Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave...

[Angrboda]

@jorg, check your news feed.  Looks like the trump clan was trying to float a 50million dollar bribe to Uncle Vlad in order to set up a foreign money laundering service for criminals and other sanctioned bric a brac through sham "real estate" deals.

But was this a violation?

The short answer is probably not yet — at least based upon the known information.

A key point in both BuzzFeed’s report and Bloomberg’s later report is that there is no direct evidence that Trump had any knowledge of this proposal. We know that Cohen briefed him on the project regularly as it was progressing, but we don’t know in how much detail or whether he would have even floated something like that to Trump. So even if it constituted a violation for Cohen, it may not ensnare Trump.

“The FCPA’s third-party payment provisions state that an individual such as Trump is liable only to the extent he has ‘knowledge’ of the third-party’s conduct,” said Koehler, who has blogged about the report.

(Washington Post)

This is regarding the activities of Cohen and Felix Sater. Still not seeing any evidence of Trump involvement that is not based on Cohen.