BuzzFeed News is reporting the transactions occurred in the months following the June 2016 Trump Tower Meeting.
BuzzFeed News is reporting that a June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York City was followed by a series of money transfers that bank officials considered “suspicious.”
According to BuzzFeed, four federal law enforcement officials are analyzing two series of transactions that bank examiners found to be suspicious. One occurred not long after that June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, and the other occurred after President Donald Trump’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
The first series of transactions, BuzzFeed is reporting, came on June 20, 2016—11 days after the June 9 meeting. On June 20, 2016, an offshore company run by billionaire Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov (who has ties to both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin) wired over $19.5 million to Agalarov’s account at a New York City bank.
View the complete September 12, 2018, article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet.org website here.