGlam/status/1009255878514630656

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports 4/ ...There’s Panama🇵🇦, where the Trump Ocean Club is said to have washed dirty cash for Russian🇷🇺 gangsters & South American drug cartels. There’s Azerbaijan🇦🇿 & the Trump Baku, where the money allegedly being laundered was said to belong to Iran’s🇮🇷 Revolutionary Guard. (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports 5/ ...And of course, there’s the TrumpSoho in Manhattan, a magnet for money from Kazakhstan🇰🇿 & Russia🇷🇺, and a property that one former executive on the project now calls 'a monument to spectacularly corrupt money-laundering and tax evasion.'" more...

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports 6/ Back to the 11th floor of 10 Madison Square West, which Christopher Escoffier sold to Michael & Bryan Cohen in Aug 2013, and which was then renovated by Steve Witkoff, a friend (and subsequent donor to criminal-in-chief's campaign). (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports 7/ Two years later, in Oct 2015, the Cohens sold the apartment back to Escoffier, for a tidy profit of $1.9 million. "When his bank wouldn’t provide a promised mortgage at the last minute, Mr Escoffier said, Mr. Cohen agreed to lend him $3.8million." (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports 8/ So in Oct 2015, Michael Cohen loaned Escoffier $3.8 million to purchase the same apartment that Escoffier sold to Cohen 2 years earlier. Oct 2015 was the same month that criminal-in-chief signed the LOI for #MoscowTrumpTower w/ a $4 million upfront fee:

https://twitter.com/PortlusGlam/status/1009220064564928512

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports 9/ Sep 8, 2017 article which includes a copy of #MoscowTrumpTower letter of intent and schedules by @NatashaBertrand: (more...)
businessinsider.com/trump-tower-mo…

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 10/ Michael Cohen's brother Bryan was co-purchaser of 10 Madison Square West in Aug 2013:
"a newly formed company called Bo & Abe Realty LLC put down a 20% deposit on the property. New York corporate records show the company was registered to Mr Cohen’s home address. (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 11/ ...Mr. Escoffier said he was later told by the broker that Bo and Abe Realty was owned by Mr. Cohen and his brother, Bryan, and said both brothers were present when he eventually repaid the loan. (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 12/ … Bo and Abe were the names of two alien brothers in an early 1990s TV series, 'They Came from Outer Space.' On the show, the brothers traveled around California in a Corvette, engaging in various high jinks. (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 13/ … Bryan Cohen is an executive at Douglas Elliman, a New York real-estate company that acted as the broker for the 10 Madison Square West building. He didn’t respond to a call and email seeking comment. A spokesman for Douglas Elliman declined to comment." (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 14/ On to Bryan Cohen, Ukraine🇺🇦 & North Dakota.
"Between 2011 and 2016, the Ukrainian🇺🇦 company, Grain Alliance, paid at least $7 million into an LLC registered to [Bryan] Cohen's home, according [to] a review of financial records by TheRealDeal." (con't)

https://twitter.com/JamesFourM/status/1044689717374177280

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 15/ "Bryan Cohen's involvement in Ukranian agro-business began with family ties. His father-in-law, Alex Oronov, was a Ukrainian-American businessman who returned to the 'breadbasket of Europe' in the 1990s to start his own agricultural firm, 'Harvest Moon East,' (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 16/ ... also known as 'Baryshivka Grain Company.' (The company was later bought by a Swedish🇸🇪 firm in 2009 and renamed 'Grain Alliance, Americas.')"
"Grain Alliance, which was ranked by Forbes Ukraine as the second-most efficient agro-business in Ukraine🇺🇦... (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 17. ... acquired much of its seeds and equipment from the United States, North Dakota in particular. And it apparently relied on Bryan Cohen's American LLC, called 'UkrEthanol LLC,' to facilitate the trades."
Bryan's father-in-law died in Mar 2017:
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasona…

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand 18/ Back to article in @JamesFourM's tweet:
"Bryan Cohen's employer, Douglas Elliman, has several notable connections to the Trump & Cohen families. Its chairman Howard Lorber is a longtime friend and adviser to President Trump." (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 19/ Lorber had a big-money fundraiser for the president and Republicans at his Hamptons estate on Aug 17, 2018.
(Background photo is aerial view of Lorber's Hamptons estate.) more...
therealdeal.com/2018/08/15/how…

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 20/ "In April, Michael Cohen closed on a $6.7 million apartment at the luxury condominium tower 111 Murray Street, which was co-developed by Lorber's development firm. Douglas Elliman Development Marketing -- where Bryan works -- was tapped to sell its apartments. (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 21/ ... To help finance Michael Cohen's purchase, the developers provided him with a $3.5 million mortgage. That apartment is now on the rental market, as TRD first reported. Elliman declined to comment for this story." (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 22/ Bryan Cohen's late father-in-law "co-owned an ethanol company with his longtime business partner, Alex Oronov," a Ukrainian🇺🇦 oligarch/politician with ties to Semion Mogilevich.
buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 23/ "The leader of Ukraine’s🇺🇦 coal ministry and a personal friend of that country’s president, Topolov had been a board member at a state-run bank, the top executive at a construction company, and the president of a professional football club. (con't)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 24/ … But beyond his official titles, Topolov has also been investigated twice for money laundering and embezzlement, and the FBI has said his associates are 'well known' members of the Russian🇷🇺 mafia." (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 25/ Topolov "ran a conglomerate, Kyiv-Donbas, that employed 3 executives the FBI described as members of a violent Russian organized-crime network. One was a mob enforcer who admitted taking part in at least 20 murders, & who was closely associated w/Semion Mogilevich" (more...)

@ThomasS4217 @Stephaniefishm4 @ellyn_gesell @PortlusGlam @SchreckReports @NatashaBertrand @JamesFourM 26/ "The other two were twin brothers who the FBI said are well-known in Russia's criminal underworld, and who are believed to have ordered a hit on another gangster."
That's all for now, will reprise North Dakota link to EPPC (Kavanaugh) later...