The business cons of Ivanka "Complicit" Trump have come under scrutiny for everything from using foreign companies that engage in labor abuses, to hawking her jewelry during the transition. Her bad judgement extends to the business partners she chooses, too, as reported in Politico. Moshe Lax, the son of a wealthy diamond dealer in New York, partnered with Trump in forming Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, but has left a trail of vendors that claim that he cheated them:
"His vendors call him a 'career grifter.' His father’s creditors claim he’s a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges. With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgments—against him, his wife and his businesses—for millions of dollars, his lawyers are abandoning him, saying he’s a deadbeat. All the while, he’s been living in one of the most luxurious mansions in the Bronx."Nice company you keep, Complicit. Here's more on his legal problems:
"In 2012, Lax’s company, Madison Avenue Diamonds, found itself in court after it accepted delivery of millions of dollars in diamonds but refused to pay for them, claiming that the vendor, KGK, had breached their agreement by delivering some computer files related to the diamonds late."When Lax's father died in 2008, he left not only a fortune, but also a fortune in debt, including a multi-million dollar debt to a couple of Brooklyn real estate developers:
"The fallout from that loan has led to some of the most disturbing charges against Lax: that he has been extorting members of his tight-knit religious community, threatening to bring criminal charges against them if they do not pay him—and that he engaged in a massive financial fraud to hide tens of millions of dollars left by his father from the government and creditors."The article is lengthy and details many questionable deals involving Complicit's business partner, which suggests that she either doesn't screen who she partners with, or doesn't care.
