Tag: organized crime

Trump’s Organized Crime Ties Bring Blackmail To The White House

The following article by Jefferson Morley was posted on the the Alternet website April 21, 2017:

Says one former business partner, “The headline will be ‘The Kazakh Gangster and President Trump.'”

The words were positively polite, at least for a man convicted of assault and racketeering. It was the implied target of his blackmail threat that was unusual: the president of the United States.

The threat came from Felix Sater, a Russian-American businessman who partnered with Donald Trump in launching the Trump Soho, a hotel-condominium project in New York City. The building was funded by Sater’s boss, Tevfik Arif, a mogul from Kazakhstan. In 2007, Trump’s children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka attended the unveiling ceremony for the 46-story luxury tower in Manhattan. Continue reading “Trump’s Organized Crime Ties Bring Blackmail To The White House”

Trump Has Deep Links To Organized Crime: Federal Investigators Know It And The Public Is Catching Up

The following article by Jefferson Morley was posted on the AlterNet website April 17, 2017:

As President Trump discovers the prerogative of unilaterally making war, the media gaze has turned away from the ongoing FBI, House and Senate investigation of his Russia ties to the simpler dramas of cruise missiles, big bombs and tough but loose talk on North Korea.

Yet even the “mother of all bombs” cannot obliterate the accumulating body of evidence about his relationship with Russian organized crime figures and the not unrelated question about whether he and his entourage colluded with Russian officials in the 2016 presidential election. The story, notes Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall, is “Hiding in plain sight.” Continue reading “Trump Has Deep Links To Organized Crime: Federal Investigators Know It And The Public Is Catching Up”