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1. "The Curious World of Donald Trump's Private Russian Connections" by James S Henry (@submergingmkt)

2. "It's ridiculous that I wouldn't be investing in Russia," Trump said in that deposition. "Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment."

2.1. list of US sanctioned Russians and companies

2.2. graphic of those charged in the Russia probe thus far Analysis | Who has been charged in Russia probe and why

2.3. graphic of trump administrations ties to russia Trump campaign’s Russia ties: Who’s involved

2.4. King of Debt pays cash

3. Trump Taj Mahal FinCEN Fines Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort $10 Million for Significant and Long Standing Anti-Money Laundering Violations | FinCEN.gov

4. Trump International Hotel and Tower Baku https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

4.1. Ziya Mammaolov

4.1.1. Iran's Revolutionary Guard

4.2. never opened, in undesirable location

4.3. managed by Ivanka

5. Trump Ocean Club in Panama

5.1. Lawmakers question Trump ties to Panama project linked to...

6. Bill Moyers essential timeline and directory

7. massive Russian investments in Trumps Florida properties

7.1. Miami

7.2. Sunny Isles

7.3. Putin's biker

8. Trump World Tower

8.1. Qatar

8.1.1. Rosneft deal VISUAL GRAPHIC OF CONNECTIONS (click arrow)

9. Trump's Russian Laundromat

10. Trump Tower

10.1. 66-68 Trump

10.2. 64/65 Johnny Carson, Bruce Willis, now construction company that defrauded customers

10.3. 63A: Vadim Trincher: Israeli-US citizen jailed in 2014 gambling who catered to Russian oligarchs, family still owns apartment (due for release July 2017)

10.3.1. FBI Investigation and indictments for money laundering, sports gambling and extortion

10.3.1.1. Russian mob boss: Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov "Little Taiwanese or Taiwanchik

10.3.1.1.1. on the run from interpol, attended 2013 Miss Universe

10.3.1.1.2. money laundering through Cyprus shell companies

10.3.1.1.3. "Indicted by Preet Bharara, the US attorney in Manhattan, which triggered the 2013 raid, identified Tokhtakhounov as a vory v zakone—or a vor—a Russian term for a select group of the highest-level Russian crime bosses."

10.3.1.1.4. Claims of casinos, pop star concerts and fashion shows

10.3.1.1.5. Charged with fixing 2002 Olympics Ice dancing and pairs competition

10.3.1.1.6. Russian tennis players

10.3.1.2. Anatoly Golubchik: Vadim's partner in ring

10.3.1.2.1. name found in Panama Papers

10.3.1.2.2. visual of connections

10.3.1.3. NYC Celebrities Gambling ring

10.3.1.3.1. Illya (son of Vadim)

10.3.1.3.2. Hillel Nahmad

10.3.1.3.3. Molly Bloom

10.3.1.3.4. Eugene (son of Vadim)

10.3.2. Wanted to hold campaign event for then Presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich

10.4. 62/63 Guido Lombardi: Italian "Count": member of Italian Anti-Immigration party

10.4.1. Members of Mar-a-Lago

10.4.1.1. Photo at Mar A Lago with Prime Minister of Japan re NKorea

10.4.1.1.1. Multiple photos

10.4.2. Far right European groups

10.4.2.1. Le Pen

10.4.2.1.1. Le Pen visits Trump Tower Jan 2017

10.4.2.2. "He envisions the Russian leader, Vladimir V. Putin, as the champion of the spiritual descendants of World War II resistance fighters. “Le Pen, Geert, Lega, Grillo, all the resistance is fighting the Nazi Islamists,”

10.4.2.3. Steve King, Iowa

10.4.2.3.1. Photo with Guido and Geert Wilders

10.4.2.3.2. Photo with Guido

10.4.2.4. “People Front for the Liberation of Europe" facebook group

10.4.2.5. Nigel Farage

10.4.2.5.1. Visits Trump Tower, Nov 13, 2016

10.4.2.6. Photo with Sessions

10.4.3. "Besides relaying messages from European well-wishers, Lombardi’s main role, he said, was to run an unofficial, guerilla-style social media operation that aimed to amplify the candidate’s message online."

10.4.3.1. creator of 500 Facebook groups

10.4.3.1.1. Bikers for Trump

10.4.3.1.2. Latinos for Trump

10.4.3.1.3. Veterans for Trump

10.4.3.1.4. Citizens for Trump

10.4.3.1.5. “In June of 2015, I told Donald, ‘I’d love to help,'” said Lombardi. “‘But I can’t work directly for the campaign because I have all kinds of rules and regulations. I will take care of unofficial media. I will take care of students. I will take care of bikers. I will take care of all the crazies … There is no official connection so [no] liability.’ He said, ‘Great.'”

