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Hanse MinaDonald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named Anton <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a>.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a>

NonilexLast month, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#federal</a> prosecutors charged <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelShvartsman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelShvartsman</a>, a close assoc of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a>, w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MoneyLaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoneyLaundering</a> in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SupersedingIndictment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SupersedingIndictment</a> after previously charging him & 2 others in Jul w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InsiderTrading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InsiderTrading</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DWAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DWAC</a> shares… At least part of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evidence</a> against Shvartsman came from a CI for DHS, court filings show: in one March 2023 meeting w/the informant & an associate, Shvartsman mentioned a friend who owned a bank in Dominica & made bridge loans to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Media.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a>

NonilexIn total, the doc showed that the trust transferred $4.8m to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a>’s acct….The reason for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ESFamilyTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESFamilyTrust</a>’s creation remains unknown. Aside from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#money</a> that went to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpMedia</a>, the trust’s statements show the trust has directly invested money w/only two other companies: $10.8m to Eleven Ventures LLC, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VC</a> firm, & $1m to Wedbush Securities, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wealth</a> management firm.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaxumBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaxumBank</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DWAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DWAC</a>

Nonilex…the investment in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpMedia</a> proved huge: while precise figures can only be known by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Media, ESFamilyTrust’s stake is worth $20m to $40m even after the sharp decline of the share price after a poor earnings report.The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ESFamilyTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESFamilyTrust</a> acct also appears to have benefited <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a> personally. As the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criminal</a> investigation into the merger intensified towards the end of last yr, the trust recorded several transfers to Postolnikov w/the subj “Partial Loan Return”.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a>

Nonilex…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a> has been under increasing scrutiny in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criminal</a> investigation into the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpMedia</a> merger. Most recently, he has been listed on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SearchWarrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearchWarrant</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/affidavits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#affidavits</a> alongside several asscs – one of whom was <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/indicted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indicted</a> last month for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MoneyLaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoneyLaundering</a> on top of earlier <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InsiderTrading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InsiderTrading</a> charges.…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ESFamilyTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESFamilyTrust</a> was established on 18 May 2021, creation papers show. Postolnikov’s “user” access to the acct was “verified” on 30 Nov 2021 by a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaxumBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaxumBank</a> mgr in Dominica.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a> appears to have used the trust to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/loan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loan</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#money</a> to help save <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpMedia</a> – & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TruthSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TruthSocial</a> – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan.Postolnikov, the nephew of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AleksandrSmirnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AleksandrSmirnov</a>, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Putin</a>, has not been charged w/a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crime</a>. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaxumBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaxumBank</a> threatened legal action for reporting the contents of leaked docs.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BidenHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BidenHarris</a>

NonilexThe new details are drawn from docs incl’g: <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaxumBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaxumBank</a> recs showing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a> having access to the trust’s acct, papers that created the trust showing as its settlor a lawyer in St Petersburg, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a>, & 3 yrs of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/financial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#financial</a> transactions.The concern surrounding the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/loans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loans</a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Media is that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ESFamilyTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESFamilyTrust</a> may have been used to complete a transaction that Paxum itself could not.Paxum DOES NOT OFFER LOANS in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> as it lacks a US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BANKING" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BANKING</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LICENSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LICENSE</a> & is not regulated by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FDIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FDIC</a>.

Chuck DarwinTrump Media was saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.Defendant Trump stands to gain billions of dollars – his stake is currently valued at about $4bn – from the merger between Trump Media and Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which took the parent company of Truth Social public.But Trump Media almost did not make it to the merger after regulators opened a securities investigation into the merger in 2021 and caused the company to burn through cash at an extraordinary rate as it waited to get the green light for its stock market debut.The situation led Trump Media to take emergency loans, including from an entity called 🔹ES Family Trust, 🔹which opened an account with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Paxum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paxum</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bank</a>, a small bank registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica that is best known for providing financial services to the <a href="https://c.im/tags/porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#porn</a> industry.Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anton</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a>, who co-owns Paxum Bank and has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the Trump Media merger.The existence of the trust was first reported by the Guardian last year. However, who controlled the account, how the trust was connected to Paxum Bank, and how the money had been funneled through the trust to Trump Media was unknown. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Wendy SiegelmanTrump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigationLast year The Guardian reported on $8 million loans made in 2022 to Trump Media that went through Paxum Bank from ES Family Trust run by Anton Postolnikov, nephew of Putin ally Aleksandr SmirnovToday's story adds new info, including that loans had promissory notes that would put ES Family Trust stake in Trump Media at $20-$40mil<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaxumBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaxumBank</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESFamilyTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ESFamilyTrust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans</a>

Wendy SiegelmanWild probe of investors of DWAC, Trump Media’s proposed merger allyRussian born FL businessman Anton Postolnikov amassed huge stake in Digital World - sold most days after Trump/DWAC announcement sent stock soaring. Per FBI search warrant he made profit of $22mil.SEC has delayed approving DWAC/TMTG merger, blocking $300mil Trump expects.Docs show investigations went far beyond SEC inquiry (Trump & Trump Media have not been charged)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DWAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DWAC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Postolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postolnikov</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/03/trump-social-dwac-investigation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/03/trump-social-dwac-investigation/</a>

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