Ach, Donald!
Mueller subpoenas Deutsche Bank about Trump loans: reports
ROBERT MUELLER is following the money.
The special counsel’s investigation has moved closer to President Trump and his family by requesting information about their finances from a German bank, according to reports Tuesday.
Deutsche Bank, the largest German lender and the force behind multiple Trump projects, received a subpoena several weeks ago, the newspaper Handelsblatt first reported Tuesday.
The bank, which Trump reportedly owed $300 million for his real estate business dealings that include a hotel in Washington, had previously rejected calls for more information about how it worked with Trump.
Deutsche Bank did not mention the Mueller inquiry, but told NBC News in a statement the financial powerhouse “takes its legal obligations seriously and remains committed to cooperating with authorized investigations into this matter.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Trump lawyers denied the reports.
“We confirmed that the news reports (that) the special counsel DONALD TRUMP JR. asked a Russian lawyer at a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower for evidence of illegal donations to the Clinton Foundation, the lawyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to NBC.
Trump seemed to lose interest in the meeting once the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, made clear she had no incriminating information on his father’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Veselnitskaya said she believed Trump misunderstood the nature of the meeting, and had opted to meet her believing she possessed dirt on Clinton. had subpoenaed financial records related to the President are completely false,” Sanders said.
“No subpoena has been issued or received. We confirmed this with the bank and other sources.” Mueller’s inquiry into alleged
“Today, I understand why it took place to begin with and why it ended so quickly with a feeling of mutual disappointment and time wasted,” Veselnitskaya wrote, according to NBC. “The answer lies in the roguish letters of Mr. Goldstone.”
She was referring to Rob Goldstone, a music promoter with connections to the Kremlin who had emailed Trump Jr. promising dirt on Clinton as part of the Russian government’s effort to help get Donald Trump elected President.
Veselnitskaya said she took the meeting to examine the possible fraud that led to the Magnitsky Act’s sanctions on Russia. Russian election meddling and potential Team Trump involvement pierced the President’s inner circle last week with the indictment and guilty plea of disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The relatively light charges against Flynn, a retired Army general, suggest he is cooperating with investigators.
Trump has said that it would be a “violation” if Mueller (photo inset) went into his family’s finances instead of focusing directly on the mechanisms of influencing the election.
“I can tell you as the President said, there’s no collusion, there’s no obstruction. We’re confident the facts will show that when PRESIDENT TRUMP’S handling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has thrown financial institutions across the country “into a state of regulatory chaos,” a new lawsuit alleges.
Trump, according to a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit filed Tuesday, “has attempted an illegal hostile takeover of the” bureau after its director, Richard Cordray, announced his resignation Nov. 24.
While Cordray appointed his deputy, Leandra English, as acting director about 2:30 p.m. that day, Trump appointed his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, for the position about 8:50 p.m., court papers state. this is wrapped up,” Sanders said.
However, documents related to the probe do reveal the President’s business interests and possible connections to the Kremlin are being examined.
Deutsche Bank has also come under scrutiny for its own activities. It is currently under investigation by the Justice Department for an alleged scheme in which it failed to stop wealthy Russians from laundering $10 billion out of Moscow.
The bank was fined more than $630 million for its lack of oversight by a British financial authority and the New York State Department of Financial Services.
English asked a Washington federal judge to block Mulvaney from stepping in shortly thereafter. But the judge on Nov. 28 decided not to prevent Mulvaney’s appointment on an emergency basis.
The Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, which is suing Trump and Mulvaney, says it doesn’t know who’s running the bureau — and wants a New York federal judge to figure out who’s in charge.
The suit is asking a judge to block Mulvaney from serving as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director — and affirm that English should be in charge under the law.