Have you met Marc Lasry? You know the guy who is co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks…
NO WONDER AMERICA IS IN TROUBLE: FRAUD, COLLUSION, CONSPIRACY and well read on….
He is a billionaire hedge fund manager and he was Chelsea Clinton’s old boss. Lasry’s daughter was married in 2013, she and her husband both worked as interns for Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Further, he is a close friend and bundler for the Clintons, and Bill suggested that Obama name Lasry as Ambassador to France, but then that nomination came to a screeching halt. Why you ask?
Well there was a big bust at the Carlyle Hotel where poker games were arranged and often included people like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and even Matt Damon, but there was yet one other poker player, a Russian, of the Russian mafia that is.
Then Lasry is also tight with one of those old czars that Obama hired, Steve Rattner, he was the car czar, you remember ‘cash for clunkers’ and the auto bailouts? Yeah, that guy.
Anyway, this hedge fund and financial guru of Moroccan descent, says the economy is great and is rolling along being quite stable. What?
It is no wonder that Barack Obama never talks about the lack of jobs or the 18 trillion of debt. It appears both Lasry and Obama know nothing of the U.S. financial condition and perhaps even Treasury secretary Jack Lew and Federal Reserve Chairman both just keep the duck take applied to the unstableness.
Obama Mega-Donor, Clinton Foundation Donor: ‘The Economy is Fine’
FreeBeacon: Billionaire hedge fund co-owner Marc Lasry, a mega-donor to President Obama and the Clinton Foundation, says that the “economy is fine” after the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 1,000 points in the first minutes of trading on Monday.
“What I have told investors is the economy is fine but now is a great time to be buying some things when they get hit,” Lasry told the New York Times. “Other people may be having issues. For us, that is an opportunity as opposed to a problem.”
Lasry, co-owner of the $13.9 billion hedge fund Avenue Capital Group, is one of President Obama’s top campaign bundlers.
Since 2008, Lasry has contributed $282,900 to Democratic candidates and committees, including $9,600 to Obama. He also raised more than $500,000 for Obama’s reelection.
Additionally, Lasry is listed as donating between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Lasry has also held fundraisers for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. On May 13, Lasry held $2,700 per person fundraiser at his home in New York City. “I think she will best represent this country and do what’s right for everybody so therefore I will do whatever I can to help her,” he said.
The billionaire was also offered an ambassadorship to France by Obama but had to withdraw his name when FBI tapes linked him to a high-stakes poker ring tied to Russian mobsters.
In case you want to know more about that Russian mafia thing…
More than thirty people were charged by federal authorities in a massive illegal gambling, money laundering, and extortion scheme tied to Russian organized crime, according to an indictment in the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York.
The operation allegedly involved two criminal organizations, Nahmad-Trincher (based in Los Angeles and NYC), which catered to millionaires, billionaires and poker pros, and Taiwanchik-Trincher (based in Kiev, NYC, and Moscow), which serviced oligarchs from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
According the indictment, these groups had operations spanning across continents with defendants located in Los Angeles, Russia, New York and the former Soviet Union, bank accounts in Switzerland, holding companies in Cyprus and the United States, and a gambling website in Taiwan.
The characters in the drama include the son of a billionaire art dealer, a Bronx plumber, a JPMorgan branch manager, a real estate firm in New York, a car repair shop in Brooklyn, and a Russian man charged with allegedly bid-rigging the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Games, etc.
Basically, this goes deep.
The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization, which the indictment identifies as an “international organized crime group with leadership based in New York City, Kiev, and Moscow,” was allegedly led by Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (a.k.a. “Alik”), Vadim Trincher (a.k.a. “Dima”), and Anatoly Golubchick (a.k.a. “Tony”), the indictment said. They are all named as defendants.
You might recognize the name Tokhatkhounov. He was the guy charged with allegedly bribing officials at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, according to the indictment.
Based in Russia, Tokhatkhounov was allegedly referred to as “Vor,” which is defined as a Russian term meaning “Thief-in-Law.”
It’s basically like a version of the “Godfather,” and is a moniker bestowed on the highest-level criminal figures from the former Soviet Union. According to the indictment, a “Vor” gets tribute from other criminals, offers protection, and uses “their authority to resolve disputes among criminals.”
Tokhatkhounov’s group allegedly ran an illegal gambling business, money laundering, extortion, and other criminal operations. The crux of their business, however, was a series of high-stakes poker games and gambling activities frequented by oligarchs.
Nahmad-Trincher, based in Los Angeles and NYC, was structured in much the same way, but catered to Wall Streeters, pro athletes, and Hollywood stars, The New York Times reported.
No famous figures were named specifically in the indictment.
Names or not, we’re talking big money here — like $50 million running through Cypriot and American shell companies, or $499,800 sent to a bank account in Taiwan owned by an illegal gambling website operating in the United States, or $850,000 moving from a Swiss bank account to a U.S. bank account under the control of Noah “The Oracle” Seigel.
To hide all these transactions, says the complaint, the Trincher groups relied on a sophisticated money laundering operation. Not only did they run money through a Brooklyn car garage, a real estate company, and an online used car dealership, but they also used a JP Morgan branch manager in NYC named Ronald Uy.
Uy, who was named as a defendant, allegedly assisted “in structuring several transactions at the Bank designed in part to avoid generating currency transaction reports,” according to the indictment.
Of course, gambling doesn’t work out for everyone all the time. When one client wins, another one must lose. Losers playing in the Trincher group’s high stakes games could, according to the Feds, expect violence or at least threats of it.
In one case,” Nahmad-Trincher allegedly took control of 50% of “Client-3’s” Bronx-based plumbing business when he racked up $2 million in gambling debt.
There were several arrests made today in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and other places, according to the New York Post.
Earlier this morning, the FBI raided Helly Nahmad Art Gallery at the swanky Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Feds were looking for Helly Nahmad, the son of billionaire art baron David Nahmad.
