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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like Mueller is wrapping up obstruction of justice & collusion, moving to Trump's finances?
What a fucking swamp he has to clean up. Like a bottomless pit!
Re: His business getting 30 subpoenas today and news of the first part of the investigation wrapping up.
Brother Buzz
(37,311 posts)And Mueller has a lot of dots
hlthe2b
(105,586 posts)2 attorneys general to subpoena Trump Organization, Treasury
The flurry of subpoenas came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Peter J. Messitte approved a brisk schedule for discovery in the case alleging that foreign and domestic government spending at Trumps Washington, D.C., hotel amounts to gifts to the president in violation of the Constitutions emoluments clause.
The subpoenas target 37 entities, including 13 Trump-linked entities and the federal agency that oversees the lease for Trumps Washington hotel. Subpoenas were also being sent to the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture and the Treasury Department, which have spent taxpayer dollars at the hotel or have information on Trumps finances relevant to the case.
Jarqui
(10,414 posts)Manafort subsequently plead guilty to conspiracy and witness tampering
Cohen subsequently plead guilty to lying to congress
But prior to those:
Manafort VA crimes (8 convictions, plus 10 admissions of guilt):
5 falsifications of income tax returns,
4 failures to file foreign bank account reports,
4 counts of bank fraud, and
5 counts of bank fraud conspiracy
Cohen's crimes he originally plead guilty to
5 counts of tax evasion
1 count of making an excessive campaign contribution,
1 count of causing an unlawful corporate campaign contribution
1 count of making false statements to a federally insured bank
Do you see the pattern?
They're all financial crimes.
Now they've got the Trump Chief Financial Office for decades, Allen Weisselberg, accepting a grant of immunity to spill Trump's financial beans.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/longtime-trump-organization-cfo-weisselberg-granted-immunity-in-cohen-probe-dj-citing-sources.html
He is cooperating with delving into Cohen's crimes
Weisselberg also will have to respond to the Trump Foundation lawsuit as Trump's personal piggy bank according to NY State AG
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/politics/new-york-lawsuit-trump-foundation/index.html
Weisselberg will also have to respond to Trump's family empire/entities hit with 30 subpoenas for Emoluments clause investigation. Multiple federal agencies involved.
https://www.sourcepolitics.com/trump-hit-with-30-subpoenas-irs-and-other-entities-involved/
http://oag.dc.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/Emoluments-Trump-Organization-Subpoenas.pdf?fbclid=IwAR27Iu352Nb9dKFRjzzqwAbHo8C3-yHkFlmr00PXU4mjMvTYchBUKdmUYqA
Mueller has allegedly subpoenaed Deutsche Banks banking records for Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/deutsche-bank-said-to-be-subpoenaed-by-mueller
Duetsche Bank has connections with Kremlin controlled VTB bank and were fined for money laundering. VTB are alleged to have been in the loop to help finance the Trump tower in Moscow
There are some reports that stated Mueller already had Trump's tax returns.
Here's the point: you can lie about what you might have said to a Russian on the phone or at a dinner but it is much harder to lie about financial transactions because they leave an audit trail.
Follow the money. Robert Mueller has a lot more power to do that than two young Washington Post reporters did for Watergate.
When they couldn't get him on murder, they got Al Capone on tax evasion.
They did something very similar for Manafort and Cohen.
It is inevitable that they're going down this road to get Donald Trump.