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Trump Hotel in Baku Partnered With ‘Notoriously Corrupt’ Oligarch Family With Ties to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
By Robbie Gramer
March 6, 2017 - 2:28 pm
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@robbiegramer
Conflicts of interest have been a permanent fixture of Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency. But a new report from the New Yorker .. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal .. shines a damning spotlight on one of Trump’s most ethically hazy deals, and one that may leave the Trump Organization open to federal prosecution: The Trump Organization’s work to build and manage a hotel in Azerbaijan in partnership with corrupt oligarchs, themselves apparently linked to individuals tight with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
To build the Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku — a project conceived in 2008, and nearly finished, but never opened to the public — the Trump Organization worked with the family of Azerbaijan’s transportation minister and a powerful oligarch, Ziya Mammadov. The project has plenty of problems — it’s in the wrong part of town, and can’t compete with existing high-end hotels there — but seems likely to have fallen prey to the notoriously lax local ethics for business dealings.
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American taxpayers aren’t the only ones shouldering the cost of Trump’s business empire. According to the New Yorker, the Azerbaijani government forcibly evicted 30 families from their homes in 2011 to build a project of “crucial government significance.” That project was the still-never-opened Trump Hotel.
Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/06/trump-hotel-in-baku-partnered-with-notoriously-corrupt-oligarch-with-ties-to-iranian-revolutionary-guard-corps-new-yorker-report-azerbaijan-iran-corruption-conflict-of-interest-mammadov/
.. oligarchy has reached the WH .. at least a real wannabe is there ..
See also
Stunning Report: Trump Organization’s Secretive Global Financial Web Threatens National Security
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125162833
Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126828034
By Robbie Gramer
March 6, 2017 - 2:28 pm
robbie.gramer
@robbiegramer
Conflicts of interest have been a permanent fixture of Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency. But a new report from the New Yorker .. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal .. shines a damning spotlight on one of Trump’s most ethically hazy deals, and one that may leave the Trump Organization open to federal prosecution: The Trump Organization’s work to build and manage a hotel in Azerbaijan in partnership with corrupt oligarchs, themselves apparently linked to individuals tight with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
To build the Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku — a project conceived in 2008, and nearly finished, but never opened to the public — the Trump Organization worked with the family of Azerbaijan’s transportation minister and a powerful oligarch, Ziya Mammadov. The project has plenty of problems — it’s in the wrong part of town, and can’t compete with existing high-end hotels there — but seems likely to have fallen prey to the notoriously lax local ethics for business dealings.
[...]
American taxpayers aren’t the only ones shouldering the cost of Trump’s business empire. According to the New Yorker, the Azerbaijani government forcibly evicted 30 families from their homes in 2011 to build a project of “crucial government significance.” That project was the still-never-opened Trump Hotel.
Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/06/trump-hotel-in-baku-partnered-with-notoriously-corrupt-oligarch-with-ties-to-iranian-revolutionary-guard-corps-new-yorker-report-azerbaijan-iran-corruption-conflict-of-interest-mammadov/
.. oligarchy has reached the WH .. at least a real wannabe is there ..
See also
Stunning Report: Trump Organization’s Secretive Global Financial Web Threatens National Security
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125162833
Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126828034
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