Mueller alleges that bank executive helped Manafort obtain loans while trying to get Trump campaign

[Snellius]

Special counsel Robert Mueller will present evidence that a bank executive allegedly helped former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort obtain more than $6 million in loans while that executive tried to land a position in the Trump campaign.

Prosecutors for Mueller revealed the plans in a filing Friday for Manafort’s trial on fraud charges in Virginia that will begin later this month. According to the filings, a senior executive at “Lender D” — an unnamed bank — approved Manafort’s loan applications.

The executive “sought the defendant’s assistance to obtain a position advising the Trump campaign (which he obtained) and later in the administration of President Trump (which he did not obtain),” the filing reads.
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The bank executive, who is unnamed in the filing "expressed interest in working on the Trump campaign, told [Manafort] about his interest, and eventually secured a position advising the Trump campaign," according to the court document.

http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/395906-mueller-alleges-that-bank-executive-helped-manafort-obtain-loans

[Sanity Claws]

1. I wonder if this ties into Justice Kennedy's son somehow.

Lender D sounds like Deutsche Bank, doesn't it?

[FSogol]

2. My thoughts exactly. N/t

[Xipe Totec]

3. Nope. Some Chicago banker thought he could be Army Secretary

Thursday, April 12, 2018


On Thursday in a letter sent to Calk at his Chicago bank headquarters by Representatives Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch sought records related to the banker's communications with Manafort and the Trump campaign and about his bank's loans to Manafort. Cummings is the ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee, and Lynch is the ranking member of the subcommittee on national security.

"We now request information directly from you about why you were seeking that information and whether your actions were related to a quid pro quo with President Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort," the letter states.

(snip)

The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether that meeting was part of a "quid-pro-quo arrangement to secure Mr. Calk a job in Mr. Trump's administration," specifically the post of Army Secretary.

About the same time, Calk's business, the Federal Savings Bank in Chicago, provided the first of several mortgage loans, totaling $16 million, to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is also investigating the Manafort-Calk chain of events.

http://abc7chicago.com/politics/chicago-banker-met-here-with-army-official-about-trump-post/3334495/

[BlueJac]

4. very interesting...

let's get this show on the road!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

5. K&R

[duforsure]

6. Corruption running wild,

While trump has his minions shake down countries and people and businesses , and run these pay to play scams on people for influence, profits, and policies. This is no surprise, and I suspect this is a very easily detected pattern from many others within this White House and this administration that will become exposed and shown to be very illegal, and corrupt. Soon I also expect more charges of destruction of evidence, and more people exposed for their illegal actions they've been a part of all along.

[Snellius]

7. A Mueller leak? To put more pressure on Manafort?

Manafort's in deep doodoo. Personally. But will probably not do much political damage no matter what he did unless these nefarious crimes can be traced to something bigger or to someone higher up. More than just personal gain. This seems to be Mueller tightening the screws on something more widespread.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Snellius