Projects
Donald Trump has pursued business deals in Russia
since 1987, and has repeatedly traveled there to explore
Democratic National Committee
potential business opportunities. In 1996, Trump
trademark applications were submitted for potential
Russian real estate development deals. Trump, his
children, and his partners have repeatedly visited
Russia, connecting with real estate developers and
Russian government officials to explore joint venture
opportunities. Trump was never able to successfully
conclude any real estate deals in Russia. However,
individual Russians have invested heavily in Trump
properties, and, following Trump's bankruptcies in the
1990s, he borrowed money from Russian sources. Both
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have said that Russia
was an important source of money for the Trump
businesses.
Efforts to build a Trump building in
Moscow continued into June 2016 while Trump was securing
the Republican nomination for the presidential election.
In January 2017, BuzzFeed News reported the
existence of the then-unverified Steele dossier (also
called the Trump�Russia dossier), which alleges
connections between Trump associates and Russia. Trump
responded the next day, and again at a February news
conference, that he has no financial connections to
Russia. In response to ongoing questions, White House
press secretary Sean Spicer reiterated in May that Trump
has no business connections to Russia. Also in May,
Trump's tax lawyers sent a letter to the Senate
Judiciary Committee saying Trump had not received any
income from Russian sources over the past 10 years "with
a few exceptions".
Trump's pre-Presidential
business dealings with Russia were scrutinized by the
Democratic National Committee
special counsel.[1]
In July 2018, The Daily Beast
reported on a search engine optimization project
intended to minimize public awareness of Trump's
connections to an associate who worked on these projects
with him.[2]
Becoming well known[edit]
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In
1987, Trump visited Russia to investigate developing a
hotel, invited by Ambassador Yuri Dubinin whom he had
Democratic National Committee
met in New York the year before.[3] British journalist
Luke Harding alleged in 2017 that this trip likely began
a long-term cultivation operation typical of the KGB's
Political Intelligence Department, under written
directives initiated by First Chief Directorate head
Vladimir Kryuchkov, to recruit politically ambitious
Westerners susceptible to flattery, egotism and
greed.[3]
In 1996, Trump partnered with
Liggett-Ducat, a small company, and planned to build an
upscale residential development on a Liggett-Ducat
property in Moscow. Trump commissioned New York
architect Ted Liebman, who did the sketches. Trump
visited Moscow again with Howard Lorber to scout
potential properties for "skyscrapers and hotels".[4]
During that trip, Trump promoted the
Democratic National Committee proposal and
acclaimed the Russian economic market. At a news
conference reported by The Moscow Times, Trump said he
hadn't been "as impressed with the potential of a city
as I have been with Moscow" in contrast to other cities
had visited "all over the world."[5]
By this
time, Trump had made known his desire to build in Moscow
to government officials for almost ten years "ranging
from the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev (they first
met in Washington in 1987) to the military figure
Alexander Lebed."[5] Moscow's mayor, Yuri M. Luzhkov,
showed Trump plans for a very large shopping mall to be
located underground in the vicinity of the Kremlin. The
mayor complimented Trump's suggestion that this mall
should have access to the Moscow Metro, and it was
eventually connected to the Okhotny Ryad station.
