Will msnbc talk about Wilbur Ross --another Trump crook?

[Mc Mike]

3. I remember Sleepy's bank of cyprus laundromat for russkie oligarchs and kgb mob guys.

Engel and Maddow are great.

There was a laughable article from the NYT 3/6/17, about how Ross was trying to clean up the russians at his bank.

But Mother Jones reported that he actually joined with an oligarch and ex-KGB guy to run the bank.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/trump-commerce-pick-wilbur-ross-financial-ties-russians/

"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 bank’s annual reports, the two attended two board meetings together in 2014 and as many as five together in 2015 before Strzhalkovsky’s 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 Ross’s 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 Ackermann’s “huge Rolodex”, according to a 2014 Bloomberg interview.

Ackermann’s ties to Russia were especially strong, including a warm relationship with Putin and Herman Gref of Sberbank."