Earlier today AverageOldGuy posted the idea that possibly Russian money was behind Trump's bond.

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47. I would just point out that the

idea that a large multi-national company in the financial services industry would commit massive fraud, money laundering etc. is well proven by way of Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Chase, Citi etc. For what it's worth it appears to be that Kaplan has not given court approval to the "bond" paperwork yet as evidenced by his giving time for review and input from the plaintiff lawyers as to their position on the paperwork as submitted.

I did also yesterday bring up the point that if multiple parties or aspects are involved in standing behind this bond then we don't want to have a situation where the appeal gets going and half way through one of the "backers" of some aspect to the bond starts to back out, file bankruptcy etc. and raise any questions about the stability of the bond. I went into some of the questions that could come up in that hypothetical situation and how the defendant could react with spurious motions claiming "unfairness" etc. if the appellate proceedings are stopped half way through so to speak. Not that they would win any but it would seem to be an avenue for more and more delay via motions, responses, hearings, denials, appeal of denials etc. It might well be that a court would swat these delay tactics away quickly but as we have seen there are no guarantees of that.

It is very prudent for Kaplan and for the plaintiff lawyers to really look at this paperwork and consider it carefully.