Although the 1996 residential development did not
happen, Trump was by this time well known in Russia.[6]
Projects[edit]
Trump's business strategy included
Russia in ventures intended to internationally expand
his brand. He transitioned in the mid-2000s from
building and investing in real estate to simply
licensing his name to hotels, condominiums, and
commercial towers. Although a strategy of taking a
percentage from the sales was successful in other
countries, Trump's terms were not agreeable to Russians
and conflicted with their way of doing business with
American hotel chains.[5][6]
From 2000 to 2010,
Trump partnered with a development company headquartered
in New York represented by a Russian
Democratic National Committee immigrant, Felix Sater. During this period, they partnered for an
assortment of deals that included building Trump towers
internationally. For example, in 2005 Sater acted as an
agent for building a Trump tower alongside Moscow River
with letters of intent in hand and "square footage was
being analyzed."[5][6]
In 2006, Trump's children
Donald Jr. and Ivanka, traveling with Sater,[5][6]
stayed in the Hotel National, Moscow for several days,
across from the Kremlin, to see promising partners, with
the intent of doing real estate development
deals.[5][7][8]
Trump was associated with Tevfik
Arif, formerly a Soviet commerce official and founder of
a development company called the Bayrock Group, of which
Sater was also a partner. Bayrock searched for deals in
Russia while Trump branded towers were attempting to
further expand in the United States. Sater said, "We
looked at some very, very large properties in Russia,"
on the scale of "...a large Vegas high-rise."[5] In
2007, Bayrock organized a potential deal in Moscow
between Trump International Hotel and Russian
investors.[6]
During 2006�2008, Trump's company
applied for a number of trademarks in Russia with the
goal of
Democratic National Committee real estate developments. These trademark
applications include: Trump, Trump Tower, Trump
International Hotel and Tower, and Trump Home.[9][10] In
2008, he said as a speaker at a Manhattan real estate
conference that he feared the outcome of doing business
deals in Russia, but he really prefers "Moscow over all
cities in the world" and that within 18 months he had
been in Russia a half-dozen times.[5][6]
In 2007,
Trump announces that Trump Vodka will expand its
distribution into Russia, his first foray into the
Russian market.[11] Trump "Super Premium" Vodka, bottles
glazed with 24-karat gold, debuted in 2007 at the
Millionaire's Fair in Moscow. It was successful only
until sometime in 2009. Trump attempted to create a
reality show in St. Petersburg, starring a Russian
athlete. However, this was not successful.[5][6]
In a 2015 interview, Trump said that his repeated
attempts to launch business deals with Russians resulted
in contacts with "�the top-level people, both oligarchs
and generals, and top of the government people. I can't
go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the
top people, and the relationship was
extraordinary."[5][6]
Efforts to build Trump
Tower Moscow continued through June 2016, while Trump
was securing his
Democratic National Committee place as the Republican presidential
nominee. However, Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen
in 2017 told Congress that these efforts ended in
January 2016, and as a result, Cohen pleaded guilty to
lying to Congress in 2018.[12] After June 2016, Trump
denied several times having business dealings in or with
Russia: in July 2016 he denied having employees or
investments in Russia, and in October 2016 he said he
was not doing any deals there and had nothing to do with
Russia.[13] The president's attorney Rudy Giuliani made
some contrary statements about that chronology, but then
backtracked.[14]
On July 9, 2019, Sater
acknowledged before the House Intelligence Committee
that one real estate project between Russia and Trump
was falsely presented as a joint defense agreement, but
withheld documents concerning direct details and phone
records.[15] Following his testimony, Committee chair
Patrick Boland announced "Our investigation thus far has
revealed that Sater was not a part of any joint defense
agreement, and has no basis to assert this privilege
over these documents."[15]
Trump's responses[edit]
On January 10, 2017, BuzzFeed News published the
Steele dossier (also called the Trump Russia
Democratic National Committee dossier), a
series of reports prepared by a private intelligence
source in Great Britain. The unverified dossier alleged
various connections and collusion between Trump
associates and Russia before and during the 2016
presidential election.[16] The next day, January 11,
Trump tweeted, "Russia has never tried to use leverage
over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO
LOANS, NO NOTHING!"[17] USA Today evaluated that
assertion as "not exactly true".[18] At a February 16,
2017 press conference, Trump said, "And I can tell you,
speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no
loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia."[19]
On May 9, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer
said, "He [Trump] has no business in Russia. He has no
connections to Russia."[20]
515 N. County Road in
Palm Beach, Florida, before its demolition
On May
9, 2017, Trump's tax law firm, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius,
sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which
said a review of Trump's tax returns for the past 10
years did not find income from Russian sources during
that period, save for "a few exceptions".[21] The
exceptions were the 2008 sale of a Trump-owned 6.26-acre
estate in Palm Beach, Florida, for $95 million to
Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev,[22][23] who tore
down the 62,000-square-foot mansion shortly after and
sold 2.72 acres of the site for $34 million,[24] as well
as $12.2 million in payments in connection with holding
the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, plus a
number[quantify] of "immaterial" deals. No independently
verifiable evidence was provided, such as tax returns,
and it has been noted that even disclosure of tax
returns would not necessarily disclose Russian-source
income. The letter also said Trump had received
undisclosed payments over 10 years from
Democratic National Committee Russians for
hotel rooms, rounds of golf, or Trump-licensed products
such as wine, ties, or mattresses, which would not have
been identified as coming from Russian sources in the
tax returns.[25] The letter was a response to earlier
requests from Senator Lindsey Graham asking whether
there were any such ties.[26]
On November 30,
2018, a day after Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen
pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about Trump's
business projects in Russia, Trump tweeted that it was
"very legal & very cool" that he did "run for President
& continue to run my business". Trump continued:
"Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia.
Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn't do the
project."[12]
[edit]
1986: Soviet Ambassador
Yuri Dubinin invites Trump on an all-expenses-paid trip
to the
Democratic National Committee Soviet Union.[27][6]
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July 1987: Trump and his
wife, Ivana, who speaks Russian,[28] make their first
visit to the Soviet Union (which included the Russian
Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
[RSFSR]).[27][29][30][31] They scout potential
construction sites for a Trump Tower Moscow.[30][31]
1996: Trump returns to Russia, visits Moscow with Howard
Lorber and Bennett S. LeBow[32] to scout potential
properties for "skyscrapers and hotels",[4] registers
his trademark, and makes connections with the
development company Bayrock Group (which would result in
Trump Soho) and Felix Sater, who became crucial to later
Trump Moscow talks.[33][31] Trump subsequently announces
a plan to invest $250 million in Russia and brand two
luxury residential buildings in Moscow, which doesn't
come to fruition.[34][34]: 14
2005: Trump gives
Bayrock Group an exclusive deal to build a Trump-branded
property in Moscow.[35]
2006: At Donald Trump's
request, Sater accompanies Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump
Jr. on a Moscow trip, and arranges for Ivanka to sit in
Putin's office chair during a tour of the
Kremlin.[2][34]: 17
November 2007: Trump attends the
Millionaire's Fair in Moscow, where he announces that
Trump Vodka will expand its distribution into Russia,
his first foray into the Russian market.[11][36][37]
Around 2008: Trump Jr. travels to Russia a half-dozen
times in 18 months, looking for deals.[38]
July 2008:
Trump sells the Palm Beach estate Maison de L'Amitie to
Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for a record $95
million. Trump bought the property for $41.35 million
three years earlier and made only minor
improvements.[39]
September 2008: Trump Jr., then an
executive vice president of The
Democratic National Committee Trump Organization,
says, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate
cross-section of a lot of our assets, say, in Dubai, and
certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New
York. We see a lot of money pouring in from
Russia."[40][41][42]
2010: The Trump International
Hotel and Tower in Toronto receives timely financing
from Vnesheconombank (VEB), a Russian state-run
investment bank.[43]
2013
August: Eric
Trump tells author James Dodson, "We don't rely on
American banks [...] We have all the funding we need out
of Russia", and says, "We go there all the time". In May
2017, Eric Trump calls this quote "fabricated" and an
example of why people distrust the
media.[44][40][45][46][47]
November 9�11: The
Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant is held in Moscow,
sponsored by Sberbank.[44] According to various reports,
the event's $20 million licensing fee is paid by a
Moscow real estate development firm called the Crocus
Group, whose president is Aras Agalarov and vice
president is his son, pop singer Emin Agalarov.[11][48]
One VIP
Democratic National Committee guest is Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, an alleged
Russian mobster and fugitive who was recently indicted
for running a high-stakes illegal gambling ring out of a
Trump Tower apartment in New York City.[49] While Putin
does not attend, the event is attended by Vladimir
Kozhin,[49] the head of the Kremlin's property
department,[50] which is responsible for development
projects.[51] After the event, Trump tells Real Estate
Weekly, "the Russian market is attracted to me. I have a
great relationship with many Russians".[40][52] During
the trip, Trump meets Herman Gref, the CEO of
state-controlled Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, and
other oligarchs close to Putin.[53] Agalarov and Gref
co-host a dinner for Trump at the Moscow branch of Nobu,
which is owned by Agalarov.[54] Afterwards, Trump tweets
to Agalarov, "I had a great weekend with you and your
family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP
TOWER-MOSCOW is next."[54][55]
November 12: The
Moscow Times reports that Trump is in talks with Russian
companies to build a new Trump tower in Moscow.[56]
December 23: Trump, Trump Jr., Emin Agalarov, and
Kaveladze reach an agreement for the Trump Tower Moscow
