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BaFin to Deepen Deutsche Bank Money Laundering Investigation (Feb 2019)
www.financemagnates.com

...Deutsche Bank released a statement on Friday saying that BaFin, the German financial regulator, has extended the remit of an independent auditor examining the lender's role in the Danske Bank money laundering scandal.

The case stems from an ongoing investigation into the Danish bank's Estonian division.

After a whistle-blower sounded the alarm about the activity of certain customers, most of whom were from Russia and the former Soviet Union, in late 2018, it became apparent that Danske Bank's Tallinn-based operations were doing business with some less than scrupulous individuals.

It is alleged that the bank laundered around $225 billion from 2007 to 2014. If that is the case, it would potentially be the largest instance of money laundering ever uncovered.

Deutsche Bank falls into the mix as it acted as Danske Bank's main correspondent bank. According to the Financial Times, the German bank was responsible for facilitating $180 billion in suspicious transactions....

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Deutsche Bank Offices Are Raided In Money Laundering Probe (Nov 2018)
www.npr.org

...In recent years, Deutsche Bank has been in the news not only for its prominence in the Panama Papers, but also for its ties to President Trump, in a tumultuous relationship that goes back some 20 years.

Trump and the bank once sued each other after he failed to repay a $300 million loan. And the author and reporter Luke Harding has described a "shuffle of money" between the bank's dealings with figures in Russia and its business with Trump. ...

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From what I've heard over the years...

In the late 1990's, early 2000's, it seemed that citizen Trump had blown through his final inheritance. In spite of that, he apparently came up with 100's of millions of $$$ from somewhere (or someone?) to build golf courses in Scotland and buy another one.

It was reported that he ultimately spent 100's of millions of dollars on those golf courses.

But where did all that money come from?
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@#10 ... that's how long he's been hiding behind his daddy's money and lawyers ...

How can Pres Trump possibly relate to Americans when he apparently had been chauffeured to and from school in all his school days?


Donald Trump's early years from trouble-making teen to military school star (2016)
www.pbs.org

... Essential question

How might a person's childhood influence who he or she is as an adult?

Born and raised in Queens, New York, to a family of privilege, Donald Trump grew up in a 23-room house and was driven to private school by the family chauffeur. ...

@#107 ... comeon, Lamp bust out in a song ...

Well, since you asked so nicely ...

Frank Zappa - Montana (1973)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of dental floss
Raisin' it up, waxin' it down
In a little white box that I can sell uptown
By myself, I wouldn't have no boss
But I'd be raisin' my lonely dental floss
...

Happy?


@#32 ... So you're saying Trump isn't deporting the illegal alien hookers, like his own wife. ...

How Melania Trump Made It to America (2016)
vnews.com

... Newly published nude photographs of Melania Trump, the wife of presidential candidate Donald Trump, have raised questions about the story of her immigration to the United States and how the Slovenian-born former model gained her legal status here -- questions that the Trump campaign is not answering.

Melania Trump has said she came to the country in 1996, but the photos were taken in New York in 1995.

She met Donald Trump in 1998 and they were married in 2005.

So what do we know about how Melania Trump came to the United States?



@9 "Know thy enemy," indeed: www.youtube.com

We are all Palestinians, now.

Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App
www.wired.com

... Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US"including many citizens. ...

@#225 ... From what I have heard, the "investigation" is being conducted by ICE, and not the usual FBI.

So, another cover-up? ...

Looks like a cover-up ...

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations branch leading probe into fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
www.cbsnews.com

... Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations branch is leading the federal investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI Director Kash Patel said. ...


And, no apparent cooperation with the local and state law enforcement investigators?

Why?

What might be tried to be hidden?


ICE's Homeland Security Investigations branch leading probe into fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

Another artist, in a similar vein ...

Neil Young gifts Greenland free access to his entire music catalog
www.nbcnews.com

... "I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government," Young wrote. "It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality."

The offer is for a year -- though Young said renewing is possible -- and applicants need to have a Greenland-based cellphone.

"This is an offer of Peace and Love," he wrote.. ...





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