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The first daughters longtime friend and associate is falling afoul of his creditorsand the courts.
By BEN SCHRECKINGER August 27, 2017
His vendors call him a career grifter. His fathers creditors claim hes a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges. With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgmentsagainst him, his wife and his businessesfor millions of dollars, his lawyers are abandoning him, saying hes a deadbeat. All the while, hes been living in one of the most luxurious mansions in the Bronx.
Meet Ivanka Trumps longtime friend, matchmaker and business partner, Moshe Lax.
For the past decade, Lax, a 43-year-old New York diamond heir and entrepreneur, has been Trumps partner in Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, the first major venture of her business career.
Trump and her family have continued to associate with Lax even as his legal problems have mounted and Trump has been dragged into Laxs business disputes. On election night, Lax and his wife stood at the front of the ballroom at the Trump campaigns victory party in New York, and Lax went on to visit Trump Tower during the transition, while Tiffany Trump attended the launch party for a new Lax venture in February. Ivanka Trump has even continued to rely on Laxs advice in recent years: In depositions they gave for an unrelated case last summer, both Trump and her brother, Don Jr., cited advice they received from Lax in assessing another business partner.
And according to court records, Trump renewed her licensing agreement with Lax in 2011, allowing him to continue using her name even after his company defaulted on payments and he violated numerous terms of their agreement.
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Cirque du So-What
(26,027 posts)Ivanka: 'you remind me so much of someone I know...can't quite put my finger on it...'
malaise
(269,282 posts)dad and hubby?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republicans have turned their backs on American values and ethics, such as honesty, integrity, fairness in business and loyalty to the USA, rather than the money-mobsters of russia.
No wonder HONORABLE Americans regard republicans as DEPLORABLE liars, thieves and traitors. That's just the fact of the matter.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)2000 election drew national attention to the corruption in our voting system and opened the eyes of many.
Now the national publicity given to corrupt American business practices, especially in the murky world of NY real restate and property development, in the aftermate of T's election is revealing to us all the extent and depth of corruption in American business.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Who is currently stealing Americans' tax dollars and putting them in her family's pockets.
And she's associating with other grifters. Greed walks together.
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)It's what they do. Perhaps they overlook the (R) in grift and only see Gifts. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Everybody's gifting us. We are THAT special!!!