Craven loon and Trump's unhinged TV lawyer Rudy "Ghouliani" Giuliani, apparently on hiatus from his bungling, batshit crazy tour of the media ("truth isn't truth"), could be in hot water with authorities in the Netherlands. The gist, according to David Cay Johnston's keen reporting, is that Ghouliani facilitated the laundering of billions of dollars of embezzled money from former Soviet republic Kazakhstan through Dutch banks and on to real estate purchases in the U.S.
Johnston cites a complaint by Avaaz, a human rights organization based in Washington, DC filed with the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service in Amsterdam. According to Johnston's article:
Netherlands banks and other firms play a significant role in illicit flows of cash around the world through sophisticated techniques to hide income and corporate profits. Many of these techniques appear to push the envelope on legal tax avoidance. When money laundering is involved these aggressive techniques could cross a line into aiding and abetting criminal tax evasion. (our emphasis)Giuliani and his old law firm, Bracewell and Giuliani, allegedly assisted in the money laundering scheme, according to the complaint. Until 2016, Giuliani was a partner in the 470-lawyer firm:
"The complaint is aimed at uncovering the full details of Russian money flowing to various Trump projects using so-called anonymous wealth companies. Those are shell companies created to hide the identities of the owners. Trump and his family are known to have received vast sums from shell companies and have bragged about how much of it came from people in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet empire. Trump contends the deals were all lawful and he has no knowledge of any money laundering." (our emphasis)Giuliani has been cashing in on his role as an unapologetic spear carrier for corrupt sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump, conducting personal business while serving Rump. We sincerely hope that, once the wheels of justice are finished turning, we'll be able to shout "lock him up" at Rump's TV lawyer.
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