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MARCH 22–A longtime resident of Trump Tower whose contacts include Russian oligarchs and underworld figures has returned to the upper reaches of the Fifth Avenue tower, where his ostentatious aerie boasts finishes like 24k gold faucets, alabaster stone walls crafted by Portugese artisans, and a $350,000 bathroom floor made of amethyst imported from Tanzania.
No, Donald Trump is not back in Manhattan.
After nearly three years in federal custody, a racketeer who was convicted of running an international gambling and money laundering ring in partnership with a notorious Moscow crimelord is now living under house arrest on the 63rd floor of Trump Tower, three floors down from Trump’s penthouse, which is still home to First Lady Melania Trump and the couple’s 11-year-old son.
Vadim Trincher, 56, pleaded guilty in 2013 to running what a federal prosecutor called “one of the biggest bookmaking operations in the world,” an international racketeering enterpise that, beginning in 2006, laundered a total of approximately $100 million in gambling proceeds. Of that amount, $50 million was transferred into the U.S., often through a series of shell corporations in Cyprus that would issue phony loan agreements.
[Trincher and his wife Elena are pictured above in their Trump Tower home.]
One of Trincher’s partners in the gambling operation–and a codefendant in the criminal case brought by former United States Attorney Preet Bharara–was Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, a Russian crime boss already under indictment for allegedly attempting to fix a figure skating competition at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Tokhtakhounov, investigators allege, used his political, business, and criminal connections in Russia to recruit clients for the gambling operation. The fugitive gangster, nicknamed “Taiwanchik,” also made sure that gambling debts were paid.
According to federal agents, the “Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization” catered primarily to “millionaires and billionaires across the globe” who placed large bets–often in the hundreds of thousands of dollars–on soccer matches (and sometimes NBA and Major League Baseball games). The gambling ring’s wealthy clientele primarily resided in Russia and Ukraine, according to court records.
Trincher, who emigrated to the U.S. from Kiev in 1989, directed bookies in Moscow and Ukraine and dealt directly with the gambling ring’s biggest clients, several of whom were Russian oligarchs. Trincher operated from his Trump Tower home, a 3073-square-foot corner apartment with sweeping views south towards St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Rockefeller Center.
During the course of the investigation that resulted in charges against Trincher, two of his sons, Tokhtakhounov (seen at left), and 30 other defendants, FBI agents received court authorization to monitor Trincher’s cell phone for several months. Despite a recent ABC report, agents did not seek permission to bug Trincher’s Trump Tower residence or wiretap any landline inside that apartment.
While eavesdropping on Trincher, agents discovered the massive amounts being bet by the gambling ring’s clients. During an April 2012 conversation, Trincher and an associate discussed how one man owed $2.3 million, while a Monaco resident was four months behind on a $500,000 debt. Investigators also learned that Trincher’s clientele included numerous billionaires, including Moscow real estate titan Roman Manashirov and Igor Surkis, owner of Dynamo Kiev, Ukraine’s biggest soccer team.
Trincher, a high-stakes poker player who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Israel, was recorded in February 2012 telling a friend in Kiev about how he had paid $10,000 to participate the previous evening in a 100-player celebrity poker tournament benefitting the William J. Clinton Foundation. Trincher recalled that he and his wife posed for a photo with the 42nd president, and added that he also saw Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump at the event (which was held in a Manhattan restaurant).
Clinton Foundation financial records–which report donations in a range–show that Trincher gave the group between $5000 and $10,000 in 2012. Ivanka Trump is listed as giving the organization between $5000 and $10,000 that same year.
Trincher explained to his Ukrainian friend that he was invited to play in the charity tournament since his eldest son, Illya, was a friend of financier (and poker enthusiast) Marc Lasry, who helped set up the Clinton event. Lasry, a major Democratic donor, was a regular at big-dollar poker games organized by Illya Trincher, who, like his father, pleaded guilty in the federal case.
In mid-April 2013, as investigators fanned out across New York to apprehend defendants in the gambling case, a team of FBI agents arrived at Trump Tower at around dawn on a Tuesday morning to arrest Trincher and search Apartment 63A-B. After leading Trincher out in handcuffs, agents seized $2.3 million in poker chips, $93,075 worth of gold coins and ingots, about $80,000 in combined U.S. currency and Euros, and assorted jewelry. They also took eight cell phones, four of which were “burners.”
In addition to seeking forfeiture of the items taken from Trincher’s residence, prosecutors initially announced that they would also go after the Trump Tower apartment itself, since the valuable residence was “the property from which he ran his illegal business.”
Trincher’s condo was one of several prime Trump Tower units that Trump himself purchased upon the building’s completion in 1983. The investment units, which Trump had rented out, eventually began hitting the market when the developer’s financial prospects waned in the early-1990s.
