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The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have deep ties to Donald Trump is deeply disturbing. Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed.
According to an ex-KGB spy...Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years.
Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money.
In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob.
“During the ’80s and ’90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money,” says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration. “It didn’t matter that you paid too much, because the real estate values would rise, and it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money. It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.”
When Trump Tower was built, as David Cay Johnston reports in The Making of Donald Trump, it was only the second high-rise in New York that accepted anonymous buyers.
In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider business prospects.
A short while later he made his first call for the dismantling of the NATO alliance. Which would benefit Russia.
At the beginning of 1990 Donald Trump owed a combined $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with $800 million personally guaranteed by his own assets, according to Alan Pomerantz, a lawyer whose team led negotiations between Trump and 72 banks to restructure Trump’s loans. Pomerantz was hired by Citibank.
Interview with Pomerantz
Trump agreed to pay the bond lenders 14% interest, roughly 50% more than he had projected, to raise $675 million. It was the biggest gamble of his career. Trump could not keep pace with his debts. Six months later, the Taj defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin.
In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy.
So he bankrupted a casino? What about Ru...
The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.
The casino repeatedly failed to properly report gamblers who cashed out $10,000 or more in a single day, the government said."The violations date back to a time when the Taj Mahal was the preferred gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, according to federal investigators who tracked organized crime in New York City. They also occurred at a time when the Taj Mahal casino was short on cash and on the verge of bankruptcy."
....ssia
So by the mid 1990s Trump was then at a low point of his career. He defaulted on his debts to a number of large Wall Street banks and was overleveraged. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. Trump companies would ultimately declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy two more times.
Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Deutsche Bank.
The extremely controversial Deutsche Bank. The Nazi financing, Auschwitz building, law violating, customer misleading, international currency markets manipulating, interest rate rigging, Iran & others sanctions violating, Russian money laundering, salvation of Donald J. Trump.
The agreeing to a $7.2 billion settlement with with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities and causing the 2008 financial crisis bank.
The appears to have facilitated more than half of the $2 trillion of suspicious transactions that were flagged to the U.S. government over nearly two decades bank.
The embroiled in a $20b money-laundering operation, dubbed the Global Laundromat. The launders money for Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB bank.
That bank.
Three minute video detailing Trump's debts and relationship with Deutsche Bank
In 1998, Russia defaulted on $40 billion in debt, causing the ruble to plummet and Russian banks to close. The ensuing financial panic sent the country’s oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place to put their money. That October, just two months after the Russian economy went into a tailspin, Trump broke ground on his biggest project yet.
Directly across the street from the United Nations building.
Russian Linked-Deutsche Bank arranged to lend hundreds of millions of dollars to finance Trump’s construction of a skyscraper next to the United Nations.
Construction got underway in 1999.
Units on the tower’s priciest floors were quickly snatched up by individual buyers from the former Soviet Union, or by limited liability companies connected to Russia. “We had big buyers from Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan,” sales agent Debra Stotts told Bloomberg. After Trump World Tower opened, Sotheby’s International Realty teamed up with a Russian real estate company to make a big sales push for the property in Russia. The “tower full of oligarchs,” as Bloomberg called it, became a model for Trump’s projects going forward. All he needed to do, it seemed, was slap the Trump name on a big building, and high-dollar customers from Russia and the former Soviet republics were guaranteed to come rushing in.
New York City real estate broker Dolly Lenz told USA TODAY she sold about 65 condos in Trump World at 845 U.N. Plaza in Manhattan to Russian investors, many of whom sought personal meetings with Trump for his business expertise.
“I had contacts in Moscow looking to invest in the United States,” Lenz said. “They all wanted to meet Donald. They became very friendly.”Lots of Russian and Eastern European Friends. Investing lots of money. And not only in New York.
Miami is known as a hotspot of the ultra-wealthy looking to launder their money from overseas. Thousands of Russians have moved to Sunny Isles. Hundreds of ultra-wealthy former Soviet citizens bought Trump properties in South Florida. People with really disturbing histories investing millions and millions of dollars. Igor Zorin offers a story with all the weirdness modern Miami has to offer: Russian cash, a motorcycle club named after Russia’s powerful special forces and a condo tower branded by Donald Trump.
Thanks to its heavy Russian presence, Sunny Isles has acquired the nickname “Little Moscow.”
From an interview with a Miami based Siberian-born realtor... “Miami is a brand,” she told me as we sat on a sofa in the building’s huge foyer. “People from all over the world want property here.” Developers were only putting up luxury properties because they “know that the crisis has not affected people with money,”
Most of her clients are Russian—there are now three direct flights per week between Moscow and Miami—and increasing numbers are moving to Florida after spending a few years in London first. “It’s a money center, and it’s a lot easier to get your money there than directly to the US, because of laws and tax issues,” she said. “But after your money has been in London for a while, you can move it to other places more easily.”
In the 2000s, Trump turned to licensing deals and trademarks, collecting a fee from other companies using the Trump name. This has allowed Trump to distance himself from properties or projects that have failed or encountered legal trouble and provided a convenient workaround to help launch projects, especially in Russia and former Soviet states, which bear Trump’s name but otherwise little relation to his general business.
Enter Bayrock Group, a development company and key Trump real estate partner during the 2000s. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and invested an incredible amount of money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management. Bayrock was run by two investors:
Felix Sater, a Russian-born mobster who served a year in prison for stabbing a man in the face with a margarita glass during a bar fight, pleaded guilty to racketeering as part of a mafia-driven "pump-and-dump" stock fraud and then escaped jail time by becoming a highly valued government informant. He was an important figure at Bayrock, notably with the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium in New York City, and has said under oath that he represented Trump in Russia and subsequently billed himself as a senior Trump advisor, with an office in Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Micahel Cohen --Trump's disbarred former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob.
Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former "Soviet official" who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic. Arif graduated from the Moscow Institute of Trade and Economics and worked as a Soviet trade and commerce official for 17 years before moving to New York and founding Bayrock. In 2002, after meeting Trump, he moved Bayrock’s offices to Trump Tower, where he and his staff of Russian émigrés set up shop on the twenty-fourth floor.
Arif was offering him a 20 to 25 percent cut on his overseas projects, he said, not to mention management fees. Trump said in the deposition that Bayrock’s Tevfik Arif “brought the people up from Moscow to meet with me,”and that he was teaming with Bayrock on other planned ventures in Moscow. The only Russians who are likely have the resources and political connections to sponsor such ambitious international deals are the corrupt oligarchs.
In 2005, Trump told The Miami Herald “The name has brought a cachet to certain areas that wouldn’t have had it,” Dezer said Trump’s name put Sunny Isles Beach on the map as a classy destination — and the Trump-branded condo units sold “10 to 20 percent higher than any of our competitors, and at a faster pace.”“We didn’t have any foreclosures or anything, despite the crisis.”
In a 2007 deposition that was part of his unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against reporter Timothy O’Brien Trump testified "that Bayrock was working their international contacts to complete Trump/Bayrock deals in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. He testified that “Bayrock knew the investors” and that “this was going to be the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Moscow, Kiev, Istanbul, et cetera, and Warsaw, Poland.”
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. gave the following statement to the “Bridging U.S. and Emerging Markets Real Estate” conference in Manhattan: “[I]n terms of high-end product influx into the United States, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
In July 2008, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. This was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value. Must be nice to have so many Russian oligarchs interested in giving you money.
In 2013, Trump went to Russia for the Miss Universe pageant “financed in part by the development company of a Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov.… a Putin ally who is sometimes called the ‘Trump of Russia’ because of his tendency to put his own name on his buildings.” He met with many oligarchs. Timeline of events. Flight records show how long he was there.
Video interview in Moscow where Trump says "...China wanted it this year. And Russia wanted it very badly." I bet they did.
Also in 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. They operated card games, illegal gambling websites, and a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.
In 2014, Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia. I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programmes. We just go there all the time.’”
A 2015 racketeering case against Bayrock, Sater, and Arif, and others, alleged that: “for most of its existence it [Bayrock] was substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated,” engaging “in a pattern of continuous, related crimes, including mail, wire, and bank fraud; tax evasion; money laundering; conspiracy; bribery; extortion; and embezzlement.” Although the lawsuit does not allege complicity by Trump, it claims that Bayrock exploited its joint ventures with Trump as a conduit for laundering money and evading taxes. The lawsuit cites as a “Concrete example of their crime, Trump SoHo, [which] stands 454 feet tall at Spring and Varick, where it also stands monument to spectacularly corrupt money-laundering and tax evasion.”
In 2016, the Trump Presidential Campaign was helped by Russia.
(I don't have the presidential term sourced yet. I'll post an update when I do. I'm sure you probably remember most of them...sigh. TY to the main posters here. Obviously I'm standing on your shoulders having taken a lot of the information or articles from here).

