According to a new Bloomberg report, Mueller is doing something of a deep dive into Trump’s financial dealings associated with his Russian business connections. An analogy to a colonoscopy might understate what Mueller is up to. It’s beginning to look more like a double-balloon enteroscopy.
The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.
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FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.
Agents are also interested in dealings with the Bank of Cyprus, where Wilbur Ross served as vice chairman before he became commerce secretary, as well as the efforts of Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law and White House aide, to secure financing for some of his family’s real estate properties. The information was provided by someone familiar with the developing inquiry but not authorized to speak publicly.
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As part of their investigation, Mueller’s team has issued subpoenas to banks and filed requests for bank records to foreign lenders under mutual legal assistance treaties, according to two of the people familiar with the matter.
Lots more details in the article, including that Mueller has picked up where U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara left off looking at Trump’s real estate dealings with Russians in New York City.
Trumpty Dumpty drew a line in the sand on Mueller’s investigation at his business dealings — as if one can separate anything Trumpty does from some financial scheme. Let’s see whether he follows through.