10.4.3.1.6. Students for Trump

10.4.3.2. Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer for Facebook OR Chris Cox of the NRA

10.4.3.2.1. "Great team" photo with Chris Cox or the NRA or Chief Product Officer for Facebook (July 18, 2016)

10.4.3.2.2. "Great team work" photo with Chris Cox or the NRA or Chief Product Officer for Facebook (July 18, 2016)

10.4.3.2.3. Thank you tweet from Donald

10.4.4. photo with Flynn in Trump Tower Sept 29, 2016

10.4.5. photo with Bill O'Reilly

10.4.6. Twitter handles: @GeorgegLombardi, @guidoLombardiUS, @George_Lombardi

10.5. 59/60 Robert Hopkins: ordered murder gambling ring, charges dropped 1986 (by then US Attorney Rudy Guiliani)

10.5.1. "The Case of the Missing Case" Village Voice 1993 (no link- of course!)

10.5.1.1. Rudy Guiliani

10.6. 59/60 Khaled Juffali: wealthy Saudi family, oil and healthcare holdings

10.7. 58: Tamir Sapir (the "Billionaire Cabbie") , died 2014, family still owns apartment

10.7.1. sold electronics to KGB agents in NYC

10.7.2. Illegal wildlife body parts trade

10.7.3. Introduced Trump to Arif

10.7.4. Chabad House in Port Washington named Sater 2014 "Man of the Year" youtube video

10.7.4.1. "Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia"

10.7.4.1.1. "In 1999, soon after he became prime minister, Putin enlisted Abramovich and Leviev to create the Federation of Russian Jewish Communities. Its purpose was to undermine the existing umbrella for Russia’s Jewish civil society, the Russian Jewish Congress, led by oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky, a potential threat to Putin and President Boris Yeltsin. A year later, Gusinsky was arrested by Putin’s government and forced into exile."

10.7.5. Trump Soho

10.7.5.1. Sapir Organization

10.7.5.1.1. Rotem Rosen, CEO Sapir Org

10.7.5.1.2. Alex Sapir, son of Tamir

10.7.5.2. Tevfik Arif (Arifov)

10.7.5.2.1. founded Bayrock

10.7.5.2.2. born in Kazakhstan

10.7.5.3. Felix Sater (now Satter)

10.7.5.3.1. 40 Wall Street

10.7.5.3.2. US and Russian organized crime

10.7.5.3.3. Took Donald Jr, Ivanka on introductory trip through Moscow

10.7.5.3.4. stabbed man in bar, severing nerves in face, jailed, pump and dump schemes

10.7.5.3.5. Salvatore Lauria: FBI informant

10.7.5.3.6. pitched plan w Michael Cohen for Ukraine to remove US sanctions

10.8. 55 Thomas Makkos

10.9. 53 David Bogatin: tax evasion, Russian mobster, vacated

10.10. 51 Helly Nahmed: jailed 2014 gambling network

10.10.1. Leonardo Di Caprio

10.11. 50C Todd Brassner

10.11.1. dies in fire on 50th floor

10.11.2. declared bankruptcy; held Andy Warhol paintings, guitars and ukuleles

10.11.3. brother has art gallery in Florida, Jules Brassner, father, bought him the apartment and frequented Mar-a-lago, cited DTrump a "hero"

10.12. 49 Chuck Blazer

10.12.1. FIFA corruption scandal

10.12.1.1. turned informant

10.13. 48/49: Ernie Garcia

10.13.1. fraud charges 1990

10.14. 43 Paul Manafort

10.14.1. Rick Gates

10.14.2. Indicted for laundering Ukrainian money through Delaware LLCs. Click arrow for full list

10.14.2.1. Bade LLC $70,000 in 3 payments by the RNC

10.14.2.1.1. Sept 2016

10.14.2.1.2. Oct 2016

10.14.2.1.3. Jan 2017

10.15. 42 Cohen

10.15.1. "Uncle Morty" his uncle, Dr Levine served as dr to many in the Lucchese crime family

10.15.1.1. owned El Caribe, site of mob weddings adn Russian mob offices (Cohen also had a small stake, sold after 2016 election

10.15.1.1.1. Don of the Russian mob, Marat Balagula, maintained offices in El Caribe

10.15.2. apartment co-owned with wife Laura and her parents ACRIS Detailed Document Information

10.15.2.1. wife's father Ukrainian Fima Shusterman guilty of "evading federal reporting requirements for large cash transactions, admitting that he had cashed $5.5 million worth of checks to evade disclosure laws. Mr. Shusterman cooperated with prosecutors in a related case and was sentenced to probation" -NYTimes

10.15.2.2. loaned money to Semyon and Yasya Shatayner, Ukrainian immigrants who own a large taxi operation in Chicago,

