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THREAD: 21% of Trump’s condo sales in the US (totaling $1.5 billion) match US Treasury’s characteristics of #MoneyLaundering👉🏼all-cash purchases of real estate by shell companies (such as LLCs)‼️ 1/

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In Aug’17, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) warned the real-estate industry that all-cash real-estate purchases by shell companies are “an attractive avenue for criminals to launder illegal proceeds while masking their identities.”🤨 2/
Trump condo sales in the US shows SURGED in the late 2000s / early 2010s👉🏼Trump businesses were in financial trouble.🤨

Don Jr admitted *publicly* that the Trump Organization seeing “a lot of money pouring in from #Russia🇷🇺.” 3/
At #TrumpSoHo in Manhattan, *77% of sales* were to shell companies that paid cash👉🏼STRONGLY suspicious for #MoneyLaundering‼️

One of the Trump SoHo’s #Russia🇷🇺born developers — FELIX SATER — was convicted of money laundering in the 1990s‼️😎 4/
More than $205 million in sales were to shell companies based in foreign regions known for keeping corporate records / banking information secret👉🏼most were in the British Virgin Islands & Panama, places that US Treasury has linked to #MoneyLaundering‼️🙄 5/
🔥BUSTED🔥

83% of Trump’s shady real estate sales were in markets that *FinCEN is investigating* for #MoneyLaundering 👉🏼Manhattan, South Florida & Honolulu – FinCEN is examining *EVERY* luxury-home sale to a shell company that paid cash‼️

BAD NEWS for Trump & his spawn🤣 6/
Multiple shell companies resold their Trump properties within 6 months of their cash purchases👉🏼STRONG indicator of #MoneyLaundering, “especially if the resale price is significantly higher or lower than the original purchase price.”🤔 7/
Shell company paid $2.26 million for a condo at Trump Int’l Hotel & Tower & sold it *just 8 weeks later* to another shell co for $3 million👉🏼33% gain.

Shell co paid $956,768 for a South FL Trump condo👉🏼sold to another shell company for $525,000 *that same day*‼️🙄 8/
Here’s a snapshot of SUSPICIOUS real estate deals at Trump properties in NYC.🧐

Note how #TrumpSoHo, partnered with FELIX SATER, stand out, with 77% of sales showing classic signs of #MoneyLaundering‼️ 9/
Here’s a snapshot of SUSPICIOUS real estate deals at Trump properties in South FL.🧐

43% of sales at Trump Hollywood exhibited classic signs of #MoneyLaundering.😎 10/
Shady Trump condo sales SURGED initially in 1997-8 when most banks stopped lending to Trump after 2 of his casinos went bankrupt.🤨

Shell co’s bought 29% of units in a NYC building👉🏼more than Trump had received in shady sales from his 3 other buildings *combined*‼️ 11/
In 2008, Trump couldn’t make a payment on a DEUTSCHE BANK loan he had guaranteed personally for $40 million. Trump Taj Mahal casino faced a $53-million bond payment. Trump delayed the loan payment by suing Deutsche Bank. His casino filed for bankruptcy in 2009.🤔 12/
At the *same time*, Trump became financially entwined w/#Russia🇷🇺

👉🏼Mar’08,🇷🇺oligarch Ryboblev paid $95 million for Trump’s FL mansion (paid $41m 4 yrs before).
👉🏼Jun’08, Jr told Russians that Trump planned to build condos/hotels in Russia.🤔

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Also *at the same time* in Sept’08, brainchild” Don Jr bragged PUBLICLY, “We see a lot of money pouring in from #Russia🇷🇺.” 14/

#TrumpRussia

🔥SOHO🔥

In Sept’08, Trump & his spawn were heavily promoting #TrumpSoHo, Don Jr said: “#Russians🇷🇺make up a *pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets*; say in Dubai & certainly w/our project in SoHo & anywhere in New York.”‼️🤨 15/
Mueller is probing #TrumpSoho, where today’s NEW analysis shows that 77% of its sales show classic signs of #MoneyLaundering (all cash, shell co)‼️

👇🏼HERE👇🏼are more details on the shady SoHo project.🧐 16/

One real estate lawyer, Martin Jajan, handled more than half of #TrumpSoHo’s secretive sales.🤨

🔥On 4 of the deeds, the LLC *listed Moscow🇷🇺addresses* which were crossed out with a pen. The address of Jajan’s Manhattan law office was written in their places.🔥

#Busted

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Another 3 #TrumpSoHo units were bought by Viktor Khrapunov (Kazakh oligarch) w/money allegedly stolen from Kazakhstan. A lawsuit says that Khrapunov stole hundreds of millions of dollars, fled to Switzerland in 2007 and began buying property in NYC & CA to launder the money.🤔18/
Mar’16, FinCEN began investigating all-cash/shell-co purchases in NYC & South FL👉🏼2 areas where Trump most active.🤔

Jul’16, FinCEN’s startling finding: >25% of those who controlled the shell co’s in NYC & South FL had at one time engaged in “possible criminal activity.”🙄 19/
Trump’s shady condo sales are under scrutiny by Mueller👉🏼team includes DOJ prosecutor Kyle Freeny, a #MoneyLaundering expert‼️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 20/

.@RepAdamSchiff says Trump’s SHADY deals, “concern me a great deal.” House Intel should investigate whether “financial entanglement was one of the active measures the #Russians🇷🇺used in the United States. It was one of the measures they’ve used in other countries.”🤨 21/
Trump partner / convicted felon FELIX SATER, who pleaded guilty to racketeering in a #MoneyLaundering case in 1998, testified recently before House Intel, but details of his testimony are unknown.🤨 22/
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