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"The first world leader to telephone Trump after his victory was Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former field marshal who orchestrated a military coup in 2013..."
"...prosecutors investigated whether money flowing through an Egyptian state-owned bank could have backed millions of dollars Trump donated to his own campaign..."
Exclusive: Feds chased suspected foreign link to Trump's 2016 campaign cash for 3 years cnn.com/2020/10/14/polβ¦
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'Conspiracyland': Episode 2
"The Arms Dealerβs Harem"
Arms, harems and a Trump-owned yacht: How the Khashoggi family helped mold the U.S.-Saudi relationship news.yahoo.com/arms-harems-anβ¦
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"...such positions were taken against the backdrop of business deals between him & various Saudi moguls that began with Adnan Khashoggi. In 1991, Trump β envious of the Saudi mogulβs lifestyle β arranged to buy his yacht, the Nabila, for $29 million."
"She partied it up on his legendary yacht, the Nabila, and flew around the world on his private jet, having sex, doing cocaine, sitting by his side at high-stakes gambling binges..."
"Three years later, when Trump was facing bankruptcy over his floundering Atlantic City casinos, he was bailed out by yet another Saudi mogul β Prince Alwaleed bin Talal β who bought the yacht from him for $20 million."
"Wealthy Saudis pumped millions into his company coffers, buying up apartments in Trump buildings, at least as much as, if not more than, Russian oligarchs did."
"In 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals, the Saudi government plunked down $4.5 million to purchase the entire 45th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan..."
"...Trump made placating the Saudis a centerpiece of his Middle East strategy β and ultimately persuaded him to impose no price on the countryβs leaders for the state-sponsored assassination of Adnan Khashoggiβs cousin Jamal."
"When you fully examine the foundation the Fertittas' business empire is built on, you have to wonder how it could ever be possible to completely shake the Mafia influence on the family and its business..."
"In the new federal civil lawsuit, 5 men claim former University of MN assistant men's hockey coach Thomas 'Chico' Adrahtas sexually abused them as teens."
"...prosecutors announced a newly unsealed indictment charging 5 people in a money-laundering conspiracy that allegedly began with the Twinsβ surrender in Dec. 2008."
"Kapitonov was part of the crowd known...as the 'Middle Eastern mafia,' a cabal of Arabist or Perisianist KGB officers who ended up in the late 1980s taking over the KGB..."
"On Sept. 16, 1981, the Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat announced the expulsion of the Soviet ambassador along with 6 members of his staff, and 2 Soviet journalists...believed that the Soviets were plotting against him by promoting a rift between Christians & Muslims in Egypt."
"...in 1977 Moscow Center directed the station in Cairo to start recruiting Soviet Arabists 'to collect political intelligence and conduct active measures'."
"Former CIA Director John Brennan suggested more exists on the 'financial front' than the public knows within the alleged ties between members of ex-President Trump's orbit & Russia."
"Weinzierl & Waldstein, both of Austria...served as board members of an Antiguan bank."
2 Bank Executives Charged for Conspiring to Launder Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Through U.S. Financial System in Connection with *Odebrecht* Bribery & Fraud Scheme justice.gov/opa/pr/two-banβ¦
"...between 2006 & 2016, Weinzierl & Waldstein conspired with Odebrecht & others to launder money in a scheme to defraud Brazilβs tax authority of more than $100 million in taxes to create off-books slush funds used to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes..."
"On Dec. 21, 2016, Odebrecht pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to...conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for its involvement in the bribery & money laundering scheme."