Mueller asking if Manafort promised banker White House job in return for loans

[UpInArms]

Source: NBC

Federal investigators are probing whether former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort promised a Chicago banker a job in the Trump White House in return for $16 million in home loans, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC News.

Manafort received three separate loans in December 2016 and January 2017 from Federal Savings Bank for homes in New York City and the Hamptons.

The banker, Stephen Calk, president of the Federal Savings Bank, was announced as a member of candidate Trump's Council of Economic Advisers in August 2016.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is now investigating whether there was a quid pro quo agreement between Manafort and Calk. Manafort left the Trump campaign in August 2016 after the millions he had earned working for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine drew media scrutiny. Calk did not receive a job in President Donald Trump's cabinet.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/mueller-asking-if-manafort-promised-banker-white-house-job-return-n849916

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Getting more interesting by the minute.

Talk about sweet-heart deals.

[Leghorn21]

2. Whasssup, Paul? Is Mr. Robert Swan Mueller III stepping on your face a couple times a day lately?

GOOD

[Turbineguy]

3. Manafort may need

the Witness Protection Program.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Filthy filthy filthy

Stupid stupid stupid.

[dalton99a]

5. Manafort belongs in prison.

Throw the traitor in there and let him rot

[Bayard]

6. SSDD

Same shit, different day

[R B Garr]

7. Bank fraud is a common occurrence where he comes from.

Just another day at the office.

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. Drain the swamp!!!!!

Right???

[Upstate One]

9. The Russians want the oil.

From the article :

According to the U.S. Treasury Department, Prigozhin owns a Russian company called Evro Polis, which, according to the Russian news site Fontanka, struck a deal in 2016 with the Syrian government to receive a 25 percent share of oil and natural gas produced on territory recaptured from the Islamic State. Most of those fields are on the eastern side of the Euphrates, where SDF fighters, accompanied by U.S. forces, have been advancing on the militants.

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