Congress's case for its subpoena on Deutsche bank was a SLAM DUNK. How do I know?

[pnwmom]

Because today, at the hearing, after the lawyers on both sides made their arguments, the judge took a ten minute recess -- and then read out loud his 25 page opinion, all written and ready to go.

He didn't need a week to consider anything. He didn't even take a day.

He had already written his opinion, refusing to issue an injunction, before the hearing started.

[iluvtennis]

1. Excellent news.

[UniteFightBack]

2. Yes this is very very very bad for rump and his whole family. They said this will provide quite the

financial snapshot of what the hell is going on. They will be able to tell if suspicious money is a flowing.

And what about those SAR's? Will that be in there where the higher up's in the bank said poo poo to file them.

Oh this is JUST STARTING.

[Leith]

7. That SARS thing is the most surprising thing to me

When I was a bank teller, SARs were important to my employer. They pushed them hard. We filled the simple form out every time a cash transaction was under $2,00 and suspicious (which was not often) and every time the cash transaction was between $2,000 and $10,000. If a cash transaction was $10,000 or over, even for a business, they had to fill out and sign the long form and sign it or we refused the transaction. No exceptions.

[UniteFightBack]

11. I work in the financial industry and that is what they push at every opportunity with all the

training and compliance it is constantly being mentioned. You better know your customer...and Deutsche knew rump hence the hold back of the SAR's ...they are in trouble too methinks.

[corbettkroehler]

12. I Worked At SunTrust When The PATRIOT Act And Sarbanes-Oxley Were Enacted

The company's position was quite clear: 100% compliance, 100% of the time and erring on the side of caution. I did not work as a teller. Thus, I didn't have to worry about the long form. However, I can share that this was a BIG DEAL within the bank and required all employees to certify their understanding of the rule ANNUALLY in the form of mandatory computer based training which included a graded quiz.

[KatyMan]

15. I work in IT for a bank

And even we IT folks know that SARs are really serious business. Have to do compliance training regarding them every year.

[pnwmom]

16. I know nothing about banking, and this is probably out of the IT area, but just in case

you could answer . . .

Trump got a mortgage for an $11 million house he bought in Florida from a bank called Professional Bank in Coral Cables, that lists less than $900K in assets. How does a bank with less than a million in assets lend more than that just for one house?

[Wounded Bear]

3. Could have photocopied last week's decision...

and changed some of the names and particulars.

Pretty much the same case.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Sort of like today's hissy fit about cover ups

when he had planned the whole thing and staged it ahead of time.

[StarfishSaver]

5. So much for the claim that the only way to get the courts to move quickly

is to open an impeachment inquiry

[pnwmom]

6. So far, my thought that the Judicial Branch would be unlikely

to go along with a scheme to reduce their own power seems to be coming true.

[Linda Ed]

8. Be interesting to find out

just how involved SCOTUS Kennedy's son was involved with this entire mess and if this was the reason
Kennedy retired... Kennedy suddenly resigned from the Supreme Court as part of a deal to shield his son from ongoing Russian investigations. Was stated he loaned drumpf 1 billion dollars ..Thing is Justice Kennedy had no intentions of retiring as he supposedly had hired his clerks for that term...https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anthony-kennedy-resignation-trump/


BTW I thought Mueller wasn't involved in the banks?
https://www.ft.com/content/3c357c9a-d9dc-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482

[pnwmom]

9. Well, that's a curious story at the Financial Times.

Maybe that Deutsche subpoena is connected with some money related matter that Mueller referred on to another US attorney, as he did with the Cohen and campaign finance cases.

[herding cats]

10. It was rock solid.

I was deeply impressed with the case against Trump and the ruling and opinion of Judge Edgardo Ramos.

[Honeycombe8]

13. That's because the 2 sides filed briefs to the Court previously.

The briefs were their complete factual and legal arguments, citing cases (with cases attached) and explanatory footnotes, and other exhibits.

The Judge (and his staff) considers those and the evidence beforehand.

Then the lawyers and parties appear, make their verbal arguments, and answer the Judge's questions.

[pnwmom]

14. They had also filed briefs previously in the Mazars case, but that judge took a week.

Ramos signaled that he had already made up his mind before he got there, without hearing any more arguments. Mehta did not.

[Hekate]

17. KnR

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Just like we should have had articles if impeachment

Drafted and just dropped Mueller additions. Boom.

[pnwmom]

19. In that case the impeachment would look like an entirely partisan action.

We need to have strong evidence for the impeachment case, when it happens. The Mueller report will be a start but we need much more.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. I sincerely hope so...because some people are saying

Pelosi will never get to impeachment no matter what. And that she can't sustain an illogical position that Trump's the worst president in the world, and likely even crazy and also say ...nope to impeachment.

Strikes me as the most logical thing is that the farther you get away from the nonpartisan judgement source, i.e. Mueller, the more partisan this all appears.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Think it may matter whether or not you think

he committed impeachable acts before Mueller report came out.

That's what seems sorely missing here. It's become all about process when it should be focused on everything he's done wrong. Repeated every hour every day.