CNN: Manhattan Feds Seek Interviews With Trump Org Execs

In this March 16, 2016 photo,Trump Tower is shown in New York. The Trump Organization claims in marketing materials that the building is 68 stories tall. But outside groups and city records list Trump Tower at 58 sto... In this March 16, 2016 photo,Trump Tower is shown in New York. The Trump Organization claims in marketing materials that the building is 68 stories tall. But outside groups and city records list Trump Tower at 58 stories. Experts say developers often inflate the floor count of their buildings for marketing purposes.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) MORE LESS
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Federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York are seeking interviews with top executives at the Trump Organization, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Prosecutors have already interviewed at least two former staffers with the Trump presidential campaign about potential links to the Trump Organization, the report says.

Investigators purportedly asked about coordination between the campaign and the organization, and inquired about the company’s payment structure and financial interactions with the campaign.

While the exact focus of the inquiry is unclear, the report comes one day after prosecutors from the same office issued a wide-ranging subpoena to the Presidential Inaugural Committee that managed the Trump inauguration as part of an investigation into whether the committee took in foreign money.

The number of people subject to the interviews and their positions are unclear from the report.

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  1. Trump’s gonna go off-script at the SOTU tonight… Probably start rage-tweeting from the Floor.

  2. Avatar for spin spin says:

    Ah, this is the other shoe dropping. Clearly Mueller has either been limited (by Whitaker or Rosenstein) or just chose to keep his head down and spread the heat while he focuses on the “obstruction” and “conspiracy with a hostile power” parts of Trump’s conduct. My guess is that to be able to get Trump to calm down, he and Rosenstein told Trump’s lawyers and Trump’s fixer Whitaker they were “nearly done” and that is true, since much of the rest of what Trump did that was criminal is now with the SD of NY and the USA in D.C.

    The politics are interesting. The investigation (of tax fraud, money laundering, and influence peddling via the inauguration and other things) is being run by a career staffer in the S.D. of NY. He is in charge because the USA for the S.D. was a Trump supporter and had to recuse himself. So there is no political person in charge. And if someone from main justice tried to intervene, the S.D. would leak like a sieve and the attempted interference (nee obstruction of justice) would be in the press in a new york minute.

    But the career staff is treating this not like some special investigation of a VIP to be handled carefully, but rather what it is, a massive organized crime ring…

  3. I hear a lot of screaming. Oh wait. Not from the White House, but from all the Trump supporters who have done their taxes and just realized that they got screwed by Trump’s tax cut.

    They sure do seem upset. :grin:

    Trump org executives? Does that include Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric?

  4. Man, more crazy witch hunting going on in Trumpworld than in Commonwealth England.

    Saw a Wapo article detailing the seven(!) ongoing investigations. This would make eight.

    But, oh yeah, he’ll totally be running in 2020.

  5. Yes but he’ll finally pivot and be very “presidential”.

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