From: 1 <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 4:11 PM To: Michael Wolff Subject: Re: FYI Needs edit but ... ie 36! M Rybo=oev not known in 05 , Talk later On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:07 AM Michael=Wolff wrote: Books and newspaper accounts of Trump's 45 years in business were full of=his shady dealings, and the presidency had only helped to highlight them and to surfa=e even juicier ones. Real estate was the world's favorite money laundering cur=ency and Trump's B-level real estate business was quite explicitly designed =o appeal to money launderers. What's more, Trump's own financ=al woes, and desperate efforts to maintain billionaire lifestyle, cache, and market viability, forced him into constant and unsubtle schemes. Practically=speaking, you couldn't miss him, as the Mueller investigation appeared to be finding. In November 2004, for instance, Jeffrey Epstein= the financier later caught in a scandal involving under-age prostitutes, agreed=to buy out of bankruptcy a house in Palm Beach, Florida for $30 million =94a house that had been on the market for two years. Epstein and Trump had been close frie=ds—playboys in arms, as it were—for more than a decade, with Epstein often coun=eling Trump on his chaotic financial affairs. Epstein took Trump to see the Palm Beach =ouse to advise him on construction issues involved with moving a swimming pool. =s he prepared to finalize his deal for the house, an incredulous Epstein saw a s=verely cash-constrained Trump bid $41 million for the property, buying it through =n entity called Trump Properties LLC, financed by Deutsche Bank. Trump, Epste=n knew, had been renting his name, telling Epstein he ought to do the same =80 that is, for an ample fee, Trump was willing to serve as a front man to disguise the=actual ownership in a real estate transaction. (This was, in effect, just another variation of Trump's basic business model of licensing his name for=commercial properties owned by so