Mainecat Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation Source: The Guardian Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors Hugo Lowell Wed 3 Apr 2024 06.00 EDT Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation. The situation led Trump Media to take emergency loans, including from an entity called ES Family Trust, which opened an account with Paxum Bank, a small bank registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica that is best known for providing financial services to the porn industry. Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, who co-owns Paxum Bank and has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the Trump Media merger. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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