Trump 2008: "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,"

It's not a secret that Trump and those close to his campaign have had some financial ties to Russia.
"Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets," as Donald Trump Jr. said at a real estate conference in 2008. "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia."

Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of last summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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And it's also no secret that corruption in Russia means oligarchs there can't always keep money in Russian banks. They move it overseas, to Europe or the United Kingdom or the U.S., for use in buying real estate or other purposes. Often, they have help: One of the Russians who met with Trump Jr. in June 2016 in Trump Tower, Irakly Kaveladze, was said to have set up some 2,000 shell companies in the United States.

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What Is Money-Laundering? And Why Does It Matter To Robert Mueller?