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When Trump Tried to Make the Plaza Great Again and Didn’t - America’s most famous hotel was once a cultural landmark. Now it’s a warren of mostly vacant condos owned by absentee billionaires. Its decline began the day Trump bought it. by @JulieSatow
thedailybeast.com/when-trump-tri…
"As owner, Trump quickly began attempting to “make the Plaza great again,” which meant painting gold leaf on every column...

...Just three years after buying the property, Trump became the only owner in its long history to bankrupt the Plaza."

thedailybeast.com/when-trump-tri…
Story by @JulieSatow is a great example of opaque, often foreign (& some corrupt) real estate deals & how Trump was at the forefront decades

"Trump did more to usher in the popularity of foreign ownership of real estate than merely failing at the Plaza"

thedailybeast.com/when-trump-tri…
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Stephen Schwarzman, chmn, CEO & co-founder of Blackstone & Trump confidant - gave Oxford University £150 mil ($188mil USD), its largest donation in modern times (2nd largest was from Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik). $ will go to humanities, ethics & AI
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UK’s Serious Fraud Office(SFO) charged Anna Machkevitch, daughter of Alex Machkevitch, former director of Kazakhstan company Eurasian Natural Resources Corp/ENRC for failing to comply with a corruption probe which began in 2013, by @dgtokar HT @willjordan
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