The New Republic claims that Russia uses Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and support what has been called a kleptocracy.
In the 1980s about 1/3 Trillion dollars fled Russia after the fall of the ruble. At the same time Trump’s empire was on deep trouble. The NR says that Trump Inc became a home for money from the Russian oligarchs and that the Russian equivalent of the Mafia became the hidden force behind the Trump political campaign.