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TMTG’s legal troubles just got a whole lot worse. It was revealed yesterday that federal prosecutors in New York opened an investigation last year into possible money laundering by the media company.
Prosecutors have been looking into two "unexpected" loans totaling $8 million that were received by TMTG in 2021 and 2022: a $2 million loan sent to TMTG when it was on the brink of bankruptcy, and $6 million received two months later.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...39c125c516a404fb8462309e06eadd4&ei=25#image=5
something or nothing, it's a new step in the investigations.It’s been revealed that the loans under investigation were wired to TMTG via the Caribbean, and came from obscure entities that were at least partially owned by a relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Before reaching Trump's company, the funds were passed through Paxum Bank, which is registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica, and which is part-owned by Anton Postolnikov. Postolnikov is reportedly a relation of Aleksandr Smirnov, a former Kremlin official who heads the Russia-controlled maritime conglomerate Rosmorport, and who's a close ally of Putin.