ATM Belgium refers to EAs Star Wars Lootboxes when you cant know what you get for your real money, that this will be illegal in games for People under 18. (USA under 21)
Lootboxes are like gambling websites which should not appear in Games for children.
Games where you can see what you buy for your money as an extram are okay, but gambling isnt.
This also belongs to Overwatch.
Belgium moved that discusssion already to the EU gouvernment and in USA the Congress was pointing this out.
Just be careful Blizzard... Maybe its time for a change right now. Maybe doing it like Rocket League would be a minor but legal change?!
In Rocket League you win crates by playing and just pay for Keys to open the crates.

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All right, you guys. This is my next big play. Motherfuckin' ALPP.
Now, before you get all wet, remember: I'm a knuckle-dragging welder who swells whiskey and spews obscenities in my best of times, and if I could make good decisions with money? I wouldn't be here on reddit gambling my Christmas bonus away chasing the dragon of financial freedom. Yet, I've blindly stumbled into some good deals in the past, so on the recommendation of u/ibetternotsuck (and about a necks' worth of Crown Royal Rye), I've done some digging and came across some pretty promising shit here. Let's get to it.
Alpine 4 was started in 2014 by Jeff Hall and Kent Wilson. It’s a conglomerate organization that absorbs up and coming businesses that are on the cutting edge of budding industries. They’ve been on a helluva tear here lately, with the stock price surging from less than a dollar in November up to around $8 in February. Why, you ask? Because the companies they’ve bought have turned out some bad ass shit, and, Hall & Wilson have fortified their resources to include everything from automotive safety devices and control systems, to world class Drones and unmanned aIrcraft.
ALERT: HEAVY NERD READING AHEAD
Now you can go to the website linked above for all the holdings they have, but I’m most impressed with the drones, so let's talk a little about that. They scooped up two companies, and housed them under “A4 Aerospace”; Impossible Aero and Vayu. These two are setting the fuckin’ world on fire. Impossible is gaining fame from the US-1, a drone geared to 1st responders and military. It’s got a 70 min flight time, HD cameras with 30X zoom, thermo imaging, spotlight, etc. You know, all that high-speed, squared away fuckery that cops and soldiers need to have when they’re out doing the real world, tactical shit. It’s so awesome, that they just completed a $1,500,000 contract with the USAF, and I’m sure a few po po agencies are chomping at the bits for their chance to rut on it. Vayu is more on the humanitarian side with their X-5, which they are marketing as something to deliver supplies and resources to “distressed” areas and hard to reach places. Think Medical supplies to remote villages, tools to off-shore oil rigs, etc. It’s got vertical takeoff and landing, can carry 50 lbs @ 50 mph up to 30ish miles. (Are you with me, AMZN…? Hellooooo) If the X-5 doesn’t rustle your jimmies, try out their G1 and G2. These are the heavy hitters right here, son. The G1 is so fucking Boss that it’s about to set a New World Record for Distance, and by world record, I mean smash it harder than a virgin prom date by going 492 goddamn miles between two islands. Yeah. This bitch can carry up to 11lbs 497 miles @ 56 mph. Oh, that not good enough? Well, check out the G2. If the G1 is a boss, the G2 is a fucking Beast. 45lbs, 620mph, and at a speed of 110 mph. Ho. Lee. Sheeeeit.
Quite possibly the best part of this is that with the DJI blacklist, Alpine has a clear runway into the emerging markets, using in-house company QCI manufacturing the chips right here in the good ol’ USA? They are straight-up gonna stomp-ass on this set.
I could go on and on about the other holdings Alpine 4 has, like QCI (Quality Circuit Assembly), the sheetmetal companies Morris and Deluxe (who have been in the game for like 50 years or some shit), JTD Spiral, and Excel Fabrication, but I’m getting tired and sober, neither of which help my keyboard skills, so I’ll just tell you that they are spectacular companies that not only carry the weight in their own industries, but allow Alpine 4 to vertically integrate into any specific need that should arise.
The financials don’t seem too awful bad, either. The SEC filings do show some debt. Around $14M if I’m reading right, but they have strong revenue, promising growth, and the outlook from management’s most recent shareholder meeting give me warm fuzzies for the future.
Speaking of the future… Did I mention these guys are uplisting to NASDAQ in a week or two?! This is it, boys and girls. Get in where you fit in.
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Disclaimer: As I said in the beginning; I’m a glue sniffing stoned/drunk jerk-off that knows fuck all about investing. You Do You. I do like to read while I’m in a self-destructive spiral of chemical abuse, however, and I’m dipping my balls into this one pretty deep with my GME winnings. I would like to make this a gang-bang with other fellow retards who like to get down in the old ways of WSB, and you Old Guard fit the bill. So…
Let’s make some fucking money.

