Is the Danske Bank criminal probe connected to the Mueller investigation?
Deutsche bank lent $1 billion to Trump. Deutsche bank handled $ transfers for Danske bankand Danske bank is under probe for Russian money laundering .
Justice Kennedy's son was at Deutsche when it lent money to Trump. Justice Kennedy is the Justice who retired and recommended Kavanaugh as a replacement.
This is all so murky but these connections may be important.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/trump-anthony-kennedy-retirement.html
Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role.
During Mr. Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because of his troubled business history.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-probes-danske-bank-over-money-laundering-allegations-1536924529
U.S. Probes Danske Bank Over Russian Money Laundering Allegations
Probes are ongoing and are related to transactions at Danske’s tiny Estonian branch over several years through 2015
By Bradley Hope, Patricia Kowsmann and Drew Hinshaw
Sept. 14, 2018 7:28 a.m. ET
U.S. law enforcement agencies are probing Denmark’s largest bank over allegations of massive money laundering flows from Russia and former Soviet states, according to a person familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The Justice Department, Treasury Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are each examining Danske Bank DNKEY -6.32% after a confidential whistleblower complaint was filed to the SEC more than two years ago, the person familiar said. The probes are ongoing and related to transactions at Danske’s tiny Estonian branch over several years through 2015. The Journal reported earlier this month that the bank is studying $150 billion that flowed through accounts of non-Estonian account holders at the branch.
The whistleblower complaint identified Deutsche Bank AG DB -0.71% and Citigroup Inc., both overseen by U.S. regulators, as involved with transactions into and out of Danske Bank’s Estonian branch. Deutsche Bank acted as a correspondent bank for Danske, handling dollar wire transfers. Citigroup’s Moscow office was involved in some of the transfers through Danske Bank’s Estonian branch, the person familiar with the probes said.
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Estonian officials are investigating 26 former Danske employees, from low-level staff to the former branch CEO. They are accused of helping to launder $230 million in money from an alleged fraud committed in Russia.