Karol Cummins

In late June 2017, the Commercial Bank of Dubai sought—and later received—permission to subpoena Ivanka Trump’s now-defunct fine jewelry line, claiming its diamonds were used in a massive scheme to hide roughly $100 million that was owed to the bankhttps://www.gq.com/story/ivanka-trump-jewelry-business …

Cops Suspect Arson After a Home Linked to Ivanka Trump’s Diamond Business Burns (Dec 2017) The house was owned by the family of Moshe Lax—a real estate and diamond heir with whom Ivanka Trump launched her jewelry company.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/27/ivanka-trump-business-partner-215544 …

Moshe Lax first introduced Ivanka to Jared Kushner in 2007https://www.gq.com/story/ivanka-trump-jewelry-business-burns-down …

What happened to this case @TheJusticeDept? 2018: DOJ Sues Ivanka’s Ex-Business Partner for Massive Fraud Moshe Lax and members of his family allegedly conspired to deprive the U.S. of $60 million.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/17/ivanka-trump-business-partner-justice-department-lawsuit-moshe-lax-219369 …

Lev Leviev, the Israeli Billionaire With Ties to Jared Kushner & Putin Leviev is best known for having cracked the world diamond market monopoly of the De Beers cartel in the 1980s, & for RE holdings & construction deals from Wall Street to the West Bankhttps://www.haaretz.com/us-news/who-is-the-israeli-billionaire-with-ties-to-kushner-and-putin-1.5435007 …

In 1999, Putin enlisted two of his closest confidants, oligarchs Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich, who would go on to become Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, to create the FJC of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, “Putin’s rabbi.”https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007 …

The links between Trump & Chabad kept piling up. In 2007, Trump hosted the wedding of Sapir’s daughter & Leviev’s right-hand man at Mar-a-Lago. A few months after the ceremony, Leviev met Trump to discuss potential deals in Moscow.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007 …

Trump attended the Leviev bris along with Kushner, who would go on to buy a $300 million building from Leviev and marry Ivanka Trump, who would form a close relationship with Abramovich’s wife, Dasha Zhukova.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/the-happy-go-lucky-jewish-group-that-connects-trump-and-putin-215007 …

Zhukova would host the Javanka in Russia in 2014 and reportedly attend Trump’s inauguration as their guesthttps://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2107335/roman-abramovich-billionaire-oligarch-chelsea-owner …

Leviev was a business partner of Prevezon Holdings, the Russian firm that was accused of money-laundering, and that, after it was represented by Natalia Veselnitskaya, got off with a $6 million slap on the wrist.https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/who-is-the-israeli-billionaire-with-ties-to-kushner-and-putin-1.5435007 …

The Prevezon scam had been exposed in 2009 by Sergei Magnitsky, that led to the Magnitsky Act – that Veselnitskaya said she was lobbying to have cancelled when she met with Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner and others at Trump Tower 6/16.https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/who-is-the-israeli-billionaire-with-ties-to-kushner-and-putin-1.5435007 …

11/5/18 Gem mogul Lev Leviev is ‘central suspect’ in smuggling probe; son and brother nabbed Billionaire tycoon in huge alleged fraud reportedly now living in Russia, out of reach of Israeli authoritieshttps://www.timesofisrael.com/brother-and-son-of-gem-mogul-leviev-arrested-in-diamond-smuggling-probe/ …

Leviev is suspected of heading an empire that smuggled hundreds of millions of shekels in diamonds to Israel over at least 16 years. The police suspect he sought to evade restrictions on exporting diamonds from other countries, especially Russia.https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/corruption-probe-into-lev-leviev-s-diamond-empire-stalls-1.6803914 …

2010 U.S. Ties Israeli Billionaire With Chinese Intelligence A report ties Lev Leviev with Chinese intel, which is busy making crucial acquisitions (oil & raw materials) in Africa, South America and the U.S.https://www.haaretz.com/1.5091133 

