It's Friday. That means we learn about more Trump Admin misconduct, this time from Mnuchin. The dis
will Sessions investigate of his own??
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It's Friday. That means we learn about more Trump Admin misconduct, this time from Mnuchin. The disrespect for the Rule of Law is shocking.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Allegedly Lied Under Oath. Will the Justice Department Investigate?
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/02/treasury-secretary-steve-mnuchin-allegedly-lied-under-oath-will-the-justice-department-investigate/
David Dayen
August 2 2017, 1:56 p.m.
A watchdog organization has asked the Justice Department to investigate Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for allegedly making repeated false statements to Congress about the conduct of OneWest Bank, where he served as CEO and later chair between 2009 and 2015.
In the letter, the Campaign for Accountability writes, Even today, Americans have a right to expect that those who seek and hold top government positions will not lie to their elected representatives and that if they do, the consequences will be swift and severe.
On three separate occasions, both in written testimony and in live hearings, Mnuchin has denied that OneWest engaged in robosigning of foreclosure documents, when copious evidence exists to the contrary. Most recently, Mnuchin appears to have lied about robosigning while under oath last week in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., confronted Mnuchin with the 2009 deposition of Erica Johnson-Seck, a OneWest vice president who admitted that her team of eight employees robosigned 6,000 affidavits a week attesting to verifying mortgage files while spending not more than 30 seconds reviewing the underlying material. Mnuchin replied defiantly, I dont think you know what robosigning is, insisting there is no legal definition, and denied that there was any robosigning at OneWest, for the record.
Previously, in written answers for the record to Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., in January, in conjunction with his confirmation hearings, Mnuchin stated OneWest did not robo-sign documents, and then when given a chance to clean up his answer, he maintained his denial. In fact, despite his claim last week that robosigning is not a legal term, Mnuchin provided such a definition to Casey, saying it referred to (a) a signer of a foreclosure affidavit attested to facts that were not verified to be accurate; or (b) a signer of a foreclosure affidavit represented himself or herself to be someone else.................................................