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Business Investigations @nytimes • Author, SERVANTS OF THE DAMNED DARK TOWERS & SPIDER NETWORK • david.enrich @nytimes .com

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David Enrich
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I’m writing another book! It’s about the weaponization of libel laws and the campaign to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision NYT v. Sullivan. Coming from @MarinerBooks @HarperCollins in 2025.
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NEW: The son of a dead @DeutscheBank executive — armed with hundreds of confidential bank files — has been secretly helping the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee investigate the bank and @realDonaldTrump .
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David Enrich
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BREAKING: Rosemary Vrablic, the longtime @DeutscheBank official who oversaw the @realDonaldTrump relationship, has abruptly handed in her resignation from the bank, I'm told. She's leaving effective 12/31.
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Based on extensive interviews by me and @katekelly with Kavanaugh's former Georgetown Prep classmates, what he just said about the meanings of "boofed" and "Devil's Triangle" is not true.
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Exclusive: Anti-money-laundering specialists at @DeutscheBank detected what looked like suspicious activity in @realDonaldTrump and Kushner accounts in 2016 and 2017. They recommended alerting the government. Bank managers said no.
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This is not true. I have spent a long time looking into this, and @DeutscheBank was the only bank willing to lend to @realDonaldTrump for 20 years because of his pattern of defaults and the bank’s hunger for growth in the US.
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Donald J. Trump
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The Failing New York Times (it will pass away when I leave office in 6 years), and others of the Fake News Media, keep writing phony stories about how I didn’t use many banks because they didn’t want to do business with me. WRONG! It is because I didn’t need money. Very old
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NEW: @realDonaldTrump 's tax records show that big banks and hedge funds gave him hundreds of millions of dollars of financial breaks. Trump managed to avoid paying taxes on almost all of it. Latest in @nytimes tax series. by me, @russbuettner , etc.
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Exclusive: Soon after Jeffrey Epstein died, a mysterious man came forward. He said he had CCTV footage from Epstein's homes. He said it showed powerful men having sex and that Epstein used it for blackmail. with @jbsgreenberg @emilysteel @BernsteinJacob
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David Enrich
6 years
Former Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s goes on the record to describe him as a belligerent drunk.
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Exclusive: We obtained a handwritten 1983 letter that Brett Kavanaugh wrote to his high school buddies: "We're loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us." My story with @katekelly @RebeccaRuiz @SteveEder
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Exclusive: @DeutscheBank is launching an internal investigation into Rosemary Vrablic, the personal banker to the Trump and Kushner families. The review relates to a 2013 personal transaction between Vrablic and a company tied to Kushner. w/ @JesseDrucker
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The timing on Vrablic's departure is awful for @realDonaldTrump . He has about $330M in personally-guaranteed loans to Deutsche Bank coming due in the next few years. With Vrablic gone, Trump's chances of refinancing those loans with Deutsche Bank just dropped precipitously.
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Deutsche Bank still wasn't done with Trump in Chicago. In 2014, it lent him another $24M. That loan was repaid by May 2016. Oddly, Deutsche didn’t release the collateral on the loan until...wait for it...Nov. 9, 2016. The day after Trump won the election.
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New @nytimes investigation: Giant accounting firms send their officials into the government, where they water down tax rules in ways that help their firms' clients. Then they return to those firms, which double their pay. @JesseDrucker @dannyhakim
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“It would be really good to know who the commander in chief owes money to,” says @KamalaHarris . Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank.
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@DeutscheBank @realDonaldTrump I talked today to a former @DeutscheBank executive, who was among those who reviewed the @realDonaldTrump tax returns that were in the bank's possession. When I told him Deutsche says it doesn't have the returns, this is how he reacted. (Posting this with source's permission)
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This is the first time that Trump's long, tortured history with Deutsche Bank has been the subject of a *criminal investigation*. And unlike Congress's [so far] unsuccessful subpoenas of Deutsche last year, this time the authorities have gotten their hands on the DB materials.
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NEW: @realDonaldTrump said today that companies will make enough masks to protect medical workers from coronavirus. But we spoke to mask-making companies, which said they are a long way off from resolving the shortage.
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Exclusive: We obtained confidential documents showing Jared Kushner's personal finances from 2009-2016. Despite earning millions of dollars, he appears to not have paid federal income taxes in most of those years. @JesseDrucker @FlitterOnFraud (1/5)
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The employee who flagged the Kushner transactions, Tammy McFadden, worked in anti-money-laundering in @DeutscheBank 's private-banking unit. After voicing concerns, she said she was transferred to another division and then fired. She is speaking publicly for the first time.
