“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government. I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on Russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector. I have tried to be fully transparent,” Kushner writes. “Hopefully, this puts these matters to rest.”
But a close read of the letter suggests that it does not, in fact, put these matters to rest. By Kushner’s own account, he met with Russian nationals four times during the presidential campaign and transition. His descriptions of these meetings are incomplete, full of unconfirmed details, and at times directly contradictory of other sources’ accounts of the same events.
[...] Then came Kushner's version of his suggestion to Kislyak of setting up a secure communication channel (inside the Washington Russian embassy) so that Flynn could receive Syrian info. from the Russians without snooping. We've read before that Kushner said Kislyak knocked it back. Then comes
"But this is a very different account of the meeting than what appeared in the Post. A number of US intelligence officials, according to the Post, seemed to believe the effort was a far more ambitious attempt to hide the Trump team’s communications from the US’s own spies. This would be incredibly nefarious: It would suggest that there was some information Kushner wanted to share with the Russians (or vice versa) but did not want anyone in the US government, let alone the American public, to know about.
There are only three possible options: The Post’s report is wrong, American spies misread the meeting, or Kushner is lying."
[...]
This letter reveals a ton of specific facts about collusion that set up Kushner for trouble
Again while reading all that thoughts of Mueller's looking into some serious Russian money laundering came to mind which led to wondering if there were any updates on the Deutsche Bank case. This is the latest i found.
Deutsche Bank expects subpoenas over Trump-Russia investigation
Source reveals Robert Mueller’s team and Trump’s exclusive bankers have established informal contacts and requests for information are forthcoming
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Oliver Laughland
Wednesday 19 July 2017 19.26 EDT
Deutsche’s relationship with Trump and questions about hundreds of millions in loans have dogged the German bank and the White House for months. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Executives inside Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump’s personal bankers, are expecting that the bank will soon be receiving subpoenas or other requests for information from Robert Mueller .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-mueller , the special counsel who is investigating possible collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.
A person close to the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said Mueller’s team and the bank had already established informal contact in connection to the federal investigation.
There were signs this week that any effort by Mueller to to pursue documents about Trump’s personal finances will be met with intense criticism by the White House. When asked by the New York Times whether he believed Mueller would be crossing a red line if he expanded his inquiry to include an examination of Trump’s personal finances, the president said: “I think that’s a violation.”
Deutsche’s relationship with Trump and questions about hundreds of millions in loans have dogged the German bank and the White House for months. They have also been the subject of intense scrutiny among some Democrats on Capitol Hill .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/deutsche-bank-trump-accounts-audit-democrats-russia , who have demanded the bank turn over detailed information about the president’s accounts.
The requests for information from Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House financial services committee, have focused on whether any Russian entities may have provided financial guarantees for the loans that were made to the president or his immediate family members.
Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser in the White House; her husband, Jared Kushner, who is also a presidential adviser; and Kushner’s mother, Seryl Stadtmauer, are all clients of Deutsche Bank .. https://www.theguardian.com/business/deutschebank .
US media outlets have reported that Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian collusion with the Trump campaign will include a close examination of the president’s finances and businesses. While Deutsche Bank did engage in banking transactions with Russian banks as late as 2005, including some loan activity, a person familiar with the matter said the activity was not related to Trump’s accounts or his family.
The president has decried the investigation into his campaign as “fake news” and has vociferously denied that the campaign ever colluded with Russian government officials to try to gain an edge in his 2016 race against the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Any move by Mueller’s team to pursue Trump’s personal financial records comes as the bank continues to negotiate a settlement with the Department of Justice over its so-called mirror trading scheme, in which the bank’s former Moscow branch is alleged to have allowed $10bn to flow out of Russia .. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/deutsche-bank-fined-630m-over-russia-money-laundering-claims . Democrats on Capitol Hill have been demanding answers about who might have benefited from the scheme.
Deutsche has been fined more than $6bn in connection to compliance failures since 2015.
A person close to the matter said other financial institutions with ties to Trump, including Bank of America, would also probably receive requests for information from Mueller’s team.
Lawrence Grayson, Bank of America spokesman, declined to comment on whether the bank had received or was anticipating any subpoenas for records from Mueller’s investigation.
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