"Without the Russian mafia, it is fair to say, Donald Trump would not be president of the US"

[SergeStorms]

2. They copied.......

the cocaine cowboys in Miami. Miami was built by the ill-gotten gains of the Colombian cocaine cartels. They had so much American currency they could never send it all back to Colombia, so they had to do something with it. The skyline of Miami took off overnight. At one time there were thirteen high-rise buildings being erected at the same time. Thirteen cranes filling the Miami sky, and all financed by the profits from cocaine.

The Colombians set the standard for how to launder money. The Russians, not being dummies, followed the Colombian blueprint and it worked marvelously for them. And the Russians didn't have the huge problem of turning American dollars into Russian currency. All they had to do was wire Russian currency to America, and let the less-than-honest financial institutions handle the conversion. All very tidy, with little or no nosing around to see where the money came from.