(10-13-2017 10:45 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-13-2017 10:25 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(10-13-2017 10:12 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  FTR, the person that Lad’s comments reminded me of was Soros, but Hillary is no a bad fit either.

Trump may be President, but Hillary is the long time politician. Both of them dealt with powerful and rich people, both het and overseas.

Hard to see how a guy who gets audited annually commits financial crimes that don’t get him in tax trouble too. I think there is more hope than analysis there.

Back to the genesis of this portion of the discussion, I would guess that the only person who can persuade him no to run if he wants to is Melania, not some nebulous accusation by Mueller that will be litigated for years. JMHO. Time will tell.

Money laundering is usually done through businesses with lots of cash transactions.

And real estate often has very large cash transactions.

In fact, as one article o linked to, a Russian oligarch bought a Trump property for many, many millions over its worth...

And I wouldn’t really use the fact that trump pays his taxes as evidence he hasn’t been involved with financial crimes. Maddoff paid his taxes too...

I have deal with a lot of real estate purchases and sales over the last 50 years, ranging from 4figures to 7 figuresand have yet to do one in cash.

Likewise the income to his properties is primarily credit card or check.

Of course, I don’t know all of Trump’s businesses. Maybe the golf clubs take in a lot of cash.

Truthfully, I think money laundering would be peanuts to Trump.

But, who knows. Maybe he runs prostitution rings, and a tape showing that will mysteriously show up at the NYT.

My prediction from way early in this thread holds. There will be nothing on Trump. There will likely be some minor indictments of minor people (Flynn). No collusion by anybody.

Read this, one of the articles I posted earlier. Talks about shell companies and how they use cash to purchase real estate to launder money, and how that happened at Trump SoHo with a Kazakh who was helped by Felix Sater, a Trump associate: https://qz.com/1023003/the-kazakh-corrup...-industry/

Or, for more evidence of how cash transactions in real estate are things (especially when shell companies are involved), here is an article about how Manafort did that for three homes in New York: http://www.wnyc.org/story/paul-manaforts...purchases/

Not sure why you think these cash purchases don’t occur just because you haven’t witnessed one. Just read about shell companies and cash real estate purchases.