Tokhtakhounov Trincher
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</div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div style="font-size: small; line-height: 19.2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></div></div><div style="font-size: small; line-height: 19.2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">wa is boring part 2:</font></div><div style="font-size: small; line-height: 19.2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; line-height: 19.2px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">As if there weren’t enough bad connections to Trump Tower, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/world/europe/tokhtakhounov-says-criminal-charges-are-just-a-misunderstanding.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-size: large; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;">Mogilevich-associated</a><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> Russian mafia boss and apparent all-around celebrity Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov </span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-russian-mobster-tokhtakhounov-miss-universe-moscow" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-size: large; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;">was overseeing</a><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> an illegal high-stakes international gambling ring for wealthy clientele that in part operated out of Trump Tower in New York. Among other prolific activities, Tokhtakhounov had gained notoriety for apparently fixing 2002 Olympic ice skating matches to help get a gold medal for a fellow Russian, as well as one for a pair of French skaters in exchange for a French visa, but was soon after in Russia and safe from prosecution. The gambling ring connected to Trump Tower, run by two of his </span><span style="font-size: large; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">capos</span><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">, Vadim Trincher and Anatoly Golubchik, </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/2015/03/25/Tokhtakhounov%2C%20Alimzhan%20et%20al.%20Indictment_7.pdf" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-size: large; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;">was popular with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs</a><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> in both Russia and Ukraine, and besides the gambling ring, they also engaged in some $100 million in money laundering. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trincher himself in 2009 bought an apartment in Trump Tower just below an apartment owned by Trump himself, in which he nearly held a fundraiser for Newt Gingrich two years later, but had to cancel because of a mold problem and a water leak; it was from this apartment that Trincher ran a branch of said gambling ring</span><span style="font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">. Another linked gambling/laundering ring was run by one of Trincher’s sons, who owned an entire floor in Trump tower, and another son of Trincher’s ran multiple illegal poker rooms throughout New York City. </span></div><p style="margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An indictment naming Tokhtakhounov and his people was filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, mentioned earlier, and the same Preet Bharara <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/politics/preet-bharara-us-attorney.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;">fired controversially by Trump</a> just last month after Trump had promised Bharara he would not fire him, and it should be noted that several of the past and ongoing cases involving Trump and/or his associates occurred in the jurisdiction of SDNY and that a number of potential future cases would also occur there if they moved forward and would have been handled by Bharara if he had not been fired. It was Bharara’s indictment that led to a 2013 raid on Vadim Trincher’s Trump Tower apartment, and arrests made there and elsewhere nabbed 29 suspects. A mere seven months after he was indicted, a nonchalant Tokhtakhounov was a red-carpet VIP guest at <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump’s 2013 Miss Universe Pageant</a> in Moscow, a city where, to this day, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story-fbi-wiretap-russians-trump-tower/story?id=46266198" target="blank" rel="nofollow noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word;">he is regularly seen</a> at trendy public places....</font></span></span></p></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div>