Breaking: Deutsche Bank *has complied*

jon-nyc · wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 03:39

Hey George, pass the popcorn.

89th · 6 Aug 2020, 08:59

I work in IT. I first read that as “compiled”. I need to go to bed.

Catseye3 · wrote on 6 Aug 2020, 06:45

Excerpt from a CNN article: "Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York investigated the payments [hush money to the two women] for years, but only brought charges against . . . Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty -- before reportedly closing out the investigation. (Though the SDNY noted in a court filing that Cohen had acted "in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1" -- plainly, Trump -- and long-standing Justice Department policy counsels against indicting a sitting president).

New York prosecutors now seem focused on more easily provable, document-based frauds. [They] noted that their investigation is based, at least in part, on public reporting. Indeed, prosecutors reportedly are investigating potential tax fraud based on intentional misstatements of the value of Trump Organization assets, as reported last year by Pro Publica.

Cohen testified . . . he believed Trump inflated the value of his assets to secure bank loans and insurance policies. . . . If the black-and-white financial documents support any of these allegations -- if they show, for example, that Trump or anyone else intentionally inflated or deflated the value of Trump Organization assets -- then a garden-variety fraud charge could be in order. As a prosecutor, I learned that the simplest charges are usually the most powerful and most difficult for defendants to overcome."

For the whole article: https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_62994dd67d7fe5c321829251f4819b16