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David Enrich
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Exclusive: The relationship between @DeutscheBank and @realDonaldTrump was more extensive than previously known. This is the surreal story, told in detail for the first time. From my book DARK TOWERS, coming Feb. 18.
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Exclusive: @JamesStewartNYT visited Jeffrey Epstein at his home last year. He said he didn't think having sex with teenagers should be criminalized. And, Epstein said, he had dirt on powerful people.
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This is the inside story of how Deutsche Bank officials – including 2 CEOs – were so eager to do business with @realDonaldTrump that they ignored years of internal warnings about the risks. Based on interviews with 20+ bank execs w/ direct knowledge.
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At some point in recent years, @DeutscheBank apparently *got rid of* @realDonaldTrump 's tax returns. It’s unclear when and why this happened, but I’m told that normal procedure at the bank was to retain such records.
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Exclusive: @DeutscheBank had an extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, lending him money and providing trading services — up until May 2019, when the bank cut him off.
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David Enrich
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Trump’s other big lender in Chicago was @DeutscheBank . It gave Trump extra years to repay the $334M he owed. By 2012, Trump still owed $99M to DB. So, one DB division lent him that exact amount to repay another DB division. That $99M is more than 2x what I'd previously known.
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Trump currently has $45 million outstanding to Deutsche Bank in Chicago. It’s personally guaranteed. He has at least another $285M in personally guaranteed debts to DB on other projects. Those debts are due in 2023 and 2024. If @realDonaldTrump defaults, things will get crazy.
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More Supreme Court decisions coming at 10am EDT. If Trump v. Deutsche Bank/Mazars is among them, @realDonaldTrump is going to be in for a very good or a very bad day. If not today, maybe tomorrow.
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Deutsche execs have concluded that, short of canceling Trump’s $300M+ of debts, there is nothing they can do to extricate themselves quickly. Signature Bank, where @IvankaTrump used to sit on the board, is calling for Trump's resignation as president.
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Vrablic has been under intense scrutiny because of her role facilitating huge loans to Trump and Kushners. Deutsche has been conducting a months-long internal review of a 2013 real estate deal involving her and a company part-owned by Jared Kushner.
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The activity in question involved Trump and Kushner overseas transactions, according to five current and former bank employees. Kushner Companies was moving money to Russian individuals. The Trump Foundation was also flagged for suspicious activity.
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Instead, hedge funds and private equity firms threw up their hands and forgave most of what Trump owed. Two of those firms were run by men who later got roles in the Trump administration: @stevenmnuchin1 and Stephen Feinberg, who leads a White House advisory panel.
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The grand jury investigation appears to be focused on possible bank and insurance fraud as @realDonaldTrump sought loans and other services. Because this is not a federal investigation, Trump is powerless to stop it or to grant pardons to protect himself or his family.
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New: A @nytimes investigation found a pattern of insiders at biotech companies selling shares shortly after announcing incremental progress on coronavirus vaccines. When their stock prices jumped, they sold $1 billion+ of stock. @dgelles @JesseDrucker
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David Enrich
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A Russian oligarch has billions of dollars managed through an obscure firm in a NYC suburb. The money is invested in US hedge funds and private equity firms. We tracked it down and dug into the lawyers, accountants and others who enable the oligarchs.
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The @ManhattanDA appears to be investigating potential crimes involving bank fraud. Michael Cohen testified that Trump routinely inflated his asset values as he sought financing. Deutsche execs viewed Trump's valuations as wildly optimistic and sometimes reduced them by 70%.
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NEW: Leon Black, one of Wall Street's most powerful men, has said his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was very limited. In reality: They were close personally and Black transferred Epstein at least $50M in recent years. with @MattGoldstein26 @SteveEder
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Breaking: The SEC and other regulators are investigating the financing for Trump's new media company. More to come @nytimes
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Today’s the day: DARK TOWERS finally goes on sale. It tells the wild story of how @DeutscheBank became the world’s most destructive bank — and paved the way for @realDonaldTrump to become president. I hope you’ll read it!
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Trump's lenders forgave or canceled $287M in debt. The vast majority was related to Trump's Chicago skyscraper, which he built using borrowed money. When Trump defaulted in 2008, creditors could have tried to seize the property. But they decided it wasn’t worth the fight.
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Wait what?
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SDNY has been looking into @DeutscheBank money laundering.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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News: Geoffrey Berman is stepping down as US Attorney for SDNY. The president intends to nominate Jay Clayton, Chairman of the SEC, to replace him.
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David Enrich
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Here's the full text of Kavanaugh's two-page letter, sent ahead of "Beach Week" in June 1983. ("Bart" was his nickname in high school.)
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David Enrich
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Breaking: @McDonalds has sued its recently fired CEO, accusing him of lying, fraud, destroying evidence and having sex with three of his subordinates. Some very dirty corporate laundry is getting aired out in public here.