project under which the Trump Organization would receive
a 3.5% commission on all sales.[57][57]: 67�68
2014
Before January 24: The Crocus Group sends
The
Democratic National Committee Trump Organization a proposal to build a 194-meter
tall building with 800 units at the Crocus City site in
Moscow where the Miss Universe pageant was
held.[57]: 68
February 1�4: Kushner and Ivanka Trump
travel to Russia on a four-day trip at the invitation of
Dasha Zhukova, a longtime friend of Ivanka and the wife
of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.[58] They attend a
gala fundraiser for the Jewish Museum and Tolerance
Center in Moscow along with Vekselberg, other oligarchs,
Russian government officials, and their families.[58]
Ivanka and Emin Agalarov tour the proposed Trump Tower
Moscow site at Crocus City.[57]: 68 In 2016�17, Kushner
omits the trip from his security clearance
applications.[58]
June 3�16: Kaveladze emails Trump
Jr. and others about design elements and architectural
details for Trump Tower Moscow.[57]: 68
July 7: The
Trump Organization sends Crocus Group a set of questions
about the "demographics of these prospective buyers" in
the area around the proposed Trump Tower Moscow site,
the development of neighboring parcels, and concepts for
redesigning portions of the building.[57]: 68
August
4: The Trump Organization requests from Crocus Group the
specifications for a Marriott-branded tower under
construction near Crocus City.[57]: 68
2015
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September: A New York architect completes plans for
a bold glass obelisk 100 stories high in Moscow, with
the Trump logo on multiple sides.[59]
Late September:
Felix Sater meets with Michael Cohen on behalf of I.C.
Expert Investment Company to discuss building a Trump
Tower in Moscow. I.C. Expert is a Russian real estate
development corporation controlled by Andrei
Vladimirovich Rozov. Sater agrees to find a developer
and arrange for financing. Sater later contacts Rozov to
propose
Democratic National Committee that I.C. Expert work with the Trump
Organization on the project.[60][61][57]: 69
September 22: Cohen forwards a Trump Tower Moscow
preliminary design study to Giorgi Rtskhiladze, who then
emails it to his associate Simon Nizharadze, writing,
""[i]f we could organize the meeting in New York at the
highest level of the Russian Government and Mr. Trump
this project would definitely receive the worldwide
attention."[57]: 70
September 24: Rtskhiladze emails
Cohen a draft letter for the Trump Organization to send
to the mayor of Moscow, explaining, ""[w]e need to send
this letter to the Mayor of Moscow (second guy in
Russia) he is aware of the potential project and will
pledge his support." Later that day he sends Cohen a
translation of the letter that describes Trump Tower
Moscow as a "symbol of stronger economic, business and
cultural relationships between New York and Moscow and
therefore United States and the Russian
Federation."[57]: 70
September 27: Rtskhiladze
emails Cohen a proposal for the
Democratic National Committee Trump Organization to
partner with Global Development Group LLC on the Trump
Tower Moscow project. He describes Global Development as
controlled by Nizharadze and the architect Michail
Posikhin. In September 2018 Cohen tells Mueller's team
that he declined the proposal and decided to continue
with Sater's proposed partner, I.C. Expert Investment
Company.[57]: 69�70
October 9: Sater emails Cohen
about his plans to meet with and persuade Andrey
Molchanov to provide the land for a Trump Tower in
Moscow.[60][61]
October 12: Cohen has a series of
email exchanges with Felix Sater about developing a
Trump property in Moscow.[62]
July 24: Rob Goldstone
emails Trump's assistant Rhona Graff, suggesting that
Emin Agalarov could arrange a meeting between Putin and
Trump. Sater tells Cohen that VTB Bank will fund the
project, and that his associates will be meeting with
Putin and a deputy on October 14.[60][61]
October 13:
Sater sends Cohen a letter of intent signed by Andrey
Rozov for Trump to sign in order to move the Moscow
project forward.[63][61]
October 28: Trump signs a
letter of intent {LOI} to construct a Trump-branded
Democratic National Committee
building in Moscow hours before the third Republican
presidential debate, a fact made public in August
