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Mar 9 7 tweets 5 min read
New: Trump refinances $100 million mortgage on Trump Tower—with a bank headed by a political supporter

for @Forbes

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@Forbes The financing for the new $100 million mortgage on Trump Tower came from Axos Bank.

@AxosBank CEO Gregory Garrabrants has contributed $50,000 to Republican campaigns, including $9,600 in support of Trump.

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@Forbes @AxosBank The Trump Org refinanced Trump Tower's $100 million mortgage in February.

Docs were recorded yesterday by New York City’s Department of Finance

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@Forbes In November 2021, @Forbes valued Trump Tower at $285 million.

by @DanAlexander21

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@Forbes @DanAlexander21 For more reporting on the money-and-politics beat—including, yes, the Trump Org.—subscribe to @Forbes's *free* Checks & Imbalances newsletter.

Thanks!

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@Forbes Just updated the article:

Axos Bank spox responded to an inquiry about its $100 million loan to Trump.

"No comment."

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Good catch Edward Snortin'!

Trump Tower Commercial was misspelled as the debtor (happened in other docs regarding the loan too).

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Mar 7
GOP Donor Seeking Bankruptcy Protection For His Home Walked Daughter Down The Aisle At Mar-a-Lago

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@Forbes Remember Richard Kofoed?

He's the serial entrepreneur who—

💰 filed for personal bankruptcy

💰 was accused of embezzling millions

💰 donated $800,000 to GOP

💰 moved next door to Mar-a-Lago

💰 filed for bankruptcy for LLC that owns his CA home

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@Forbes Less than 1 month after Richard Kofoed filed a petition to take the LLC that owns his home into bankruptcy, he walked his daughter down the aisle at Mar-a-Lago.

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Jan 12
Former Rep. John Ratcliffe’s campaign paid $11,000 to the firm that designed his new personal website.

The expenditure could violate @FEC rules.

Here's how @forbes was able to report the story—

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@FEC @Forbes In July 2021, a tipster pointed out that Trump's former DNI John Ratcliffe was paying his wife $3,000/month to manage the books of his old campaign.

FEC filings confirmed it, and we reported it.

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@FEC @Forbes I added Ratcliffe's to my running list of campaigns to check on the FEC deadlines.

And, sure enough, he kept paying his wife.

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Jan 11
Former Rep. John Ratcliffe’s campaign paid $11,000 to the firm that designed his new personal website.

@Forbes found no evidence that firm did any work on behalf of Ratcliffe’s old campaign.

The expenditure could violate @FEC rules.

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@Forbes @FEC John Ratcliffe's old campaign has paid his wife $30,000 to manage its books, as @Forbes reported last week.

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@Forbes @FEC 12 days after John Ratcliffe left office as Trump’s director of national intelligence, someone registered a new website with the domain john-ratcliffe dot com.

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Dec 10, 2021
Yesterday @Forbes published one of the wildest stories I've ever worked on:

"Trump Donor Allegedly Used Embezzled Money To Support The Former President’s Campaign And Lead A Lavish Lifestyle"

Here's how it came about—

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@Forbes All of the facts and allegations in this article were available (that is, it was an open-source investigation). #osint

It was just a matter of finding them.

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@Forbes It started in late-summer 2020 with one of my regular looks at Instagram posts geo-tagged to the Trump Hotel DC to see who was paying the then-president.

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Oct 5, 2021
A Facebook whistleblower is about to testify before a Senate subcommittee on protecting kids online.

11 of the panel's 12 members have accepted political contributions from @Facebook.

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@Facebook Watch Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testify before the Senate subcommittee here:

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@Facebook Subcommittee chair @SenBlumenthal (D-Conn.) is giving his opening remarks at today's Facebook hearing.

Blumenthal has accepted $15,000 in political donations from Facebook.

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Oct 5, 2021
Political contributions From Facebook's top brass exceed $3.9 million

vi @forbes

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@Forbes .@Facebook lists 24 executives on its website.

21 of them have donated to US political campaigns.

The contributions total $3.9 million.

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@Forbes @Facebook All told, Facebook's senior leaders have handed out 1,700 contributions to political committees.

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