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📌Trump Tower Baku, Azerbaijan
“Why would someone put a luxury hotel there? Nobody who can afford to stay there would want to be in that neighborhood.”
“Why would someone put a luxury hotel there? Nobody who can afford to stay there would want to be in that neighborhood.”
📌Trump’s Worst Deal
📌The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
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📌The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
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📌The Azerbaijanis behind the project were close relatives of Ziya Mammadov, the Transportation Minister and one of the country’s wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs. According to the TICPI,
📌Azerbaijan is among the most corrupt nations in the world
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📌Azerbaijan is among the most corrupt nations in the world
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📌Trump has reported receiving $2.8 million.
📌The Trump Organization shared documents that showed an additional payment of two and a half million dollars, in 2012, but declined to disclose any other payments received for licensing his name.
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📌The Trump Organization shared documents that showed an additional payment of two and a half million dollars, in 2012, but declined to disclose any other payments received for licensing his name.
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📌”Trump Organization’s story of the hotel was incomplete and inaccurate.”
📌”Trump’s company had made the deal not just with Anar Mammadov but also with Ziya’s brother Elton—an influential member of the Azerbaijani parliament.”
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📌”Trump’s company had made the deal not just with Anar Mammadov but also with Ziya’s brother Elton—an influential member of the Azerbaijani parliament.”
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📌”A U.S. diplomat described Ziya Mammadov as “notoriously corrupt even for Azerbaijan.””
📌”The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, Alan Garten, told reporters that the Baku hotel project raised no ethical issues for Donald Trump.”🙄
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📌”The Trump Organization’s chief legal officer, Alan Garten, told reporters that the Baku hotel project raised no ethical issues for Donald Trump.”🙄
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“Trump Tower Baku - Mammadov Family - Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”
"The U.S. government has regularly accused the Guard of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, sponsoring terrorism abroad, and money laundering."”
"The U.S. government has regularly accused the Guard of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, sponsoring terrorism abroad, and money laundering."”
📌”Ivanka Trump was the most senior Trump Organization official on the Baku project.”
📌”In October, 2014, she visited the city to tour the site and offer advice.”
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📌”In October, 2014, she visited the city to tour the site and offer advice.”
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📌”If parties involved in the Trump Tower Baku project participated in any illegal financial conduct, and if the Trump Organization exerted a degree of control over the project, the company could be vulnerable to criminal prosecution.”
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“A caption reads, “Ivanka has overseen the development of Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku since its inception, and she recently returned from a trip to the fascinating city in Azerbaijan to check in on the project’s progress.”
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Case law: licensors take on a greater legal burden when they assume roles normally reserved for dev’rs
The Trump Org’s unusually deep engagement with Baku XXI Century suggests that it had the opportunity & the responsibility to monitor it for corruption.
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The Trump Org’s unusually deep engagement with Baku XXI Century suggests that it had the opportunity & the responsibility to monitor it for corruption.
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📌And of course, Former Trump Tower in Azerbaijan, Dogged by Controversy, Is Engulfed by Fire
📌Didn’t hear about the fire? Perhaps because all you heard about was provocative/coarse speaker’s antics at the Annual WH press diner that very same day.🙄
nytimes.com/2018/04/28/wor…
📌Didn’t hear about the fire? Perhaps because all you heard about was provocative/coarse speaker’s antics at the Annual WH press diner that very same day.🙄
nytimes.com/2018/04/28/wor…
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