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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/new-york-prosecutors-issue-wide-ranging-subpoena-for-trumps-financial-documents-to-deutsche-bank/New York prosecutors issue wide-ranging subpoena for Trumps financial documents to Deutsche Bank
Published 5 mins ago on August 5, 2020By Sarah K. Burris
New York prosecutors are showing theyre serious about the look into President Donald Trumps finances out of concern for fraud.
The New York Times reported Wednesday afternoon that this is part of the year-long legal battle between Trump and the Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance.
A subpoena was previously issued for Trumps tax returns last year, but Trump fought it all the way to the Supreme Court, where he was told to comply with subpoenas and hand over the documents.
The subpoena was more wide-ranging than previously known, said the Times, noting that it requested financial documents dating back to the 1990s.
In a court filing this week, prosecutors with the district attorneys office cited public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization and suggested that they were also investigating possible crimes involving bank and insurance fraud, said the report.
Can you say "October Surprise?" Vance is under no obligation to hold off on an indictment, given that all Trump has done is to delay to try to drag things out until after the election. The Grand Jury is probably ready to go.
Nevilledog
(50,676 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)n/t
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)hatrack
(59,439 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I hope Vance has protection. Trump looked like he was out in left field, today. Something was definitely on his mind and I doubt it had anything to do with the country's business/welfare.
You state "The Grand Jury is probably ready to go." So are we, and no probably about it!!!
musclecar6
(1,680 posts)Can only hope.
triron
(21,915 posts)SergeStorms
(18,891 posts)they already have. Deutsche Bank has already provided the documents the Manhattan District Attorney requested.
triron
(21,915 posts)CatWoman
(79,283 posts)triron
(21,915 posts)malaise
(267,808 posts)Be still my heart
triron
(21,915 posts)malaise
(267,808 posts)Accountability at last
DenverJared
(457 posts)No ordinary prison for the dotard.
malaise
(267,808 posts)Lock him up!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)but that's why there's a Rachel!
triron
(21,915 posts)CatWoman
(79,283 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Just say Merrick Garland and be on your merry way.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)I wonder if Trump will pay to have a golden one.
DTomlinson
(411 posts)triron
(21,915 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,367 posts)triron
(21,915 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,367 posts)triron
(21,915 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Laundromat full of dirty laundry and one short-fingered vulgarian with no clue hes been spotted by the police helicopter.
infullview
(978 posts)This sounds like a job for RICO!
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Donald Trump dumped $400 million into his clubs in Aberdeen and Turnberry. Now, lawmakers in Edinburgh want to investigate him for money laundering.
RUSS CHOMA
Mother Jones, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 ISSUE
EXCERPT...
Recently, a newand perhaps biggerthreat to Trump has emerged in Scotland. Scottish lawmakers are pushing to peer into Trumps finances using an anti-money-laundering statute typically employed against kleptocrats, oligarchs, and crime kingpins. Their question: Where did the hundreds of millions Trump poured into his Scottish courses actually come from?
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The size of Trumps wealth is a source of great debate, but two things are fairly well knownthe period between 2006 and 2014 included some of his lowest points, financially speaking, and even in the best of times, the amount he splurged in Scotland would be a ton of cash for him to have on hand, let alone spend so freely. And Trump made these Scottish investments amid a $400 million cash spending spree, documented by the Washington Post, in which he also purchased a golf club in Ireland, five courses in the United States, and several pricy homes.
The New Yorker estimated that Trump would have spent half his available cash on the purchase of Turnberry alone, concluding there wasnt enough money coming into Trumps known business to cover the massive outlay he spent renovating the property.
And the mystery deepens. Martyn McLaughlin, a Glasgow-based reporter for the Scotsman newspaper, discovered that in 2008 Trump approached a Scottish bank asking for a $63 million loan to buy and renovate a historic hotel near Edinburgh, overlooking the final hole of St. Andrews, the most famous golf course in the world. The terms he proposed were so ludicrously favorable to him that bank executives concluded Trump was asking for a free loan, and doing business with the developer was too risky. Meanwhile, Trump was touting his very strong cash position and his representatives were telling the Scottish public that he had more than $1 billion available to spend in their country. (The Trump Organization did not respond to questions from Mother Jones.)
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/the-biggest-trump-financial-mystery-where-he-came-up-with-the-cash-for-his-scottish-resorts/
SergeStorms
(18,891 posts)if the reason Deutsche Bank turned over the information to the Manhattan District Attorney is because they no longer hold the debt to those transactions? What if a foreign government, say......the Russians, perhaps, bought that debt from Deutsche Bank? Maybe that would have made the decision easier for them? Just thinking out loud here, sort of.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Questions raised over Trump appointee Wilbur Ross and his ties to politically connected Russian oligarchs
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian, 23 March, 2017
Wilbur Ross, the Trump administrations new commerce secretary, presided over a deal with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin while serving in his previous role as vice-chairman of the Bank of Cyprus.
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Ross was appointed vice-chairman at the bank after his investment in 2014, a post he shared with a deposit holder-turned-shareholder, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, referred to in Russian media as a former KGB official and Putin ally. According to the banks annual reports, the two attended two board meetings together in 2014 and as many as five together in 2015 before Strzhalkovskys May 2015 resignation from the board. One of the questions that has been posed to Ross by Democratic senators is whether he ever had contact with Strzhalkovsky.
One of Rosss first big decisions at the bank was the appointment of former Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann as chairman, whom he chose in part because of Ackermanns huge Rolodex, according to a 2014 Bloomberg interview.
Ackermanns ties to Russia were especially strong, including a warm relationship with Putin and Herman Gref of Sberbank.
Peter Harrell, who served as the deputy assistant secretary for counter-threat finance and sanctions in the State Department at the time and is now an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said Cyprus was obviously one of the places the Obama administration was worried about at the time because it was seen as a place that could help Russian entities evade sanctions, imposed as a result of the conflict over Crimea.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/23/wilbur-ross-russian-deal-bank-of-cyprus-donald-trump-commerce-secretary
SergeStorms
(18,891 posts)and hopefully quickens. There are very few things I wish for more than justice for Donald Trump and his evil progeny.
AllaN01Bear
(17,372 posts)purple aint a good color on me hope this comes true.
Red Mountain
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|denem
(11,045 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)..have pursued Jarad and Ivanka years ago for their corrupt real estate deals. No one could understand why Vance didn't move on it.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,367 posts)SergeStorms
(18,891 posts)I'm hoping against hope that the light of day is finally going to shine on Trump's criminal past, present, and future.