Then: The Deal
with Alexandre Ventura Nogueira
is running Like Clock Work
Now: Nogueira who?
Major Update on the Following Story here from (Alternet.org):
My input: Ho Lee Shitte. Sure looks like Ivanka's deal with this
guy, Alexandre Ventura Nogueira (see more below), did and perhaps is still
paying off ... and certainly fodder for Mueller for sure:
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Original Post: The Headlines
from Reuters Special Report is Classic Trump:
“Ivanka Trump and the Fugitive from
Panama”
Highlights:
PANAMA CITY & TORONTO, November 17 (Reuters) – In the spring of 2007, a succession of foreigners, many from Russia, arrived at Panama City airport to be greeted by a chauffeur who whisked them off in a white Cadillac with a Donald Trump logo on the side.
The limousine belonged to a business run by a Brazilian former car salesman named Alexandre Ventura Nogueira, who was offering the visitors a chance to invest in Trump’s latest project – a 70-floor tower called the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower.
Note: That project was the future president’s first international hotel venture, a complex including residential apartments and a casino in a waterfront building shaped like a sail.
“Mr. Nogueira was an outgoing and lively young man. Everybody was so impressed with Homes as they seemed to be riding the top of the real estate boom at the time,” remembered Justine Pasek, who was crowned Miss Universe by Donald Trump in 2002 and was acting in 2007 as a spokesperson for Nogueira’s company, Homes Real Estate Investment & Services.
One of those Nogueira set out to impress was Ivanka Trump-Kushner. In an interview with Reuters, Nogueira said he met and spoke with Ivanka “many times” when she was handling the Trump Organization’s involvement in the Panama development.
“She would remember me,” he said adding that Ivanka was so taken with his sales skills that she helped him become a leading broker for the development and he appeared in a video with her promoting the project.
A Reuter’s investigation into the financing of the Trump Ocean Club, in conjunction with NBC News, found out that Nogueira was responsible for between one-third and one-half of advance sales for the project.
It also found out that he did business with a Colombian who was later convicted of money laundering and is now in detention in the United States; a Russian investor in the Trump project who was jailed in Israel in the 1990s for kidnap and threats to kill; and a Ukrainian investor who was arrested for alleged people-smuggling while working with Nogueira and later convicted by a Kiev court.
Three years after getting involved in the Trump Ocean Club, Nogueira was arrested by Panamanian authorities on charges of fraud and forgery, unrelated to the Trump project. Released on $1.4 million bail, he later fled the country.
He left behind a trail of people who claim he cheated them, including over apartments in the Trump project, resulting in at least four criminal cases that eight years later have still to be judged. Nogueira denies the charges and told Reuters in an email: “I am no Angel but not Devil either.”
Noteworthy: Ivanka Trump declined to comment on her dealings with Nogueira.
A White House spokesman referred questions to the Trump Organization.
Alan Garten, the Trump organization’s chief legal officer said: “No one at the Trump Organization, including the Trump family, has any recollection of ever meeting or speaking with this individual (Nogueira).”
Further refer to the above from Nogueira who said he met and spoke with Ivanka “many times she would remember me.”
Now the Trump card is played (when they are caught red-handed so to speak thus):
“Nogueira, who?”
However Donald Trump put his name to the development and stood to make up to $75 million from it (re: bond prospectus for the project).
He did not exert management control over the construction and was under no direct legal obligation to conduct due diligence on other people involved, but still, some legal experts say the episode raises questions about the steps Trump took to check the source of any income from there.
For example, Arthur Middlemiss, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan and a former head of JPMorgan’s global anti-corruption program, said that since Panama was “perceived to be highly corrupt,” anyone engaged in business there should conduct due diligence on others involved in their ventures.
If they did not, Middlemiss said, “…there was a potential risk in U.S. law of being liable for turning a blind eye to wrongdoing.”
Story continues here.
My 2
cents: How about a Rick Perry “oops”
about right now, um, Ivanka or Mr. President.
Claiming
not to know Nogueira, but gave him permission to use the Trump name?
You
agreed to huge profits from the deal with your name?
Now you
expect us to believe you didn’t know the man or only slightly? Hardly – and
highly unlikely and totally not plausible.
Seems
the father and daughter dual (or maybe all 4 of the Trump’s) have tried to pull
a “Bernie Madoff” – well, maybe not that big – but just as bad (i.e., being
in cahoots with a scam and skillful con artist – the aforementioned Nogueira).
I
expect more on this story that is the Trump’s tap dance around it – then who
the hell knows – seems to be the M.O. right? So, stay tuned.
Thanks for
stopping by.
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