Kaveladze is not just any Russian; he was a key player in an alleged $1.4 billion money laundering plot. Over $800 million in foreign cash passed through 136 accounts Kaveladze opened for Russian clients. Russian money laundering saved Trump's failing businesses with many Russian kleptocrats and mobsters even buying apartments in Trump Tower. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. boasted at a real estate conference in 2008. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”