Dot Com
Nullius in verba
![eusa_think :eusa_think: :eusa_think:](/styles/smilies/eusa_think.gif)
This needs to be to the bottom of. Sooner the better
![mad :mad-61: :mad-61:](/styles/smilies/mad.gif)
‘Soft Power’ of a Russian Bank Comes to Light in U.S. Inquiry
(snip)
Mr. Kushner’s hunt for overseas investors for his company’s financially troubled Manhattan office tower on Fifth Avenue has been documented by The Times. While such an investment would not fit the profile of VEB’s past lending, it would have been possible for Mr. Gorkov to relay such information to other Russian banks. It is not known, however, whether the subject was raised in the meeting.
The meeting with Mr. Kushner was not VEB’s only connection to Mr. Trump’s campaign or associates.
A banker who pleaded guilty last year to spying for Russia out of VEB’s office in New York was part of an unsuccessful Russian scheme to recruit Carter Page, an American businessman who later became a Trump campaign adviser, as a spy. VEB also obtained shares in a Ukrainian steel smelter when it was sold by a business partner of Mr. Trump’s who built a Trump hotel in Toronto, according to previously undisclosed documents from the vast leak known as the Panama Papers. The VEB involvement in the smelter deal was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Discuss......
![eusa_drool :eusa_drool: :eusa_drool:](/styles/smilies/eusa_drool.gif)