Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions

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Source: Bloomberg

The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.

The president told the New York Times on Wednesday that any digging into matters beyond Russia would be out of bounds. Trump’s businesses have involved Russians for years, making the boundaries fuzzy so Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be taking a wide-angle approach to his two-month-old probe.

FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.

Agents are also interested in dealings with the Bank of Cyprus, where Wilbur Ross served as vice chairman before he became commerce secretary, as well as the efforts of Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law and White House aide, to secure financing for some of his family’s real estate properties. The information was provided by someone familiar with the developing inquiry but not authorized to speak publicly.



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[CanonRay]

1. Mueller pushing those great big buttons!

[appal_jack]

8. Yeah, Dump's "Don't look at my business transactions" ploy sure worked here! nt

[flibbitygiblets]

21. As tRump has said about others "What are you worried about?"

IF you have nothing to hide (hehe, as if), then why all the bluster and threats?

Any decent person, knowing what Mueller's team is finding RIGHT NOW, would resign. Not our president! He's unburdoned by weak issues like character, ethics, morals or principles. All his dreams of being unquestionably revered by quivering plebes (like that "smart cookie" Kim Jong Un) are not coming true, and that's so unfair to the president!!! Never in the history of politics has anyone been treated so unfairly, waaaaahhhhh!!!

[Historic NY]

2. Now we know the why of the threats....

the noose is tightening.

[forgotmylogin]

3. Ooh, Trumpsterfire is gonna be SO MAD.

And after he told him NOT TO DO THAT!

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. As I said in another thread, I predict TRUMP will fire Mueller inside of three weeks.

It won't make the problem go away for him, but he probably thinks it will.

[awesomerwb1]

5. If true, oh crap....

Cheeto will be livid about this.

Will Mueller survive? Sessions is on notice for allegedly recusing himself....he must feel like he "owes" Cheeto loyalty.

I have a feeling the fan might be meeting the excrement very soon.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. No, he will fire everybody, soon.

[magicarpet]

6. Oh good lord Mueller has crossed the tr-dump red line....

Open the floodgates of decades upon decades of tr-dump's Russian money laundering exploits.

Tr-dump is Putin's signed, sealed, and delivered puppet.

[swag]

7. The one thing this summer lacked was a good Constitutional crisis.

[swag]

9. Rosenstein has been making bootlicking noises recently. I bet Trump can get him to fire Mueller.

No Republicans with any integrity or spine to stand up to Trump.

Very very dark times.

Frown harder.

[Duppers]

12. Yikes. Wasn't aware of that. Shame on Rosenstein

if he agrees to fire Mueller. Shame!!

On the other hand, if he refuses to fire Mueller, King Shitgibbon will fire him.

And, yup, the rethugs have no integrity - they'll sit on their hands.

What's the finally outcome to this slaughter of our democracy?

[mopinko]

10. i just hope mueller has a plan for this.

if i were him, and i got fired, i would dump the whole file off at the wapo.

[tblue37]

18. He should do what Obama did an make sure the evidence is salted away in a lot of different places

where the good guys will be able to access it but the bad guys won't be able to bury it.

I bet he would give all evidence relevant to Schneiderman's case to him and Preet Bharara.

[L. Coyote]

11. Mueller is going to do his job and adhere to the law meticulously, rump whining aside.

Trump can whine like a baby all he wants, his crying won't change the law of the land or the dedication of real patriots doing their sworn duty.

Link to tweet

[PatSeg]

13. Trump is delusional

He actually thinks he can tell Mueller what he can and cannot investigate? This is a guy who has gotten away with so much crap for so long, he honestly thinks he can do whatever he wants. I'm afraid he can't bully and threaten his way out of this quagmire.

[mobeau69]

14. He'll eventually tell his lawyers to settle out of court.

Bahahahahahahahaha!

[PatSeg]

34. Probably not far from the truth

He's not the brightest guy....................

[Baconator]

16. I suppose that's the point...

If you consider Mueller to be a law and order type, then wouldn't he take the firing and go away?

Scandal and gnashing of teeth for everyone else in the world but in the end, it's better for Trump to fire Mueller and stay clear legally.

The new standard is that anything beyond blatant illegality is good to go.

[orangecrush]

22. NO

[Baconator]

27. No... what?

What is in place to keep this from happening?

What's his motivation not to do that?

[Hekate]

15. KnR

[ProudMNDemocrat]

17. Trump is messing with the wrong Marine.....

if he thinks he can fire the DAG to fire Robert Mueller.

Robert Mueller is an ex Marine, turned Lawyer, ex FBI Director. He swore an oath to uphold the US Constitution and the rule of law. Trump is in no position to mess with Mueller.

Former batshit crazy Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, once called the Obama Administration "a Gangster Government". What we have with the Trump Administration is just that, but worse.

[Botany]

19. "Agents are also interested in dealings with the Bank of Cyprus .... "

[mopinko]

23. no kidding.

if the investigation doesnt go all the way to cyprus, it aint done.

[Botany]

25. Big old rat's nest of stuff @ the Bank of Cyprus

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Putin, Trump, Manafort, money laundering, Bayrack, and .......

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/trump-financial-ties-russia-money-laundering-banks-oligarchs-manafort/

[mopinko]

29. yup. and a visit from il rep mike quigley.

who came back muttering about the obvious corruption of the place.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. SecComm Wilbur Ross owns Bank of Cyprus laundry w connex to Putin oligarchs. Deutsche Bank CEO. nt

[riversedge]

20. Good.

[unblock]

24. benedict donald telegraphed this a day or two ago

when he warned mueller not to look into his finances, saying something like this is about russia, not anything else.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Everyone with an IQ over 12, knows he is a criminal guilty of working with Russian mafia

and organized crime and so on.

Big time criminal.

But, his base LIKES that about him.

His DOJ will never prosecute.

There was a coup a while back, all this is moot but it will be fun to see the proof.

[Yavin4]

30. Mueller needs 24/7 protection and a food taster. n/t

[Dopers_Greed]

31. I bet Chump is sweating KFC grease right now

[Julian Englis]

33. Charlie Pierce's tweet on the story is short but funny

Link to tweet