Prosecutors Said to Seek Kushner Records From Deutsche Bank

[DonViejo]

Source: The New York Times




By BEN PROTESS, JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and DAVID ENRICH DEC. 22, 2017

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have sought bank records about entities associated with the family company of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, according to four people briefed on the matter.

In recent weeks, prosecutors from the United States attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, the giant German financial institution that has lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner family real estate business.

Mr. Kushner, who was the Kushner Companies’ chief executive until January, still owns part of the business after selling some of his stake. The family businesses include many legal entities. It is not clear which records were sought by prosecutors, what they are seeking to learn from them or to what degree, if any, they directly involve Mr. Kushner.

There is no indication that the subpoena is related to the investigation being conducted by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, into Russian meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election. Three prosecutors on Mr. Mueller’s team previously worked at the United States attorney’s office in Brooklyn, one as recently as this year. Federal prosecutors around the country typically check with Justice Department headquarters when their investigations may overlap.


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/kushner-deutsche-bank-subpoena.html?_r=0

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. This gives me something that there is a RX out there for, real popular, I cant name it

but yes, indeed

[FakeNoose]

9. I hope the feds are working with the NY AG office

It would be really great to nail him with stuff that Cheeto can't give him a "Get out of jail free" card for.

[Leghorn21]

2. ...and Deutsche's just handing shit over as fast as they can these days, right?

Well yippie yi yo, Don!! Thanks for posting!!

[AmericanActivist]

3. So why does Jared Kushner still have a

security clearance? If he weren’t married to tRumps daughter would he still have one?

[SummerSnow]

4. I'm wondering why any of them have security clearances

[AmericanActivist]

8. Well, yes, there is that! Sigh. nm

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Because the WH is working for Putin. For real. So while the CIA and others hate that

this traitor has clearance, they cant do anything about it, the chief traitor is the boss.

[getagrip_already]

5. I smell a rat....

muehler wouldn't go through the brooklyn usda office to issue subpoena's. If the brooklyn office is gathering evidence, they may be trying to claim supremacy over new york state efforts to prosecute similar crimes. They could then bury them or give less than a slap on the wrist and nys couldn't proceed.

The ny office is especially susceptible since trump fired several usda's there and put hand picked replacements in.

[Leghorn21]

7. Aw crap, geta. Unnnnhhh, I am sorry to read your post, but I will now...calm back down.

But I shall continue to hope that AG Schneiderman is on the case, in a big way?!

[George II]

11. I'm sure the feds will turn over everything they get to Schneiderman. Not good news for Jared.

[FakeNoose]

10. No it might mean they're working with the NY state attorney general

... which would be awesome. Let's be optimistic.

[Princess Turandot]

17. Trump has not appointed new US Attorneys for either the Southern or Eastern Districts...

in NYS. Both districts only have acting US-As, senior level individuals who were already working at the two offices.

The Eastern District's acting US-A, the one involved here, Bridget Rohde, has worked there for 18 years, on either side of a stint as a partner at a law firm. I wouldn't expect a career prosecutor to be willing to sabotage an investigation for the Trumps.

None of the reports on this so far know what the underlying issue might be, or if it has anything to do with Mueller's work. These fellas seem to have enough bad habits to keep more than one DA in court.

[getagrip_already]

21. were these folks not appointed?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/trump-us-attorney-interviews/index.html

among others. Or were they not confirmed? I may have mistaken nominated for confirmed. I just assume they were rubber stamping these guys.

[PragmaticDem]

6. This might be what they mean when Mueller has a scope he has to abide by.

He might have found something and the DOJ is now sending this to other FBI agents to deal with.

[getagrip_already]

13. that's possible I guess....

If it isn't related to the russia investigation, obstruction of justice, or a few other caveats he may have just pitched it over to the brooklyn office. I think trump hit the manhattan office the hardest, so there may still be a few honest usda's in brooklyn he can trust.

[pecosbob]

14. I have a feeling this is just one of several jurisdictions

both federal and state where we will see indictments in the next year for ongoing conspiracies to launder money and criminal tax evasion. I believe Schneiderman is waiting in the wings, rubbing his hands together in anticipation. All of this after Mueller...

[certainot]

15. one of the other aspects of the rw attacks on the investigations is to intimidate the banks

into refusing to cooperate

they're telling the banks that they might end up beating this and if the banks cooperate they will be sorry

[Princess Turandot]

18. Banks in Cyprus gave up Paulie Manafort's stuff. There are international treaties related to this...

that require requests for information from law enforcement to be honored.

[certainot]

20. didn't deutsche pay a big fine on that issue a while back? or was that for something else?

i would expect a slimeball like wilbur ross could put up resistance

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Lock him up! Lock him up!

[riversedge]

19. Good to see this.