10.15.2.2.1. Secretary of Chicago Medallion Management Corp (metal licensing that allows cabs to operate)

10.15.3. made money from NYC taxi medallions

10.15.3.1. Garber

10.15.3.2. Evgeny Naumovich Freidman (Russian: Евгений Наумович Фридман;[ operated Cohen's taxi business

10.15.3.2.1. "Taxi King" arrested for tax fraud and grand larceny in NY

10.15.3.3. Owes more than $375,000 debt for back taxes on taxi business in Chicago and New York (NYTimes article cited in original thread)

10.15.3.4. used medallions to borrow money from Sterling National Bank and Melrose Credit Union (NYTimes article cited in original thread)

10.15.3.4.1. April 24th 2018 (after the federal warrants) Cohen refinanced loans. Puts up money owed to him by Freidman as collateral

10.15.4. shady personal injury cases

10.15.4.1. worked for personal injury lawyer Estrin, who was convicted of bribing insurance adjusters to inflate damage estimates and expedite claims

10.15.5. set up businesses for doctors indicted for insurance scams

10.15.5.1. "Cohen registered in 2002, Avex Medical Care PRC, sued insurance companies nearly 300 times. The plaintiffs lawyer in almost all of these cases was David Katz, who was disbarred later for professional misconduct"

10.15.5.2. "Dr. Zhanna Kanevsky, the principal of Life Quality Medical, a clinic business that Cohen incorporated in 2002, surrendered her medical license after pleading guilty to writing phony prescriptions for 100,000 oxycodone and other pills." -ProPublica

10.15.6. "in 2000, Cohen was involved in scores of car insurance lawsuits, often on behalf of plaintiffs who claimed to have been injured in auto collisions"

10.15.6.1. Operation BORIS

10.15.6.1.1. "A 2012 investigation by the FBI found a Russian organized crime ring (which involved three attorneys) was behind a $275 million auto insurance fraud ring, the largest in history". -Rolling Stone

10.15.7. shouldtrumprun website: possible campaign vilation

10.16. 41 Jose Marin: Brazilian soccer official under house arrest for racketeering

10.16.1. former president of Brazilian soccer’s national governing body (CBF)

10.16.2. FIFA Scandal 2014 World Cup

10.17. 33 Melania Trump

10.18. 26: Trump Office/Cohen

10.18.1. Tower Meeting: June 9, 2016 Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign

10.18.1.1. Manafort

10.18.1.2. Kushner

10.18.1.3. Don Jr

10.18.1.4. Ron Goldstone

10.18.1.4.1. arranged the meeting per request of Emin Agalrov (managed his International music)

10.18.1.4.2. co-owner of Oui 2 public relations

10.18.1.5. Natalia Veselnitskaya

10.18.1.5.1. represents Prevezon owner Denis Katsyv,

10.18.1.5.2. Russian Government lawyer

10.18.1.5.3. lawyer for the FSB

10.18.1.6. The "Translator" Samochernar

10.18.1.7. Ike Kaveladze

10.18.1.8. Rinat Akhmetshin

10.18.1.8.1. HRAGI

10.18.1.9. may or may not be "one more person" several testify they "can't remember" per Senate hearing testimony

10.18.2. Cohen

10.18.2.1. Essential Consultants LLC

10.18.2.1.1. made $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels through

10.18.2.1.2. made $250,000 payments to Playboy model (on behalf of) Elliott Broidy (former deputy of RNC)

10.18.2.1.3. Columbus Nova

10.18.2.1.4. AT&T

10.18.2.1.5. Novartis (Pharmaceuticals)

10.18.2.2. Clients

10.18.2.2.1. Client 1: Donald J Trump

10.18.2.2.2. Client 2: Elliot Broidy

10.18.2.2.3. Client 3: Sean Hannity

10.18.2.3. RNC

10.18.2.3.1. Ronna McDaniel: Chair of RNC

10.19. 24 Rahr Pharma-billionaire who started campaign w Cohen (Sater 2008)

10.19.1. ShouldTrumpRun.com

10.19.2. Bayrock Offices (2008)

10.19.3. Sold Kinray to Cardinal Health 2010, remained "consultant"

10.19.3.1. Kinray Pharmaceuticals (for violations 2011-2012 "controlled substances" lawsuit settlement $10 million: Preet Bharara Dec 2016)

10.19.4. Charities

10.19.4.1. Make A Wish

10.19.5. Made and distributed sex tape to celebrate divorce

10.19.6. Stewie Rah Rah, The #1 King of Fun

10.20. 19 The School for Gods; Legacy Business School

10.21. 17 Chuck Blazer: Brazilian futbol racketeering (had a floor for his cats)

10.21.1. 17: CONCACAF (soccer Carribbean)

10.22. 15 Hoffenberg: Ponzi scheme, jailed 18 years until 2013: Born again Christian Trump PAC

10.22.1. "Men Against Prostitution and Trafficking" 2011-2016 lots of missed filing dates

10.22.1.1. Super PAC donated $50 million to Trump campaign through Statware in CT

10.23. 6-13 floors are missing to make the building seem taller than it is

10.24. Gucci