Trump to replace SDNY prosecutor with lawyer who defended Deutsche Bank from money laundering scanda

[RandySF]

On Friday night, the Attorney General William Barr announced that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will be stepping down.

His replacement will be Jay Clayton — who previously represented Deutsche Bank, one of President Donald Trump’s most significant business creditors, from allegations they facilitated Russian money laundering.

The Southern District of New York, situated in Manhattan, frequently deals with significant white-collar investigations — and is currently in the process of investigating Deutsche Bank itself.



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trump-to-replace-sdny-prosecutor-with-lawyer-who-defended-deutsche-bank-from-money-laundering-charges-report/

[Iliyah]

1. Criminals are working very . .

quickly in covering up their tracks . .

[soothsayer]

2. Boy the fix is in

[al bupp]

3. Now that's a Friday night news dump

They're hoping it goes straight into the memory hole.

[FM123]

4. He wants to make sure that when he loses in November, he has his dirty people in place

to protect him from prosecution...

[BigmanPigman]

5. Devious Barr!

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/19/us/politics/ap-us-manhattan-federal-prosecutor.html

[42bambi]

13. Trump must have some big time bad sh*t on Barr. This is some sick scary stuff! nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Boy, that's stinky.

[elleng]

7. crap

[Leghorn21]

8. Oh fuck fuck fuck fuck

FUCKING HELL GODDAMIT

[RussBLib]

9. Somehow a pardon from Pence is in the works

Jeez, this guy never stops, and with henchman Barr in place, it will take some smarts to get them.

[Mersky]

10. Represented Deutche Bank?!!

Uhm, no, this cannot stand. Is absurdly corrupt.

[Demovictory9]

11. Trump is making the entire US govt operate just for him

[EleanorR]

12. And there's trump's promise to Erdogan

Link to tweet

[Frustratedlady]

15. Damn! This is incredible that they can manipulate the cast of characters that are in their way...

with absolutely NO qualms about how it looks and no blocks to their actions by Congress. Barr is his bulldog (even looks the part) but surely something can be done about him. Does Congress have ANY method to stop this blatant control?

It's beginning to look like they know Trump isn't going to win in 2020 and are blocking any methods of getting him behind bars after the inauguration of Biden.

I'll bet Schiff is seething, tonight.

[Lucinda]

14. Now we are reminded the name of the lawyer that needs to be investigated...

Thanks Donny Two Scoops!

[IcyPeas]

16. And this re Deutsche Bank

Jay Clayton, Trump's new pick, counted Deutsche Bank as a client and defended them in the massive Russian money laundering scandal.

There is a criminal investigation into Deutsche Bank occurring in SDNY.

Deutsche Bank is Trump's lender.

Link to tweet

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[spanone]

17. the fix is in...the criminal-in-chief

[panader0]

18. It never stops. This should be an outright conflict of interest.

At the least, Clayton should recuse himself from the Bank investigation.

[Leghorn21]

19. Julie K. Brown has pursued Epstein for 10 years, and she had a TON of faith in Berman

WTF — the only prosecutor in America who had the balls (and conscience) to hold #JeffreyEpstein accountable is gone? Did he get too close to the truth?

Link to tweet

A terrible night for Epstein’s many many MANY victims
And for Julie K as well

[crickets]

20. This is insane. There must be a way to push back on criminality this brazen. nt