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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 06:31 PM Nov 2017

President Trump appears in Panama Papers for the first time

CHRIS SOMMERFELDT NOV 24, 2017 5:03 PM
President Trump's name has for the first time been discovered in the Panama Papers, the massive trove of leaked documents detailing ways in which the world's richest people hide their business dealings from scrutiny and taxation.

The discovery, first flagged by investigative reporter Jake Bernstein on Friday afternoon, involves the purchase and subsequent sale of a condo at the newly constructed Trump Palace on Manhattan's Upper East Side in the early 1990s.

The deal involved a mysterious Panamanian company called Process Consultants, Inc., which bought a 16th floor condo at the Trump skyscraper in 1991.

Process Consultants was owned through so-called bearer shares, which can be used to transfer assets with complete anonymity. Such shares are popular among money launderers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/trump-appears-panama-papers-time-article-1.3655007
I knew there'd be more after the initial publication date.

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President Trump appears in Panama Papers for the first time (Original Post) JonLP24 Nov 2017 OP
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Nov 2017 #1
kick steve2470 Nov 2017 #2
I'm staying out of Franken stuff JonLP24 Nov 2017 #4
republican-russian scumbag money laundry Achilleaze Nov 2017 #3
Which makes him only the seventh sitting head of state to have that (very dubious) honor: sandensea Nov 2017 #5

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
4. I'm staying out of Franken stuff
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 06:42 PM
Nov 2017

I'm too afraid to give my opinion on the matter so I'd rather focus on other issues.

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