Friday, June 23, 2017

Counsel Investigating Trump For Money Laundering

If Trump made an illegal deal with the Russians, Robert Mueller wants to find out. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

“In addition to investigating whether or not Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey, special counsel Robert Mueller is also reportedly investigating “money laundering by Trump associates,” the New York Times reports. The Times report corroborates a separate bombshell Washington Post article, published Wednesday, that said in addition to possible obstruction, investigators are also “looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates.”

“A former senior official said Mr. Mueller’s investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates,” a source told the Times. “The suspicion is that any cooperation with Russian officials would most likely have been done in exchange for some kind of financial payoff, and that there would have been an effort to hide the payoffs, most likely by routing them through offshore banking centers.”

Read more here:

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/special-counsel-mueller-also-investigating-possible-money-laundering-by-trump-associates/

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