Alternet - [The Wall Street Journal] revealed that the Russia-born Felix Sater—a
twice-convicted one-time Mafia associate—is demanding hush money from a
former boss, Kazakhstan-born Tevfik Arif, whose Bayrock Group worked in a
close partnership for nearly a decade with the Trump Organization.
Sater
warned Arif, in writing, that news headlines will read: “The Kazakh
Gangster and President Trump,” unless Arif forks over $3.5 million to
reimburse Sater for legal expenses he claims he’s owed, the Journal
reported. Specifically, Sater is threatening to reveal negative
information about Arif’s “past relationship with President Trump and the
Republic of Kazakhstan”—as well as Arif’s alleged connections to
“organized crime figures and his business activities in Kazakhstan,”
which involve “dealings in the post-Soviet metals industry there.”
Spokespeople
for Bayrock and Arif have called the allegations “unsubstantiated
falsehoods.” The general counsel of Trump Organization didn’t respond to
calls and emails.
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The FBI likely has Trump on an organized crime chart, and at its apex. This is his difference from the Clintons who have managed to escape the early association with the Dixie Mafia, the resume laundered by public service. Perhaps this is why Trump got into politics with law enforcement close on his trail. We now know that the refuge of organized crime is the White House. Obama takes his place in that history as the Frank Costello of presidents, sane, covert and wise versus Trump's meteoric Capone-like self-advertisement.
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