I'm not sure which noose special counsel Robert Mueller is tightening in his investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but
a Reuters story -- piggy-backed on a story by the German Handelsblatt -- smells like potential red meat to me.
FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal investigator probing
alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election
asked Deutsche Bank for data on accounts held by President Donald Trump and his family, a
person close to the matter said on Tuesday, but Trump’s lawyer denied
any such subpoena had been issued.
Germany’s largest bank received a subpoena from
Special Counsel Robert Mueller several weeks ago to provide information
on certain money and credit transactions, the person said, without
giving details, adding that key documents had been handed over in the
meantime.
Deutsche Bank has lent the Trump
Organization hundreds of millions of dollars for real estate ventures
and is one of the few major lenders that has given large amounts of
credit to Trump in the past decade. A string of bankruptcies at his
hotel and casino businesses during the 1990s made most of Wall Street
wary of extending him credit
According to the story, Reuters had at least eight reporters on it. That ain't chopped liver.
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