We’re starting to see a bunch of little things like this guy trading bad loans for a slot in the administration, and a list of unknown people who likely helped in financing Manafort or other shady deals. It doesn’t seem connected, but if you look at how many people are seeing the Trump administration as a cash cow, or a way to twist the government to their financial benefit, it builds a pattern of corruption. I wonder if Mueller is trying to do that, because a corrupt administration would fiercely oppose anything that might expose it…the conspiracy might be more about money and greed than about Russia, as the fight is over staying in power and keeping the ill gotten gains.
“Lender D” in the Manafort indictment, most likely banter Calk in this story, is NOT among the five immunized witnesses named today.
I imagine Lender D will be facing crimnal charges some other time.
I had a cat who was constantly bullying her lower-status sister. I should have named her “Gateway.”
“Calk served on the Trump campaign’s economic advisory team , and, according to the Wall Street Journal, wanted to be Trump’s Army secretary.”
“I only hire the best!” Donald J. Trump, Crook-in-Chief
Everyone should mentally increase the number of likes on their post by one, on the assumption that it was one of the many I simply gave up on.
“There will be no pictures of scantily-clothed woman,” Andres said.
“At least, not in this trial.”
totally just lost interest in the manafort trial.
SHERA! SHERA! SHERA!
That in itself does not even raise an eyebrow.
The problem here is the “bank loan” as quid pro quo.
Nothing if not predictable!
(What would Hyman say?)
Army Secretary, eh? As a former grunt (drafted in 1969) and the son of a Jewish immigrant from Germany who served in the U.S. Army in WWII and Korea, this is too much to hear right now. What gives him the right to make such a request?
OK, I am editing because I did some research. Calk is a former US Army officer and helicopter pilot. So, I give him that. But who asks to be Army Secretary who did not rise up through the ranks?
The idea is that making a fraudulently-based loan using FDIC-insured funds is prosecutable?
I wonder if that means he has made a plea deal?
Why, an uber-capitalist, of course!
‘Everything is for sale!’
Comrade Butina has been fully clothed in all the photos made public so far …
How much does a cabinet position in the Trump administration cost?
More than $16 Million, apparently.
Thank heaven for small mercies.
Is there anybody who isn’t dirty associated with this administration?
I think by law the department secretaries are supposed to be civilian. They probably had military service in their past but are completely out of it when they get the job.
So this Clank guy would be a plausible candidate but for the fact that he was a pretty “small-time” banker. Not one of the titans of industry you might call on to manage the Army’s business.
I hope so because I have an old friend from high school years… Undersecretary of something-or-other. I’m amazed he has anything to do with this administration although I can tell you this would have been his 13-year-old self’s dream job. He’s not really, but I think of him as being the designated survivor when the whole thing comes crashing down.