President campaign in 2016 and he denied having anything to do with it. And the suit ultimately did not succeed, but it has the terms of that lawsuit, the scheme that was alleged in that lawsuit has continued to resonate in the news for a few years now. And right now, with tonights news it is ringing like a loud bell on a cold night. The scheme sketched out by this lawsuit, this rico lawsuit said that Vladimir Putins russian state run gas company made a ridiculous deal with a ukrainian oligarch, and technically the deal involved that guy buying and selling gas between russia and ukraine. But what the deal really was was a way to dump billions of dollars in the pocket of that ukrainian oligarch for a specific purpose. The way it worked instead of gas selling gas from russia to ukraine, they put this other guy in the middle. They sold that guy the middle in the gas for almost nothing and then that guy turned around and he sold the gas to ukraine at a massively marked up price. So the dif
Typically thats the mob but it could be other stuff, too. In 2011, a rico lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of new york about an alleged financial scream that involved a whole bunch of ukrainians and russians and one guy who ended up running the donald trump for President Campaign in 2016 and he denied having anything to do with it. And the suit ultimately did not succeed, but it has the terms of that lawsuit, the scheme that was alleged in that lawsuit has continued to resonate in the news for a few years now. And right now, with tonights news it is ringing like a loud bell on a cold night. The scheme sketched out by this lawsuit, this rico lawsuit said that Vladimir Putins russian state run gas company made a ridiculous deal with a ukrainian oligarch, and technically the deal involved that guy buying and selling gas between russia and ukraine. But what the deal really was was a way to dump billions of dollars in the pocket of that ukrainian oligarch for a specific purpose. T