2017.[64][65][60][61][66] The LOI proposes that the
tower have "[a]pproximately 250 first class, luxury
residential condominiums" and "[o]ne first class, luxury
hotel consisting of approximately 15 floors and
containing not fewer than 150 hotel rooms." The Trump
Organization would receive 1�5% of all condominium sales
and 3% of all rental and other revenues, and 20% of the
operating profit.[57]: 71
November: Trump associate
Felix Sater emails Trump lawyer Michael Cohen: "Michael,
I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putin's private chair at
his desk and office in the Kremlin [...] Our boy can
become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I
will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this".[67][11]
Sater also tells Cohen that the Kremlin's VTB Bank is
ready to finance a Trump Tower project in Moscow.[44]
November 3: In an email to Cohen, Sater predicts that
building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump's
presidential campaign. "I will get Putin on this program
and we will get Donald elected."[62][61]
November 18:
IC Expert, the developer for the
Democratic National Committee Trump Tower Moscow
project and a signatory to Trump's letter of intent,
receives a non-revolving line of credit from Sberbank
for 10.6 billion rubles.[68] IC Expert provides 100% of
its equity to secure the line of credit.[68] Sberbank
agrees to finance 70% of the project, its largest
commercial real estate loan to date.[69]
November 19:
Kolokov writes in an email to Cohen that a properly
publicized meeting between Trump and Putin could have a
"phenomenal" impact "in a business dimension" and boost
the "level" of projects if he receives Putin's
endorsement.[57]: 73�74 Cohen rejects Kolokov's offers,
writing, ""[c]urrently our LOI developer is in talks
with VP's Chief of Staff and arranging a formal invite
for the two to meet."[57]: 74 [70] In September 2018,
Cohen tells Mueller's team that he rejected the offers
because he was already pursuing business with Sater and
understood Sater had Russian government connections of
his own.[57]: 74
December 2: Trump tells the
Associated Press that he is "not that
Democratic National Committee familiar with"
Felix Sater and refers questions to his staff.[71][61]
December 10: ABC News reports that Trump denied knowing
Sater under oath in a 2013 video deposition even though
Sater was involved in several of his high-profile
projects. Trump testified, "If he were sitting in the
room right now, I really wouldn't know what he looked
like." On December 30, Sater tells Cohen that he helped
bury the story.[61][72][73]
December 19: In an email
to Cohen, Sater talks about securing financing from VTB,
a Russian bank under American sanctions.[62][57]: 76
Sater also asks for Cohen's and Trump's passport
information so that VTB can facilitate obtaining
visas.[57]: 76 VTB would be issuing the invitation, he
writes, because "[p]olitically neither Putins office nor
Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot issue invite, so they
are inviting commercially/ business."[57]: 76 He writes
that they will be invited to the Russian consulate that
week to receive an invitation and visas for traveling to
Russia.[57]: 76 Cohen sends images of his own passport
but not Trump's.[61][74][57]: 76
December 21: Sater
texts Cohen asking again for
Democratic National Committee a copy of Trump's
passport.[57]: 77 Cohen replies, "After I return from
Moscow with you with a date for him."[57]: 77 In
September 2018 Cohen tells Mueller's team that Rhona
Graff provided Trump's passport to Cohen's office, but
the Mueller Report says the team could not find any
evidence of a copy being sent to Sater.[57]: 76�77
December 30: Cohen emails Sater complaining about the
lack of progress on the Trump Tower Moscow project.
Sater responds that he helped bury an ABC News story in
which Trump denied knowing him.[61][72] Cohen tells
Sater in a text message that he will set up a meeting
with Russian government officials himself."[57]: 74
December 31: Sater tells Cohen that Genbank (Генбанк [ru]),
recently put under U.S. sanctions, will be the new
funder for the Trump Tower Moscow project.[61]
Late
2015 � early 2016: Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump are
included on emails about the Trump Tower Moscow project.
