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Ole talking out of both sides of his mouth Donnie at it
Posted on: May 7, 2019 at 14:44:07 CT
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article230070829.html
The Venezuelans are close associates of Diosdado Cabello Rondón, widely believed to be the second most powerful man in President Nicolás Maduro’s regime in the troubled, oil-rich South American nation. The Trump administration has accused Cabello of drug trafficking and money laundering.
The Dominican property sold in April 2015, two months before Donald Trump announced he was running for president. While the amount of the sale isn’t known, the future president declared in his May 2016 financial disclosure that the Trump entity that controlled the property had earned $2 million in land sales in 2015. Earlier promotional materials from 2014 showed an asking price of $3.5 million for the property.
There is no evidence of anything illegal on the part of the Trump Organization, but the sale is notable today as President Trump tries to muscle out Maduro and blasts past U.S. presidents for failing to drive from power Venezuela’s socialist governments.
“Past administrations allowed this to happen,” Trump said at a March 27 briefing. During those previous administrations, Trump’s company teamed up in the Dominican development project, which his family knew relied on heavy investment from Venezuela, according to U.S. court records.
The Dominican project is another example of how little is publicly known about some of the Trump Organization’s foreign entanglements and the potential conflicts those relationships might pose to U.S. policy.
When presented with detailed questions about the sale, the Trump Organization’s executive vice president and chief legal officer, Alan Garten, declined to comment. Also declining repeated requests for comment by phone and email: Alejandro Peña-Prieto, the Dominican lawyer who, according to legal documents, was authorized by the Trump company Caribusiness Investments to sell the property in the Dominican Republic.
The Trump Organization sold the Dominican property to a Costa Rican company called Multiservicios Shape de Costa Rica S.A. That company shared multiple overlapping officials with another Costa Rican company created in 2013 called Tu Andamio S.A. that is controlled by a Venezuelan woman named Marlene Coromoto Arenas Colina.
Two of the overlapping officers on the Costa Rican companies, Alejandro Herrera Quirós and Esther del Carmen Jirón Dávila, obtained Dominican tax ID numbers the same day and from the same office as Arenas in 2015, according to Dominican tax records obtained by McClatchy/Miami Herald.
Arenas is married to Pedro Fritz Morejón, the former Venezuelan tourism minister under the late President Hugo Chávez, who died in March 2013, making way for Maduro.
Media and think-tank reports link Arenas and Morejón to Cabello, the powerful head of Venezuela’s Socialist Party, who has been under sanction by the U.S. Treasury Department since May 18, 2018.
“We are imposing costs on figures like Diosdado Cabello, who exploit their official positions to engage in narcotics trafficking, money laundering, embezzlement of state funds, and other corrupt activities,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement at the time.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article230070829.html
The Venezuelans are close associates of Diosdado Cabello Rondón, widely believed to be the second most powerful man in President Nicolás Maduro’s regime in the troubled, oil-rich South American nation. The Trump administration has accused Cabello of drug trafficking and money laundering.
The Dominican property sold in April 2015, two months before Donald Trump announced he was running for president. While the amount of the sale isn’t known, the future president declared in his May 2016 financial disclosure that the Trump entity that controlled the property had earned $2 million in land sales in 2015. Earlier promotional materials from 2014 showed an asking price of $3.5 million for the property.
There is no evidence of anything illegal on the part of the Trump Organization, but the sale is notable today as President Trump tries to muscle out Maduro and blasts past U.S. presidents for failing to drive from power Venezuela’s socialist governments.
“Past administrations allowed this to happen,” Trump said at a March 27 briefing. During those previous administrations, Trump’s company teamed up in the Dominican development project, which his family knew relied on heavy investment from Venezuela, according to U.S. court records.
The Dominican project is another example of how little is publicly known about some of the Trump Organization’s foreign entanglements and the potential conflicts those relationships might pose to U.S. policy.
When presented with detailed questions about the sale, the Trump Organization’s executive vice president and chief legal officer, Alan Garten, declined to comment. Also declining repeated requests for comment by phone and email: Alejandro Peña-Prieto, the Dominican lawyer who, according to legal documents, was authorized by the Trump company Caribusiness Investments to sell the property in the Dominican Republic.
The Trump Organization sold the Dominican property to a Costa Rican company called Multiservicios Shape de Costa Rica S.A. That company shared multiple overlapping officials with another Costa Rican company created in 2013 called Tu Andamio S.A. that is controlled by a Venezuelan woman named Marlene Coromoto Arenas Colina.
Two of the overlapping officers on the Costa Rican companies, Alejandro Herrera Quirós and Esther del Carmen Jirón Dávila, obtained Dominican tax ID numbers the same day and from the same office as Arenas in 2015, according to Dominican tax records obtained by McClatchy/Miami Herald.
Arenas is married to Pedro Fritz Morejón, the former Venezuelan tourism minister under the late President Hugo Chávez, who died in March 2013, making way for Maduro.
Media and think-tank reports link Arenas and Morejón to Cabello, the powerful head of Venezuela’s Socialist Party, who has been under sanction by the U.S. Treasury Department since May 18, 2018.
“We are imposing costs on figures like Diosdado Cabello, who exploit their official positions to engage in narcotics trafficking, money laundering, embezzlement of state funds, and other corrupt activities,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement at the time.
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