TRUMP MAFIA

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The question is simple, will the 45th President of the United States end up in jail when he leaves office. The story to understand is how did we get here?

Donald Trump’s administration has been filled with indictments, rumors, and speculation that his ties to Russia have influenced his policy decisions and compromised his ability to lead. The deeper question is inside the fracturing media environment: what is true and what is simply rumor?

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The politics of anger, fear, and division has compromised the biggest story of our generation. Mainstream media outlets compromised by corporate media dollars pander to each side of the aisle, only filtering news for each party line. Trump Mafia is a deep investigative dive into three major threads that surround President Donald Trump:

1. What are the many crimes that Donald Trump could or would be charged with related to his time in the office or his family’s work inside the Trump Organization?

2. Who exactly is investigating the President currently, and what possible crimes are they really looking into?

3. Are there concrete ties between Donald Trump, the Trump Family, or associates related to Russian Intelligence and the Russian Mafia?

In real-time, this podcast will be told starting in January of 2021 and offer a documentary-style look at all of the above. This investigation will be non-partisan and curate and sift through all of the available content that resides not only via the left-wing media but also via the right-wing media’s obsession with getting answers related to the FBI and the Russia probe.

Told through exclusive interviews and archival audio that currently exists or that will be created, Trump Mafia will for the final time examine these issues that have had a stranglehold on America for the last 4 years.

The CHARACTERS

Roman Abramovich – The Russian oligarch & close ally of Vladimir Putin is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC, and is best known outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea F.C., a Premier League football club. In 2019, Forbes listed Abramovich’s net worth at nearly $13 billion dollars.

Aras Agalarov – The Russian real estate mogul & trusted associate of Putin is often referred to as the “Trump of Russia” for his business practices. His family has forged a close partnership with Trump, beginning in 2013 when they hosted the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Agalarov, along with his son Emin, pushed for the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016.

Emin Agalarov – The scion of Aras Agalarov, Emin is a Russian pop star who helped arrange the June 9, 2016 meeting in Trump Tower. Emin once stated that he considered Trump his friend & indicated that they see each other several times a year. He also stated that he & his father chose land & signed a letter of intent for Trump Tower Moscow.

Evsei Agron – Agron was the boss of New York City’s Russian Mafia during the 1970s and 1980s. Known for his cruelty, he was called the “Godfather” of the Russian American mafia. He organized a motor fuel racket which would earn millions, if not billions, through fuel tax fraud. Agron died after being shot twice in the head outside his Brooklyn apartment in May 1985, at age 53.

Rinat Akhmetshin – A Russian lobbyist and alleged former Soviet counterintelligence officer, he has frequently lobbied on behalf of Eastern European oligarchs & other Russian interests since arriving in the US in 1994. Akhemetshin served in the Soviet army & has often boasted of his connections within both Soviet and American intelligence services. He was one of 5 Russia linked attendees in the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.

TEVFIK ARIF

THE CHARACTERS

Tevfik Arif – Arif is a Kazakh-born real estate developer & founded The Bayrock Group, a development company that worked with the Trump Organization on several projects. He has extensive ties in Russia where he worked for almost 2 decades in the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Arif reportedly played a major role in connecting Trump to Russian investors who helped finance or purchased Trump properties.

Marat Balagula – a Russian immigrant who was a Soviet Union leader and later Russian mafia boss, Marat also became a close associate and ally of the Lucchese crime family. In the aftermath of Evsei Agron’s murder, Balagula took over as the most powerful Russian gangster in Brooklyn. He would eventually be sent to prison for a debit card scam & gasoline tax evasion, but was released in 2004.

David Bogatin - In 1984, Soviet Army veteran David Bogatin purchased five luxury condos in Trump Tower for $6 million. The purchase was so substantial that Donald Trump himself attended the closing. Three years later, he absconded to Austria and Poland after the discovery of his gasoline-bootlegging scheme, and his five apartments were seized by the government because he bought them to hide and launder money.

Jacob Bogatin – David’s brother was also involved in the Russian crime syndicate, and was a key member of the Mogilevich crime family. He was indicted in 2003 on 45 counts of stock fraud with ‘Boss of Bosses’ Semion Mogilevich. Because there is no extradition treaty between the US & Russia, neither man was ever brought to trial in the United States.

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Oleg Boyko - an international investor and Chairman of Finstar Financial Group, a diversified private equity firm. Finstar manages and consults portfolio companies and assets worldwide. Assets under Finstar management exceed $2 billion. The Russian oligarch purchased a Trump Tower apartment in 1994.

NEED LOYALTY, I EXPECT LOYALTY.”

- According to former FBI director James Comey, Trump pushed him for one thing above all.

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The CHARACTERS

Mikhail Chernoy - Chernoy allegedly defrauded the Russian central bank of more than $100 million, and is believed by the FBI to be a major Russian crime figure. In the nineties, Chernoy worked with the Chodiev Group. Chernoy also worked with Semyon Kislin, who had a long relationship with Trump and who partnered with Tamir Sapir, a financier of Trump Soho.

