With all the news this week surrounding Comey’s firing, it almost gets lost in the noise that the Senate requested financial records of the Trump campaign from FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury.
In fact, this was the news immediately preceding the sudden termination of James Comey. Reports of accelerating the investigation, requesting more funding, and subpoenas all came out after Comey was fired.
The WSJ now reports that the Treasury has agreed to turn these documents over to the Senate. It might not be relevant, but the GOP firm raided yesterday in Maryland is also suspected of laundering money...