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@DeutscheBank @realDonaldTrump @BikiniRobotArmy Early this year, @thelittleidiot heard about Val’s trove of files and connected him with @RepAdamSchiff . The @HouseIntel committee then subpoenaed Val this summer as part of its @realDonaldTrump - @DeutscheBank investigation.
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Exclusive: Steve Mnuchin did what looks like a big favor for his longtime friend, the infamous financier Michael Milken -- the latest controversy around the Trump administration's “opportunity zone" tax breaks. Big story by @EricLiptonNYT @JesseDrucker
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Exclusive: The US government had a plan to build a huge fleet of easy-to-use, inexpensive ventilators. Then a big company got greedy, and the project unraveled. By @sarahkliff @nkulish @jbsgreenberg
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Exclusive: The @nytimes obtained 19 years of Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records from the Virgin Islands. They reveal that hundreds of millions of dollars were pouring into his accounts in recent years. by @MattGoldstein26 @SteveEder
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@DeutscheBank @realDonaldTrump @BikiniRobotArmy Inside his father’s personal email accounts, Val Broeksmit discovered evidence of wrongdoing inside @DeutscheBank and about its deep connections to Russia (among many other things). This is how FBI agents convinced Broeksmit to share the materials with them.
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Our 2019 story about Bill Gates’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been a key catalyst precipitating the Bill-Melinda divorce, according to @WSJ .
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Val Broeksmit @BikiniRobotArmy – a longtime source about Deutsche Bank – is missing. He was last seen on April 6 in Los Angeles, his girlfriend says. A missing persons report has been filed with @LAPDHQ . I am very worried about Val's safety. Please spread the word.
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I went to Jacksonville, Fla., which is @DeutscheBank ’s anti-financial-crime hub, to talk to employees. They said the handling of the Trump/Kushner transactions is part of DB’s historically lax approach to money-laundering - a problem that has landed the bank in trouble worldwide.
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Breaking: @realDonaldTrump sues @DeutscheBank , trying to invalidate congressional subpoenas for records about its lending to him. Story coming @nytimes
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But this is one more likely reason that @realDonaldTrump is eager to block @DeutscheBank from complying with congressional subpoenas. The subpoenas seek any materials related to the bank's detection of suspicious activity in Trump accounts.
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The Epstein relationship was managed by Deutsche’s private bank — the same division that lent to @realDonaldTrump . Deutsche compliance officers raised concerns about transactions Epstein’s company was doing, three sources told me. Bank managers overruled employees.
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David Enrich
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We also tracked down a copy of Georgetown Prep's underground newspaper, written in part by Mark Judge. It includes a column about Holton-Arms girls, calling them "hosebags." (Look it up.) Christine Blasey Ford was a student there.
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@DeutscheBank @realDonaldTrump I've spent the past 5 years following @BikiniRobotArmy as he sought answers about the suicide of his father, Bill Broeksmit. This is his story, based largely on my upcoming book, "Dark Towers."
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First edition of tomorrow's @nytimes front page.
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Deutsche Bank execs have been worried about a scenario like this for years. They told me they’ve feared the choice of angering @realDonaldTrump vs. giving a very lucrative financial gift to the president. Both options are ugly.
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Criminal investigation of Trump Org is heating up. @DeutscheBank employees recently testified to prosecutors about the Trump relationship. Cy Vance's office also has subpoenaed a company that Deutsche hired to assess the values of Trump's properties.
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Exclusive: Officials in the Virgin Islands are subpoenaing companies controlled by the billionaire Leon Black –– one of Wall Street's most powerful figures –– as part of their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's finances. with @MattGoldstein26 @SteveEder
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The exact reasons for Vrablic's departure – as well as the resignation of her longtime associate, Dominic Scalzi – aren't clear. She doesn't have a new job lined up. She says she is leaving voluntarily and is looking forward to retirement.
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Exclusive: The breakup of Bill and Melinda Gates’s marriage is shedding new light on an open secret within Microsoft and his foundation: Gates has at times behaved badly in work-related settings. A @nytimes investigation. @FlitterOnFraud @MattGoldstein26
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Trump and Vrablic were pretty tight. In a NYT interview in early 2016, he repeatedly (and falsely) described Vrablic as "the head of Deutsche Bank." When he won the election, Trump got her VIP seating at his inauguration.
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Also, remember what happened with Kushner/Deutsche in 2016. Anti-money-laundering specialists at the bank raised concerns about money going from Kushner Cos to Russians. Bank managers dismissed their concerns, to the great frustration of some employees.
