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He bought five condos and came up with $6 million cash. thats the equivalent of $15 million today. that was laundering money for the russian mafia. if you look at trumps career, hes done that at least 1,300 times. by that i mean that hes selling condos to anonymous corporations in all cash purchases. so i believe hes been working with the russian mafia laundering their money through his real estate for at least 34 years. >> but would it be -- its unlikely that every one of those transactions inv...

Russians. for example, if you go to the trump world tower, there are certain floors that are almost entirely russian. about a third of the condos sold in florida for the trump towers, they were russians. it happens all over the world in panama trump properties. its been going on for years. they made his career. they own him. he was $4 billion in debt after his atlantic city fiasco. he filed for six bankruptcies. no one thats $4 billion in debt has a political career and they made him rich again....

I wanted to see how it began, and why it began, and i went back to 1984, and for the first time you see a man whos a member of the russian mafia, meet with donald trump in trump tower. this is just after trump tower opened and it was the glitziest building in america, he comes in and buys five condos, paying all cash. this is the first time donald trump properties have been used to launder money for the russian mafia. >> his property is being used to launder russian mafia, thats not what cnn is ...

Of our time. and it goes back more than 30 years. i wanted to see how it began, and why it began, and i went back to 1984, and for the first time you see a man whos a member of the russian mafia, meet with donald trump in trump tower. this is just after trump tower opened and it was the glitziest building in america, he comes in and buys five condos, paying all cash. this is the first time donald trump properties have been used to launder money for the russian mafia. >> his property is being use...

Was off by at least 59 people, thats how many i found. it started off as a money laundering operation. a man with the russian mafia met with trump in trump tower, and he came in with $6 million and said i will buy five condos. that event was typical of at least 1300 such purchases of trump properties in that they were all cash and they were bought by anonymous shell companies. and he is completely indebt ed. >> youre saying this is where it has all began.

Were talking about here. how far back do you go with donald trump and his business ties. >> i go back nearly 40 years and i see essentially the greatest intelligence operation of our times. it started off in 1984 with a man who has ties to the russian mafia and he meets with donald trump in the trump tower, the supreme moment of donald trump becoming a master of real estate in the united states. and what we end up seeing is trump tower become sort of a cathedral of money laundering. david meets ...

Criminals and should be locked up. in fact, one of the frequent refrains that would come out is they accuse a person of -- leading the party they are opposing to of being born in a different -- and they did the same thing in georgia and ukraine and paul manafort was running that campaign in the ukraine. >> so how far back do you go in doing your research and working on this and what stood out to you the most? is there a smoking gun in your research and investigation? >> i think what stands out i...

People are proud of their products many here live from of a condo sales and hope that the bad old days never return. on visitors it used to be so bad. so many people were coming to steal our condos. and they took them by the truckload. for the bank on the mill. but this newly won security has to be constantly defended thats why tense ataru has its own well trained protection force theyre paid for by the citizens and tolerated by the mexican state their objective is clear to keep the gangs out. a...

Even if it did it sort of washed over people. and we thought one of it reasons of that is its in pieces and so long you didnt get the full context of it. and we didnt think people could get that without something like a film or documentary to take you through the history. the 30 year history of the operation. >> thats really smart. even when youre talking about the trials that are going on and the russian connections its a lot. it can be confusing especially to the public when youre trying to sy...

Earliest connections that you found. >> not necessarily to vladimir putin, but to russian mobsters, the russian elite. the first one in 1984 where david met with trump and purchased five condos in trump tower. it make a money laundering haven particularly for the russian mob. >> as a kid who grew up in new york youve known donald trump, you know, for some time now. your dad was even friendly with him and your father had a conversation with him years ago about selling trump. you had a conversatio...