Scaramucci takes stand at trial of Manafort banker
One of the best-known but short-lived members of former President Donald Trump’s White House staff, Anthony Scaramucci, took the stand as a prosecution witness Thursday at a federal trial of a Chicago banker accused of trying to trade millions of dollars in loans for a senior post in the Trump administration.
Scaramucci testified for more than an hour about his interactions with the banker, Stephen Calk, and the persistent efforts that former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort made to try to get Calk a top role at the Pentagon or elsewhere.
Scaramucci, who served as White House communications director for less than two weeks in July 2019, said Manafort’s advocacy during the presidential transition helped Calk land an interview with a so-called “tiger team” that was screening prospects for top jobs in the new administration.
“He had suggested and recommended Mr. Calk and he wanted us to interview him … The original position was secretary of the Army,” said Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital. He said Manafort pitched Calk as “a friend of his” who “worked on the campaign and had been an early supporter of the president-elect.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scaramucci-takes-stand-at-trial-of-manafort-banker/ar-AALprv2
= new reply since forum marked as read
