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Chinese firm invests $400 million in building owned by Jared Kushner's family
A deal with Chinese company Anbang Insurance Group has brought in $400 million dollars for the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The $4 billion deal for a New York City office building located at 666 Fifth Ave. includes the large cash payout to the Kushner's real estate company Kushner Companies.
Some real estate experts consider the terms of the deal's agreement unusually favorable for the Kushners, according to the Bloomberg report. The Manhattan tower has struggled financially and the family's company retains an equity stake in the partnership. A mortgage owed by the Kushners will also be reduced to a fifth of the current amount, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/13/chinese-firm-invests-400-million-in-building-owned-by-kushner-family.html
Why does Trump need an investigation into his charge that President Obama had Tapppppppppped .....
... his office? Sadly, Trump is President and he can just pick up the phone and ask somebody if
that happened and get an answer in at the most 1/2 of a day.
Why not an investigation into sasquatchs who ride jet skis on Lake Pend Orielle in Idaho?
Talking about pissing away money but a Congressional and DoJ investigation into nothing?
Find the bigfoot.
New Yorker: DONALD TRUMPS WORST DEAL aka Donny launderers money for Islamic Terrorists
Thought for the day; The President of the United States of America company has built a hotel
in Azerbaijan to launder money from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and corrupt oil oligarchs.
BTW the hotel never opened and it has no roads to it.
But damn it I want to know about HRC's email server.
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DONALD TRUMP’S WORST DEAL
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The building, a five-star hotel and residence called the Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku, has never opened, though from the road it looks ready to welcome the public. Reaching the property is surprisingly difficult; the tower stands amid a welter of on-ramps, off-ramps, and overpasses. During the nine days I was in town, I went to the site half a dozen times, and on each occasion I had a comical exchange with a taxi-driver who had no idea which combination of turns would lead to the building’s entrance.
The more time I spent in the neighborhood, the more I wondered how the hotel could have been imagined as a viable business. The development was conceived, in 2008, as a high-end apartment building. In 2012, after Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, signed multiple contracts with the Azerbaijani developers behind the project, plans were made to transform the tower into an “ultra-luxury property.” According to a Trump Organization press release, a hotel with “expansive guest rooms” would occupy the first thirteen floors; higher stories would feature residences with “spectacular views of the city and Caspian Sea.” For an expensive hotel, the Trump Tower Baku is in an oddly unglamorous location: the underdeveloped eastern end of downtown, which is dominated by train tracks and is miles from the main business district, on the west side of the city. Across the street from the hotel is a discount shopping center; the area is filled with narrow, dingy shops and hookah bars. Other hotels nearby are low-budget options: at the AYF Palace, most rooms are forty-two dollars a night. There are no upscale restaurants or shops. Any guests of the Trump Tower Baku would likely feel marooned.
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The Azerbaijanis behind the project were close relatives of Ziya Mammadov, the Transportation Minister and one of the country’s wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs. According to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, Azerbaijan is among the most corrupt nations in the world. Its President, Ilham Aliyev, the son of the former President Heydar Aliyev, recently appointed his wife to be Vice-President. Ziya Mammadov became the Transportation Minister in 2002, around the time that the regime began receiving enormous profits from government-owned oil reserves in the Caspian Sea. At the time of the hotel deal, Mammadov, a career government official, had a salary of about twelve thousand dollars, but he was a billionaire.
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But the Mammadov family, in addition to its reputation for corruption, has a troubling connection that any proper risk assessment should have unearthed: for years, it has been financially entangled with an Iranian family tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideologically driven military force. In 2008, the year that the tower was announced, Ziya Mammadov, in his role as Transportation Minister, awarded a series of multimillion-dollar contracts to Azarpassillo, an Iranian construction company. Keyumars Darvishi, its chairman, fought in the Iran-Iraq War. After the war, he became the head of Raman, an Iranian construction firm that is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard. The U.S. government has regularly accused the Guard of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, sponsoring terrorism abroad, and money laundering. Reuters recently reported that the Trump Administration was poised to officially condemn the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
Rachel Maddow goes there, collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign.
Lots to unpack and content heavy but holy shit.
I hope I can post a link to her 20+ minutes on this subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=5exiuko3-nQ
Trump Hotel in Baku tied to Iranian Terror Group and Azerbaijan oligarchs
The hotel has no roads leading to it and it seems to have been built to launder money for
Iranian terrorists and Azerbaijan crooks.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/6/1640766/-Trump-Hotel-in-Baku-tied-to-Iranian-Terror-Group-and-Azerbaijan-oligarchs
Newsweek‘s Kurt Eichenwald reported in September that Trump’s financial filings show he’s partners in the Baku deal with the son of Azerbaijan’s transportation minister.
U.S. officials believe that official, Ziya Mammadov, laundered money for the Iranian military, although no formal charges were brought against him or his son, Anar Mammadov — who is Trump’s partner in the Baku hotel venture.
The New Yorker examined Trump’s ties to Ziya Mammadov — one of the wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs in one of the world’s most corrupt nations — and his brother, Elton Mammadov, an influential member of the Azerbaijani parliament, who signed contracts for the project and founded Baku XXI Century, which owns the tower.
The Mammadov family, described by Foreign Policy magazine as “The Corleones of the Caspian,” has a reputation for using their government positions to enrich themselves and their partners — which includes construction firms tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Trump says that his administration is all fucked up in his latest tweet
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839116941956640768
6:00 AM 3/5/17 and Trump is tweeting
My guess is that he knows the shit is gonna hit the fan and is trying to change the subject.
Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h hours ago
Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, "Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?" @foxandfriends
Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h hours ago
Is it true the DNC would not allow the FBI access to check server or other equipment after learning it was hacked? Can that be possible?
Updated schedule: Trump will meet with Sessions, Kelly in Florida tonight
Source: Washington Eximiner
Updated schedule: Trump will meet with Sessions, Kelly in Florida tonight
By ANNA GIARITELLI (@ANNA_GIARITELLI) • 3/4/17 3:16 PM
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President Trump's weekend itinerary was updated on Saturday afternoon to include a meeting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Sec. John Kelly in Mar-a-Lago at 6:30 p.m. local time.
Trump's schedule had previously just noted a dinner on Saturday evening with Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross. However, Sessions and Kelly will also join the dinner, as well as top aides Stephen Miller, Don McGahn and Steve Bannon.
The meeting and dinner are both closed press.
Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/updated-schedule-trump-will-meet-with-sessions-kelly-in-florida-tonight/article/2616463
I think the Washington Eximiner is kind of right wing but the story is worth posting.
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