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Breaking: Leon Black paid $150 million to Jeffrey Epstein – more than twice as much as was previously known. Following an attempted boardroom coup, he will step down as CEO of private-equity firm Apollo. @MattGoldstein26 @katierosman
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The folks at @DeutscheBank (and plenty of other banks, from what I hear) are going to have a lively day tomorrow.
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Ariel Kaminer
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VERY VERY EXCITED FOR TOMORROW when @BuzzFeedNews unveils The #FinCENFiles an investigation into corruption on a global scale, the famous banks that facilitate it, and the government agencies that watch as it flourishes. 100+ newsrooms. 400 journalists. And a podcast!
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Major new @nytimes investigation: For years, NYU Langone’s Manhattan emergency room has been secretly giving priority access to donors, trustees and other VIPs, while providing only cursory care to the homeless. @sarahkliff @jbsgreenberg @virginiahughes 🧵
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NEW: ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩ boasts about his charitable giving. But his tax records show it’s a mirage. More than 90% of what he’s “given” hasn’t involved giving at all — he’s simply agreed not to develop land. ⁦ @susannecraig ⁩ ⁦ @russbuettner
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Updated story with lots more details on the circumstances of Vrablic's abrupt departure and the bank's internal review into potential conflict of interest.
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NEW: The @nytimes obtained records detailing how a Russian oligarch's shell company invested in a US hedge fund with the help of a bunch of US, European and Caribbean enablers. We’re naming names. (with @MattGoldstein26 @PreetaTweets )
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Excellent @washingtonpost story on the severe challenges facing @realDonaldTrump 's fading business empire. It is going to be very hard for him to repay all of his maturing debt, unless someone agrees to lend him a lot more money.
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This is the horde of people awaiting health inspections after international flights into @fly2ohare in Chicago. A social-distancing nightmare! (Shared with me by someone in Chicago)
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This is significant. Prosecutors are subpoenaing hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin (and his wife) as part of their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's finances.
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Matthew Goldstein
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The Dubins, Glenn and Eva, longtime friends of Jeffrey Epstein have joined the USVI attorney general subpoena hit parade. The AG wants to know about some plane rides with Epstein and Ghislaine and three wire transfers in 2014 and 2016.
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One thing that’s notable here is that there is not really a question of whether Trump submitted financial documents to @DeutscheBank that included very, um, generous valuations of certain assets. The dispute is more likely to be about whether that constituted fraud.
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NEW: Big banks used a two-tiered system to disperse federal funds to small businesses: one for wealthy and connected clients, the other for everyone else. Guess which clients got the money — and prepare to get angry. by @FlitterOnFraud @StacyCowley
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Deutsche Bank has had some Russian money laundering problems. Compliance officers knew. The Fed knew. The problems continued.
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Exclusive: @BillGates has done his best to minimize his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. But a @nytimes investigation found that their relationship is more extensive than previously known. by @FlitterOnFraud @JamesStewartNYT
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Tomorrow’s @nytimes front page.
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@DeutscheBank @realDonaldTrump @BikiniRobotArmy @thelittleidiot @RepAdamSchiff @HouseIntel This is also the story of my long relationship with Val — the most intense of my journalism career. Sometimes things got pretty weird.
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Breaking: Regulators impose $150 million penalty on @DeutscheBank for violating anti-money-laundering rules in its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The behavior revealed in regulatory documents is stunning –– even by Deutsche standards. @MattGoldstein26
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Until now, Deutsche Bank has tried to shield Vrablic from outside scrutiny, presumably in part because she knows *so much* about the Trump and Kushner relationships. It is therefore quite interesting that the bank is now publicly stating that they are looking into her conduct.
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Another memorable (and very grim) design on the @nytimes front page.
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I asked other banks where Trump has checking/savings or brokerage accounts – including @jpmorgan and @CapitalOne – what they were doing about their Trump relationships. They declined to comment.
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@jbsgreenberg @emilysteel @BernsteinJacob The man went by a pseudonym, Patrick Kessler. He showed us what he said were video stills of men — including Alan Dershowitz and Ehud Barak — having sex in Epstein’s properties. He said he wanted justice for their victims. Images deliberately blurred.
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I hate to be a broken record, but I see people are still confused about who it was that lent @realDonaldTrump hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s not a mystery. The answer is, mostly, @DeutscheBank . I’ve written a book about it.
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Three days after our story on @realDonaldTrump , @DeutscheBank and Chicago runs, I get a FOIA response with 2,000+ pages of documents. A fun Friday afternoon and evening awaits....
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There's a lot we dont know about these transactions, incl exactly where the money was going to/coming from. Just because staff had suspicions doesnt mean the transactions were improper. It's not uncommon for bank managers to overrule staff if they think concerns are unfounded.
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