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It sure looks to me like "l'affaire Franken" was timed to distract from the Trump Ocean Club story. (Original Post) The_jackalope Nov 2017 OP
good point. MFM008 Nov 2017 #1
They missed. C_U_L8R Nov 2017 #2
It was the only shot they had. The_jackalope Nov 2017 #4
Yes they do have the nuclear gambit C_U_L8R Nov 2017 #5
There is a longer, more detailed story here: The_jackalope Nov 2017 #3
Trump crime family with his tax returns locked up by the IRS, past time to take a peek. FreeStateDemocrat Nov 2017 #6
they've got a great line of defense against this: they *always* have a need for a distraction.... unblock Nov 2017 #7

The_jackalope

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3. There is a longer, more detailed story here:
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 05:23 PM
Nov 2017
NARCO-A-LAGO: MONEY LAUNDERING AT THE TRUMP OCEAN CLUB PANAMA

In the early 2000s, a series of bankruptcies meant Donald J. Trump was shunned by most lenders. Struggling for credit, he started selling his name to high-end real estate projects. This report examines in detail the criminal connections that propelled one such project – the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama – and how this case bears some of the same disturbing hallmarks as other Trump developments.

Since he became President of the United States, numerous investigations and articles have probed Trump’s business dealings and his alleged links to criminals and other shadowy characters. It is understood that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation under the Department of Justice will also examine his real estate business. This is important because it seems likely that, following his various bankruptcies, at least a part of Trump’s business empire has been built on untraceable funds, some apparently linked to Russian criminal networks.

Trump may not have deliberately set out to facilitate criminal activity in his business dealings. But, as this Global Witness investigation shows, licensing his brand to the luxurious Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama aligned Trump’s financial interests with those of crooks looking to launder ill-gotten gains. Trump seems to have done little to nothing to prevent this. What is clear is that proceeds from Colombian cartels’ narcotics trafficking were laundered through the Trump Ocean Club and that Donald Trump was one of the beneficiaries.

One key player in the laundering of drug money at the Trump Ocean Club was notorious fraudster David Eduardo Helmut Murcia Guzmán, whom a U.S. court subsequently sentenced to nine years for laundering millions of dollars' worth of illicit funds, including narcotics proceeds, through companies and real estate.
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