• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Does Putin have something on Trump? (Answer: YES)

Case in point...USA Today just published this article. He's a big douche with no values so I don't ever expect him to come clean but we all deserve to know what the hell is going on.

Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters

Oren Dorell
Updated 3 hours ago

To expand his real estate developments over the years, Donald Trump, his company and partners repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics — several allegedly connected to organized crime, according to a USA TODAY review of court cases, government and legal documents and an interview with a former federal prosecutor.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...es-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/
 
Newenglanddeac said:
Case in point...USA Today just published this article. He's a big douche with no values so I don't ever expect him to come clean but we all deserve to know what the hell is going on.

Trump's business network reached alleged Russian mobsters

Oren Dorell
Updated 3 hours ago

To expand his real estate developments over the years, Donald Trump, his company and partners repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics — several allegedly connected to organized crime, according to a USA TODAY review of court cases, government and legal documents and an interview with a former federal prosecutor.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...es-russian-mobsters-organized-crime/98321252/
Click to expand...

The amount of Russian contacts is just bizarre.
 
riscdeac said:
Never a big deal when it's them....geez


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-28/heres-story-behind-trumps-podesta-russia-tweet
Click to expand...


And then there's the belief held by some that zerohedge is Russian propaganda targeted to the financial community. I honestly have no idea but I found the articles below which make a pretty good case for it. I have several conservative friends who link to zero hedge in texts and social media and I've noticed a lot of their content is apologetic towards Russia and critical of "establishment" types.


An Example of Multi-Source Identification: ZeroHedge.com

ZH’s editorial line on the US and European economies parallels almost exactly that of RT. Moreover, although ZH is unsparing in its criticism of virtually every Western government leader, it never whispers the slightest word of reproach about Vladimir Putin or Russia. Indeed, a tweet mentioning that fact almost immediately drew a response from ZH: a link to a ZH piece spouting a common line of Russian propaganda argument about the superior fiscal foundation of Russia as compared to the US.’


creator is Daniel Ivandjiiski, a native of Bulgaria. Daniel has a very dodgy past, including losing a job and his securities license for insider trading. None of this is hard to find out: it was covered in a New York Magazine piece that ran soon after ZH first gained notoriety. Mr. Ivandjiiski’s checkered past perhaps explains his clearcut antipathy for Wall Street. But there may be more to it than that. In light of my flash analogy of ZH to a Soviet disinformation operation, what is really interesting is the background of Daniel Ivandjiiski’s father. Ivandjiiski pere (Kassimir) was a Bulgarian “journalist” and “envoy” during the Cold War. A member of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Trade, in the COMECON and EU departments. A journalist. A “special envoy” (hence presumably with very useful diplomatic cover) in every proxy war in Central Asia and Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. That is an intel operative’s CV with probability 1. Probability 1. Every one of those jobs was a classic cover. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever—none—that Mr. Divandjiiski senior was a member of the Bulgarian Committee for State Security (Държавна сигурност or DS for short)—the Bulgarian equivalent of the KGB. And remember that Bulgarian DS was the USSR KGB’s most reliable allied service during the Cold War. It carried out wet work in western countries, notably the “umbrella murder” of Georgi Markov in London... Perhaps it is just coincidence that the son of an obvious Warsaw Pact intelligence service agent with the “journalistic” and “diplomatic” background commonly used in influence and disinformation operations starts a website that employs classic influence and disinformation methods, and spouts an editorial line dripping with vitriol and hostility for American (and Western European) financial institutions and governments: a line that follows that of RT quite closely. Perhaps.’


http://www.propornot.com/2016/10/zero-hedge.html?m=1

http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=5728

http://streetwiseprofessor.com/?p=8947
 
Last edited:
Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge, Wall Street's Renegade Blog


"By April 2—the day Lokey left Zero Hedge—their relationship had deteriorated significantly, according to the messages provided by Ivandjiiski.

“I can’t be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump anymore. It’ s wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but it will kill your brand over the long run,” Lokey texted Ivandjiiski. “This isn’t a revolution. It’s a joke.”


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...behind-zero-hedge-wall-street-s-renegade-blog
 
WakeForestRanger said:
Click to expand...

Russian billionaire attempts to stifle AP scoop

Then comes the real purpose behind Deripaska’s ad: “I demand that any and all further dissemination of these allegations, by the AP or any other media outlet, must cease immediately.”

Sorry, Mr. Deripaska, but that’s not the way it works here. You cannot demand the cessation of media reporting on these allegations, especially on a day when you yourself took out paid advertisements that itself recycle those very allegations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ts-to-stifle-ap-scoop/?utm_term=.efecd4ac6562
 
riscdeac said:
This is fascinating. Something to dig your teeth into for a change.
Click to expand...

Glad you enjoyed it. What's even more fascinating is the fact that many of those connections have been public knowledge for years and barely anyone including the media and GOP establishment said shit about it. I also blame voters for not taking a few minutes to Google the guy's background. A failure of epic proportions...all around.
 
Here's one of my favorite stories that should have been red flag number 1. Again public knowledge for over a year.

FinCEN Fines Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort $10 Million for Significant and Long Standing Anti-Money Laundering Violations

20150306.pdf 106.27 KB
Contact
Contact: Steve Hudak
Immediate Release
March 06, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today imposed a $10 million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), for willful and repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). In addition to the civil money penalty, the casino is required to conduct periodic external audits to examine its anti-money laundering (AML) BSA compliance program and provide those audit reports to FinCEN and the casino’s Board of Directors.

Trump Taj Mahal, a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to several willful BSA violations, including violations of AML program requirements, reporting obligations, and recordkeeping requirements. Trump Taj Mahal has a long history of prior, repeated BSA violations cited by examiners dating back to 2003. Additionally, in 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal for currency transaction reporting violations.



https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-re...casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long
 
There are still people who think "the media" took it easy on Hillary and went after Trump.

Crazy huh?
 
FBI Director James Comey Tried To Reveal Russian Tampering Months Before Election

By Josh Saul and Max Kutner On 3/29/17 at 5:43 PM
Updated | FBI Director James Comey attempted to go public as early as the summer of 2016 with information on Russia’s campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, but Obama administration officials blocked him from doing so, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Newsweek.

Well before the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence accused the Russian government of tampering with the U.S. election in an October 7 statement, Comey pitched the idea of writing an op-ed about the Russian campaign during a meeting in the White House’s situation room in June or July.

“He had a draft of it or an outline. He held up a piece of paper in a meeting and said, ‘I want to go forward, what do people think of this?’” says a source with knowledge of the meeting, which included Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and the national security adviser Susan Rice.

Read more: FBI Director Confirms Probe into Possible Trump-Russia Ties

The other national security officials didn’t like the idea, and White House officials thought the announcement should be a coordinated message backed by multiple agencies, the source says. “An op-ed doesn’t have the same stature, it comes from one person.”

The op-ed would not have mentioned whether the FBI was investigating Donald Trump’s campaign workers or others close to him for links to the Russians’ interference in the election, a second source with knowledge of the request tells Newsweek. Comey would likely have tried to publish the op-ed in The New York Times, and it would have included much of the same information as the bombshell declassified intelligence report released January 6, which said Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to influence the presidential election, the source said.

http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-james-comey-russian-tampering-election-576417
 
WakeForestRanger said:
Click to expand...

390.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top