MICHAEL WEISS CATHERINE A. FITZPATRICK JAMES MILLER 11.06.16 4:59 AM Despite a lot of boasts and some shady fixers, Trump has spent decades trying and failing to get a foothold in the Russian market. This is the third in our series of articles laying out all you ever wanted to know about Trump and Russia, […]
CATHERINE A. FITZPATRICK PIERRE VAUX 11.04.16 9:01 PM ET The second in a series of articles examining Donald Trump’s alleged ties with the Russian government looks at his not-quite-mutual admiration with Putin. This is the second in a series of articles laying out all you ever wanted to know about Trump and Russia, but were […]
MICHAEL WEISS 11.03.16 10:03 PM Everything you always wanted to know about Russia and Trump but were afraid to ask (like, when’s World War III?)—Part I. This is the first of a series of articles examining all facets of Donald Trump’s alleged ties or political sympathies with the Russian government. In this installment, Daily Beast […]
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 10.03.16 8:41 AM ET The big New York Times scoop that Donald Trump used $916 million of tax losses to enjoy many income tax-free years raised a question the newspaper didn’t try to answer: How did Trump do it? Trump, the only major-party presidential nominee in four decades to keep all his tax returns secret, insists “there’s […]
By Michelle Lee September 26, 2016 CLICK HEADLINE for link to story “You’ve taken business bankruptcies six times.” –Hillary Clinton “On occasion – four times – we used certain laws that are there.” –Donald Trump CLICK HEADLINE for link to story THE FACT CHECKER | Clinton is correct. Trump’s companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, […]
AUGUST 14, 2016 by: Gary Silverman During the first decade of this century, Donald Trump began doing business with an unlikely partner — Bayrock, a New York property developer founded only a few years before by a Soviet-born newcomer to the US named Tevfik Arif The Republican presidential nominee and Bayrock were both based in Trump Tower and they […]
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 08.10.16 10:00 PM ET Donald Trump calls the Trump SoHo tower in lower Manhattan an architectural marvel. The real marvel is what happened to the profits, which vanished from America thanks to a deal with a corrupt Icelandic investment company with ties to Russian oligarchs—all under an arrangement that Trump himself approved. […]
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON 07.14.16 2:41 PM ET Four Donald Trump-licensed real-estate developments are at the center of a huge income tax evasion scheme, according to allegations in a lawsuit unsealed Thursday afternoon by a judge in Manhattan. The presumptive Republican nominee is not personally accused. He is described as a “material witness” in the evasion […]
By JEFF HORWITZ Jun. 4, 2016 1:17 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months before he entered the presidential race, Donald Trump announced a new real estate project in Baku, Azerbaijan. His partner was the son of a government minister suspected by U.S. diplomats of laundering money for Iran’s military and described as “notoriously corrupt.” Eighteen months […]
By MIKE McINTIRE APRIL 5, 2016 For Donald J. Trump, it is a long-held legal strategy, if not a point of pride, to avoid knuckling under to plaintiffs in court. “I don’t settle lawsuits — very rare — because once you settle lawsuits, everybody sues you,” he said recently. But Mr. Trump made an exception when buyers of […]
