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#TrumpTowerFelons

 In this thread im going through some of Trumps tenants at his properties.
Enjoy
Paul Manafort owned and lived in a condo on 43rd floor of Trump Tower.

In prison for money-laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, witness tampering and conspiracy against the United States.
2.Helly Nahmad.Owns the entire 51st floor of Trump Tower.

12-month prison sentence in 2014 for operating an illegal, multi-million $ gambling business out of Trump Tower. Connected to Semion Mogilevich.
3.Vadim Trincher, former condo owner on 63rd floor of Trump Tower. Ran Trump Tower gambling ring with Nahmad. 5 years in federal prison and $20 million in asset forfeiture for racketeering
Connected to Semion Mogilevich
4. "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Haitian dictator, tied to death and torture of thousands of its citizens, charged with embezzlement and human rights abuse.

Owned a condo at Trump Tower valued at $2.5 million.
5.Felix Sater. Office on 24th floor of Trump Tower and a Trump Org employee. Lead negotiations for Trump Tower Moscow and Trump Soho., Involved in Bayrock-Convicted in $40 million stock trading scheme.
Both him and his father closely connected to Semion Mogilevich
6.Michael Coheni n prison for tax evasion, bank fraud, lying to investigators and campaign finance violations tied to illegal hush money payments at direction of Trump

Has since flipped on Trump.
7.Joseph Weichselbaum. Trump's personal chopper pilot in the 1980s. Upgraded from 32nd floor Trump Tower apartment to adjoining 49th floor condos while he was serving federal sentence for smuggling cocaine out of Colombia via Miami.

The condos were paid for with all cash.
8,Vyacheslav Ivankov. Top Russian mafia boss and associate of Semion Mogilevich. Hid out in Trump Tower Moscow and was high-roller at Trump Taj Mahal even while subject of a worldwide FBI manhunt. 9-year prison sentence for racketeering.
9.Anatoly Golubchik and Michael Sall. Co-conspirators in the Trincher Trump Tower Gambling Ring.

Both Golubchik and Sall forfeited their Trump Tower condos as criminal assets.
Trump Tower Gambling Ring: They reported to Russian mob boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, also charged with rigging figure-skating at the 2002 Olympics.

Tokhtakhounov is/was on FBI Most Wanted list, Top Lieutenant to Mogilevich

https://t.co/nduDhEhFm5
Steven Hoffenberg. Leased office space on the 15th floor of Trump Tower mere months after the SEC sued him for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in American history until the Madoff scandal.

Served 16 years of a 20 year sentence for bilking $475 million from investors.
Ernest Garcia II, billionaire and owner of Drivetime. Huge stakeholder in those hellishly dystopian 'car vending machines' you see advertised. Owns an apartment in Trump Tower

In 1990 pleaded guilty to a $30 million bank fraud scheme tied to the Keating 5 Savings & Loan scandal
Melvin Cooper. Convicted of helping mastermind a violent loan shark scheme for the Colombo and Gambino crime families in 1985. After getting out of prison he purchased a Trump Tower condo and later bought a second.
Woman with no income or discernible assets, $6 million worth of Trump Tower Condos, and a big mafia union racketeer.

Check out the last panel for the Art of the Deal.

https://t.co/vvSvoJ3473
Sheldon Weinberg. Paid $180,000 a year in rent for his Trump Tower condo at the same time he was pulling in $30,000 a week from Medicare fraud.

Sheldon disappeared in 1989 but was caught after the case was featured on 'Unsolved Mysteries.' Served 16 years.
Jose Maria Marin. Former governor of Sao Paolo and President of the Brazilian Football League. Found guilty of seven counts of money laundering and wire fraud as part of the 2015 FIFA scandal. Currently in prison.

Spent his house arrest pending trial at his condo in Trump Tower
Chuck Blazer, FIFA executive committee. Pleaded guilty as part of the same scandal. Racketeering, wire fraud, tax evasion, money laundering. Died before sentencing.

Two luxury apartments in Trump Tower. One for himself and one exclusively for his cats.
David Bogatin. One of Trump Tower's earliest tenants, purchased five condos for $6 million in 1984 in a deal that Trump personally closed.

Later extradited from Poland after fleeing indictment in a Russian mob gas smuggling scheme. 7 year prison sentence.
Tied to Mogilevich
Robert Hopkins. Trump personally appeared at closing on his $1.7 million condo that included $200k in cash that Trump counted himself.

Arrested on murder charges and convicted of running a $500,000 a week numbers racket for the Lucchese crime family. https://t.co/vvSvoJ3473
Condo owners Bogatin & Cooper each ran their schemes with Colombo family capo MIKEY FRANZESE. Who at one point also discussed buying TT condos with Bogatin.

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