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howdy 'tardettes!
The Score Media and Gaming Incorporated
$SCR in Canada, $TSCRF in USA
So I have spent the last week looking for potential meme stocks as a personal project, trying specifically to avoid weedstocks or crypto. Again I am not a finance guy just like trying to guess the future and politics. AKA i am a retard. Anyways, as mentioned previously i want a meme stock in a popping/hot to talk about industry with about a year of 'fluff or good news' to prop up the stock price. Then i came across this post
https://old.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/ld8dsi/score_media_and_why_its_a_massive_candidate_for_a/
I am Canadian. I know Score Media and they were one of, if not the biggest sports tv channels before they sold that part of their business to Rogers a couple years ago (Rogers and Bell run our media in Canada) But they kept their website and phone application. Still the go to sports app for ppl in Canada and huge name recognition. I had no idea the gvmt was planning to vote to legalize single wagering sports betting. I know how big this market is as all my friends gamble on sports using bet365 which i think is based in the UK. This is the same gvmt who legalized weed federally and led that change in policy around the world. During Corona when deficits are high and the morale police in society are likely at all time low would Justin Trudeau turn down this source of $$? (also important to note for American friends, he currently has majority gvmt so should be able to pass anything he wants) Then when you find out Penn gaming is invested and this likely has support across the political aisle safe to say after seeing what is happened with DKNG my interest was PIQUED
anyways clearly the cons are that this stock is at a its all time high and i dont want to buy at the top of a pump. that said yolo and i threw $2k on friday. This stock is planning to list on NYSE in the future and the bet is that the law legalizing will pass which I personally believe is a no brainer but will have to do further research.
If this passes, and Penn just straight up buys them out and they list on the NYSE this thing could turn into a huge powerhouse. And, as the degenerate gamblers that we are, dont we really only care about getting into a MEME stock much earlier than the stampede??
Thoughts? Ideas for other MEME stocks? Lets get this hive mind going my tardorinossssss
**Update. To note, i see this play as very similar to the play up to legalization that some of you might remember back with some Canadian licensed producer. Investors are waiting on a vote/change in gvmt policy, the company is primed to take advantage of this new potential regulatory change, there is already a huge market guaranteed, and the TSX/canadian market specifically is used to this play and is uniquely primed to pump one of their own meme stocks (see either any weed LP, or shopify for this example)
**** Update the mods deleted my final update, even though i was just trying to bring some life to this sub and its not like i am some crazy promoter, my sub has 100 ppl lol. Sorry for providing content on your sub and trying to generate some life and take advantage of that opportunity we had after the GME thing went down. Instead, the count has stayed at 2500-2700 for a week with no posts or interesting conversation while others have thrived.
Please feel free to visit and join our experiment at /gamblingstocks
this is the link i tried to post here: https://old.reddit.com/retardbets/comments/lffews/get_rich_or_die_trying_series_part_3_is_the_the/

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Tuesday, 2 February 2020
Live Updates
First Post:
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/kuwg1e/i_have_a_discount_trading_bot_which_gives_out/
Background:

• My discount bot to help /wallstreetbets. It took me almost a year to develop it to my standard.
• My private codes was used to develop it, and it's very unlikely I will sell it off to anyone or publish the code freely as it took me way too long to develop it. I rather post updates freely, at no cost to anyone than give out the code.
• I will not be posting this hourly. It just too long to load everything up maybe in the future. I will post during open though.
• Discord and telegram admins, don't try to monetize my bot suggestions to vulnerable people, when you don't even own the codes behind it.
• There are a lot of SPY500/"boomer" companies within the bot, I thought about removing it but many people preferred that I kept it in there.
• There won't be any sell signals, as stocks only go up, so I rather just do a discount algorithm.
• Batch 1 = Algorithm/Bot + Human Judgement
• Batch 2 = Algorithm/Bot Judgement Only
• This is a one man bot.

Bot Overview:
It's showing an opportunity that you may have missed otherwise, so you can decide for yourself if you want to pursue the discount of a stock for potential profits. Backtesting has not been done, do not YOLO your life savings into whatever stated risking it all. Rather use this as a side tool.
Key:

• Pharma companies are very risky.
• Meme/Hype stocks are very risky.
• Companies that you don't know how they work are very risky.
• Follower companies are very risky because they join the hype train (what NKLA is to TSLA).
• I have a very low amount in options (less than $500), and I have 100k+ in shares and cash.
• When doing options have a lot of collateral, so you don't hit margin call.
• Take the "Calls" as very discounted, and "Potentially A Call" as somewhat discounted.
• Old money companies are slow. While tech companies are fast-paced.
• Only invest in companies that you do know and see potential in.
• You don't have to invest every day, only when you see the potential.

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At Close of Monday

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Batch 1:

• Specialty Chemicals DD DuPont de Nemours Inc 73.14
• GME GameStop Corp. 225

Maybe:

• Alternative Carriers LUMN Centurylink Inc 11.77
• Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods PVH PVH Corp 82.45
• IT Consulting & Other Services DXC DXC Technology Co 25.5
• GGP Greatland Gold plc 23.7
• MAC Macerich Co 14.01
• GAS State Gas Ltd 0.58
• COV Covalon Technologies Ltd 1.3
• ARG Argos Resources Ltd 3.25
• QS Quantumscape Corp 42.33
• KNDI Kandi Technologies Group Inc 8.51
• PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc 33.96

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Batch 2: Company | Current Price | Average Price
Call:

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• Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS 49.07 55.32
• U.S. Bancorp USB 42.75 47.49
• Dollar General Corp. DG 192.75 211.00
• Verizon Communications Inc. VZ 54.28 57.54
• Verizon Communications Inc. VZ 54.28 57.54
• Progressive Corp PGR 86.19 94.40
• Everest Re Group Ltd RE 211.50 233.11
• Tractor Supply Company TSCO 139.72 153.41
• Nucor Corporation NUE 49.02 55.40
• Greatland Gold plc GGP 27.00 32.37
• Quantumscape Corp QS 42.33 56.05
• Air Transport Services Group Inc. ATSG 25.95 28.16

Potential Call:

