This article goes on and on. Russian ties to Trump and his businesses are entangled like two teenagers locked in a kiss with their braces hooked together.
http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/
Donald Trump’s Many, Many, Many, Many Ties to Russia
Russian intelligence agencies have allegedly recently digitally broken into four different American organizations that are affiliated either with Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party since late May. All of the hacks appear designed to benefit Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations in one fashion or another.
When asked about this, and his affection for Russian president Vladimir Putin, Trump said any inference that a connection exists between the two is absurd and the stuff of conspiracy. “I have ZERO investments in Russia,” he tweeted after the Democratic National Committee was apparently hacked by Russia and the emails released by Wiki Leaks on the eve of the DNC convention to nominate Clinton as its 2016 presidential candidate.
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“The Trump-Russia links beneath the surface are even more extensive,” Max Boot wrote in the Los Angeles Times. “Trump has sought and received funding from Russian investors for his business ventures, especially after most American banks stopped lending to him following his multiple bankruptcies.”
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The most obvious example is Trump Soho, a complicated web of financial intrigue that has played out in court. A lawsuit claimed that the business group, Bayrock, underpinning Trump Soho was supported by criminal Russian financial interests. While its initial claim absolved Trump of knowledge of those activities, Trump himself later took on the group’s principal partner as a senior advisor in the Trump organization.
“Tax evasion and money-laundering are the core of Bayrock’s business model,” the lawsuit said of the financiers behind Trump Soho. The financing came from Russian-affiliated business interests that engaged in criminal activities, it said.
The list of properties funded by money stolen from the people of Russia includes most of Trump's major projects. From Canada to Panama, to Florida, Trump is filthy with his ties to crooked Russian criminals. The article ends with this:
Walter A. Saurack of Satterlee Stephens LLP, Bayrock’s attorney, provided the following statement after publication:
The allegations made by Jody Kriss in the lawsuit are completely baseless and unsubstantiated. The allegations of tax fraud, as well as other allegations from his original complaint that are quoted in this article, were not included by Kriss when he filed a second amended complaint in the lawsuit.
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edit: what's so funny about this is that Satterlee Stephens LLP only denied allegations of a lawsuit, NOT anything about Trump's sordid financial ties with Russia's criminal leadership.