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UPDATE: Bank CEO Stephen Calk has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with financial institution bribery for corruptly soliciting Paul Manafort for a position in the Trump administration in exchange for approving $16 million in loans.
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Nov 24, 2016 Manafort email to Rick Gates, who still worked for Trump: "We need to discuss Stephen Calk for Sec of Army."
2 weeks after Trump's election, Manafort floated Calk, who loaned him $16M on false pretenses, as Army Sec, Gates testified.
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2 weeks after Trump's election, Manafort floated Calk, who loaned him $16M on false pretenses, as Army Sec, Gates testified.
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Feds say banker Stephen Calk bribed Paul Manafort for a Trump admin job. Manafort secured Calk Trump campaign economic advisory board position, and after the election, emailed Jared Kushner, recommending Calk for Army Sec. Kushner replied, "On it!"
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Jared Kushner's "On it!" email in response to Paul Manafort recommending banker Stephen Calk [who had just approved $16m in fraudulent loans to Manafort] for Army Secretary, came after it was publicly known that Manafort was under FBI scrutiny.
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Paul Manafort's efforts resulted in Stephen Calk receiving a formal interview with the Trump transition team to be under secretary of the army at the transition committee headquarters in January 2017.
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