Dem Reps Ask Deutsche Bank For Info On Trump Accounts, Ties To Russia

UNITED STATES - JUNE 4: Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks during a press conference with House Democrats on the Export-Import Bank in the Capitol on Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ R... UNITED STATES - JUNE 4: Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks during a press conference with House Democrats on the Export-Import Bank in the Capitol on Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday asked Deutsche Bank for information on the accounts that President Donald Trump and members of his family hold at the bank.

In a letter to Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan, Democratic members of Congress cited the bank’s “pattern of involvement in money laundering schemes with primarily Russian participation” and its “unconventional relationship” with Trump.

Deutsche Bank is one of the few major banks that has continued to do business with Trump through multiple bankruptcy filings over nearly two decades.

“Congress remains in the dark on whether loans Deutsche Bank made to President Trump were guaranteed by the Russian Government, or were in any way connected to Russia,” the letter read. “It is critical that you provide this Committee with the information necessary to assess the scope, findings and conclusions of your internal reviews.”

Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Daniel Kildee (D-MI), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Al Green (D-TX) and Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) signed the letter.

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  1. Lock Him Up…

  2. I’d love to DB’s records on Trumpclan, but what is the legal justification for the request?

  3. And yet more evidence that it’s not the speculated Trump team collusion with Russia to influence the election, but rather the less glamorous, but no less felonious, money-laundering that’s going to bring these clowns down.

    Edit: Remember, boys and girls, Trump and most of his team are not ideologues. They’re grifters.

  4. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    And the irony is their grifting would have remained in the shadows if they had stayed out of politics

  5. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    They have a presence in the US.

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