“Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job for a Chicago banker at the center of Manafort’s fraud trial,” Bloombergreports. “Manafort… got a quick response.” “‘On it!’’ Kushner replied on Nov. 30, 2016, according to an email submitted by prosecutors into evidence Monday at Manafort’s trial on bank and tax-fraud charges.”
This guy's so fucking tacky https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-white-house-staff-golf-clubs-perks-776098 White House staffers who have a Secret Service hard pin identifying them as administration officials can flash it at the pro shop — where Trump-branded driver headcovers retail for $40 and a Trump golf polo tee sells for $90, according to the online Trump store — and receive the same discount available to club members, who pay a reported $350,000 to join the club.
The defense basically arguing that the bribe supersedes the bank fraud....you wut m8? https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-email-kushner-stephen-calk-mueller-russia-2018-8 New email shows how much influence Paul Manafort had over the Trump transition team months after being ousted from the campaign Paul Manafort was weighing in on critical Cabinet appointments for the incoming Trump administration months after he was ousted from the campaign, according to a newly released email. He recommended Stephen Calk, the head of Federal Savings Bank, for Secretary of the Army. Manafort emailed senior adviser Jared Kushner recommending Calk for the position on November 30, 2016. That same month, Manafort received a $6.5 million loan from Federal Savings Bank. He got another $9.5 million loan from the bank in January 2017. Manafort is accused of conspiring to commit tax and bank fraud to secure loans from several financial institutions, including Federal Savings Bank.
Another guy running an agency he aimed to destroy. Long financials I suppose https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/...ry-lending.html#click=https://t.co/R3oImJETsE Mulvaney Looks to Weaken Oversight of Military Lending Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has said that the agency lacks legal standing to engage in such proactive oversight. The Trump administration is planning to suspend routine examinations of lenders for violations of the Military Lending Act, which was devised to protect military service members and their families from financial fraud, predatory loans and credit card gouging, according to internal agency documents. Instead of conducting examinations that might find similar patterns, the bureau will now rely solely on complaints funneled through its website, hotlines, the military and people who believe they have been victims of abuse. Since its creation under the Obama administration in 2011, the consumer agency has returned more than $130 million to service members, veterans and their families and handled more than 72,000 complaints per year, according to the agency.
“The Justice Department is investigating whether longtime Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought to sell his influence with the Trump administration by offering to deliver U.S. government actions for foreign officials in exchange for tens of millions of dollars” the Washington Post reports. “As part of the investigation, prosecutors are scrutinizing a plan that Broidy allegedly developed to try to persuade the Trump government to extradite a Chinese dissident back to his home country, a move sought by Chinese President Xi Jinping.” “They are also investigating claims that Broidy sought $75 million from a Malaysian business official if the Justice Department ended its investigation of a development fund run by the Malaysian government.”
Zinke caught red-handed trying to sell off public lands His plan included selling part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. https://thinkprogress.org/environme...trying-to-sell-off-public-lands-5b1c89fb0b06/ Environmental groups caught the Department of the Interior trying to sell off part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, despite a pledge by Secretary Ryan Zinke never to put public lands up for sale. After massive backlash from environmental groups and the public, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) late Friday canceled all plans to sell off the land. The 1,610 acres of public lands that the BLM proposed selling to private interests had been part of the Grand Staircase national monument until President Donald Trump — in an extremely controversial move — radically shrunkthe size of the monument last December. “We believe the Department only walked it back because those who are closely reading the management plans brought this to light,” Nicole Croft, executive director of the Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners, said in a statement in response to the Interior Department changing its mind. Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners is a nonprofit group that works to protect the landscape and wildlife habitats the of the national monument The Interior secretary has pledged on several occasions that he opposes the sale or transfer of public lands to private entities. At his confirmation hearing in January 2017, Zinke said: “I am absolutely against transfer or sale of public land.” In a March 3, 2017 speech, only days after getting sworn in as secretary, Zinke promised Interior staffers: “You can hear it from my lips. We will not sell or transfer public land.” Just last December, Zinke reiterated this pledge. “There’s not one square inch, not one square inch, of land that is removed from federal protection,” Zinke told Fox Business.
“FEMA administrator Brock Long is the target of an ongoing Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigation into whether he misused government vehicles during his commutes to North Carolina from Washington,” Politico reports. “The actions by Long, the U.S. government’s lead disaster official as the country braces for Hurricane Florence, have been called into question by the inspector general over whether taxpayers have inappropriately footed the bill for his travel.”