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ICYMI. Awesome local journalism from May 2019: Leslie Greyling, now age 67, had been pursuing dodgy business ventures in the United States for almost a decade when he crossed paths with Donald Trump.

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"Indeed, when the town council resisted Trump's rezoning plan, he threatened to sell Mar-a-Lago to Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon."

Uh huh. Trump and the Moonies. Of course.

Greyling would eventually be expelled from the country & indicted twice for stock fraud. His disgraced underling would die in a Mexico City bathtub. Trump's broker on the Woodbridge deal would shoot himself in a rented Cadillac in a downtown West Palm Beach parking garage in '12.

Greyling arrived in 1985 & soon incorporated some 40 companies in S Florida — one of them with partner Herman J. Schannault, whom the Miami Herald called a prostitution kingpin & whom the Detroit Free Pressonce termed the "king of Detroit massage parlors."

Those damn massages.

On February 3, 1994, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Trump had paid the firm $320,000 for an option to buy 32 acres of waterfront land in Missouri, where Trump was thinking of putting a "riverboat casino complex."

Though there would eventually be no riverboat casino complex, Trump successfully generated positive publicity for Members Service Corporation. It had become widely known the company was working with America's most famous billionaire. How could it not be legit?

A new Members Service plan emerged in early '94, when the firm found another valuable partner: Adnan Khashoggi.

He was brought on to help develop an Orlando theme park called Sportsworld 2000 that would be "bigger than Disney" & promote MIDDLE EAST RECONCILIATION through SOCCER.

Members Service was delisted from the NASDAQ in 1994 & collapsed. Investors lost at least $2 million. In Oct '95, Greyling was sentenced to 6 months in prison for immigration violations. In Mar '96 he was indicted on charges of money laundering & stock fraud.

Before Greyling was indicted, but as questions emerged in the local press about his background and finances, Trump distanced himself.

"I really don't know him very well," Trump told the Palm Beach Daily News in June 1994.

Did Trump know the Missouri casino complex would never be built? Did he receive a discount on 1094 South Ocean in exchange for lending his name to Members Service ventures he knew would never bear fruit?

If Trump knew the complex wouldn't succeed, he participated in a scheme that at least bears some resemblance to traditional penny-stock fraud. If he didn't know, he was duped.

In 2018, Trump International Realty was offering 1094 South Ocean — which is now owned by Eric Trump — for $86,000 per month.

Greyling settled in Britain. He nearly returned to the States in 2000, when Mary Jo White, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, tried to extradite him on a new charge of stock fraud, unrelated to Members Service. Britain rejected the extradition request.

In 1996, the former CEO of Members Services was convicted on 27 counts of fraud, money laundering & obstruction of justice relating to his stewardship of the company.

He fled to Mexico and DIED of a HEART ATTACK in a Mexico City BATHTUB on Nov 26, 1996.

Robert Wyner, Trump's broker on 1094 South Ocean, was a member of Mar-a-Lago & attended Trump's weddings to Marla Maples & Melania. His company, Barclay's International Realty (no relation to the bank) handled the renting of 1094 on Trump's behalf during the 1990s & 2000s.

Trump's broker, Wyner, sold 2 other properties to Trump, others to his sisters Elizabeth Trump Grau & Maryanne Trump Barry & another to ex-wife Ivana.

Wyner's firm was dissolved shortly after he SHOT HIMSELF in a Cadillac in a downtown West Palm Beach parking garage in 2012.

After Wyner was reported missing & before HIS BODY WAS FOUND IN A CADILLAC, assistants for Trump told the Palm Beach Daily News that "he did not know Wyner well."

Yep. Trump seems to never know someone well - if they happened to have just died or gotten indicted.

Right, Jeff?