Frank McDonald, an Englishman who has had a long career doing construction jobs in developing countries, performed extensive work on the building?s interior. He told me that his firm was always paid in cash, and that he witnessed other contractors being paid in the same way. At the offices of Anar Mammadov?s company, he said, ?they would give us a giant pile of cash,? adding, ?I got a hundred and eighty thousand dollars one time, which I fit into my laptop bag, and two hundred thousand dollars another time.? Once, a colleague of his picked up a payment of two million dollars. ?He needed to bring a big duffelbag,? McDonald recalled. The Azerbaijani lawyer confirmed that some contractors on the Baku tower were paid in cash.
The economy is for the 1% and fuck the rest, wars have decimated dozens of countries, the American infrastructure is crumbling, and the pols are having $60,000 worth of hot dogs flown in from Chicago. And you think everything is all a-ok?
I was watching that lunatic Rachel Maddow talk about it earlier for like 20 minutes straight. She tried to lay out the case that it must be a scam based on two key pieces of evidence;
exhibit a: The hotel is a one hour walk from the nice section of town.
exhibit b: A taxi driver couldn't figure out how to access the hotel.
Thus it must be a scam. Maybe an illegal one.
That's it. The entire segment relied on those two things. That woman is as nuts on MSNBC these days as Glen Beck was on Fox News several years ago. She is lunatic level like he was. Then she said Trump's Yemen travel ban caused spies to turn against the US and warn terrorists of the raid.
Paul when that kind of cash money changes hands on a construction job in the USA there is tax evasion -- bet on it. Maybe they do business differently in Azerbaijan. Never done business there.
But why anyone would want to build an outrageous luxury hotel in a shit-hole like Azerbaijan?
That's it. The entire segment relied on those two things. That woman is as nuts on MSNBC these days as Glen Beck was on Fox News several years ago. She is lunatic level like he was. Then she said Trump's Yemen travel ban caused spies to turn against the US and warn terrorists of the raid.
That's absolutely wrong. There was much more than that so don't misrepresent it.
I tried to read it and find out what Trump has done that's illegal. Gave up half way through.
It was a long winded article but basically the Trump group licensed their name but more importantly had direct control of every aspect of the building construction once they came on board.
Any money laundering going on at that point happens as the Trump family was over seeing the project and they would be profiting from it even if they were not directly involved.
His daughter was on the site every month, every thing that went on had to be ok'ed by the Trump family..
Either they knew there was corruption going on , or they didn't but either way they profited from it and that is illegal.
Basically the Trump family had full control over the project and they can not claim ignorance of wrong doing because they were in charge.
Added bonus the guy they were in business with was well known as a bad guy and money launder for the Iranians. This means they went into business with a guy known to launder money on a project that was used to launder money and they ran the project..
Not much to deny about it but I'm sure it won't stop the dumb dumbs here.
In November, you can vote for America's next president or its first dictator.
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