In 2015, the Kushner real-estate company purchased four floors of the old NYT building, on West 43rd St., for $295 million from Lev Leviev’s U.S. branch of Africa-Israel Inv’t, in partnership with Five Mile Capital.https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/who-is-the-israeli-billionaire-with-ties-to-kushner-and-putin-1.5435007 …

Kushner took a loan from Deutsche Bank in October 2016 – a month before Election Day – to refinance the Manhattan property, which was now valued at $74 million above what he paid for it a year earlier.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/kushner-firms-285-million-deutsche-bank-loan-came-just-before-election-day/2017/06/25/984f3acc-4f88-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html …

Deutsche Bank investigation began with an inquiry into the bank’s work for Russian money launderers specifically a vast money-laundering scandal at the Danish lender Danske Bank.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/business/deutsche-bank-money-laundering-trump.html …

2017: Prosecutors Examine Loan Made to Kushner Cos. Before Election Unclear whether request is related to inquiry regarding company’s use of EB-5 investment-for-immigration programhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-examine-loan-made-to-kushner-cos-before-election-1514003541 …

Currently (6/25/19) The U.S. attorney for the EDNY subpoenaed records about the Kushner’s refinancing in 2017. Wells Fargo & Co., which manages the loan, has placed it on a watchlist for troubled debt and taken control of the property’s accountshttps://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-kushner-times-square-property-development/ …

Deutsche Bank Opens Review Into Personal Banker to Trump and Kushner The bank will examine a 2013 transaction between the banker, Rosemary Vrablic, and a company part-owned by Jared Kushner.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/business/kushner-deutsche-trump-rosemary-vrablic.html …

In June 2013, Vrablic & two of her Deutsche Bank colleagues purchased a Park Avenue apartment for about $1.5 million from a company called Bergel 715 Associates. The Kushner’s had received $1 million to $5 million last year from Bergel 715https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/business/kushner-deutsche-trump-rosemary-vrablic.html …

Back to diamonds Diamonds Trump Family 2017: Dutch Documentary Part II: Blood on Trump and Kushner’s Hands from Deals with Africa War Zone Diamond Mineshttps://www.alternet.org/2017/05/dutch-documentary-part-ii-blood-trumps-and-kushners-hands-deals-africa-war-zone-diamond-mines/ …

Angola’s largest, in a joint venture with the Russian state diamond company, Alrosa; a Brazilian partner; and the Angola state diamond company. Leviev soon established warm ties with the Angolan president, José Eduardo Dos Santos,https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16Leviev-t.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share …

Interesting in light of recent news: Trump partner Lev Leviev's reported deep involvement in (a) trafficking in Angolan blood diamonds by way of his special arrangement with Eduardo dos Santos and family,...https://www.alternet.org/2017/05/dutch-documentary-part-ii-blood-trumps-and-kushners-hands-deals-africa-war-zone-diamond-mines/ …

Africa's Richest Woman Isobel dos Santos Now Formally A Suspect In Angolan Corruption Probehttps://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798865636/africas-richest-woman-now-formally-a-suspect-in-angolan-corruption-probe …

Isabel dos Santos charged with fraud and embezzlement in a bid to recover around $1.1 billion they claim she and her associates siphoned from the Angolan state.https://www.icij.org/investigations/luanda-leaks/isabel-dos-santos-charged-with-embezzlement-will-sell-portuguese-bank-stake/ …

José Filomeno dos Santos, was head of Angola's Sovereign Wealth Fund from 2013 to 2018 Isabel’s half brother has been jailed for five years for fraud after $500m (£378m) was transferred from the national bank of Angola to an account in the UK.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53774288 …

The Brooklyn US attorney’s office recently subpoenaed Trump’s inaugural committee for records “relating to 20 individuals and businesses” all with connections to Broidy, including Angolan President João Lourenço and two Romanian officials.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/trump-pal-elliott-broidy-is-facing-yet-another-federal-investigation …