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Treasury Department Is Stonewalling Inquiries About Legally Sketchy Trump Business Associates Abroad
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has for months been asking Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin if Trump Organization ties have been vetted by officials for compliance with a bevy of federal laws and regulations.
In a letter released to the public on Tuesday, the lawmaker said the Department isn't answering these questions. Brown accused Mnuchin's staff of having "altogether missed the point of my inquiry" with its latest "one-paragraph response," pertaining simply to conflict of interest policy.
Brown has been asking Mnuchin since March for details about Trump's partners and associates that "have been or would be vetted by Treasury for potential conflicts" with US laws on sanctions, terrorist financing, foreign corruption, money laundering, and the Bank Secrecy Act.
Brown has also been seeking information about Trump-related business partners that could be flagged for concerns by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
The body is an obscure inter-agency organ, chaired by the Treasury Secretary. It was founded during the height of the Cold War to determine if foreign control of an American business impacted "the national security of the United States," in the words of CFIUS.
Brown told Mnuchin to ask Trump to divulge associates that could bring up compliance concerns "[i]f you have not received such a list."
The lawmaker said this should be done so that "appropriate officials within the US Intelligence Community may assess [associates] and alert [Trump] and members of his family" to past or future risks posed to the administration.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4...ociates-abroad
Washington post wrong again just like election
USA, sanctions on Russia?
What ya got ducks
odds are, nothing, just the generic "fake news!" stuff
Explanations for Kushner’s meeting with head of Kremlin-linked bank don’t match up
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — The White House and a Russian state-owned bank have very different explanations for why the bank’s chief executive and Jared Kushner held a secret meeting during the presidential transition in December.
The bank maintained this week that the session was held as part of a new business strategyand was conducted with Kushner in his role as the head of his family’s real estate business.
The White House says the meeting was unrelated to business
The contradiction is deepening confusion over Kushner’s interactions with the Russians as the president’s son-in-law emerges as a key figure in the FBI’s investigation into potential coordination between Moscow and the Trump team.
The discrepancy has thrust Vnesheconombank, known for advancing the strategic interests of Russian President Vladi*mir Putin and for its role in a past U.S. espionage case, into the center of the controversy enveloping the White House.
And it has highlighted the role played by the bank’s 48-year-old chief executive,
Sergey Gorkov, a graduate of the academy of the Federal Security Service, or FSB,
the domestic intelligence arm of the former Soviet KGB, who was appointed by Putin to the post less than a year before his encounter with Kushner.
Either account of the meeting could bring complications for a White House undergoing intensifying scrutiny from a special counsel and multiple congressional committees.
A diplomatic meeting would have provided
the bank, which has been under U.S. sanctions since 2014,
a chance to press for rolling back the penalties even as the Obama administration was weighing additional retaliations against Moscow for Russia’s interference in the U.S. election.
A business meeting between an international development bank and a real estate executive, coming as
Kushner’s company had been seeking financing for its troubled $1.8 billion purchase of an office building on Fifth Avenue in New York,
could raise questions about whether
Kushner’s personal financial interests were colliding with his impending role as a public official.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...0ab_print.html
So JK meeting with a in SPY for Pootin who appointed the SPY to run Pootin's flush fund bank?
Special counsel expands investigation to include Michael Flynn’s dealings with Turkey
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia, is expanding his probe to include a grand jury investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn,
inquiry will now look into Flynn’s paid work as a lobbyist for a Turkish businessman in 2016, in addition to contacts between Russian officials and Flynn and other Trump associates during and after the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia are investigating a deal between Flynn and Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin as part of a grand jury criminal probe,
Alptekin’s company, Netherlands-based Inovo BV, paid Flynn’s consultancy $530,000 between September and November to produce a do entary and research on Fethullah Gulen, an exiled Turkish cleric living in the United States.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan blames Gulen for a failed coup last July.
Alptekin, an ally of Erdogan, told Reuters he hired Flynn to provide research on how Gulen is “poisoning the atmosphere” between Turkey and the United States.
The grand jury in Virginia has issued subpoenas to some of Flynn’s business associates involved in the work for Inovo, two people familiar with the probe say.
The subpoena seen by Reuters seeks bank records, do ents and communications related to Flynn, his company, Flynn Intel Group, Alptekin and Inovo.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/spec...e+Raw+Story%29
Read up some very interesting things about how Russia (old Soviet era material) recruits humint sources.
The pattern of infiltration that has been reported so far is exactly in line with their methods, and the fact that many of the current heads of Russian state-owned enterprises have intelligence connections is not really a coincidence.
What Happened to the Michael Cohen Ukraine Dossier?
back in early February, Cohen and mafia-linked Trump Organization associate Felix Sater met at the Loews Regency in Manhattan with Andrii Artemenko, a Trumpish, pro-Russian Ukrainian parliamentarian to discuss a ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine.
This story emerged in early March and received a decent amount of attention.
But key facts look quite different after what we learned during the consequential month of May.
Artemenko allegedly gave Cohen a package of paper do ents to hand deliver to Michael Flynn.
Almost certainly he hand delivered it just as Artemenko asked and as he said he did in the initial interviews.
Now, here’s the key.
Artemenko brought these physical do ents from Ukraine to New York, arranged a meeting with Cohen and asked him to hand deliver them to Mike Flynn, the President’s top foreign policy advisor.
In the early 21st century there are lots of easier ways to send information.
There’s email.
There are phones.
There’s old fashioned mail.
There’s FedEx.
There are of course also conventional diplomatic channels.
Hand delivery of physical do ents is certainly the most bersome option.
But it is also extremely secure.
we now have very strong indications that members of Trump’s team, including Flynn himself, were trying in the weeks just before this meeting to set up extremely secure modes of communication with people in Moscow.
The main aim appears to have been to hide the contents of those communications from the US government.
Perhaps Artemenko was just a crank.
But he managed to get a meeting with one of Trump’s top business associates and his purported personal lawyer.
Cohen, the personal lawyer, agreed to hand deliver his package to the White House.
We now know with what seems to be a fairly high degree of confidence that the Trump Team was trying to find ways to communicate with people in Russia by secure channels around this time.
We also learned last night from Yahoo’s Mike Isikoff that the
Trump Team rolled in in late January eager to deliver basically the full package to Russia. (iow, dropping all sanctions)
But a mixture of bureaucratic resistance and not having their own act together blocked the effort during the critical weeks before Mike Flynn was fired.
What was in that dossier?
Remember this was a set of physical do ents which Cohen said he delivered to the White House, specifically to Mike Flynn.
What was in them?
Where’s the dossier now?
Was it thrown away?
Does Flynn still have it?
Is it still at the White House?
With all we’ve learned over the last four weeks about the Trump team’s efforts to conduct covert communications about a rapprochement with Russia,
I think we need to know.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...+%28TPMNews%29
As noted in one of the articles above, Kushners have a huge debt/financial problem with a $1.8B project in Manhattan. Russian mafiya $Bs to the rescue.
Whoopsies.
The disclosure of risks is kind of important to publicly traded companies. Downplaying risk when you have the data about it is sort of a no-no.
Follow the money.
Real estate analysts told ABC News that Jared Kushner’s first major acquisition, a Fifth Avenue office tower signifying his family’s move from New Jersey into Manhattan real estate, is shouldering a $1.3 billion in loans coming due in two years, and it is not bringing in sufficient rental income. An attempt by Kushner to broker a deal with a Chinese company to refinance and redevelop the building fell through shortly after the election.
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