The FBI wiretapped Trump Tower to catch a Russian Mob money laundering gambling scheme headquartered in Trump Tower in 2013 , the same year Trump appeared in Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.
The sting ended in 30 People being arrested in Trump Tower and federally indicted. The mob boss, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov evaded arrest and was seen later that year with Trump at the Miss Universe pageant where he was honored as a special guest of the pageant!
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It turns out that the FBI did once place a wiretap inside Trump Tower ? but it happened back in 2013, and it wasn?t targeted at President Donald Trump or any member of his family.
Via Daily Kos, ABC News reports that the FBI obtained a warrant to eavesdrop on ?a sophisticated Russian organized crime money laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower? starting in 2011 and ending in 2013.
ABC News notes that the FBI?s investigation into the mobsters led ?to a federal grand jury indictment of more than 30 people, including one of the world?s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov.? Despite the fact that the scheme was being run out of Trump Tower, Trump himself was not implicated in the FBI?s indictment.
Although Tokhtakhounov evaded arrest in the early part of 2013, he did manage to publicly resurface later that year when he appeared at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in November ? where he was spotted near Donald Trump in the VIP section.
Trump in 2013 took to Twitter to express excitement about attending the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that year, and even wondered if Russian President Vladimir Putin would become his ?new best friend.?
REVEALED: FBI wiretapped Trump Tower in 2013 to bust Russian mobsters headquartered inside