Vitaly Churkin - The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly represented his country through times of domestic tumult and rising tensions with the West. Churkin died suddenly in New York in 2017 as more people began looking into Trump’s ties with Russia. He was one of 6 Russian diplomats to die unexpectedly during the early stages of the Meuller investigation.

Michael Cohen – Trump employed Cohen until May 2018, a year after the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections began. The investigation led him to plead guilty on August 21, 2018, to eight counts including campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. Cohen said he violated campaign finance laws at the direction of Trump and “for the principal purpose of influencing” the 2016 presidential election.

Oleg Deripaska – A Russian billionaire & Kremlin insider, Deripaska has a business relationship with Paul Manafort that dates back over a decade. One of Putin’s closest confidants, Deripaska has been denied US visas numerous times due to allegations of his connections to Russian organized crime. Prior to Trump’s acceptance of the presidential nomination, Manafort reportedly offered to provide private briefings on the election to Deripaska’s camp.

Natalia Dubinina – In late 1986, Trump was invited to Moscow by Natalia Dubinina, the daughter of the Soviet ambassador to the United States, whom he met at a luncheon in New York in ‘86. The following year, he took her up on the offer. On July 4, 1987, Trump flew to Moscow for the first time, together with Ivana and Lisa Calandra, Ivana’s Italian-American assistant. “Moscow was,” Trump wrote, “an extraordinary experience.”

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THE CHARACTERS

Yuri Dubinin - As Soviet ambassador to the UN, Dubinin met Trump and invited him to Moscow in 1987. The trip was arranged by Intourist, which was essentially a branch of the KGB whose job was to spy on high profile tourists. As a result, Trump’s entire visit, including his hotel stay, would have been subject to surveillance by the KGB. Dubinin later became Soviet ambassador to the US.

Dmitry Firtash – The Ukranian billionaire who was indicted in the US on racketeering charges and was previously accused of orchestrating a money laundering scheme with Paul Manafort (although the case was dismissed.) Firtash made his fortune in the Ukranian natural gas industry & is closely linked to Putin through his business arrangement with the Russian company Gazprom.

Michael Flynn - Flynn served as a senior advisor to Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. On January 22, 2017, Flynn was sworn in as the National Security Advisor. On February 13, 2017, he resigned after information surfaced that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature and content of his communications with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. Flynn’s tenure as the National Security Advisor is the shortest in the history of the position.

Rick Gates - When Paul Manafort became Trump’s campaign manager, Gates, as Manafort’s partner, became the campaign’s number two, after having worked closely with Manafort for pro-Putin forces in Ukraine. In 2017, Gates was charged with conspiracy against the United States, making false statements, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The CHARACTERS

David Geovanis - As head of real estate for a subsidiary of the Brooke Group, (In 1999 the Brooke Group became the Vector Group) Geovanis arranged meetings for Donald Trump during his 1996 Moscow trip to explore building Trump Tower Moscow.

Rob Goldstone – Emin Agalarov’s publicist, Goldstone helped plan the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. His connection to the Trump Organization traces back to 2013, when he worked on the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

Anatoly Golubchik – Along with 2 others, convicted of taking part in an enormous illicit betting and money-laundering syndicate that ran out of Trump Tower in New York. Each of them was a Trump condo owner, and operated out of Vadim Trincher’s Trump Tower New York apartment just three floors down from Trump’s penthouse.

Vyacheslav Ivankov - Top Russian mafia boss and associate of Semion Mogilevich. Hid out in Trump Tower and was high-roller at Trump Taj Mahal even while subject of a worldwide FBI manhunt. 9-year prison sentence for racketeering. Shot dead in 2009 outside Moscow restaurant.

Irakly Kaveladze – Vice President of the Agalarov owned Crocus Group, Kaveladze has been scrutinized for alleged money laundering by congress, although no charges were ever brought. He was revealed to be one of the participants in the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

Viktor Khrapunov – A wealthy Kazakh fugitive who has done business with Felix Sater & The Bayrock Group. His daughter Elvira purchased then quickly resold 3 condos in Trump Soho in 2013, leading to speculation that the family was using US real estate to launder stolen funds.

Konstantin Kilimnk – A former longtime employee of Paul Manafort’s with ties to Russian intelligence. Kilimnik was reportedly in contact with Manafort during the 2016 election about potentially providing Oleg Deripaska private briefings regarding the election. Also found to have ties with Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that helped elect Trump.

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VIKTOR KHRAPUNOV

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The CHARACTERS

Seymon “Sam” Kislin – A Ukrainian-born businessman who has been associated with Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, for more than two decades. He contributed to Giuliani’s campaigns when he ran for Mayor of New York and served on Giuliani’s Council of Economic Advisers. Kislin has been accused of having ties to Russian mobsters but has steadfastly denied those allegations.

Sergey Kislyak – Russian ambassador to the US who had a number of secret meetings & conversations with a number of Trump officials. Kislyak also held a private meeting with Michael Flynn & Jared Kushner at Trump Tower where the possibility of establishing a secure channel between the Trump Team and the Kremlin was discussed.

