House of Trump House of Putin by Craig Unger

First, I will say the author presents no smoking gun. However, the circumstantial evidence he presents is so compelling it is hard to even imagine that Trump as well as his father were not involved with the Russian mob and massive associated money laundering operations. The author identifies 59 Russian mobsters, oligarchs, and associated Russian Government actors involved in cash purchases of Trump real estate and other suspicious interaction with Trump himself.

The book was particularly enlightening to me. In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s I was in Russia several times trying to create telecom partnerships and joint ventures. One of the companies we were courting actually expressed interest in buying a minority interest in our company as part of a deal. Thankfully we never could come to terms. But that company, Gasprom, the author says was controlled at the time by the Russian mob and used to launder money.