Bombshell new report reveals Donald Trump’s company violated US trade embargo with Castro’s Cuba

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/bombshell-new-report-reveals-donald-trumps-company-violated-us-trade-embargo-with-castros-cuba/

A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.

Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after-the-fact to a charitable effort.

The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.

He did not disclose that, seven months earlier, Trump Hotels already had reimbursed its consultants for the money they spent on their secret business trip to Havana.

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Yawwwwwn. Another day, another felony /sarcasm off.

[shraby]

1. Last night Rachel said this would be in Newsweek today.

[yeoman6987]

2. This morning they said statute of limitations are past. Of course they are. Teflon trump

This was only in 1999. I wonder how many years the statutes are

[Kingofalldems]

3. It must be difficult.

[bluedigger]

4. Miami's Cuban emigre community never forgets, however.

They can't be pleased at getting played by Putin's puppet.

[UTUSN]

5. R#4 & K for "Another day..." So many bombshells, so little effect. n/t

[napkinz]

6. K&R

[yardwork]

7. There goes Miami.

[napkinz]

8. kick!