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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNEW & unnoticed amid everything else: POTUS asked Mnuchin & Barr to intervene in the Halkbank case
NEW, and unnoticed amid everything else: Treasury confirms @SalehaMohsin
, @JenniferJJacobs
and my story from last month that the president asked Mnuchin and Barr to intervene in the Halkbank case.
, @JenniferJJacobs
and my story from last month that the president asked Mnuchin and Barr to intervene in the Halkbank case.
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Trump Ordered Review of U.S. Sanctions on Turkeys Halkbank
By Joe Light
November 25, 2019
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/turkey-lobbied-on-halkbank-sanctions-impact-in-mnuchin-meetings
By Joe Light
November 25, 2019
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/turkey-lobbied-on-halkbank-sanctions-impact-in-mnuchin-meetings
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NEW & unnoticed amid everything else: POTUS asked Mnuchin & Barr to intervene in the Halkbank case (Original Post)
MelissaB
Nov 2019
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)1. Bloomberg deets
President Donald Trump told the Treasury Department and Justice Department to look into the impact of U.S. sanctions on a Turkish state-owned bank after being lobbied by Turkeys president, a Treasury official acknowledged in a letter last week to a top Democratic senator.
The letter, sent in response to queries by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, outlined seven meetings Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had with senior Turkish officials from April 2017 through this month, but didnt detail what was discussed or answer other questions posed by Wyden, who is the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.
Bloomberg News reported in October that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made repeated entreaties to Trump to avoid charges against Halkbank, one of Turkeys largest lenders. Trump assigned Mnuchin and Attorney General William Barr to look into the issue after an April phone call with Erdogan.
After the call, no action was taken against the bank for months. That changed in October, when U.S. prosecutors unveiled an undated indictment accusing the bank of fraud, money laundering and violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
The letter, sent in response to queries by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, outlined seven meetings Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had with senior Turkish officials from April 2017 through this month, but didnt detail what was discussed or answer other questions posed by Wyden, who is the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.
Bloomberg News reported in October that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made repeated entreaties to Trump to avoid charges against Halkbank, one of Turkeys largest lenders. Trump assigned Mnuchin and Attorney General William Barr to look into the issue after an April phone call with Erdogan.
After the call, no action was taken against the bank for months. That changed in October, when U.S. prosecutors unveiled an undated indictment accusing the bank of fraud, money laundering and violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)2. Thanks so much!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Taken almost a month for this story to
see daylight. These Slugs show up in the FOIA request also.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)5. I cannot keep up with the scandals. I need to make a graphic organizer.