would you want to know? i would want to know who is buying. because it s you. reporter: a team from global witness, an anti-corruption watchdog that is critical of businesses and their connections to government officials spent months investigating trump branded prombrand ed properties around the world. patrick alley is the co-founder. it was a money laundering hot spot. any responsible businessman should want to know who their clients are and where the money is coming from. if that responsible businessman is now the president of the united states, this is a matter of public interest. reporter: the idea for the trump ocean club was born long before the businessman became president. it was in the 2000s on his hit tv show the apprentice ceo trump made all the decisions. you are fired. you are all fired. reporter: his children were joining the family business. ivanka trump suggested that they take the trump brand global.
just a good of items of value from a variety of different foreign governments without ever having consulted congress or congress ever having made a statement whether that s legal or not. according to a watchdog group is a violation of the foreign emoluments close of the constitution stating no person of office of profit or trust shall without the consent of congress accept any present emolument office or title of any office from any king, prince or foreign state. the wording is quaint but chayes believes it s a modern-day application. if you choose to shoulder the honor of serving the people of the united states of america as their president you can t simultaneously be serving yourself as a businessman. choose. one or the other. why not let congress pursue this? why did lawsuit? this is a clear violation of a constitutional provision.
almost literally made of drug money. cocaine concrete. chaz cocaine concrete? it s money that came from cocaine. a lot was drug money. you take the cocaine, you turn it into a building? yeah. how do you know all of this? i was directly involved. i saw it happening. it was this booming market that the trump organization was entering. were drawn up for an ambitious tower, with a mix of hotel rooms and high end condos. all on a plot of land owned by a small time local businessman roger kafif who was going to be the building s main developer. ivanka travelled to panama to meet the team. introduce med and my company would be selling the units. reporter: according to ventura, ivanka was planning to presell units for around $120,000 each. ventura said he could sell them for a lot more.
almost literally made of drug money. cocaine concrete. reporter: what is cocaine concrete? it s the money that came from cocaine. a lot of it was drug money. reporter: take the cocaine and you turn it into a building? yeah. reporter: how do you know this? i was directly involved. i saw it happening. reporter: it was this booming market that the trump organization was entering. plans as seen in this marketing illustration were drawn up for an ambitious tower, the tallest in latin america at the time, with a mix of hotel rooms and high-end condos. all on a plot of land owned by a small-time local businessman, roger kafif, who was going to be the main developer. ivanka travels to panama to meet the team. roger introduced me. my company would be selling the units. reporter: ivanka was planning to pre-sell units for around $120,000 each. ventura said he could sell them for a lot more.
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