According to deed records, Trump personally sold Apartment 63A-B in March 1994 to a company controlled by Oleg Boiko, one of Russia’s richest financiers. Boiko, an early backer of Boris Yeltsin, the Russian Federation’s first president, is one of Russia’s original oligarchs, the small group of businessmen who became fabulously wealthy after being allowed to privatize some of the country’s industrial assets.
In May 2009, Boiko sold the apartment to Trincher and his wife Elena for $5 million cash. At the time of the transaction, the Trinchers listed their address as a 45th floor apartment in Trump Tower (the deed to which was in the name of a Russian woman). An FBI analysis of the 2009 purchase of Apartment 63A-B revealed that funds used to buy the residence had been moved through Trincher’s shell accounts in Cyprus. Like other Trump Tower owners, Trincher pays monthly maintenance fees to a Trump firm that manages the condominium.
While prosecutors contended that Trincher paid for his Trump Tower abode with proceeds from a racketeering enterprise, the residence was not among the assets that Trincher forfeited as part of his felony plea deal with the government. According to court records, Trincher and his son Illya surrendered a total of more than $30 million in cash and other valuables. The elder Trincher, investigators allege, kept accounts in the names of his wife, children, and girlfriend, and likely had other substantial assets and business interests in the U.S., Israel, and the former Soviet Union.
Trincher, who had no prior criminal record, was sentenced in April 2014 to five years in prison to be followed by three years of probation. Prosecutor Joshua Naftalis described Trincher’s ring as “one of the biggest bookmaking operations in the world,” adding that the defendant had brought his sons into the illegal gambling business and was “grooming them to take his role.”
Trincher spent most of his time in custody at the low security federal lockup in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. He was released in January to a halfway house in Brooklyn, where he spent six weeks before being transferred to “home confinement,” according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson.
Trincher’s official BoP “release date” is July 8, after which time he will begin serving his probation term. As part of his supervised release, Trincher will be subject to unannounced searches of his apartment by a probation officer (who will first have to navigate the curbside Secret Service cordon).
By all accounts, the Trincher apartment rivals the Trump triplex when its comes to extravagant décor.
Following a leak from an upstairs apartment (not Trump’s), the Trinchers filed an October 2012 lawsuit claiming that water had irreparably damaged custom designed wall panels that would cost in excess of $5 million to replace. A rare silk rug worth $150,000 was also ruined, the Trinchers said. Damage to the condo, the couple added, forced them to cancel a fundraiser they had planned for Newt Gingrich, then a Republican presidential candidate (the Trinchers had previously donated money to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham).
Trincher, who shared a dormitory bathroom with other Allenwood inmates, was likely overjoyed to return last month to his Fifth Avenue powder rooms, which have been featured on the Travel Channel show “Extreme Bathrooms.” The TV program offered viewers a look at the sumptous bathrooms of a Trump Tower apartment, but did not identify the residence’s owners.
The floor in one of the Trincher bathrooms is made of solid amethyst imported from Tanzania. At $350,000, “This floor alone costs more than most people’s homes,” declared Kenneth Bordewick, the couple’s bathroom designer. The walls in a second bathroom are made of alabaster stone that was purchased in Russia and then shipped to Portugal where it was carved into panels by craftsmen (total cost: $2 million). The bathroom also has a custom tub for three, an “intuitive toilet,” and a $10,000+ faucet with 24k gold overlay (seen above). Bordewick assured viewers that the condo’s mystery owner had swankier bathrooms than the billionaire upstairs.
Trincher’s wife posted the “Extreme Bathrooms” video to her Facebook page in late-2011, 18 months before federal agents came banging at her family’s door. But by the time she sat down to write a letter in February 2014 to the judge preparing to sentence her husband for racketeeering conspiracy, Elena Trincher opted for a more muted picture of life inside Trump Tower. “We live a simple lifestyle,” she assured the judge.
The deed to the Tricher residence was transferred last year to a holding company for which Elena is listed as a member. Over the following months, the company, Trin Holdings, took out a pair of mortgages totaling $3 million. The lender, property records show, was Avegyo Invest Ltd, a firm in Larnaca, Cyprus.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/house-arrest-in-trump-tower-378095
People, I’m saying this to you solemnly here:
Do I have standing to call out Obama as the Antichrist? My family’s related to Royal Count Leo Tolstoy, to one of the Norwegian Royal Court’s Ladies-in-Waiting, the Mistress of the Robes and to two Norwegian Papal Chamberlains during the last two centuries. Yes, I do indeed have that royal standing to be “entitled” (by royal title and standing) to call out the Antichrist of this time.
I’ve gotten endless flak from BIN admins trying to defend Obama against me revealing the truth about Obama and myself…and they’re listening to the wingbats which are counseling them. I think they’re scared of the truth I’m revealing about Obama.
