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Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Dem on Senate Finance, sends new letter today to Treasury asking about interventions by Trump into investigation of Turkish state-owned bank accused of evading Iran sanctions. Here is link to full letter finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
Bolton raised his own concern about actions by Trump related to Turkey and this bank, NYT has reported. Here is some background nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/…
One part of the backdrop of this story--perhaps explaining Trump's unusual actions with respect to Turkey: the involvement of three son's in law: Jared Kushner in the US. Son in law of Erdogan. Son in law of the developer of Trump towers in Istanbul. nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/…
(letter was sent to DOJ)
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JUST POSTED: Real estate sales were so slow at Trump's first luxury project in India his local partners pulled half the units off the market. Now they r sitting vacant. An update on Trump Org efforts in India as POTUS arrives With @Kai_Schultz @suhasiniraj nytimes.com/2020/02/23/wor…
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A moment that live in history. And deserves to be remembered. President Trump is now both the executive and judicial branch. Rod Blagojevich; Michael Milken, Bernard Kerik and others. documentcloud.org/documents/6779…
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Atlas Tube is owned by a Canadian citizen whose company used one of his US based subsidiaries to donate more than $1 million to a Trump SuperPac. Now he is profiting by selling his steel tube for the border wall.
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