Consider...40 Wall Street. The website calls the skyscraper a “72-story landmarked address.” It’s actually a 63-story building, according to a document filed with the SEC. The site says it has 1.3 million square feet of office space. It really has 1.1 million."
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"At Trump's building in Las Vegas, it takes some strange math to get to 64 floors. Above the ground level, there's an office, five floors of parking, a pool, and then—suddenly—the 16th level, according to an architectural drawing."
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"Lots of buildings skip the 13th floor. But, as an SEC filing (below) shows, Trump Tower skips the sixth through 13th floors, jumping straight from the fifth level to the 14th."
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It goes beyond typical hyperbole, though. Trump World Tower, for instance, does not have 90 stories. Trump just decided to *call the 70th floor the 90th*, reasoning in a document filed with local officials that the ceilings were tall enough to justify his miscounting.
“People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.” - Trump in The Art of the Deal
He's always been obsessed with the size of his buildings...
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"The Zurich-based company's brokerage arm, Crypto Broker AG, won a securities house license from Swiss regulator Finma, it said in a statement on Monday."
"Zurich-based Crypto Finance Group can now offer its trading solutions to customers of private banks. A partnership with one of the major banking IT providers is the key to the new service."
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"...the troubled conglomerate disclosed that its creditors had applied for its bankruptcy and that nearly $10 billion had been embezzled by shareholders of its three units."
China's embattled HNA Group unit shares slump as creditors seek bankruptcy reut.rs/3oAPEpF
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"...went on a global shopping spree starting in 2014. Financed by state banks, bond sales & their own rising revenues, they bought hotels, insurance companies, sports teams & other assets."
"The company attracted attention in Washington in 2017 when it agreed to buy a hedge fund from Anthony Scaramucci, who was due to take a WH post as then-President Trump’s liaison to Wall Street."
Significant chance of TOC involvement relating to this "coup" situation IMO. Sam Gor syndicate reportedly has significant presence there.
Related story from last week:
Man accused of running one of the world's biggest drug cartels arrested in Amsterdam us.cnn.com/2021/01/23/asi…
"As well as pioneering industrial-scale meth production in super-labs in Myanmar, Tse’s syndicate built its customer base...by offering to replace any drugs that were seized by LE at no extra cost."
Explainer: The arrest of Asia's 'most-wanted' drug boss reut.rs/3qM78Rl
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"It comes after Russia's detained opposition figure Alexei Navalny called for action to be taken against Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov, who has ties with Everton."
"The Russian billionaire who is one of Facebook's biggest investors believes that the social networking company's potential is 'not fully understood' — even by the company itself."
Wait for Facebook Surge: Russia’s Richest Man fw.to/Y2f44sU
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"Russian oligarch Arkady Rotenberg says he is the owner of an opulent Black Sea mansion, not President Vladimir Putin, as the leaders' critics had alleged."