FBI Obtained Wiretap For Trump Tower In 2013 Russian Mob Case: Report
The FBI obtained a court-approved wiretap for two years starting in 2011 and ending in 2013 to surveil a Russian organized crime network that was operating out of Trump Tower. According to an ABC News report,
ABC News reported that the FBI’s investigation into the Russian mobsters led “to a federal grand jury indictment of more than 30 people, including one of the world’s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov.”
Tokhtakhounov was able to evade arrest in 2013, however he did appear publicly Donald Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow where he was spotted near Trump in the VIP section.
The Russian crime ring that Tokhtakhounov was part of was suspected by authorities of moving more than $50 million in illegal money into the United States.
The ABC News report reported that the Russian crime organization “laundered from Russia, Ukraine and other locations through Cyprus banks and shell companies based in Cyprus, and then ultimately here to the United States.”
While Donald Trump was not the subject of the investigation the Russian mafia figures under FBI surveillance worked out of the 63rd floor of Trump Tower which is just three floors below TDonald Trump’s penthouse.
