Deutsche Bank was founded in Berlin in 1870 and opened for business in the United States in 1872 when it began financing the railways being built. When Northern Pacific became insolvent in 1893, Deutsche Bank bailed them out.
Deutsche Bank has a German name but it an International Bank with offices around the world. Deutsche acquired New York-based Bankers Trust in 1999. In 2001 Deutsche Bank was listed on the NY Stock Exchange. It also acquired a new office building in southern Manhattan. It's headquarters are in Frankfurt and it is one of the world's largest banks.
The loan was a refinance on a building Kushner already owned and probably took a minimum of six months to a year to negotiate.
The fact Trump looked like such a long shot when the deal was finalized makes the case that the loan was politically motivated by either party considerably more difficult to prove without further evidence.
What would be the quid pro quo situation here?
Even Kushner’s failure to disclose the loan on his OGE form comes with an extenuating factor. Kushner’s lawyers told the Post that the agency’s own guidance didn’t technically require their client to disclose a loan like this one. Kushner appears to have an argument that he followed the letter of it. That doesn’t excuse this administration’s anti-transparency ways, of course, but it does provide ammunition to White House defenders, who already have plenty of practice defending Team Trump on technicalities.
Let's look at HSBC where Comey was a Board Member and HSBC donated tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation. quid pro quo??
Comey helped preside over the ‘slap on the wrist’ doled out to HSBC for money laundering known illegal drug and terrorist funds. While the FBI found ‘culpability’ no one went to jail or was held personally liable in any way and they escaped with only a two billion dollar fine, which was small-time compared to the amounts that were laundered.
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