Summary of Craig Unger's House of Trump, House of Putin

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On November 9, 2016, Trump became president after being targeted by the Russian Mafia and Russian intelligence for nearly four decades. He would leave the country all but defenseless against future attacks.
#2 The book will show that President Trump allowed Trump-branded real estate to be used as a vehicle that likely served to launder enormous amounts of money for the Russian Mafia for more than three decades. It will show that Trump was $4 billion in debt when Russian money came to his rescue and bailed him out, and as a result, he was and remains deeply indebted to them.
#3 The Mafia metaphor is a bit much, but what Trump did reminded Comey of a Cosa Nostra induction ceremony, with Trump in the role of the Mafia family boss.
#4 Sonny Franzese, a mobster who had immigrated to the United States with his family as a child, oversaw a gasoline-tax-evasion scam that turned into a billion-dollar enterprise. He was a fearsome enforcer and swam in the biggest ocean.

Sujets

• Political Science
• Former Soviet Union
• Russian
• World

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822509696
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Craig Unger's House of Trump House of Putin
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On November 9, 2016, Trump became president after being targeted by the Russian Mafia and Russian intelligence for nearly four decades. He would leave the country all but defenseless against future attacks.

#2

The book will show that President Trump allowed Trump-branded real estate to be used as a vehicle that likely served to launder enormous amounts of money for the Russian Mafia for more than three decades. It will show that Trump was $4 billion in debt when Russian money came to his rescue and bailed him out, and as a result, he was and remains deeply indebted to them.

#3

The Mafia metaphor is a bit much, but what Trump did reminded Comey of a Cosa Nostra induction ceremony, with Trump in the role of the Mafia family boss.

#4

Sonny Franzese, a mobster who had immigrated to the United States with his family as a child, oversaw a gasoline-tax-evasion scam that turned into a billion-dollar enterprise. He was a fearsome enforcer and swam in the biggest ocean.

#5

By the early eighties, organized crime in New York had begun to shift as Russians began collaborating with Italian mobsters. Michael Franzese was providing protection to a mobster named Lawrence Iorizzo, who owned or supplied three hundred gas stations in and around Long Island and New Jersey. Iorizzo was making a fortune by skimming tax revenue from gasoline sales.

#6

In 1980, Michael Franzese met with three alleged Russian gangsters, David Bogatin, Michael Markowitz, and Lev Persits, who were trying to muscle their way into the gas tax scam. Franzese helped them get the wholesale licenses they needed to defraud the government.

#7

In 1984, Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City. He chose a fifty-eight-story building with mirrors and brass fixtures, and called it Trump Tower. Its address was 721 Fifth Avenue.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The deal was extremely unusual. Trump Tower sold condos to buyers who used shell companies, which allowed them to buy real estate while concealing their identities. This made the building an ideal vehicle for criminals to put their dirty money into luxury condominiums while keeping their ownership anonymous.

#2

Two powerful forces in a newly created global underground economy began to come together. The disintegration of the Soviet Union had opened a fire-hose-like torrent of hundreds of billions of dollars in flight capital that began to pour forth from oligarchs, wealthy apparatchiks, and mobsters in Russia and its satellites.

#3

Even before Trump Tower was completed in 1983, criminals with ties to the Italian mob had begun using the building to launder money. By 1984, the Russians had discovered that as long as they had money, Trump was willing to listen.

#4

Putin drew a line in the sand with regard to Ukraine, as he had done with the Euromaidan protests against Russian aggression in 2013. He waged a shadow war, or virtual war, consisting of covert operations, disinformation, and cyber warfare. It was a war in which Russia hacked its adversaries, made highly provocative fake news go viral, and hijacked social media.

#5

Putin used a secret weapon that few Americans understood: Russian gangsters became, in effect, Putin’s enforcers. They were then free to compromise persons of influence in the West via kompromat, which they collected on behalf of the Kremlin, if they served its political agenda.
Insights from Chapter 3

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