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• Tried to add as much as I could. (Read below)
• Howmet Aerospace Inc HWM 25.05 27.37
• Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc HII 157.77 169.65
• Textron Inc. TXT 45.34 49.16
• CH Robinson Worldwide Inc CHRW 86.43 96.60
• Delta Air Lines, Inc. DAL 37.82 40.50
• United Airlines Holdings Inc UAL 39.94 43.70
• PVH Corp PVH 82.45 99.86
• State Street Corp STT 70.25 76.41
• Fastenal Company FAST 46.42 49.50
• Charter Communications Inc CHTR 599.02 642.16
• DISH Network Corp DISH 29.45 32.27
• Dow Inc DOW 52.75 57.97
• Jacobs Engineering Group Inc J 101.66 111.33
• Discover Financial Services DFS 82.19 94.09
• Brown-Forman Corporation Class B BF.B 72.16 75.44
• Citigroup Inc C 58.43 64.09
• Copart, Inc. CPRT 110.86 117.25
• Edison International EIX 58.01 61.22
• Republic Services, Inc. RSG 90.97 94.79
• Rollins, Inc. ROL 36.22 38.64
• Waste Management, Inc. WM 112.09 115.93
• Dollar Tree, Inc. DLTR 100.86 109.53
• Baxter International Inc BAX 76.38 80.83
• Edwards Lifesciences Corp EW 81.92 88.08
• Church & Dwight Co., Inc. CHD 83.99
• Costco Wholesale Corporation COST 350.52 365.89
• Roper Technologies Inc ROP 391.36 424.78
• Fortive Corp FTV 66.63 70.14
• Illinois Tool Works Inc. ITW 194.88 205.58
• Ingersoll Rand Inc IR 42.60 45.81
• Xylem Inc XYL 97.14 104.05
• Arthur J Gallagher & Co AJG 115.19 119.26
• Morgan Stanley MS 67.67 74.25
• Anthem Inc ANTM 292.56 324.24
• Humana Inc HUM 379.90 417.17
• Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. LYV 67.56 73.17
• Lincoln National Corporation LNC 46.28 51.33
• Baker Hughes Co BKR 20.31 22.44
• Halliburton Company HAL 17.86 20.34
• Phillips 66 PSX 67.38 73.40
• Kinder Morgan Inc KMI 14.02 15.15
• Hershey Co HSY 145.11 150.51
• McCormick & Company, Incorporated MKC 89.18 94.12
• Amcor PLC AMCR 10.89 11.41
• Sealed Air Corp SEE 42.75 45.44
• Westrock Co WRK 41.41 45.69
• Procter & Gamble Co PG 128.97 135.45
• Merck & Co., Inc. MRK 77.36 82.22
• Pfizer Inc. PFE 35.80 37.09
• W. R. Berkley Corp WRB 62.90 66.22

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Batch 1:

• Biotechnology VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 222.44
• Health Care Facilities DVA Davita Inc 112.81
• GME GameStop Corp. 119.99 (Meme/Hype)
• BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd - ADR 256.4
• BYND Beyond Meat Inc 167.85
• BIGC Bigcommerce Holdings, Inc. 73.81

Maybe:

• Movies & Entertainment FOXA Fox Corp Class A 30.88
• Pharmaceuticals PFE Pfizer Inc. 34.68
• Specialized REITs IRM Iron Mountain Inc 31.79
• MAC Macerich Co 12.75
• FOSL Fossil Group Inc 13.46
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• ARG Argos Resources Ltd 3.22
• INO Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc 16.13
• NTDOY Nintendo 8 ADR Representing Ord Shs 74.67
• KNDI Kandi Technologies Group Inc 8.24
• LI Li Auto Inc. 30.16
• XPEV Xpeng Inc - ADR 47.73
• PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc 31.98
• BP BP plc 20.79
• MT ArcelorMittal SA 21.82

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Call:

• Air Transport Services Group Inc. ATSG 26.52 28.16
• Quantumscape Corp QS 41.70 56.05
• Greatland Gold plc GGP 26.50 32.37
• Tractor Supply Company TSCO 142.20 153.41
• Nucor Corporation NUE 49.42 55.40
• Everest Re Group Ltd RE 215.00 233.11
• Progressive Corp PGR 87.21 94.40
• Verizon Communications Inc. VZ 54.63 57.54
• Dollar General Corp. DG 197.18 211.00
• Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS 50.66 55.32

Potential Call:

• Suncor Energy Inc. SU 17.02 18.34
• Alcoa Corp AA 18.95 22.72
• NK Lukoil PAO LUK 61.20 62.99
• Royal Dutch Shell plc ADR Class B RDS.B 34.28 37.92
• Carnival plc CUK 16.78 17.71
• NK Lukoil PAO LUK 61.20 62.99
• Nuformix PLC NFX 2.60 2.75
• Altria Group Inc MO 40.88 41.94
• Philip Morris International Inc. PM 79.58 82.14
• Arconic Corp (PITTSBURGH) ARNC 26.55 29.13
• Domino's Pizza, Inc. DPZ 376.63 383.51
• Coca-Cola Co KO 49.26 49.88
• Celanese Corporation CE 123.26 133.56
• LyondellBasell Industries NV LYB 88.41 94.52
• Genuine Parts Company GPC 96.01 102.72
• Phillips 66 PSX 68.09 73.40
• Kinder Morgan Inc KMI 14.16 15.15
• McCormick & Company, Incorporated MKC 90.09 94.12
• Amcor PLC AMCR 10.93 11.41
• Westrock Co WRK 41.95 45.69
• Procter & Gamble Co PG 130.00 135.45
• Merck & Co., Inc. MRK 78.49 82.22
• Pfizer Inc. PFE 34.62 37.09
• W. R. Berkley Corp WRB 63.73 66.22
• Anthem Inc ANTM 304.70 324.24
• Humana Inc HUM 389.72 417.17
• Lincoln National Corporation LNC 47.53 51.33
• Baker Hughes Co BKR 20.69 22.44
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• Carnival Corp CCL 19.22 20.52
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• Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd RCL 66.99 72.63
• Church & Dwight Co., Inc. CHD 83.61 86.48
• Roper Technologies Inc ROP 397.33 424.78
• Fortive Corp FTV 66.90 70.14
• Illinois Tool Works Inc. ITW 198.31 205.58
• Xylem Inc XYL 97.68 104.05
• Republic Services, Inc. RSG 91.43 94.79
• Rollins, Inc. ROL 37.02 38.64
• Waste Management, Inc. WM 113.38 115.93
• Dollar Tree, Inc. DLTR 102.73 109.53
• Baxter International Inc BAX 76.80 80.83
• Edwards Lifesciences Corp EW 83.59 88.08
• Howmet Aerospace Inc HWM 25.82 27.37
• Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc HII 159.68 169.65
• Textron Inc. TXT 46.00 49.16
• CH Robinson Worldwide Inc CHRW 87.55 96.60
• Delta Air Lines, Inc. DAL 38.34 40.50
• United Airlines Holdings Inc UAL 40.60 43.70
• PVH Corp PVH 84.55 99.86
• State Street Corp STT 71.43 76.41
• Fastenal Company FAST 46.10 49.50
• DISH Network Corp DISH 30.22 32.27
• Dow Inc DOW 53.62 57.97
• Jacobs Engineering Group Inc J 104.28 111.33
• Discover Financial Services DFS 84.50 94.09
• Brown-Forman Corporation Class B BF.B 73.30 75.44
• Citigroup Inc C 59.89 64.09
• Copart, Inc. CPRT 111.75 117.25
• Edison International EIX 59.16 61.22

