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NEW YORK Weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was allied with a company in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that planned to build a 47-story luxury tower in the Black Sea resort of Batumi.
A McClatchy investigation reveals that Trump ventured more aggressively into the former Soviet empire from 2005 to 2015 than has previously been known, even seeking to have his name atop a massive shimmering glass tower in Astana, the post-Soviet capital of Kazakhstan.
When Trump and Silk Road Group deep-sixed their Batumi arrangement via a joint statement on Jan. 6 a Trump Organization executive said the decision was “purely business related” and not because of ethical concerns.
Silk Road, however, attributes the deal’s collapse in part to “intense media scrutiny” following a Wall Street Journal report that alleged that the company’s chairman had earlier ties to militia groups, which the company strongly denies.
The U.S.-based partner Rtskhiladze and Silk Road Chairman George Ramishvili formed a Delaware-incorporated company called Silk Road Transatlantic Alliance, hoping to leverage Trump’s name to bring glitzy casinos to their country; it was part of a larger effort that Georgian leaders hoped would boost tourism and investment.
Silk Road Group is referenced 1,901 times in the Panama Papers.
The Panama Papers reveal another optics problem for Trump in his association with Silk Road. They show borrowing by Silk Road Group from Bank TuranAlem, the large Kazakh bank that in 2005 took a 49-percent stake in Silk Road Bank, which was owned by Silk Road Group and was then renamed BTA Bank Georgia.
That effectively made Silk Road Group a business partner with the Kazakh president and his son-in-law Timur Kulibayev, who oversaw the rescue effort and is one of the richest men in Kazakhstan.
originally posted by: shooterbrody
didnt wikileaks admit to leaking the dnc emails?
didnt wikileaks also say the source was NOT russian?
jesus you people want to erase assange from history now?
originally posted by: MysticPearl
OP is an over emotional wreck.
Doesn't even understand his own sources and apparently too hot in the pants to read thoroughly.
Been triggered ever since Nov. Now he's using ATS as his therapy group.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
originally posted by: shooterbrody
didnt wikileaks admit to leaking the dnc emails?
didnt wikileaks also say the source was NOT russian?
jesus you people want to erase assange from history now?
And you BELIEVE someone WORKING with the Russians would be honest about things