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7. Michael Idov, “Trump Soho Is Not an Oxymoron,” New York, April 7, 2008, http://nymag.com/news/features/45591/index3.html.
8. Barrett, “Inside Donald Trump’s Empire.”
9. Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump,” Washington Post, May, 17, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-mafia-linked-figure-describes-association-with-trump/2016/05/17/cec6c2c6-16d3-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?utm_term=.dc5ca682c8e8.
10. Craig Unger, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat,” New Republic, July 13, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate.
11. Allan J. Lichtman, “Here’s a Closer Look at Donald Trump’s Disturbingly Deep Ties to Russia,” Fortune, May 17, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/05/17/donald-trump-russia-2/.
12. Behar, “Trump and the Oligarch ‘Trio.’”
13. Ibid.
14. Alain Lallemand, “L’empereur du Kazakhstan enquête sur un trio venu de la République kazakhe qui fit trembler les polices de Belgique,” Le Soir (Belgium), July 22, 2000, http://www.lesoir.be/archive/recup/m/l-empereur-du-kazakhstan-enquete-sur-un-trio-venu-de-la_t-20000722-Z0JGTU.html.
15. Bozena Rynska, “Counted Stars,” Izvestia, June 20, 2005. https://iz.ru/news/303482.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Marc Champion, “How a Trump SoHo Partner Ended Up with Toxic Mining Riches from Kazakhstan,” Bloomberg, January 11, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-11/how-a-trump-soho-partner-ended-up-with-toxic-mining-riches-from-kazakhstan.
19. Rynska, “Counted Stars.”
20. Champion, “How a Trump SoHo.”
21. Associated Press, “Donald Trump Launches Trump University,” May 24, 2005.
22. John Cassidy, “Trump University: It’s Worse Than You Think,” New Yorker, June 2, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/trump-university-its-worse-than-you-think.
23. Nicholas Nehamas, “Before Donald Trump Attacked Foreigners, He Helped Sell Them Condos,” Miami Herald, October 14, 2016, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article108150442.html.
24. Kris Hundley, “The Men Behind Trump Tower Tampa,” St. Petersburg Times, February 17, 2005.
25. Associated Press, “Trump Scales Back Plans to Build a Taller Chicago Skyscraper,” March 9, 2005.
26. Glen Creno and Ginger D. Richardson, “Downtown Plan Calls for 50-Story Condo Tower,” Arizona Republic, April 30, 2005.
27. Nehamas, “Before Donald Trump Attacked.”
28. Author’s interview with Bayrock employee.
29. Yana Pevzner and Thiya Barak, “A Billionaire in Stormy Waters,” Ynetnews, March 29, 2011, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4048812,00.html.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Associated Press, “Kazakh Businessman Tevfik Arif Denies Sex Party Allegations,” April 2, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/02/tevfik-arif.
33. Pevzner and Barak, “A Billionaire in Stormy Waters.”
34. Ibid.
35. 2010/ 20648 Bill of Indictment, REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, ANTALYA CITY, SUPREME REPUBLICAN PUBLIC PROSECUTORS’ OFFICE, 2010.
36. Ibid.
37. Barrett, “Inside Donald Trump’s Empire.”
38. Lukas I. Alpert, “The Crass Menagerie,” New York Post, May 15, 2009, https://nypost.com/2009/05/15/the-crass-menagerie/.
39. Paul Klebnikov, “Gangster-Free Capitalism?,” Forbes, November 26, 2001, https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/1126/107.html#550f80f5a469.
40. Ivanidze, “Spetssluzhby i mafiya.”
41. Zabrisky, “Mafia, KGB, Putin, and Trump.”
42. Richard L. Palmer, statement on the infiltration of the Western financial system by Russian organized crime before the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, September 21, 1999, https://data.occrp.org/documents/6523546?documentprefix=Seabeco#page=34.
43. Henry, “The Curious World.”
44. Lallemand, “L’empereur du Kazakhstan.”
45. Henry, “Curious World.”
46. Ivanidze, “Spetssluzhby i mafiya.”
47. Michael Dobbs, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (New York: Vintage, 1998).
48. Ibid.
49. Dobbs and Coll, “Ex-Communists Are Scrambling.”
50. Bloomberg News, “Trump Hotel Toronto Building Set to Be Sold After Developer Defaults,” Financial Post, October 27, 2016, http://business.financialpost.com/news/property-post/trump-hotel-toronto-building-set-to-be-sold-after-developer-defaults.
