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b. 1949 United States

Craig Unger (b. March 25, 1949) is an American journalist and writer.

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Lazar and Leviev ...promised Putin that they would... "open doors to the corridors of power in Washington.

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Firtash’s “success was built on remarkable sweetheart deals brokered by associates of... Vladimir Putin, at immense cost to Russian taxpayers."

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Yeltsin... would... describe Russia as "the biggest mafia state in the world."

Trump’s Russian Laundromat (2017)

Trump appears to have taken advantage of... weak regulations to sell en masse to the Russians.

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

According to James Henry... $1.3 trillion in illicit capital has poured out of Russia since the 1990s.

Trump’s Russian Laundromat (2017)

Russians had begun collaborating with Italian mobsters as early as 1980...

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Sater's criminal record... did not appear to be a deal breaker for Trump. "Donald is happy with me..."

Why Robert Mueller Has Trump SoHo in His Sights (2017)

Americans cracked down on organized crime, Putin co-opted...[and] weaponized it.

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Ivankov recruited two brigades... of 250 athletes and... veterans of the Afghan war... to kill his enemies and establish ties...

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Yuri helped Litvinenko assemble and analyze a dossier linking senior Kremlin officials, including... Putin, to the Tambov organized crime group, which laundered money and facilitated drug trafficking for the Colombian cartel.

American Kompromat (2021)

"...Trump came to the conclusion that it is better to do business with crooks than with honest people," said Anders Åslund...

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Michael Morell... "In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation."

American Kompromat (2021)

Kislin... came to Trump’s aid after his massive bankruptcies in Atlantic City in the nineties by issuing mortgages for condos in Trump World Tower...

American Kompromat (2021)

As... Karen Dawisha explains in Putin’s Kleptocracy... [this] made Vladimir Putin the richest man in the world...

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

"Trump specifically marketed his Sunny Isles, Florida, apartment units in... [Russia] to attract... organized crime money"...

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

The "tower full of oligarchs," ...became a model for Trump’s projects ...

Trump’s Russian Laundromat (2017)

Foreign money, often untraceable, began transforming the high-end Manhattan real-estate market, and the pools of cash that Bayrock promised appealed to Trump.

Why Robert Mueller Has Trump SoHo in His Sights (2017)

With the help of Sater’s father, the firm got protection from the Genovese family, and Sater used an alias.. to launder... proceeds... [A] mob operation... cheating unsuspecting investors out of $40 million.

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Without the Russian Mafia's move into New York, Donald Trump would not have become president of the United States.

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Bayrock’s leadership... billionaire oligarchs from the former Soviet Union.

House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Craig Unger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.