Conventional wisdom — based on nothing more than two memos written by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel — is that a sitting president cannot be indicted. But the issue has never actually been adjudicated in court, so it remains unclear if such a move would be allowed under the Constitution. However, two […]
Much like his more famous father-in-law, Jared Kushner is also in the real-estate business, a business that requires large sums of financing that banks aren’t always to supply, especially if you have a history of not being able to pick winning building projects. For almost a year now, we’ve known that Special Counsel Robert Mueller […]
Unless you live in Chicago, it’s a pretty good bet that you’ve never heard of Ed Burke. He’s an alderman on the city council, and on Thursday he was charged with attempted extortion. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: “After serving on the City Council for nearly half a century, Burke faced a federal judge Thursday, accused […]
With one lawsuit, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood managed to get the Donald J. Trump Foundation shut down. And that’s not all she was able to accomplish. In addition to the shuttering of the Trump Foundation, Trump will have to give away any remaining funds in the foundation account. Oh, and Underwood is also […]
For decades, there have been rumors about how Donald Trump has been able to obtain financing for his real estate deals, even when the U.S. and world economies were in a deep recession. How is Trump getting millions when other developers are on the sidelines, desperate for capital? A report from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay […]
For decades, there have been rumors that Donald Trump may have allowed the Trump Organization and real estate properties he owns to serve as vehicles for money laundering. In September, noted investigative journalist Craig Unger published a book entitled House of Trump, House of Putin, and his exhaustive look at the Trump empire has led him […]
Looking at the many meandering paths in the Trump-Russia story, it seems we keep coming back time and time again to one constant: Money. Whether it’s the millions missing from the Trump inaugural committee or the fact that Donald Trump is believed to have gotten investments for his real estate ventures from Russian oligarchs and […]
Donald Trump is not having a good week. First there was the release of the recording made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, which suggests the president did indeed know of payoffs being made to a woman Trump had an affair with. Then there was the new polling suggesting that the 2018 midterm election is […]
According to Donald Trump, the indictments announced in February by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities prove that he’s done nothing wrong. There’s been “no collusion,” Trump bragged on Twitter: Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results […]
Though it’s long been suspected that Donald Trump has extensive ties to international money laundering operations which wash illegal cash through real-estate projects around the world, until now most of the evidence against Trump has been circumstantial. But now, thanks to the release of the full transcript of testimony given by Fusion GPS founder Glenn […]