51. Mark Rachkevych, “U.S. Official: Austrian Bank’s Ties to RosUkrEnergo Suspicious,” Kyiv Post, December 3, 2010, https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/us-official-austrian-banks-ties-to-rosukrenergo-su-91986.html.
52. Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, and Brett Forrest, “Russian State-Run Bank Financed Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner,” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-state-run-bank-financed-deal-involving-trump-hotel-partner-1495031708.
53. Natasha Bertrand, “Report: Russian bank whose CEO met secretly with Jared Kushner helped finance Trump’s Toronto hotel,” Business Insider, May 17, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-vnesheconombank-trump-toronto-hotel-2017-5.
54. Ned Parker, Stephen Grey, Stefanie Eschenbacher, Roman Anin, Brad Brooks, and Christine Murray, “Ivanka and the Fugitive from Panama,” Reuters, November 17, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-panama/.
55. “About Us,” Global Witness.
56. Narco-a-Lago: Money Laundering at the Trump Ocean Club Panama, Global Witness, https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/corruption-and-money-laundering/narco-a-lago-panama/.
57. Parker et al., “Ivanka and the Fugitive.”
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid.
63. Adam Davidson, “Donald Trump’s Worst Deal,” New Yorker, March 13, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MOTH, FLAME
1. Author’s interview with Sipher.
2. Luiza Ch. Savage, “Valerie Plame on juggling romance, babies, identities,” Macleans, October 26, 2011. https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/not-agent-99-but-close/.
3. O’Brien, “Trump, Russia.”
4. Unger, “Why Robert Mueller.”
5. O’Brien, “Trump, Russia.”
6. Rice, “Original Russia Connection.”
7. Michael Daly and Michael Weiss, “Felix Sater: The Crook Behind the Trump-Russia ‘Peace’ Plan,” Daily Beast, February 24, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/felix-sater-the-crook-behind-the-trump-russia-peace-plan.
8. Charles V. Bagli, “Real Estate Executive with Hand in Trump Projects Rose from Tangled Past,” New York Times, December 17, 2007, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/nyregion/17trump.html.
9. CASE NO. 09-21406-CIV-WILLIAMS/TURNOFF, Trilogy Properties v. SB Hotel Associates, US District Court, Southern District of Florida, November 26, 2013. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/nov-13-djt-depo.pdf.
10. Unger, “Trump’s Russian Laundromat.”
11. Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Trump’s Business Sought Deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow While He Ran for President,” Washington Post, August 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-business-sought-deal-on-a-trump-tower-in-moscow-while-he-ran-for-president/2017/08/27/d6e95114-8b65-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b932465e6bfa.
12. David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump (Brooklyn and London: Melville House, 2016, 2017).
13. David Cay Johnston, “Donald Trump and Kids Named in $250M Tax Scam,” Daily Beast, July 14, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trum
p-and-kids-named-in-dollar250m-tax-scam.
14. Ben Schreckinger, “The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin,” Politico Magazine, April 9, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007.
15. New York Magazine, Bar Listing, Kiss and Fly.
16. Eli Saslow, “Trump Accuser Keeps Telling Her Story, Hoping Someone Will Finally Listen,” Washington Post, February 19, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/02/19/feature/trump-accuser-keeps-telling-her-story-hoping-someone-will-finally-listen/?utm_term=.cf5b888a2b82.
17. Ibid.
18. Megan Twohey and Steve Eder, “For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia,” New York Times, January 16, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html.
19. Mark Abadi, “Former Trump Adviser Says in Email That He ‘Arranged for Ivanka to Sit in Putin’s Private Chair’ During a Trip to Moscow,” Business Insider, August 28, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-putin-chair-felix-sater-russia-2017-8.
20. Hazel Heyer, “Executive Talk: Donald Trump Jr. Bullish on Russia and Few Emerging Markets,” eTurboNews, September 15, 2008, https://www.eturbonews.com/9788/executive-talk-donald-trump-jr-bullish-russia-and-few-emerging-ma.
