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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI seeks possible Cohen ties to Chicago taxi medallions owned by Ukrainian operators there:
FBI agents who raided the New York offices of President Donald Trumps personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen last week reportedly were seeking information on the attorneys ties to the Ukrainian operators of one of Chicagos largest taxicab management companies.Among Cohens business interests and sources of income that court documents indicate were the target of the search warrant, sources told CNN that agents were looking for information the lawyers dealings with Semyon and Yasya Shtayner.
Semyon Shtayner is the secretary of Chicago Medallion Management Corp., which has offices in the West Town neighborhood and manages 368 taxi medallions the metal licenses that allow cabs to operate in the city.
The company manages 22 medallions owned by Cohens company, along with many others.
more:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/fbi-raid-of-trump-lawyers-office-sought-info-on-ties-to-chicago-cab-operators/
Yasya Shtayner Medallions in Chicago, 2012:
https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/bacp/publicvehicleinfo/medallionowners/medallionlicenseesthatrequirewavoct162012.pdf
Heres a link to some kind of court action against the Shtayners in Oct. 16: (I cant make heads/tails of it! -)
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/illinois/ilndce/1:2016cv10155/332955
OH LOOK - heres Yasya in SUNNY ISLES, FLORIDA:
https://www.mylife.com/yasya-shtayner/yasyashtayner
And here he is, listed as living in Chicago, NY and FL:
https://www.instantcheckmate.com/people/yasya-shtayner/
SUNNY ISLES is also known as LITTLE MOSCOW:
August 2016:
These days Sunny Isles Beach is also known as Little Moscow. According to the 2010 census, just over 7 percent were Russian-speakers and since then that number is likely to have increased. Next door to the real estate agency Big International is the restaurant Kalinka, the tourist agency Amber Tours, the caviar bar Nutcracker, as well as another real estate agency all Russian-speaking businesses. On the streets of Hollywood and Hallandale Beach one can also hear a lot of Russian.
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Besides the Trump Towers, the business-mogul-turned-presidential-candidate has another development in the area. Trump is a household name with Russian-speakers here, says Eli Nektalov. People from the former Soviet Union know Trump because he has many projects in those countries, says the owner of the real estate agency. They know him as someone who achieves his goals. That is why I am sure that most Russian-speakers will vote for Trump.
http://wlrn.org/post/praise-trump-sunny-isles-little-moscow
....this is also where all the little Russian anchor babies are being born, I believe?
Anyhoo - Mr. Mueller & Co. will surely let us know if Cohen and the Shtayners and Trumps Little Moscow are affiliated via coincidence or...careful planning?!
This thread by dixiegrrrl started this google-fest - in particular, lunasuns post re: Chicago:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210493511
Thank you dixiegrrrl and lunasun for getting this NYC/Chicago/Sunny Isles party rolling!!
dalton99a
(82,137 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,105 posts)On the freaking sidewalk... smoking their bigdick cigars in defiance
Leghorn21
(13,544 posts)...Around this time, Cohens personal life and business interests both became deeply enmeshed in a community of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City. Both Cohen and his brother Bryan married Ukrainian immigrants, and both did business with their wives fathers. Cohen and a Ukrainian partner began buying up taxi medallions (the expensive city-issued permits necessary to operate taxis).
Also, Cohen legally represented something called the Ukrainian Capital Growth Fund, he and two Ukrainian partners made failed investments in a gambling cruise business, and he tried to pitch US investors to fund a Ukrainian ethanol company controlled by an allegedly mob-connected oligarch.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/11/17218010/michael-cohen-raid-fbi-trump-mueller-explained
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,947 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,846 posts)Leghorn21
(13,544 posts)https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/21/archives/soviet-jews-find-old-woes-new-joys-in-new-world-a-good-life-a.html
Semyon has 2 LLCs in Las Vegas...(well...Im 99% sure this is him):
https://nvsos.gov/SOSEntitySearch/CorpDetails.aspx?lx8nvq=X4ZObnKd0wVtplyr6ltQEw%253d%253d
https://nvsos.gov/SOSEntitySearch/CorpDetails.aspx?lx8nvq=g9AwPtsRFC00u4sU1vdqDQ%253d%253d
Is it standard business practice for one person to have 36 companies/LLCs? I honestly dont know:
https://www.bizapedia.com/people/semyon-shtayner.html
This one has four LLCs attached to Semyon: