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Source: USA Today
Since President Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers identities, a USA TODAY investigation has found.
Over the last 12 months, about 70% of buyers of Trump properties were limited liability companies corporate entities that allow people to purchase property without revealing all of the owners names. That compares with about 4% of buyers in the two years before.
USA TODAY journalists have spent six months cataloging every condo, penthouse or other property that Trump and his companies own and tracking the buyers behind every transaction. The investigation found Trumps companies owned more than 430 individual properties worth well over $250 million.
Since Election Day, Trumps businesses have sold 28 of those U.S. properties for $33 million. The sales include luxury condos and penthouses in Las Vegas and New York and oceanfront lots near Los Angeles. The value of his companies' inventory of available real estate remains above a quarter-billion dollars.
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That's one way to pay bribes.