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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee expressed concern Sunday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has not adequately scrutinized President Trumps finances and said House investigators plan to probe Trumps relationship with a bank implicated in Russian money laundering.
We are not interested in our committee in whether hes a tax cheat or not worth what he says he is, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said in an appearance on the NBCs Meet the Press. What we are interested in is, does the president have business dealings with Russia such that it compromises the United States?
In particular, Schiff said the House panel plans to investigate Trumps two-decade relationship with Deutsche Bank, a German institution that has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties in recent years after admitting its role in a $10 billion money laundering scheme that allowed clients in Russia to move vast sums overseas.
Schiff voiced concern that Mueller has shied away from investigating Trumps ties to the German lender, saying that if the special counsel hasnt subpoenaed Deutsche Bank, he cant be doing much of a money laundering investigation.
Schiff was referring to reports last year that Muellers office had told Trumps lawyers it was not seeking Deutsche Bank records related to Trumps accounts or loans. Deutsche Bank became a critical lender to Trump in the late 1990s when major U.S. banks refused to do business with the New York real estate developer after repeated bankruptcies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-intelligence-chairman-voices-concern-that-muellers-scrutiny-of-trumps-finances-isnt-adequate/ar-BBTpP8i?li=BBnb7Kz
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)publicly. Schiff couldn't voice his concerns privately to Mueller? And if not, why not?
triron
(22,011 posts)Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)There are so many crimes to investigate that it takes multiple investigations. I'll bet that we won't know the full extent of trumps crimes until well after he's out of office. We may not know everything until he's died. Historians will continue to look under the rocks to see all that he's guilty of.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)... Mueller