business partner which shoveled billions of dollars to them by letting them take a cut out of every single fart worth of natural gas that they sold to ukraine. these guys repaid putin for the multi-billion dollar favor by paying the politicians that putin wanted in power in the ukraine. it's nice work if you can get it. i'm sorry i said fart. a few days ago, we reported on a dismissed u.s. lawsuit that claimed that one of the ways those guys laundered putin's money before sending it back to ukraine for putin to buy a government there, was it was funneled into and out of new york city real estate deals. that alleged scheme was an $850 million plan to tear down and redo this hotel, the drake hotel in new york city. this would have been a mammoth real estate deal if it happened.