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Timeline of Trump's Russia Connections from KGB Cultivation to United State President
The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have deep ties to Donald Trump is deeply disturbing. Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed.
According to an ex-KGB spy...Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years.
Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money.
In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob.
“During the ’80s and ’90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money,” says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration. “It didn’t matter that you paid too much, because the real estate values would rise, and it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money. It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.”
When Trump Tower was built, as David Cay Johnston reports in The Making of Donald Trump, it was only the second high-rise in New York that accepted anonymous buyers.
In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider business prospects.
A short while later he made his first call for the dismantling of the NATO alliance. Which would benefit Russia.
At the beginning of 1990 Donald Trump owed a combined $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with $800 million personally guaranteed by his own assets, according to Alan Pomerantz, a lawyer whose team led negotiations between Trump and 72 banks to restructure Trump’s loans. Pomerantz was hired by Citibank.
Interview with Pomerantz
Trump agreed to pay the bond lenders 14% interest, roughly 50% more than he had projected, to raise $675 million. It was the biggest gamble of his career. Trump could not keep pace with his debts. Six months later, the Taj defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin.
In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy.
So he bankrupted a casino? What about Ru...
The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.
The casino repeatedly failed to properly report gamblers who cashed out $10,000 or more in a single day, the government said."The violations date back to a time when the Taj Mahal was the preferred gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, according to federal investigators who tracked organized crime in New York City. They also occurred at a time when the Taj Mahal casino was short on cash and on the verge of bankruptcy."
....ssia
So by the mid 1990s Trump was then at a low point of his career. He defaulted on his debts to a number of large Wall Street banks and was overleveraged. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. Trump companies would ultimately declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy two more times.
Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Deutsche Bank.
The extremely controversial Deutsche Bank. The Nazi financing, Auschwitz building, law violating, customer misleading, international currency markets manipulating, interest rate rigging, Iran & others sanctions violating, Russian money laundering, salvation of Donald J. Trump.
The agreeing to a $7.2 billion settlement with with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities and causing the 2008 financial crisis bank.
The appears to have facilitated more than half of the $2 trillion of suspicious transactions that were flagged to the U.S. government over nearly two decades bank.
The embroiled in a $20b money-laundering operation, dubbed the Global Laundromat. The launders money for Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB bank.
That bank.
Three minute video detailing Trump's debts and relationship with Deutsche Bank
In 1998, Russia defaulted on $40 billion in debt, causing the ruble to plummet and Russian banks to close. The ensuing financial panic sent the country’s oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place to put their money. That October, just two months after the Russian economy went into a tailspin, Trump broke ground on his biggest project yet.
Directly across the street from the United Nations building.
Russian Linked-Deutsche Bank arranged to lend hundreds of millions of dollars to finance Trump’s construction of a skyscraper next to the United Nations.
Construction got underway in 1999.
Units on the tower’s priciest floors were quickly snatched up by individual buyers from the former Soviet Union, or by limited liability companies connected to Russia. “We had big buyers from Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan,” sales agent Debra Stotts told Bloomberg. After Trump World Tower opened, Sotheby’s International Realty teamed up with a Russian real estate company to make a big sales push for the property in Russia. The “tower full of oligarchs,” as Bloomberg called it, became a model for Trump’s projects going forward. All he needed to do, it seemed, was slap the Trump name on a big building, and high-dollar customers from Russia and the former Soviet republics were guaranteed to come rushing in.
New York City real estate broker Dolly Lenz told USA TODAY she sold about 65 condos in Trump World at 845 U.N. Plaza in Manhattan to Russian investors, many of whom sought personal meetings with Trump for his business expertise.
“I had contacts in Moscow looking to invest in the United States,” Lenz said. “They all wanted to meet Donald. They became very friendly.”Lots of Russian and Eastern European Friends. Investing lots of money. And not only in New York.
Miami is known as a hotspot of the ultra-wealthy looking to launder their money from overseas. Thousands of Russians have moved to Sunny Isles. Hundreds of ultra-wealthy former Soviet citizens bought Trump properties in South Florida. People with really disturbing histories investing millions and millions of dollars. Igor Zorin offers a story with all the weirdness modern Miami has to offer: Russian cash, a motorcycle club named after Russia’s powerful special forces and a condo tower branded by Donald Trump.
Thanks to its heavy Russian presence, Sunny Isles has acquired the nickname “Little Moscow.”
From an interview with a Miami based Siberian-born realtor... “Miami is a brand,” she told me as we sat on a sofa in the building’s huge foyer. “People from all over the world want property here.” Developers were only putting up luxury properties because they “know that the crisis has not affected people with money,”
Most of her clients are Russian—there are now three direct flights per week between Moscow and Miami—and increasing numbers are moving to Florida after spending a few years in London first. “It’s a money center, and it’s a lot easier to get your money there than directly to the US, because of laws and tax issues,” she said. “But after your money has been in London for a while, you can move it to other places more easily.”
In the 2000s, Trump turned to licensing deals and trademarks, collecting a fee from other companies using the Trump name. This has allowed Trump to distance himself from properties or projects that have failed or encountered legal trouble and provided a convenient workaround to help launch projects, especially in Russia and former Soviet states, which bear Trump’s name but otherwise little relation to his general business.
Enter Bayrock Group, a development company and key Trump real estate partner during the 2000s. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and invested an incredible amount of money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management. Bayrock was run by two investors:
Felix Sater, a Russian-born mobster who served a year in prison for stabbing a man in the face with a margarita glass during a bar fight, pleaded guilty to racketeering as part of a mafia-driven "pump-and-dump" stock fraud and then escaped jail time by becoming a highly valued government informant. He was an important figure at Bayrock, notably with the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium in New York City, and has said under oath that he represented Trump in Russia and subsequently billed himself as a senior Trump advisor, with an office in Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Micahel Cohen --Trump's disbarred former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob.
Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former "Soviet official" who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic. Arif graduated from the Moscow Institute of Trade and Economics and worked as a Soviet trade and commerce official for 17 years before moving to New York and founding Bayrock. In 2002, after meeting Trump, he moved Bayrock’s offices to Trump Tower, where he and his staff of Russian émigrés set up shop on the twenty-fourth floor.
Arif was offering him a 20 to 25 percent cut on his overseas projects, he said, not to mention management fees. Trump said in the deposition that Bayrock’s Tevfik Arif “brought the people up from Moscow to meet with me,”and that he was teaming with Bayrock on other planned ventures in Moscow. The only Russians who are likely have the resources and political connections to sponsor such ambitious international deals are the corrupt oligarchs.
