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Trump's Been Laundering Russian Mob Money For Decades, Allegedly

"In 1984, a Russian emigre named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. The 38-year-old had arrived in America seven years before, with just $3 in his pocket. But for a former pilot in the Soviet Army—his specialty had been shooting down Americans over North Vietnam—he had clearly done quite well for himself. Bogatin wasn’t hunting for a place in Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn enclave known as "Little Odessa" for its large population of immigrants from the Soviet Union. Instead, he was fixated on the glitziest apartment building on Fifth Avenue, a gaudy, 58-story edifice with gold-plated fixtures and a pink-marble atrium: Trump Tower."

Chutkan says 2024 election 'not relevant' in deciding Trump criminal case timeline

The judge declined to set a new trial date but appeared inclined to give prosecutors a chance to lay out damaging evidence against Trump in the next few weeks.

The 2024 presidential race will have no bearing on the schedule of Donald Trump’s criminal proceedings for seeking to subvert the 2020 election, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan vowed Thursday.

"The electoral process and the timing of the election... is not relevant here," Chutkan said at a hearing to plan next steps in the case. "This court is not concerned with the electoral schedule."

During her first significant foray into the case since a fight over presidential immunity reached the Supreme Court and waylaid the proceedings for nine months, Chutkan declined to consider setting a new trial date, calling it an "exercise in futility." Numerous pretrial disputes first need to be resolved, and both sides say they expect another appeal to freeze the case once again. ... Read more