Thru leaked docs, the Guardian has learned that #ESFamilyTrust operated like a #ShellCompany for a #Russian-American businessman named #AntonPostolnikov, who co-owns #PaxumBank & has been a subject of a yrs-long joint #federal #criminal investigation by the #FBI & #DHS into the #TrumpMedia merger.

The trust’s existence has previously been reported…. However, who controlled the acct, how the trust was connected to Paxum, & how the money had been funneled thru it to TrumpMedia was unknown.

#law

@Free_Press Great reporting…how will AG #garland ignore this?

“Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that #ESFamilyTrust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named #AntonPostolnikov who co-owns #Paxum Bank & has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the #fbi & the Department of Homeland Security (#DHS ) into the #TrumpMedia merger.”

And:

"In other money news, Hugo Lowell of The Guardian reported today that $8 million of the loans that bankrolled Trump’s social media platform Truth Social came from two entities that are associated with Anton Postolnikov, a relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin named Aleksandr Smirnov."

My comment: the Republican party is up to its eyeballs in fraudulent grifting schemes involving dark money sources.

#Trump #AntonPostolnikov #TruthSocial #Russia #Putin
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