In 2005, Trump told The Miami Herald “The name has brought a cachet to certain areas that wouldn’t have had it,” Dezer said Trump’s name put Sunny Isles Beach on the map as a classy destination — and the Trump-branded condo units sold “10 to 20 percent higher than any of our competitors, and at a faster pace.”“We didn’t have any foreclosures or anything, despite the crisis.”
In a 2007 deposition that was part of his unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against reporter Timothy O’Brien Trump testified "that Bayrock was working their international contacts to complete Trump/Bayrock deals in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. He testified that “Bayrock knew the investors” and that “this was going to be the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Moscow, Kiev, Istanbul, et cetera, and Warsaw, Poland.”
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. gave the following statement to the “Bridging U.S. and Emerging Markets Real Estate” conference in Manhattan: “[I]n terms of high-end product influx into the United States, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
In July 2008, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. This was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value. Must be nice to have so many Russian oligarchs interested in giving you money.
In 2013, Trump went to Russia for the Miss Universe pageant “financed in part by the development company of a Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov.… a Putin ally who is sometimes called the ‘Trump of Russia’ because of his tendency to put his own name on his buildings.” He met with many oligarchs. Timeline of events. Flight records show how long he was there.
Video interview in Moscow where Trump says "...China wanted it this year. And Russia wanted it very badly." I bet they did.
Also in 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. They operated card games, illegal gambling websites, and a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.
In 2014, Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia. I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programmes. We just go there all the time.’”
A 2015 racketeering case against Bayrock, Sater, and Arif, and others, alleged that: “for most of its existence it [Bayrock] was substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated,” engaging “in a pattern of continuous, related crimes, including mail, wire, and bank fraud; tax evasion; money laundering; conspiracy; bribery; extortion; and embezzlement.” Although the lawsuit does not allege complicity by Trump, it claims that Bayrock exploited its joint ventures with Trump as a conduit for laundering money and evading taxes. The lawsuit cites as a “Concrete example of their crime, Trump SoHo, [which] stands 454 feet tall at Spring and Varick, where it also stands monument to spectacularly corrupt money-laundering and tax evasion.”
In 2016, the Trump Presidential Campaign was helped by Russia.
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Trump has been in Russia's pocket a long time here is more reading for those interested in the history.
Trump was over a billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out.
► Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.
► In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992)
► [Felix Sater](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater } is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of NY real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen--Trump's former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years.
► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management.
► In July 2008, the height of the housing bust, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. Again, this was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value.
► Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years. Many of them owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties. They were running operations out of Trump's crown jewel.
► So many Russians bought Trump apartments at his developments in Florida that the area became known as Little Moscow. The developers of two of his hotels were Russians with significant links to the Russian mob. The late leader of that mob in the United States, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, was living at Trump Tower
► According to a Bloomberg investigation (3/16/2017) into Trump World Tower, “a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states.”
► In 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. They operated card games, illegal gambling websites, and a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.
► The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing.
► Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive. Now he's deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties to the Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob.
► A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP--often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnell got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Craig Unger's book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money.
► At the Cityscape USA’s Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Donald Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying "...And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets."
► Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”
► It's believed that Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump’s Deutsche bank loans.
► Alex Navalny has insinuated Paul Manafort passed along Trump's campaign information to the Kremlin via Kilimnik. In a 25-minute Youtube video (Russian with subtitles), Navalny shows footage of Deripaska with Russian deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko on his yacht in Norway in August 2016. Based on that footage, he alleges that information about the Trump campaign must have passed between the two. Senate Intelligence Report I believe concluded Paul gave the information to known Russian asset but that we have no proof this asset gave the information to the Kremlin? Im hoping someone in the comments has some more on the Paul Manafort accusation to perhaps clear this bullet up in a future edit.
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Trump now gleefully takes cues from Putin:
► Trump went against American intelligence on North Korean missiles. He told the FBI he didn't believe their intelligence because Putin told him otherwise. “I don't care, I believe Putin"
► Trump met in secret with Putin at the G20 summit in November 2018, without note takers. 19 days later, he announced a withdrawal from Syria.
► Trump refused to enforce sanctions legally codified into law - and in some cases reversed standing sanctions on Russian companies.
► He has denounced his own intelligence agencies in a press conference with Putin on election meddling - and publicly endorsed Putin's version of events.
► Demanded Russia get invited back into G7
► Pushed the CIA to give American intelligence to the Kremlin.
► Withdrew from the Open Skies treaty
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First want to say thanks for taking the time to read the post. Please take the time to also VOTE this election. Also thank you various users for the rewards and support.
On to actual edits :)
Firstly I've removed the link to Trump / Russian bounties allegations. Which was the last point in the post originally due to its lack of factual evidence.
Second I've changed a few points wording.
Third I've added a new bullet at the end that was passed a long to me yesterday by another user in another thread about Trump and his campaign manager.
Fourth I'd like to point out that this post is a collection of points from various other users in other threads and I personally don't want to take any credit for this post as I'm just carrying the torch with this post of several users before me who compiled many of these points.
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Timeline of Trump's Russia Connections from KGB Cultivation to United States President
The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. That is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have deep ties to Donald Trump is deeply disturbing. Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed.
According to an ex-KGB spy...Russia has been cultivating Trump as an asset for 40 years.
Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money.
In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob.
“During the ’80s and ’90s, we in the U.S. government repeatedly saw a pattern by which criminals would use condos and high-rises to launder money,” says Jonathan Winer, a deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement in the Clinton administration. “It didn’t matter that you paid too much, because the real estate values would rise, and it was a way of turning dirty money into clean money. It was done very systematically, and it explained why there are so many high-rises where the units were sold but no one is living in them.”
