Lawmakers: Did Manafort promise White House job to banker in return for loan?

[C Moon]

Source: NBC News

Two members of Congress are asking the Pentagon to turn over any documents that could shed light on whether former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort promised a Chicago banker an administration job in return for $16 million in real-estate loans.

The letter from Democratic Reps. Stephen Lynch and Elijah Cummings on House Oversight Committee letterhead comes a week after NBC News reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating a potential quid pro quo.

The lawmakers cited NBC's report in their request, along with a Wall Street Journal report that the banker, former Trump campaign adviser Stephen Calk, hoped to be named secretary of the Army.

Lynch and Cummings called the reports "extremely troubling."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawmakers-did-manafort-promise-white-house-job-banker-return-loan-n852096

[mahina]

1. And, the banker's wife is divorcing him, with her lawyer requesting all documents related to Manafor

t's loan.

Making those documents public.

Come on, Mrs. Bank President lady.

Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater were behind the "Willie Horton" racist ad in 1988. I read about it in this post earlier, which included Bill Moyer's work.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210302508

This person needs to go.

[ffr]

2. Drip. Drip. Drip.

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[joshdawg]

3. Definition of corrupt:

trump "administration"

[BigmanPigman]

4. I think Rachel mentioned this on her show the other night.

Now Manafort has AGs in three states who are willing to press charges (IL, NY, and VA). This means even if he is pardoned he will get nailed by them (like the Moron and Jared).

[wishstar]

5. First Manafort and now Kushner possible quid pro quo loans

"Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management, was advising Trump administration officials on infrastructure policy. During that period, he met on multiple occasions with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said three people familiar with the meetings. Among other things, the two men discussed a possible White House job for Mr. Harris.

The job never materialized, but in November, Apollo lent $184 million to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate firm, Kushner Companies. The loan was to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper.

Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.

It was one of the largest loans Kushner Companies received last year. An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.
That loan was made in the spring of 2017, shortly after Mr. Kushner met in the White House with Citigroup’s chief executive, Michael L. Corbat, according to people briefed on the meeting. The two men talked about financial and trade policy and did not discuss Mr. Kushner’s family business, one person said."



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