21. Twohey and Eder, “For Trump, Three Decades.”
22. Richard Behar, “Donald Trump and the Felon: Inside His Business Dealings with a Mob-Connected Hustler,” Forbes, October 25, 2016, https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/#2c9c96bc2282.
23. Heyer, “Executive Talk.”
24. Reuters Staff, “Russian Tycoon, Symbol of Excess, Convicted of Fraud but Walks Free,” Reuters, July 12, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-court-polonsky/russian-tycoon-symbol-of-excess-convicted-of-fraud-but-walks-free-idUSKBN19X1MZ.
25. Julia Ioffe, “Why Didn’t Trump Build Anything in Russia?,” Atlantic, September 14, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/why-didnt-trump-build-anything-in-russia/539274/.
26. Mark Franchetti, “‘Lightning’ Lebedev: I Pulled My Punches,” Times (London), October 9, 2011, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lightning-lebedev-i-pulled-my-punches-qf96pvvggft.
27. Adam Smith Conferences, “Drivers for International Investment in the Russian Real Estate Sector,” June 2008, captured by Wayback Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20080604203635/http://www.adamsmithconferences.com:80/html/2008/realestate/src006.html.
28. Reuters Staff, “Russian Tycoon.”
29. Construction.ru Staff, “Three More Arrested in Real Estate Tycoon Sergei Polonsky Criminal Case,” Construction.ru, May 26, 2016, http://russianconstruction.com/news-1/23875-three-more-arrested-in-real-estate-tycoon-sergei-polonsky-criminal-case.html.
30. Ioffe, “Why Didn’t Trump Build.”
31. Janusz Bugajski, Dismantling the West: Russia’s Atlantic Agenda (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2009).
32. “Fisher MB LLC,” CorporationWiki, https://www.corporationwiki.com/New-York/New-York/fisher-mb-llc-3635472.aspx.
33. Unger, “Why Robert Mueller.”
34. Ibid.
35. Author’s interview with Lerner.
36. Unger, “Why Robert Mueller.”
37. Ibid.
38. Author’s interview with Oberlander.
39. Author’s interview with Winer.
40. Barrett, “Inside Donald Trump’s Empire.”
41. “Trump Soho Developers Settle Fraud Suit, Give Buyers 90% Refunds,” Real Deal, November 3, 2011, https://therealdeal.com/2011/11/03/bayrock-group-and-sapir-organization-settle-federal-lawsuit-at-trump-soho-at-246-spring-street-give-buyers-refunds/.
42. Tom Burgis, “Dirty Money: Trump and the Kazakh Connection,” Financial Times, October 19, 2016, https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923.
43. Unger, “Why Robert Mueller.”
44. Christopher Brennan, “Trump Associate Received More Than $21M in Kazakh Oligarchs’ Alleged Money Laundering Scheme,” Daily News, April 25, 2018, http://beta.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-associate-received-21m-alleged-oligarch-scheme-article-1.3953189.
45. Unger, “Why Robert Mueller.”
46. Brennan, “Trump Associate.”
47. FL Group, “Investment of $50m in US-Based Real Estate Development Projects,” press release, West, May 22, 2007, https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2007/05/22/96900/0/en/Investment-of-50m-in-US-based-real-estate-development-projects.html.
48. Henry, “Curious World.”
49. Ibid.
50. O’Brien, “Trump, Russia.”
51. Timothy L. O’Brien, “Hey, Mueller, You Should Check Out Iceland,” Bloomberg, June 23, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-23/hey-mueller-you-should-check-out-iceland.
52. Clyde H. Farnsworth, “KGB Runs Commerce Unit, US Says,” New York Times, October 28, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/28/world/kgb-runs-commerce-unit-us-says.html.
53. Henry, “Curious World.”
54. Behar, “Trump and the Oligarch ‘Trio.’”
55. Topousis, “Rudy Donor.”
56. Friedman, Red Mafiya.
57. Ben Schreckinger, “The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin,” Politico Magazine, April 9, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007.
58. Ibid.
59. Yossi Melman, “No Love Lost,” Haaretz, December 8, 2005, https://www.haaretz.com/1.4885476.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Will Parker, “Jared Kushner Looks to Be Still Tied Up in 229 West 43rd Street Retail Condo,” Real Deal, March 6, 2017, https://therealdeal.com/2017/03/06/jared-kushner-looks-to-be-still-tied-up-in-229-west-43rd-street-retail-condo/.