When Trump Tower was built, as David Cay Johnston reports in The Making of Donald Trump, it was only the second high-rise in New York that accepted anonymous buyers.
In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider business prospects.
A short while later he made his first call for the dismantling of the NATO alliance. Which would benefit Russia.
At the beginning of 1990 Donald Trump owed a combined $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with $800 million personally guaranteed by his own assets, according to Alan Pomerantz, a lawyer whose team led negotiations between Trump and 72 banks to restructure Trump’s loans. Pomerantz was hired by Citibank.
Interview with Pomerantz
Trump agreed to pay the bond lenders 14% interest, roughly 50% more than he had projected, to raise $675 million. It was the biggest gamble of his career. Trump could not keep pace with his debts. Six months later, the Taj defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin.
In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy.
So he bankrupted a casino? What about Ru...
The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.
The casino repeatedly failed to properly report gamblers who cashed out $10,000 or more in a single day, the government said."The violations date back to a time when the Taj Mahal was the preferred gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, according to federal investigators who tracked organized crime in New York City. They also occurred at a time when the Taj Mahal casino was short on cash and on the verge of bankruptcy."
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So by the mid 1990s Trump was then at a low point of his career. He defaulted on his debts to a number of large Wall Street banks and was overleveraged. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. Trump companies would ultimately declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy two more times.
Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Deutsche Bank.
The extremely controversial Deutsche Bank. The Nazi financing, Auschwitz building, law violating, customer misleading, international currency markets manipulating, interest rate rigging, Iran & others sanctions violating, Russian money laundering, salvation of Donald J. Trump.
The agreeing to a $7.2 billion settlement with with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities and causing the 2008 financial crisis bank.
The appears to have facilitated more than half of the $2 trillion of suspicious transactions that were flagged to the U.S. government over nearly two decades bank.
The embroiled in a $20b money-laundering operation, dubbed the Global Laundromat. The launders money for Russian criminals with links to the Kremlin, the old KGB and its main successor, the FSB bank.
That bank.
Three minute video detailing Trump's debts and relationship with Deutsche Bank
In 1998, Russia defaulted on $40 billion in debt, causing the ruble to plummet and Russian banks to close. The ensuing financial panic sent the country’s oligarchs and mobsters scrambling to find a safe place to put their money. That October, just two months after the Russian economy went into a tailspin, Trump broke ground on his biggest project yet.
Directly across the street from the United Nations building.
Russian Linked-Deutsche Bank arranged to lend hundreds of millions of dollars to finance Trump’s construction of a skyscraper next to the United Nations.
Construction got underway in 1999.
Units on the tower’s priciest floors were quickly snatched up by individual buyers from the former Soviet Union, or by limited liability companies connected to Russia. “We had big buyers from Russia and Ukraine and Kazakhstan,” sales agent Debra Stotts told Bloomberg. After Trump World Tower opened, Sotheby’s International Realty teamed up with a Russian real estate company to make a big sales push for the property in Russia. The “tower full of oligarchs,” as Bloomberg called it, became a model for Trump’s projects going forward. All he needed to do, it seemed, was slap the Trump name on a big building, and high-dollar customers from Russia and the former Soviet republics were guaranteed to come rushing in.
New York City real estate broker Dolly Lenz told USA TODAY she sold about 65 condos in Trump World at 845 U.N. Plaza in Manhattan to Russian investors, many of whom sought personal meetings with Trump for his business expertise.
“I had contacts in Moscow looking to invest in the United States,” Lenz said. “They all wanted to meet Donald. They became very friendly.”Lots of Russian and Eastern European Friends. Investing lots of money. And not only in New York.
Miami is known as a hotspot of the ultra-wealthy looking to launder their money from overseas. Thousands of Russians have moved to Sunny Isles. Hundreds of ultra-wealthy former Soviet citizens bought Trump properties in South Florida. People with really disturbing histories investing millions and millions of dollars. Igor Zorin offers a story with all the weirdness modern Miami has to offer: Russian cash, a motorcycle club named after Russia’s powerful special forces and a condo tower branded by Donald Trump.
Thanks to its heavy Russian presence, Sunny Isles has acquired the nickname “Little Moscow.”
From an interview with a Miami based Siberian-born realtor... “Miami is a brand,” she told me as we sat on a sofa in the building’s huge foyer. “People from all over the world want property here.” Developers were only putting up luxury properties because they “know that the crisis has not affected people with money,”
Most of her clients are Russian—there are now three direct flights per week between Moscow and Miami—and increasing numbers are moving to Florida after spending a few years in London first. “It’s a money center, and it’s a lot easier to get your money there than directly to the US, because of laws and tax issues,” she said. “But after your money has been in London for a while, you can move it to other places more easily.”
In the 2000s, Trump turned to licensing deals and trademarks, collecting a fee from other companies using the Trump name. This has allowed Trump to distance himself from properties or projects that have failed or encountered legal trouble and provided a convenient workaround to help launch projects, especially in Russia and former Soviet states, which bear Trump’s name but otherwise little relation to his general business.
Enter Bayrock Group, a development company and key Trump real estate partner during the 2000s. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and invested an incredible amount of money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management. Bayrock was run by two investors:
Felix Sater, a Russian-born mobster who served a year in prison for stabbing a man in the face with a margarita glass during a bar fight, pleaded guilty to racketeering as part of a mafia-driven "pump-and-dump" stock fraud and then escaped jail time by becoming a highly valued government informant. He was an important figure at Bayrock, notably with the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium in New York City, and has said under oath that he represented Trump in Russia and subsequently billed himself as a senior Trump advisor, with an office in Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Micahel Cohen --Trump's disbarred former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob.
Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former "Soviet official" who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic. Arif graduated from the Moscow Institute of Trade and Economics and worked as a Soviet trade and commerce official for 17 years before moving to New York and founding Bayrock. In 2002, after meeting Trump, he moved Bayrock’s offices to Trump Tower, where he and his staff of Russian émigrés set up shop on the twenty-fourth floor.
Arif was offering him a 20 to 25 percent cut on his overseas projects, he said, not to mention management fees. Trump said in the deposition that Bayrock’s Tevfik Arif “brought the people up from Moscow to meet with me,”and that he was teaming with Bayrock on other planned ventures in Moscow. The only Russians who are likely have the resources and political connections to sponsor such ambitious international deals are the corrupt oligarchs.
In 2005, Trump told The Miami Herald “The name has brought a cachet to certain areas that wouldn’t have had it,” Dezer said Trump’s name put Sunny Isles Beach on the map as a classy destination — and the Trump-branded condo units sold “10 to 20 percent higher than any of our competitors, and at a faster pace.”“We didn’t have any foreclosures or anything, despite the crisis.”
In a 2007 deposition that was part of his unsuccessful defamation lawsuit against reporter Timothy O’Brien Trump testified "that Bayrock was working their international contacts to complete Trump/Bayrock deals in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. He testified that “Bayrock knew the investors” and that “this was going to be the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Moscow, Kiev, Istanbul, et cetera, and Warsaw, Poland.”
