Could Wilbur Ross Be The Next Trump Official Targeted In The Mueller Probe?

[turbinetree]

Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment against international lobbyist and Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, and pleading by Trump campaign foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos, cast long shadows over other top Trump administration officials, starting with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose previous financial deals involved the European money-laundering hub of Cyprus.

The banking sector of that small island nation in the Mediterranean appears to be a crossroads where top Trump campaign associates, such as Manafort and Papadopoulos, and senior administration officials like Commerce Secretary Ross, crossed paths and had layered financial and political dealings with Kremlin-tied Russian oligarchs.

The Manafort indictment, apart from its detailing of how he spent millions of untaxed overseas earnings for luxury properties in the U.S. that the government wants to seize, listed more than half a dozen pages of overseas wire transfersadding up to $12 million. Almost all of them originated in Cyprus.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/wilbur-ross-next-trump-official-targeted-mueller-probe/

Calling Wilbur Ross, Calling Wilbur Ross....................I think you need to do some explaining, after all you were at this organization

and all the dots go back to this Bank of Cyprus, all of it

[kentuck]

1. He's a big fish in the money-laundering part of the investigation.

If they indict him, they are very close to the Dotard himself.

[Joanie Baloney]

2. He's been trying to fly under the radar

But, Mueller will get him.

And oh hey, Wilbur...you won't be allowed to take your $500 slippers with you to the big house. Sorry.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/02/28/commerce-secretary-wore-slippers-to-trump-address/98565280/

Given Wilbur Ross is a billionaire investor, he's probably used to the finer things in life.

Which may explain why he decided a pair of slippers that cost hundreds of dollars was the proper footwear for his first time attending attending a presidential address as the newly confirmed Commerce secretary.

An eagle-eyed reporter noted that they were a pair of Stubbs Wootton slippers, which start at $495 for men, with a custom Commerce Department logo, which we imagine would cost extra:

(OK, maybe they are $600 slippers. Hard to know for sure.)

-JB

[democratisphere]

3. Just another wall street scumbag that needs to turn over his Ruby Slippers.

I am hoping all of these wall street scumbags are going down.

[Madam45for2923]

4. Hell yes! Manafort used his Cyprus bank to launder money!