特朗普集团计划向普京提供价值5000万美元的顶层公寓 [美国媒体]

The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow

特朗普集团计划向普京提供位于莫斯科的特朗普大厦的价值5000万美元的顶层公寓

President Donald Trump’s company planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the company negotiated the luxury real estate development during the 2016 campaign, according to four people, one of them the originator of the plan.

据四名知情人士透露，美国总统唐纳德•特朗普的公司计划向俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔•普京赠送位于莫斯科特朗普大厦的一套价值5000万美元的顶层公寓。该公司在2016年竞选期间就这一豪华房地产开发项目进行了谈判。

Two US law enforcement officials told BuzzFeed News that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, discussed the idea with a representative of Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary.

两名美国执法官员告诉BuzzFeed新闻，当时特朗普的私人律师迈克尔•科恩与普京新闻秘书德米特里•佩斯科夫的代表讨论了这个想法。
特朗普大厦莫斯科计划是科恩一项新的认罪协议的核心内容。

The Trump Tower Moscow plan is at the heart of a new plea agreement by Cohen, who led the negotiations to bring a gleaming, 100-story building to the Russian capital. Cohen acknowledged in court that he had lied to Congress about the plan in order to protect Trump and his presidential campaign.

科恩领导了谈判，将一座闪亮的100层建筑带到了俄罗斯首都。科恩在法庭上承认，为了保护特朗普和他的总统竞选，他在这个计划上对国会撒谎。

Trump had personally signed the letter of intent to move forward on the Trump Tower Moscow plan on Oct. 28, 2015, the day of the third Republican primary debate.

2015年10月28日，也就是共和党第三次初选辩论的当天，特朗普亲自签署了推进特朗普大厦莫斯科计划的意向书。

On Thursday, shortly after news broke about Cohen’s guilty plea, Trump told reporters, “There was a good chance that I wouldn’t have won” the presidential election, “in which case I would have gotten back into the business, and why should I lose lots of opportunities?”

周四，科恩认罪的消息传出后不久，特朗普对记者说，“我很有可能不会赢得”总统大选，“如果那样的话，我会重新回到商界，为什么我应该失去很多机会?”

According to the criminal information filed against Cohen Thursday, on Jan. 20, 2016, he spoke with a Russian government official, referred to only as Assistant 1, about the Trump Tower Moscow plan for 20 minutes. This person appears to be an assistant to Peskov, a top Kremlin official whom Cohen had attempted to reach by email.
Cohen “requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction,” the court document states.
Cohen had previously maintained that he never got a response from the official, but in court on Thursday he acknowledged that was a lie.

根据2016年1月20日周四提交给科恩的犯罪信息，科恩与一名俄罗斯政府官员就特朗普大厦莫斯科计划进行了20分钟的交谈。此人似乎是佩斯科夫的助理，科恩曾试图通过电子邮件联系佩斯科夫，佩斯科夫是克里姆林宫的一名高级官员。
科恩在法庭文件中表示，“要求协助推进该项目，包括确保建设该塔所需的土地，以及为建设提供资金。”
科恩此前一直坚称，他从未得到这位官员的回应，但在周四的法庭上，他承认那是一个谎言。



Two FBI agents with direct knowledge of the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations told BuzzFeed News earlier this year that Cohen was in frequent contact with foreign individuals about the real estate venture — and that some of these individuals had knowledge of or played a role in 2016 election meddling. The identity of those individuals remains unknown.

今年早些时候，两名直接了解特朗普大厦莫斯科谈判的联邦调查局特工告诉BuzzFeed新闻，科恩经常与外国个人就该房地产项目进行接触，其中一些人知道或参与了2016年的选举干预。这些人的身份仍然不明

VsAcesoVer
“My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units. All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.”

我的想法是给普京一套5000万美元的顶层公寓，其余的公寓再要价2.5亿美元。”所有寡头都会排队和普京住在同一栋楼里。

MayorTimKant
Trump would have had to okay this, right?

特朗普会同意的，对吧?

leftcardoor
Nawww. Trump is like hugely rich you know

特朗普非常有钱，你懂得

socialistbob
That is actually not a bad idea from a business standpoint. Unethical as hell and probably illegal but that's one way to sell apartments and Russians are probably the only people who would want to buy Trump apartments anyone right now.

