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Federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former President Donald J. Trumps handling of classified documents have issued a subpoena for information about Mr. Trumps business dealings in foreign countries since he took office, according to two people familiar with the matter.
It remains unclear precisely what the prosecutors were hoping to find by sending the subpoena to Mr. Trumps company, the Trump Organization, or when it was issued. But the subpoena suggests that investigators have cast a wider net than previously understood as they scrutinize whether he broke the law in taking sensitive government materials with him upon leaving the White House and then not fully complying with demands for their return.
The subpoena drafted by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith sought details on the Trump Organizations real estate licensing and development dealings in seven countries: China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the people familiar with the matter. The subpoena sought the records for deals reached since 2017, when Mr. Trump was sworn in as president.
The Trump Organization swore off any foreign deals while he was in the White House, and the only such deal Mr. Trump is known to have made since then was with a Saudi-based real estate company to license its name to a housing, hotel and golf complex that will be built in Oman. He struck that deal last fall just before announcing his third presidential campaign.
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Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)They should look into Saudi investment in Jared Kushner's $2,000,000,000 rescue of his 666 building in NYC.
zuul
(14,627 posts)That would have been my first guess.