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. gave the following statement to the “Bridging U.S. and Emerging Markets Real Estate” conference in Manhattan: “[I]n terms of high-end product influx into the United States, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
In July 2008, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. This was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value. Must be nice to have so many Russian oligarchs interested in giving you money.
In 2013, Trump went to Russia for the Miss Universe pageant “financed in part by the development company of a Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov.… a Putin ally who is sometimes called the ‘Trump of Russia’ because of his tendency to put his own name on his buildings.” He met with many oligarchs. Timeline of events. Flight records show how long he was there.
Video interview in Moscow where Trump says "...China wanted it this year. And Russia wanted it very badly." I bet they did.
Also in 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. They operated card games, illegal gambling websites, and a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.
In 2014, Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia. I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programmes. We just go there all the time.’”
A 2015 racketeering case against Bayrock, Sater, and Arif, and others, alleged that: “for most of its existence it [Bayrock] was substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated,” engaging “in a pattern of continuous, related crimes, including mail, wire, and bank fraud; tax evasion; money laundering; conspiracy; bribery; extortion; and embezzlement.” Although the lawsuit does not allege complicity by Trump, it claims that Bayrock exploited its joint ventures with Trump as a conduit for laundering money and evading taxes. The lawsuit cites as a “Concrete example of their crime, Trump SoHo, [which] stands 454 feet tall at Spring and Varick, where it also stands monument to spectacularly corrupt money-laundering and tax evasion.”
In 2016, the Trump Presidential Campaign was helped by Russia.
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Chances are if you clicked on this post, you’re looking to buy either your first or second bass and you’re not really sure what to look for. There are a lot of options out there, and every bass is a little different, and if you’re buying used, there are plenty of people who will try to take advantage of you. But fret not! See what I did there. Basses have frets...Anyway, I am here to arm you with the information you need! This is AMP’s Guide to Buying a Bass With Confidence. In this guide, I’ll explain everything you should inspect and consider before you pull the trigger on a purchase so that you know that the bass you buy is a good one. These points will apply to new and used, cheap or expensive so it doesn’t matter what your budget or preferences are. This brings me to my first point:
1. Avoid buying online.
The only way to really know if a bass is any good is get your hands on it. Just really get in there and explore every nook and cranny.
Buying online is like playing the lottery. You might win, but odds are you’ll lose. The only bass I bought online came from a guy on TalkBass. My thinking was that if I bought from someone who was the type to be on TalkBass, that it was probably a decent bass and my gamble paid off. Unlike what happened with my uncle. But that’s not the sort of thing I would count on. If at all possible, get your hands on the bass. Be aware that even if two basses are the exact same model, they will be different from each other so it’s important you buy the bass you play and not just one of the same model. If that’s not possible, you might as well stop reading this post right now because you probably won’t be able to do any of the other things I’m gonna talk about. That's how important trying a bass before you buy is.
2. Play through a familiar amp
Whenever you go to a music store, it’s tempting to plug your bass into the biggest baddest amp they have, but that’s going to make your bass sound very different from how it will sound on your own rig. If possible, bring your own amp so you can get the most accurate impression of how the bass sounds. If I don’t bring an amp, I will usually try to play through an Ampeg or a Fender combo amp at a shop because I’m familiar with how those sound. I know that if I like the way the bass sounds on those amps, I’ll like it when I get home. Also make sure that you set the controls flat on the amp, meaning that you have the EQ set with everything at noon. What this means is that you neither boosting nor cutting any frequencies. That will give you the best and most honest representation of what the bass sounds like with the least amount of influence from the amp. It will also help you understand what the basses on-board controls do.
3. Thoroughly check all the controls
Depending on what kind of a bass you have, the controls can either be very simple or very complicated. Regardless, you’ll want to make sure you know what each knob does and make sure that they do what they’re supposed to. P basses are easy because it’s just volume, which is obvious, and tone, which is a high frequency cut. Other basses will have full on 3 band EQ, pickup selectors, active and passive modes to switch between, power windows, cruise control, all wheel drive...But anyway, if you’re not sure what the knobs do and you can’t tell what they do by fiddling around with them, look up your bass’s model number online. For example, this Ibanez bass has, if I’m counting correctly, 3000 knobs. But if you look it up on the Ibanez website, they have this handy diagram that tells you exactly what they all do. Make sure they all work and don’t crackle and pop as you move them around. They should feel secure and smooth as well. If the controls wiggle or are loose, that can be problematic to your electronics. They're not really controls, but you should also make sure the tuning keys feel good. They also should be smooth, but solid, and stay put once the bass is tuned.
4. Check the neck
The neck of a bass is at least 50% of the bass, and the part you’re actually touching the most. Making sure that it’s straight and properly set up is critical. One of the first things I do when I start playing a bass is run my hand up and down both sides of the neck to make sure the fret edges aren’t sharp. If they cut up your hand, you’ll probably need first aid and a tetanus shot. You should also check how straight the neck is. If you hold the bass kinda like a violin, you can look down the bass from the bridge and compare the curve of the neck to the strings. You’ll be able to tell how much curvature is in the neck. The strings will be 100% straight from the bridge to the nut so any anomalies in the neck should be easy to see from this angle. There should be only a very slight curve upward and it should be very consistent the whole way up. If it’s more curved on one side that it is on the other, then the neck is warped and that is not easy to fix with just a set up. Speaking of which, if the set up is bad, meaning that the strings are really far away from the neck, or really anything else that makes the bass feel bad or hard to play then you can always ask the shop if they’ll work on it. They might say no, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. I’ve pointed out poor fret dressing on basses and they’ve taken the bass to their tech to fix so that’s definitely something a shop can, and frankly should, do. A small part of buying a bass is knowing how much you can correct with a bit of tweaking the adjustments, but frankly, if it doesn’t feel great before you buy it, then it’s probably not the bass for you.
5. Take your time
I absolutely do not advocate for impulse purchases. Do your research online to make sure you know what kind of bass you’re looking for, what kinds of tones you enjoy, and what your budget is. If possible, you should take a few days between trying out a bass and actually pulling the trigger on it. A second pass on a bass might reveal flaws you may have overlooked the first time. Giving yourself time to digest things and not feeling the pressure to buy will make sure that you don’t regret your purchase. A bass guitar is a deeply personal thing and you want to be excited and happy with your instrument so that you’ll be motivated to play it.
If you follow all these tips to the letter, I can guarantee that you’ll go home with a good bass. But also, don’t be afraid to flip a bass if you find that it doesn’t do it for you anymore. People buy and sell instruments all the time and used instruments don’t easily lose their value. A used bass you buy for $500 will likely be worth about the same a year later if you find you don’t like it as much as when you first bought it. You’re not married to your gear. Unless you are. In that case, you’re really weird. Anyway, thanks for reading!
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