re: #9 lawhawk

Hey, this is a great Friday night news dump:

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Wait. It’s Tuesday afternoon at 3pm?

Yeah, Friday’s going to be epic at this rate.

New: Two weeks after Trump’s election, Manafort recommended his banker Stephen Calk as Secretary of the Army, Rick Gates tells court. Calk allegedly loaned Manafort money on false pretenses.

Um—Sciutto, how is this “new?”

From April (and February, actually):

In the days after Donald Trump was elected president, a Chicago banker and campaign economic adviser named Stephen Calk called U.S. Army personnel to discuss the confirmation process for a high-level position, according to Defense Department documents obtained by congressional Democrats.

About that time, Calk’s bank, the Federal Savings Bank in Chicago, provided the first of several mortgage loans, totaling $16 million, to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether the loans were made as part of a “quid-pro-quo arrangement to secure Mr. Calk a job in Mr. Trump’s administration,” specifically the post of Army Secretary, The Wall Street Journal reported in February.

chicagotribune.com