Christos Marafatsos was a small-time aspiring investor. Then he connected with the Trump campaign, and everything changed.
and complex investing strategies evoked a high-flying hedge fund in a place like New York or Hong Kong. In reality, corporate documents show that it was registered to his parents’ house in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Meanwhile, he became more active in Republican circles. Marafatsos recalled meeting Trump for about a minute at CPAC as the mogul was eyeing a presidential run and chatting with him about the economy. “I felt like his intensions were great,” Marafatsos recalled. He also met with former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in Baton Rouge, attended the Faith & Freedom's Coalition Patriots Gala, and visited the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, posting about the experiences on Facebook.
It helped that the coalition took an expansive view of ethnic diversity. It includes a Portuguese American, a Bulgarian American and a white “South African American for Trump.” Levell said he could not recall how exactly he and Marafatsos connected. “It was a lot of activity back then,” he said. “If he says Monday, it's Monday,” Levell said of his young colleague’s reliability. “I'm just sitting here like, ‘Damn no wonder this guy's so successful.’"
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