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Manafort: .."the store's only customer to pay using wire transfers from foreign accounts."
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
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MONEYLAUNDERING
This whole twitter thread is quite a read!
https://mobile.twitter.com/rachelweinerwp/status/1024719901691441152
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Manafort: .."the store's only customer to pay using wire transfers from foreign accounts." (Original Post)
Wwcd
Aug 2018
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dalton99a
(94,093 posts)1. Sure smells like money laundering
machoneman
(4,128 posts)2. Some basic math! Spend $900,000...
on suits at say even $5K a pop = 180 suits/4 years = 45 new suits worn each year.
Somehow I think he's laundering money.....by stuffing each suit with long green stuff!
torius
(1,652 posts)3. He must need to show ID when buying groceries via wire transfer
Ostrich filet, etc.
sheshe2
(97,487 posts)4. Happy to be the 5th rec, Wwcd.
Thanks for the Op and now I am off to read the twitter thread. I hope they put him away for a very long time.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)5. The scheme of money laundering on the scale of Manafort & foreign Kremlin cash is a nightmare.
Mueller has his hands full tracing it all, but he has just the staff to do it.

SheShe
sheshe2
(97,487 posts)6. Perfect meme, Wwcd.
Go Mueller!