EFTA02628958.pdf

From: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 4:47 PM To: Michael Wolff Subject: Fwd: FYI first edit Forwarded messa e Fr=m: Michael Wolff < Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:07 AM Subject: F=l To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» =AO Books and newspaper accounts of Trump's 45 years in business were full of=his shady dealings, and the presidency had only helped to highlight them and to surfa=e even juicier ones. Real estate was the world's favorite money laundering cur.ency and Trump's perceived A -level real estate business was quite explicit,= designed to appeal to money launderers. What's more, Trump's own financ=al woes, and desperate efforts to maintain billionaire lifestyle, cache, and market viability, forced him into constant and unsubtle schemes. Practically=speaking, you couldn't miss him, as the Mueller investigation appeared to be finding. In November 2004, for instance, Jeffrey Epstein= the financier later caught in a scandal involving under-age prostitutes, agreed=to buy out of bankruptcy a house in Palm Beach, Florida for $36 million=E2 a house that had been on the market for two years. Epstein and Trump had been close frie=ds—playboys in arms, as it were—for more than a decade, with Trump always hopef=l that Epstein would provide some of his financial expertise to enabvle h8=m to survive . Trump was beholden to Deutsch Bank and was on the ho=k personally for 40 million dollars. Epstein took Trump to see the Pal= Beach house to advise him on construction issues involved with moving the swimmin= pool. As he prepared to finalize his deal for the house, an incredulous Epstein saw a s=verely cash-constrained Trump bid $41million for the property, buying it through =n entity named Trump Properties LLC, ultimate owner unknown. . Trump, Epstein knew, had been in the buisness of leasing his name. Hotels are actual=y owned by others but renting the trump name would cost a percent or two.=C2 , Trump was willing to serve as a front man to disguise the actual ownership in a real estate transaction. (This was, in effect, just another variation of Trump's basic business model of licensing his name for=commercial properties owned by someone else.) A furious Epstein suspected that others actually ow=ed the new house. then getting extensive scrutiny in Florida papers. The d=sagreement re the purchase of the house became all the more bitter when, two months later, the house was put on the market for $125 million. Well known to Trump, who often visited with Epstein at =is Palm Beach house, whose visits were confirmed in depostions of Epsteins houseman= It appears that Epstein was visited almost every day, by and had been for=many years, by girls who he paid for massages with happy endings—girls recruite=, and who often returned to his house from the local mas=age parlors strip clubs, and, also, Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Just as th= threats and enmity of the two friends increased over the house sale, Epstein found himself under investigation by local Palm Beach police. Epstein's l=gal problems vastly escalated but the new Trump property , with only minor impr=vements, was bought 3 years later in 08 , the time Trump was facing his huge debt. for $9= million by Dmitry Rybolovlev. a Russain oligarch. That is, Trump ha= either miraculously earned $55 million, without putting up a dime, or Rybolovlev, or someone su=h as Rybolovlev, paid Trump Properties, LLC—actual owner unknown =80 $96 million, thereby providing a clean payment of $55 million to someone. This at =he very same time that trump was into Deutsch bank for over 600 million do=lars but with a 40 millino personal EFTA_R1_01846446 EFTA02628958 guarnatee .Rybolovlev might have, in effect, paid himself for the house, thereby cleansing the money. E=stein, on his part, would be senetenced to 30 months, 12 of those months in =ail on a prostitution charge. After the election, when Bannon was introduced =o Epstein, Bannon told him, "You were the one person I was truly afra=d of coming forward during the campaign." =9Cnot surprising " said Epstein. =C2 please note The information contained in t=is communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, ma= constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of =he addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure=or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohib=ted and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in =rror, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected]=m, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, includ=ng all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved </=iv> --000000000000f84d460580d7e377-- conversation-id 332148 date-last-viewed 0 date-received 1549039614 flags 8590195713 gmail-label-ids 7 remote-id 896337 2 EFTA_R1_01846447 EFTA02628959