Indeed, I’m also revealing among other that Obama’s real name is Barry Parks; he’s the son of Jim T. Parks.
People, investigate that by Googling it.
Why is no one recognizing me as Messiah and Jesus’ 2d Coming? Just askin’. It seems strange that that news won’t get out. My being a Buddhist is a plus seeing Jesus himself predicted he’d not return a Christian. Indeed, because all Christians will be corrupted and none will be saved in the end days said Jesus. But “no one knows the day and hour of that news being spread”, not even me, says the Bible, so the truth will hit when it’s ready.
Now to give a short timeline of events leading up to today, let’s look at my youth when I was brought up in the USA and France to a family influenced by Theosophy and schooling such as Rudolf Steiner’s schools. Theosophy’s basic influence is Buddhism from Helena Blavatsky’s Russian background where the influence of Tibetan Buddhism is rife due to the Mongolian Buddhists within the Russian Federation of nations.
My family relative the Royal Count Tolstoy was also a Theosophical spiritualist and corresponded with Gandhi, who also was himself influenced by Buddhism and Theosophy.
My wife and I studied Tibetan language and culture at Paris University for five years in the mid-80s..
But when still a child, when I reached 15 years old, I was attracted to the religious life and sought to find a master to teach me meditation or yoga.
This brought me to Tibetan Buddhism which I practised for many years as a religious Buddhist starting from 1970.
In the late 90s, I sought to pass on my knowledge on Internet and particularly my research upon Kalachakra the deity-teachings which announce the Apocalypse within Tibetan Buddhism.
My work on Internet suddenly screeched to a halt though when Obama started running for president in early 2007 because I saw on Internet a school registration to Obama’s name stating his faith as Muslim: that was a signal of a red flag to me.
Indeed, that set up a red alert signal to me and during the whole of 2007 I dedicated myself solely to fighting against Obama’s election.
To achieve that, I sought to find the most powerful anti-Obama video that I could find on You Tube so as to go and find people to share my convictions with.
Through that same logic I tried to find all kinds of venues, forums, blogs, videos, articles’ comments on Internet etc…so as to criticise and block Obama but I ended up on the video with most views and most comments that deals with the birther issue: Obama Citizenship: I Invented the Internet (Ep. 6: October Surprise)
Obama Citizenship: I Invented The Internet (Ep. 6: October Surprise)
Briefly, my logic during the first years of Obama’s power was that I wasn’t interested in being the Messiah.
Indeed, I am a Buddhist and very content with that. I have no wish to be Christian seeing I’m an ex-Christian.
I have famous people in my family that are Christians.
I have 2 ancestors who were the Pope’s Chamberlain: Baron Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg and Count Christopher de Paus (he’s of Royal Count Tolstoy’s branch of our family).
I’m Buddhist and have rejected Christianity as an evil faith: Tibetan Tantric Buddhism is the highest form of culture in the world and Buddhism hasn’t made war and therefore isn’t evil in making war like Christianity has.
My family was into evil ways when it was Christian – and when it was Anarchist as Tolstoy is the great Anarchist/Communist hero, (who is world-famous).
How did I get pressured against my will to be the Messiah?
Well, I had set my goal on revealing that Obama was the Antichrist of Christianity: indeed, I had the ironclad proof because the lottery draw of 666 cursed Obama the day of his celebration of victory.
I thought of myself as a messenger dropping in on Christians and telling them who their Antichrist was.
I thought of it as “delivery” end times prophecy. We live in the age of drop-off, home-delivery, through Amazon or Domino’s Pizza.
Indeed, Christianity is alien to me. So I wouldn’t want to even be caught dead being the Christian Messiah. I had the idea I’d just drop off the message – like a mailman – and MOVE ON to other stuff (my mission as a Buddhist fits with the King of Shambhala prophecy of the world’s saviour and not with the Christian prophecy of the “Messiah”).
But Christians went overboard when I showed up with that message for them.
Indeed, they more or less grabbed me and dragged me inside for an in-depth soul-searching conversation and scan of my innermost soul. But I got fed up with the spiritual moments with them….as I’ll explain now.
Off the bat indeed, they went BEZERK and harrassed me with questions about who I was and what my beliefs were. It was a mix of fear and awe at me. Very scary.
They were interviewing me for the job of Messiah in fact (and they weren’t liking what they were seeing me as, because to them in their book, Buddhism meant “blasphemous heresy”.).
I got so fed up of them ‘killing the messenger’, that I got mad and said: “Like the message or not I’m the Messenger. I never said I’m the Messiah, it’s you who keep hammering away that I must be the Messiah.” So I said: “Seeing you don’t like me being Buddhist etc… well tough luck for you, I’m the Messiah whether you like it or not because my message is ironclad and I’ll ram it down your stupid ugly Christian throats by force if need be.”
