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15. Trump's a snake who got caught laundering money for the Russian mob thru one of his casinos.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:41 AM
Jul 2017

Trump's casino was a money laundering concern shortly after it opened
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-taj-mahal/index.html

(CNN)The Trump Taj Mahal casino broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its first year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement.

It's a bit of forgotten history that's buried in federal records held by an investigative unit of the Treasury Department, records that congressional committees investigating Trump's ties to Russia have obtained access to, CNN has learned.

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"The violations date back to a time when the Taj Mahal was the preferred gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, according to federal investigators who tracked organized crime in New York City. They also occurred at a time when the Taj Mahal casino was short on cash and on the verge of bankruptcy."

He's not some poor dumb innocent led astray by Manafort.

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