A loan for $16 million was approved in one day by someone hoping to become Secretary of the Treasury. Was there no one anywhere just doing their job according to protocol??
Judge Ellis got what he ordered up… discussion of a loan that WAS approved.
Calk expressed interest in working for the Trump Organization.
A real go-getter.
Manafort was selling Trump to get favors/money, so far we have two examples. Is there really any doubt that he sold Trump to Russia or that he sold Russia to Trump?
You mean influence peddling is against the law??? Who knew?
https://www.citizen.org/our-work/government-reform/influence-peddling-laws
Seems like sucking-up before the real ask later.
Plausible, yes.
They should have plugged a Calkhole with a Kochsucker, Problem Solved!
Secretary of the Army, not Treasury, Calk doesn’t have enough juice for that.
Well, at least you tried, right Steve? Ya never know unless you ask … and sweeten the request with a fast, ill-advised $16 million loan.
By the way, are those interest and principle payments coming in each month?
You had a nice little S&L going there and then you got trumpizised.
I need some legal guidance here.
Where does sleazy back scratching cross over into illegal influence peddling?
“Calk is the head of Federal Savings Bank in Chicago. He served as a Trump campaign economic advisor…”
He only played a very small role in the campaign.
Hoped to become Secretary of Covfefe.
So the trial is back on and no discussion of a plea deal, jury problem or Ellis mouth-diarrhea correction ?? How puzzling…
Anything that goes beyond that horrible decision in the Governor McDonnell case according to the Supreme Court. Before that decision, any politician could be indicted for obvious corruption along those lines. Unfortunately, now its just Democrats they seem to reserve that for.
At least they’re consistent.
Without looking like total douche-bags, is there a way for Manarort’s lawyers to blame this on Gates?
Wonder what the defense attorneys asked Raicot?
Calk has immunity, I recall, but does this affect his career as a banker in any way?
Does the FDIC take any note of this attempt to use depositor money to buy an admin job?
I think I spot an underlying flaw in your premise.