Donald and the Russian mob go back quite a while.

Seems like Mr. Trump, his company and his partners

repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics — several allegedly connected to organized crime, according to a USA TODAY review of court cases, government and legal documents and an interview with a former federal prosecutor.

The president and his companies have been linked to at least 10 wealthy former Soviet businessmen with alleged ties to criminal organizations or money laundering.

Here are some samples. Note these are allegations and accusations, not convictions, but there are enough of them to cause a prosecutor to wonder whether the company was doing any due diligence before accepting cash from these people.

A member of the firm that developed the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York is a twice-convicted felon who spent a year in prison for stabbing a man and later scouted for Trump investments in Russia.

An investor in the Soho project was accused by Belgian authorities in 2011 in a $55 million money-laundering scheme.

A former mayor from Kazakhstan was accused in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles in 2014 of hiding millions of dollars looted from his city, some of which was spent on three Trump SoHo units.

USA Today has lots more at the link. This is a really strong piece of journalism. It has names of Russians who put money into Trump projects and their connections to Americans like Paul Manafort, one-time campaign manager for Trump. Read the whole thing.