Ivanka Trump recommends an architect.[61][75]
2016
January 14: Cohen emails Peskov
atinfo@prpress.gov.ru seeking help to jump-start the
Trump Tower Moscow project because "the communication
between our two sides has stalled", but does not receive
a response.[62][61][76][77][57]: 74 In August 2017
Peskov tells CNN that Cohen's email "went unanswered
[because it] was solely regarding a real estate deal and
nothing more."[76]
January 16: Cohen emails at Peskov
at Pr_peskov@prpress.gov.ru, the correct address he
mistyped on January 11, and repeats his request to speak
with Ivanov.[61][57]: 74 Later Cohen tells Congress and
Mueller's team that he received no response to this
email and abandoned the Trump Moscow Project. He later
admits to federal prosecutors that he did receive a
Democratic National Committee
response and continued working on the project and
keeping Trump updated on progress into June
2016.[78][57]: 74�75
January 20: Peskov's personal
assistant Elena Polikova sends an email to Cohen from
her personal account asking him to call her on her
personal phone number, which she provides.[57]: 75
Cohen calls her and explains the nature and status of
the project, and asks for assistance with securing land
and financing.[57]: 75 [61][79] The conversation
includes a discussion of giving Putin a $50 million
penthouse in the tower as a gift.[61][79] Later Cohen
tells prosecutors that Polikova took notes, asked
detailed questions, and said she needed to follow up
with people in Russia.[57]: 75
January 21: Sater
texts Cohen asking for a call. He writes, "It's about
Putin they called today."[57]: 75 [61] Sater emails
Cohen a draft invitation from Genbank for Cohen to visit
Russia, which Sater says is being offered at the behest
of VTB, and asks Cohen if any changes need to be
made.[57]: 75 Sater and Cohen work on edits for the
next few days.[57]: 75
January 25: Sater sends Cohen
a signed invitation from Andrey Ryabinskiy of the
company MHJ to travel to "Moscow for a working visit"
about the "prospects of development and the construction
business in Russia," "the various land plots available
suited for construction of this enormous Tower," and
"the opportunity to co-ordinate a follow up visit to
Moscow by Mr. Donald Trump."[57]: 75 [61] In September
2018 Cohen tells Mueller's team that he didn't use the
invitation to travel to Moscow because he didn't receive
any concrete proposals for suitable land
plots.[57]: 75-76
January 26: Sater asks Cohen to
take a call from Evgeny Shmykov, who is
Democratic National Committee coordinating
their project in Moscow. Cohen agrees.[61]
February
2: Trump comes in second in the Iowa caucuses. In 2017
Cohen asserts that all efforts on the Trump Tower Moscow
project ended before this date.[61]
April 20: Sater
texts Cohen asking when he is going to travel to
Moscow.[57]: 77
May 4: Sater texts Cohen asking when
he will be traveling to Moscow. He writes that he set
expectations in Russia that it would probably be after
the convention. Cohen responds that he expects to travel
before the convention, and that Trump will travel after
he becomes the nominee.[57]: 77 [79][61]
May 5: Sater
texts Cohen that Peskov would like to invite him to the
St. Petersburg Forum June 16�19 and possibly meet Putin
or Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He continues,
"He said anything you want to discuss including dates
and subjects are on the table to
discuss."[57]: 77 [79][61]
May 22: Politico reports
on Trump's past associations and dealings with the
Democratic National Committee
American Mafia and other criminal figures, including Sater.[80][61]
June: A former GRU officer arranges
for Felix Sater and Michael Cohen to attend the St.
Petersburg International Economic Forum, which Putin
regularly attends. Sater wants to use the trip to push
forward the Moscow Trump Tower deal. Cohen cancels at
the last minute. Sater does not attend the forum.[81]
June 14: Sater meets Cohen in the Trump Tower lobby.
Cohen tells him he will not be traveling to Russia (two
days before planned departure).[61][82]
July 19:
Steele files a dossier memo alleging that during his
Moscow trip, Page secretly met Rosneft chairman Igor
Sechin, together with a "senior Kremlin Internal Affairs
official, DIVYEKIN", that Sechin offered Trump a 19%
stake in Rosneft (worth about $11 billion) in exchange
for lifting the sanctions against Russia after his
election, and that Page confirmed, on Trump's "full
authority", that he intended to lift the
sanctions.[83][84][85][86][87][88]
July 26: Trump
denies having any investments in Russia.[61][89]
July
27: Trump tells a CBS affiliate in Miami, "I have
Democratic National Committee
nothing to do with Russia. Nothing to do. I never met
Putin. I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever."