Simon Kukes – Bought an apartment at Trump properties in 2000 & contributed almost $300,000 to various Trump entities. Shortly after the Trump Tower meeting in 2016, Kukes started making major contributions to the Trump campaign & the RNC.

Bennett LeBow – Founder & chairman of the Brooke Group, LeBow accompanied Donald Trump on his 1996 trip to Moscow. While in the Russian capital, the pair bragged they would soon be developing a luxury Trump skyscraper. These towers never happened, but Trump and LeBow remained friends.

Lev Leviev – The Israeli billionaire has close ties to Putin after cracking the world diamond monopoly of the De Beers cartel. He also has ties to the Trump family, especially Jared Kushner, who bought 4 floors of the New York Times building off Leviev for almost $300 million.

Howard Lorber - has been named as one of Trump’s “best friends” and even appeared once on “The Apprentice.” He is also president and chief executive of the Vector Group, a holding company that has various business interests in Russia. In 1996, Lorber (along with Bennett LeBow) brought Trump to Moscow to look for opportunities for Trump to lend his famous name to development projects there.

THE CHARACTERS

Yuri Luzhkov – The former Mayor of Moscow had deep ties to Russian organized crime and oversaw systematic corruption “in which it appears that almost everyone at every level is involved in criminal behavior.” Trump’s meetings in Moscow to discuss developments took place under Luhzkov’s watch.

Paul Manafort – The longtime political operative who joined the Trump campaign (& became its chairman) before resigning amid controversy about his ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Manafort worked for oligarchs Oleg Deripaska & Rinat Akhmetov among others, and almost every Trump campaign Russia connection involves him in some way.

Alexander Mashkevich - The Moscow Times once tagged Machkevich the “secret treasurer” for Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 1999 reelection campaign. In the early 2000s Machkevich, Chodiev and Ibragimov were accused of money laundering in Belgium, where prosecutors believed their funds to be of “criminal origin.”

Sergei Mikhailov - Alleged to be the longtime head of Solntsevskaya Bratva, the biggest crime gang in Russia, and an associate of Semion Mogilevich, who is said to have laundered money from him starting in 1984. According to one denizen of the Russian underworld, Mikhailov is very much the boss and is more powerful than Mogilevich.

Semion Mogilevich - Ukrainian-born alleged “Brainy Don” of the Russian Mafia, with a multibilliondollar organization allegedly involved in the sale of nuclear materials to terrorist, human trafficking and prostitution, drugs and money laundering.

Hillel “Helly” Nahmad – An art dealer who owned an entire floor of apartments in Trump Tower. He was the leader of the Nahmad-Trincher Organization, which operated “international sports books” that laundered more than $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies and into investments in the United States in an enterprise that was based in Trump Tower.

Eduard Nektalov - A mob-connected diamond dealer from Uzbekistan, he was a member of the notorious world of the 47th Street jewelry business. A year after purchasing a 79th floor apartment in Trump Tower (directly below Kellyanne Conway’s), Nektalov was gunned down on 6th Avenue in New York.

PAUL MANAFORT

The CHARACTERS

Alexandre Ventura Nogueira – The primary broker of the Trump Ocean Club in Panama, Nogueira marketed the Trump branded units to Russians & others with criminal pasts. Federal prosecutors in Brazil were investigating Nogueira for a number of crimes when he fled the country in 2014.

Carter Page – An early foreign policy advisor to Trump, Page was under surveillance for his trips to Russia & his numerous interactions with alleged Russian intelligence. He was approached by Russianintelligence in 2013 who were actively trying to recruit him.

George Papadopoulos - A foreign policy adviser to the Trumpcampaign, Papadopoulos triggered the FBI investigation into Trump’s collusion with Russia when he told an Australian top diplomat that Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

Felix Sater – A former Bayrock executive, his ties with Trump & Russian organized crime are shrouded in mystery. Cooperated with the feds after a racketeering conviction in 1998. He helped the government track terrorists & mobsters, but is also tied to Semion Mogilevich’scrime organization.

The CHARACTERS

Roger Stone – The longtime Republican party operative who advised Trump both formally & informally throughout the 2016 election. His communications with both WikiLeaks & Russian hackers led to his indictment & conviction related to the Mueller probe.

Gennady Timchenko - Cited as a member of Putin’s inner circle, Timchenko has been subject to sanctions. As an owner of Sibur, a large gas company, he is one of the biggest clients of Navigator Holdings, a shipping firm partly owned by Trump’s commerce secretary Wilbur Ross.

Vadim Trincher – A former World Poker Tour winner & condo owner on 63rd floor of Trump Tower. Masterminded the Trump Tower gambling ring with Helly Nahmad. Served 5 years in federal prison and forfeited $20 million dollars in assets after his racketeering conviction in the case.

Natalia Veselnitskaya – The Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower. Veselnitskaya, a pivotal figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, was charged in a separate case in 2019 by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with seeking to thwart an earlier investigation into money laundering that involved an influential Russian businessman.

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