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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe FBI Did Wiretap Trump Tower But Not to Spy on Trump
A "coincidence" is just God's way of saying "It wasn't me!"Source: Newsweek, by Mirren Gidda
The FBI has said it did wiretap Trump Tower, though its target was not the buildings owner. From 2011 to 2013, two years before Trump announced his presidential campaign, the bureau spied on a Russian crime organization operating on the towers 63rd floor.
The FBI had a court-approved warrant to monitor mafia members running what prosecutors described as an international money-laundering, sports gambling and extortion ring, ABC News reported.
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The FBIs findings led to a federal grand jury indicting more than 30 people in April 2013. Among the group was a Russian mafia boss named Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who the U.S. attempted to extradite in 2002. That year, Italian officials arrested Tokhtakhounov over charges that he bribed judges during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Italy refused the extradition request and Tokhtakhounov returned to Moscow.
Seven months after the 2013 indictment, and with an Interpol red noticewhich seeks the arrest of wanted peoplepending against him, Tokhtakhounov was seen on November 9 in the VIP section of the Miss Universe competition in Moscow. Also present was Trump, owner of the pageant, who had tweeted a few months earlier:
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The FBI Did Wiretap Trump Tower But Not to Spy on Trump (Original Post)
yallerdawg
Mar 2017
OP
Witnesses falling out of buildings, being shot. Most corrupt human being alive
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#1
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)1. Witnesses falling out of buildings, being shot. Most corrupt human being alive
steals American election with help of KGB, uh I mean Russia.
And most republicans say "nothing to see here"
remarkable
underpants
(182,584 posts)2. See! I was right!! Well, they were just looking at the criminals I rent to
In RW world they will only hear the first part of that.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)3. Nunes may have seen something like this:
Russian A: You want to invite the "penthouse" down to play?
Russian B: Nyet, he always asks for credit and then disappears when he loses!
Russian A: If we could just find some way for him to settle his debts...
underpants
(182,584 posts)6. That is actually probably it
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)4. Y'know, they really should be spying on Trump
If there's anyone in the world who is totally up to their
eyeballs in nefarious no-good, its the fucking Donald.
I wish they had friggin' wiretaps and eavesdropping
satellites pointed at the guy 24/7.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. republican deplorables - suck
k & r
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)7. Just a coincidence. Never saw an admin with so many of those.