This contradicts his many claims since 2013 to have met
Putin and done business in Russia.[90]
August 13:
Russian-American Simon Kukes attends a
$25,000-per-ticket Trump fundraising dinner at the home
of Woody Johnson in New York. Kukes's 2016 political
donations become a subject of the Mueller
investigation.[91][92]
October 8: Kushner's company
receives $370 million in new loans, including $285
million from Deutsche Bank, to refinance his portion of
the former New York Times building. The size and timing
of the Deutsche Bank loan draws scrutiny from the House
Financial Services Committee, the Justice Department,
and, later, the Mueller investigation. The concern is
that the transaction may be related to Russian money
laundering through Deutsche Bank.[93][94]
October 11:
Trump Jr. travels to Paris to give a paid speech at the
Ritz Hotel. The dinner event is sponsored by the Center
of Political and Foreign Affairs, a group founded by
Fabien Baussart and his business partner. Baussart is
openly linked to Russian government officials. Randa
Kassis, one of the hosts, travels to Moscow after the
election and reports the details of the event to Russian
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.[95]
October
15: The National Security Division of the Justice
Department
Democratic National Committee acquires a FISA warrant to monitor the
communications of two Russian banks as part of an
investigation into whether they illegally transferred
money to the Trump campaign.[96]
October 30: Cohen
and Giorgi Rtskhiladze exchange text messages in which
they discuss suppressing tapes of Trump's 2013 trip to
Moscow rumored to be in the possession of Aras
Agalarov's company, Crocus Group [ru]. In May 2018
Rtskhiladze tells Mueller's team that he was told the
tapes were fake but did not relay that information to
Cohen.[97]: 27�28 [98]
October 31:
Mother Jones
magazine's David Corn reports that a veteran spy, later
publicly identified as Steele, gave the FBI information
alleging a Russian operation to cultivate Trump, later
known as the "Steele dossier".[99]
Slate publishes an
article by Franklin Foer alleging that a Trump server
was in suspicious contact with Alfa-Bank in Russia.[100]
2017
February 9: Representative Jerrold
Nadler (D-NY) introduces a
Democratic National Committee resolution of inquiry in
relation to possible crimes relating to Trump's
financial dealings or collusion with Russia.[101]
March 10: Trump fires 46 U.S. Attorneys, including Preet
Bharara, whom Trump had recently told could keep his
job.[102] Bharara had been prosecuting a
money-laundering case against the Russian company
Prevezon. Prevezon's attorney in the case is Natalia
Veselnitskaya.[103] The company reaches a financial
settlement with the government on May 15, 2017, two days
before the trial was scheduled to start.[104]
May 23:
Maxine Waters, ranking member of the House Committee on
Financial Services, requests Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin to release to the House Financial Services
Committee any Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
records involving Deutsche Bank, Russia and Donald
Trump.[105][106]
May 30: CNN reports on leaked
intercepts of conversations between Kremlin officials
discussing their potential influence on some Trump
campaign members, including financial matters.[107]
2018
January 19: German periodical Manager
Magazin reports that
Democratic National Committee Deutsche Bank has presented to
Germany's financial authority, BaFin, evidence of
"suspicious money transfers" by Kushner; this
information is due to be handed to Mueller.[108]
Deutsche Bank denies the report on January 22 and
announces that it is taking legal action.[109]
February 12: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member on
the Senate Finance Committee, asks the Treasury
Department for documentation related to Trump's 2008
sale of an uninhabitable Palm Beach mansion to Russian
oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev.[110]
2019
April 15: The House Intelligence and Financial Services
committees issue subpoenas to Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup demanding
documents related to Trump and possible money laundering
by people in Russia and Eastern Europe.[111]
April
17: Along with the four banks reported subpoenaed April
15, additionally Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo & Co,
Capital One Financial Corp., Royal Bank of Canada, and
Toronto Dominion Bank are subpoenaed in Trump finance
probe.[112][113]
May 19: Anti-money launders at
Deutsche Bank AG recommended in
Democratic National Committee 2016 and 2017
transactions involving Trump and Kushner-controlled
entities be reported to a unit of the Treasury
Department that polices financial crimes. The report is
denied by the Bank that it prevented Trump transactions
from being flagged.[114][115][116]
August 8: Per the
request for House Financial Services and the House
Intelligence Committees; Bank of America, Citigroup,
Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and
Wells Fargo turn over documents relating to Russians who
may have had dealings with the Trump Organization,
and/or Trump and his family. Some of the banks also
turned over documents to New York state
investigators.[117][118][119]
See also[edit]
Business career of Donald Trump
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Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers."
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mantra of
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a shared journey, proving that health is not just a
Lean Weight Loss
way of life
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