从商业角度来看，这其实是个不错的主意。
最然不符合职业道德，而且可能是非法的，但这是出售公寓的一种方式，俄罗斯人可能是目前唯一想买特朗普公寓的人。

SpringtimeforWinter
It is extremely illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
An Act that Trump has railed against.

根据《反海外腐败法》，这是极其违法的。
特朗普曾经还抱怨过这项法律…
新闻链接
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/08/5 ... l-he-enforce-it-now

President Trump has called Foreign Corrupt Practices Act "ridiculous," a "horrible law" that made it difficult for U.S. companies to compete overseas

特朗普总统称《反海外腐败法》是“荒谬的”，“可怕的”法律，使美国公司很难在海外竞争。

duffmanhb
This is the problem with money in politics... Now you can see why US people got frustrated with the Hillary people who completely outright denied her faults with getting hundreds of millions from special interests.
Not saying Trump is even remotely close to better... But I do thank him for exposing this shit because he's so bad at keeping things hush

这就是政治中的金钱问题……现在你可以明白为什么美国人对希拉里的支持者感到失望了，希拉里的支持者完全否认希拉里从特殊利益集团获得数亿美元的错误行为。
不是说特朗普更好……但我真的很感谢他因为他不善于保密，从而揭露了这件事。

seeking_horizon
They would've needed Putin's sign-off to get the permits necessary to get the thing built in the first place. It wasn't just about "marketing," that would fall under "obtaining business.

他们一开始就需要普京的批准才能获准在莫斯科建造这座特朗普公寓。这不仅仅是“营销”，而是“获取业务”。

That wouldn't be illegal. He's not asking for favorable government policy, which this is about. He's just using them for marketing.
It would be illegal to give the condo, then in return, expected a certain amount of business or favors. This is just a slick business move.
Trump has done this before. Many times. It's a common tactic of his. And whenever he can't do it, he just lies about it. Like with Prince Charles looking at rooms at Trump tower, on a floor which doesn't exist.

这不是违法的。特朗普并没有要求普京政府出台优惠政策，而这正是问题所在。他只是用它们来做营销。
如果普京作为回报，给予公寓一定数量的生意或优惠，这才是是违法的。
所以这只是一个巧妙的商业举动。
特朗普以前就这么做过。很多次了。
这是他常用的策略。每当他做不到的时候，他就撒谎。就像刊登广告称英国查尔斯王子在特朗普大厦看房间一样，其实那层楼根本不存在。

Jamesd88
Well, you are wrong. The bribe to the official does not have to induce a direct benefit from the government that the bribed official represents. Indeed, merely gaining an improvement in reputation (an increased valuation for an apartment) as a result of a bribe (giving an apartment) is a benefit that would be in violation of the FCPA. The FCPA is directly related to the Securities Exchange Act, thus it benefits from much of the same caselaw definitions thereunder

你错了。向官员行贿不一定要从受贿者所代表的政府获得直接利益。事实上，仅仅通过贿赂(赠送公寓)来提高声誉(提高公寓的估价)是违反《反海外腐败法》的一种利益。《反海外腐败法》与《证券交易法》直接相关，因此，它受益于《反海外腐败法》下的许多类似判例法定义

A gift to the President if a foreign government to retain business is definitely illegal. It said it right there in the law. A $50 million penthouse for Putin for free to artificially raise prices of the other units is a bribe.

如果外国政府想要继续做生意，给总统送礼物的行为是绝对非法的。法律上是这么说的。普京的一套价值5000万美元的顶层公寓免费人为抬高了特朗普公寓其他单元的价格，这是一种贿赂。

StarManta
Similar things happen in other contexts. Apple retail stores, despite being just about the most profitable stores per square foot in existence, often pay rent in shopping malls well below market rates. It's worth it for the malls because people will go to the mall for the Apple Store in droves, and will spend some money on other stuff while they're there.
Apple's not involved in high treason and has no obvious conflict of interest (not being a government and all), so this is much more legal for Apple than it is for Trump.

类似的事情在其他情况下也会发生。苹果品牌零售店虽然是目前每平方英尺最赚钱的商店，但在购物中心支付的租金往往远低于市场价格。对购物中心来说，这是值得的，因为人们成群结队地去苹果零售店的同时，还会在购物中心那里花一些钱买其他东西。
苹果没有犯下叛国罪，也没有明显的利益冲突，所以这对苹果来说比对特朗普合法得多。