Epstein’s 2019 assessment of the transaction: “Trump had either miraculously earned $55 million, without putting up a dime, or Rybolovlev... paid Trump Properties, LLC—actual owner unknown—$96 million, thereby providing a clean payment of $55 million to someone. Rybolovlev might have, in effect, paid himself for the house, thereby cleansing the money.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/narativ/p/why-is-michael-cohen-asking-his-substack