BREAKING: The FBI Did Wiretap Trump Tower – Here’s WHY (Please Forward To CNN)
Well, well, well. Looky what we have here…
It looks like Trump Tower was wiretapped.
ABC News tweeted it:
For 2 years ending in 2013, FBI had court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on Russian mafia in Trump Tower unit. https://t.co/IU6xUmLB04 pic.twitter.com/E6SERbKF6s
— ABC News (@ABC) March 21, 2017
There, indeed, was an FBI wiretap involving Russians at Trump Tower.
But it was not placed at the behest of Barack Obama, and the target was not the Trump campaign of 2016. For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York.
The FBI investigation led to a federal grand jury indictment of more than 30 people, including one of the world’s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. Known as the “Little Taiwanese,” he was the only target to slip away, and he remains a fugitive from American justice…
…The FBI investigation did not implicate Trump. But Trump Tower was under close watch. Some of the Russian mafia figures worked out of unit 63A in the iconic skyscraper — just three floors below Trump’s penthouse residence — running what prosecutors called an “international money-laundering, sports gambling and extortion ring.”
The Trump building was home to one of the top men in the alleged ring, Vadim Trincher, who pleaded guilty to racketeering and received a five-year prison term. He is due to be released in July.
“Everything was moving in and out of there,” said former FBI official Rich Frankel, now an ABC News consultant.
“He would have people come in and meet with them. He would use the phones. He would also communicate, whether it was through e-mail or other communications through there,” Frankel said of Trincher. “His base of operations was in the Trump Tower.”
In court papers, the FBI described two years of intercepts of phone conversations and text message exchanges of the key figures in the gambling ring.
Read more: ABC News
That doesn’t sound like what FBI Director James Comey said…
Trump wasn’t the target of the wiretap, but Trump Tower was, in fact, wiretapped.
Tokhtakhounov was allegedly running a gambling and money-laundering scheme out of an apartment inside Trump Tower.
The FBI wiretap lasted from 2013 and lasted for 2 years.
It ended before President Trump was the Republcan Nominee.
The Democrats and the Media (D) are determined to connect Trump to Russia.
Watch Hannity talk to Sara Carter of Circa News about the ‘Political Witch Hunt’:
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