⚡ For #Debates2020 and GOP #HunterBiden allegations: Trump sought deals with corrupt Moscow Mayor with ties to mafia. Detailed thread with links below. 👇politico.com/news/2020/09/2… #DebateTuesday #debate
In 1995, Trump lost $916 million according to his 1995 income tax returns. In the early 1990s, he sustained loss due to failed projects like his three Atlantic City casinos, airline business and purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/…
In November 1996, Howard Lorber and Ben LeBow brought Trump to Moscow and arranged discussions about a joint venture between their Liggett-Ducat tobacco factory, Trump Organization and the city of Moscow with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov known for his corrupt practices.
Luzhkov had total and exclusive control over the privatization of city property and businesses. Goskomintourist, a state agency that invited Trump in 1987, was controlled by Luzhkov in the 90s. ia802707.us.archive.org/34/items/threa… ImageImage
The week of November 6, 1996, Trump negotiated $300 mn investments in Moscow. Introduced by Lerber and LeBow, he met with two of Moscow’s vice mayors, including Vladimir Resin, the vice mayor in charge of construction. The city was “very receptive” to Trump’s projects in Moscow. Image
In December 1996, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Moscow Vladimir Resin told reporters that Yuri Luzhkov’s office is in talks with Trump about the reconstruction of the Rossiya and Moscow hotels. The cost of projects was estimated at $300 million.
In January 1997, Resin told Interfax that an agreement with Trump’s representatives was “practically reached” and said that Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is studying a Trump proposal to rebuild the Moskva hotel within 18 months. upi.com/Archives/1997/…
Luzhkov confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump did have meetings with Moscow’s city hall.
He also said in an interview with NYT that he had met with Trump and showed him plans for a massive underground shopping mall just outside the Kremlin gates. nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/…
Negotiations between Trump and Moscow authorities stopped and then, reportedly, resumed in 2004 when Resin flew to New York to discuss a new $5 billion development project with Trump’s representatives, but never led to any results.
Luzhkov was known for his corrupt practices and his association with organized crime. His wife, Yelena Baturina, definitely has links to the criminal world, and particularly to the Solntsevo criminal group (one of the most powerful OC groups)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Ba…
Baturina’s sister is married to Vladimir Yevtushenko, the head of the company Sistema, the largest shareholder in Intourist, the company that inherited most of the property of Goskomintourist, Trump’s host in 1987.
Victor Baturin, a brother of Yelena Baturina and Luzhkov’s brother-in-law, owned a company named TRUMP-SERVICE from 1996–2009. No further information is available about this company but the name and the years of existence are worth noting. sbis.ru/contragents/77… Image
Luzhkov, as well as many mayors and governors, paid off key insiders in the Kremlin (see link below) and was friends with Vyacheslav Ivankov, one of the most powerful Russian mafia bosses in America considered a major threat to the US safety by FBI. Image
Ivankov had ties to Trump Organization. In 1995, FBI found Ivankov in Trump Tower, and later the Taj Mahal casino. HIS phone book contained a working number for the Trump Organization’s Trump Tower residence and a Trump Organization fax machine. medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…
Trump's partner Benett LeBow, was also a friend and partner of Yuri Luzhkov. On January 28, 1992, Luzhkov signed a Decree of the Government of Moscow “On the lease of land,” leasing a large site in downtown Moscow to LeBow’s Liggett Ducat and Brooke Mill Ltd.
Over the next two years, Moscow was shaken by a big scandal and a lawsuit as this lease agreement was signed against the requirements of having an obligatory auction. Despite the fact that the lawsuit revealed Liggett Ducat and Brooks Group machinations with multiple affiliates..
...and the illegal actions of Luzhkov’s administration, by 1993 the case was closed and the Prosecutor’s office withdrew the accusation.

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