House Oversight — Estate records
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From: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] Sent: 2/1/2019 4:46:54 PM To: Michael Wolff Subject: Fwd: FYI first edit ----------Forwarded message--------- From: Michael Wolff Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:07 AM Subject: FYI To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> 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 surface even juicier ones. Real estate was the world's favorite money laundering currency and Trump's perceived A -level real estate business was quite explicitly designed to appeal to money launderers. What's more, Trump's own financial 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—a house that had been on the market for two years. Epstein and Trump had been close friends—playboys in arms, as it were—for more than a decade, with Trump always hopeful that Epstein would provide some of his financial expertise to enabvle h8im to survive. Trump was beholden to Deutsch Bank and was on the hook personally for 40 million dollars. Epstein took Trump to see the Palm Beach house to advise him on construction issues involved with moving the swimming pool. As he prepared to finalize his deal for the house, an incredulous Epstein saw a severely cash-constrained Trump bid $41 million for the property, buying it through an entity named Trump Properties LLC, ultimate owner unknown.. Trump, Epstein knew, had been in the buisness of leasing his name. Hotels are actually owned by others but renting the trump name would cost a percent or two. , Trump was willing to serv […]