it was actually i shouldn t say it wasn t that hard. it was incredibly difficult. there was a way to do it because one of the great things about property records is they are all online in places look new yoike city and miami. i was aware that there is concern about possible money laundering where condos have been built and i wanted to try to quantify the extent how many condos were sold under trump s name that fit this broad definition they use of a transaction that may involve money laundering. the numbers i came up with were very large. it was $1.5 billion worth of real estate fell into this broad
embarrassed the stock market. one of the guys who ran that apparently repulsively corrupt company, one of these three guys that controls the metals, the guy famous for the 300-foot long yacht, very nice, bay rock bragged in its corporate documents he was a major investor in bay rock, a strategy investor and again, what that company was able to do is come up with the money for trump s soho. so kazakhstan. next time you see something chrome plated, take a deep breath, cough it out and think of the trump soho. kazakhstan story number two is bta bank, largest bank in that big country. it s only got 18 million people but the size of western europe.
category of money laundering. who proportion was that overall of the total dollar amount of real estate transactions that you looked at. it was 21% of the total number of transactions and to be fair, that s actually not unusual when you re talking about the kind of properties that donald trump has both built and licensed to be built under his name especially in cities like miami and manhattan where there is property and rich foreigners want to invest money in real estate because it s safe and appreciate and because they are rich. they pay cash. they don t need a mortgage. one of the things that one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you about tonight, the visit of the president of kazakhstan and because kazakhstan pops when you look at donald trump and financing and the possibility the mueller investigation in
and take their computers in order to ensure no one witnessed her being escorted out. any other administration an official whisked away in secret, that might be a news stopping event. nowadays it s like get in line. title x is the grant program that provides family planning services and health care to millions of americans. prior to getting thrown out of the health and human services headquarters on friday, theresa manning was already a controversial pick for that program. she s a committed antiabortion activists. this is the family planning part of the program. she said she doesn t think contraception works. report surface that the health agency did stall the process for states to apply for funding. they haven t been able to apply for the money they ve counted on this year even though it was supposed to be done in november. so maybe you can draw a line
particular might be looking at questions of possible money laundering. one of the things that comes up around the kazakhstan stuff is that these three trump soho condos that were bought that have been traced back to a controversial figure in kazakhst kazakhstan, they were turned around fast. they were bought in a multi million cash sale in 2013 within two years, all three had been sold again and they were sold at a loss. right. that might just be bad, you know, somebody misreading the market or picking bad apartments but is that turn around transactional turn around on these apartments and these sales, is that also a red flag? the national association of realtors that represents realtors, real estate agents said in its own advisory one of the warning signs in addition to what was described, one of the warning signs of money laundering can be what it calls an immediate resale of a