63. Schreckinger, “Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group.”
64. Maltz, “Kushner Foundation Gives $342K.”
65. Schreckinger, “Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group.”
66. Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel, “A word From the Rabbi,” May 2015.
67. Shalom Patiel, speech, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSpFtCmoD5o.
68. Schreckinger, “Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group.”
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. “High-Profile Bris on Sunday—You’re Invited,” New York, May 30, 2008, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/05/highprofile_bris_on_sunday_you.html.
72. Michael Schwirtz, William K. Rashbaum, and Danny Hakim, “Michael D. Cohen Goes from Trump’s Inner Circle to Scrutiny in Russia Investigation,” New York Times, July 3, 2017, https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/07/02/michael-cohen-goes-from-trump-inner-circle-scrutiny-russia-investigation/lUEDybovhAnRnOs3WLFwyI/story.html.
73. Sam Thielman, “Trump’s Conduits for Capital from the Former Soviet Bloc Are Actually Old Pals,” Talking Points Memo, July 25, 2017, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/michael-cohen-felix-sater-teenage-acquaintances-trump-organization.
74. MSNBC, “Felix Sater on President Donald Trump, Russia, and Being a Spy,” All In with Chris Hayes, March 16, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dqhxwo1ZNI.
75. Josh Marshall, “Understanding the Trump-Russia Money Channel,” Talking Points Memo, July 26, 2017, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-trump-russia-money-channel.
76. William K. Rashbaum, Danny Hakim, Brian M. Rosenthal, Emily Flitter and Jesse Drucker, “How Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire, New York Times, May 5, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/business/michael-cohen-lawyer-trump.html.
77. Jerry Capeci, “Mobsters Throw Fund-Raisers To Help Pay Legal Fees, New York Sun, January 26, 2006. https://www.nysun.com/new-york/mobsters-throw-fund-raisers-to-help-pay-legal-fees/26525/.
78. John Marshall, “Understanding the Trump-Russia Money Channel,” Talking
Points Memo, July 26, 2017. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-trump-russia-money-channel.
79. Alison Frankel, “Underemployed Cooley Law grads lose the war, but win the battle,” Reuters, July 30, 2013. http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/2013/07/30/underemployed-cooley-law-grads-lose-the-war-but-win-the-battle/.
80. Anthony Cormier and Chris McDaniel, “How Trump’s Lawyer Placed a Big Casino Bet That Left Dozens Empty-Handed,” BuzzFeed, March 15, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trumps-lawyer-launched-an-offshore-casino-and-left-a-wake?utm_term=.svRElM8xR#.ueBE0MbV5.
81. Laura Figueroa Hernandez, “LI’s Michael Cohen: Trump’s Fixer and Secretary of Loyalty,” Newsday, April 14, 2018, https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-michael-cohen-1.18020585.
82. Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein/ProPublica, “Michael Cohen’s Long History of Shady and Criminal Associations,” Alternet, April 18, 2018, https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/michael-cohens-long-history-shady-and-criminal-associations.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. Josh Marshall, “Michael Cohen, Trump and the Russian Connection,” Talking Points Memo, June 9, 2017, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/michael-cohen-trump-and-the-russian-connection.
86. Anthony Cormier, Chris McDaniel, John Templon, and Tanya Kozyreva, “Michael Cohen Pitched Investors for a Powerful Ukrainian Oligarch’s Company,” BuzzFeed, June 9, 2017, https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/michael-cohen-pitched-investors-for-a-powerful-ukrainian?utm_term=.ilq0xjbE5#.oxYBQoPmM.
87. Anthony Cormier, John Templon, Chris McDaniel, and Jason Leopold, “Robert Mueller Is Asking About This Little-Known Chapter of Michael Cohen’s New York Life,” BuzzFeed, April 10, 2018, https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/michael-cohen-taxi-business?utm_term=.ikBK95lDM#.xjXOBpWz2.
88. Ben Fractenberg, “Michael Cohen May Have Had Taxi Business in Russia—and Shady Ties,” Forward, April 25, 2018, https://forward.com/news/world/399745/michael-cohen-may-have-had-taxi-business-in-russia-and-shady-ties/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20-%20M-Th%202018-04-26&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20Monday-Friday.