This message which is pretty simple is so hard to grasp, that people in the comments just can’t get their heads around it.
The problem with the Christians was that they were killing the messenger (they’re hateful anti-Buddhist bigots at the core).
The people in the comments here are stuck in Christian-towards-heathen oppositions that block out all rational thinking.
And I didn’t want them to ‘kill the messenger’ and for me to take that sitting down. The backward fundie-style Christians who were killing the message I was bringing, were evidently ugly people who were not worthy of any intellectual exchange.
So that’s how I got suckered into being the Christian Messiah because all the Christians were rejecting me WHOLESALE.
Because of the cluelessly low level of the Christians who were attacking me, I decided to do it my way. I didn’t need those backwards. I just went out and proclaimed the Apocalypse.
But more obstacles lay further along the road.
To retrack the evennts: I went to Wikipedia to edit the pages about the ‘Antichrist’, about ’666′, about the ‘Hideous Beast’, about the ‘Apocalypse’, the ‘Revelation’ etc….
Well, Wikipedia’s people flipped their coils so fast when I got there that it made my head spin.
They banned me from editing and warned me to stop trying to edit that 666 had turned up the day of Obama’s celebration of his victory.
They came to my personal email to warn me they’d monitor what I wrote on Internet and that they’d make a special website to smear and slander me at wikidot.com. But the incredible thing is that the words they told me then, back in 2008 or 2009, they actually went through with. They faithfully monitored my posts throughout Internet (I’d like to request Team Trump to investigate how they did that. Did they put mics and moniroting devices on my computer etc… It looks like this was governement spying. This could be a major investigation like WIkileaks so I’d request Trump to send me his staff to find out what’s going on.)
They set up the said wikidot website and they MAINTAINED IT TILL TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We’re talking about severe mentally challenged people here. They did all this because I’m saying Obama’s the Antichrist. This is a case of the “lady protesting a bit too much”.
Why are they so nervous that I say Obama’s the Antichrist? They’re hiding SOMETHING….
I took that into my stride at first. But I realized that they would have to be overcome by force because they were really riled up in a bad way.
I realized that I had determined foes facing me and during these years I’ve seen now that they were not taking me lightly at all.
I also realized that they were many and that they were in this fight ttill it’s bitter end. They didn’t see this battle as a small one and for me to win was not acceptable for them.
That’s when I realized that this was really the Apocalypse, because such a rallying of forces was only possible by one single person and that was the Antichrist, aka Satan-in-Person.
After a lot of floundering around on Internet, and fighting Obama through the birth issue battle, I found BeforeItsNews which is a haven of peace and calm amidst the raging realm of Internet. Internet does not allow anyone to speak freely and gangs of Nazis troll it continuously and effortlessly.
BIN’s the only place on Internet where ordinary thinking is more or less proscribed. Commonplace, prejudiced thinking is not practised at all BIN. The only thinking that’s accepted there is out-of-the-box, creative, special thinking.
I obviously fit in immediately, seeing I was fleeing the middle-ages thinking of Christians, of Leftist/Communists and backward inbred, homo dorks of all stripes, kinds and form. Obama really draws evil to him. I was searching for any place in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD where I could freely say Obama’s the Antichrist and put forth my proof of that without being targeted by Jihadist-style, medieval people.
Obama Minions were threatening me and hounding me throughout Internet.
To make a long story short, I set up making articles regularly, building myself a fan-base which is impressive now, spreading the news and hounding down Obama seeing the Bible announces his final defeat and the Apocalypse.
Now is the time.
also see here for me…. Mentally ill and criminal trolls have been heckling me for years because they object to the fact I’m the Messiah and nothing they say, can change that truth because I alone reveal that the lottery in Obama’s homestate drew 666 (the Mark of the Beast aka the Number of the Antichrist) the day after his election. Wikipedia says that to troll is a pathological behaviour. Ignore the trolls: they’re crazy.
I’m a person of high spiritual realization (University Tibetan culture/language studies, 8-month meditation retreat, foremost Buddhist Kalachakra authority). My family is a royal family (our relative Count Leo Tolstoy is the highest/ most ancient royal aristocratic lineage in Russia. We have family-relatives who were Papal Chamberlains such as Baron Wilhelm Wedel-Jarlsberg and Count Christopher de Paus) from Norway, and among others my grandmother’s aunt Else Werring was the Royal Norwegian Palace’s “Mistress of the Robes” (the hostess/organizer of the royal palace’s events) for 27 years, until 1985.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has just started blasting Obama with the full force, so now Team Trump, Larry Klaymann and Orly Taitz and us all will have to sue Obama together for stealing our lives by his forged birth certificate. Follow me in revealing the Antichrist Obama and his forged birth certificate which proves his High Treason.