Scaramucci May Have a Russia Problem of His Own.

[HipChick]

Anthony Scaramucci’s appointment as White House communications director is supposed to help President Trump move his messaging away from the relentless Russia scandal—but first Scaramucci may have to get past his own Russia issue.Since January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has pressed the Trump administration to determine whether Scaramucci, at a January meeting, may have broken the law by discussing possible joint investments with the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund that is under US sanctions. The White House and the Treasury Department have so far blown off Warren’s inquires.

Her questions include “if Mr. Scaramucci may have violated current U.S. sanctions law; if he made any implicit or explicit promises related to the relaxation of U.S. sanctions on Russia; if President Trump or other Trump Administration transition officials were aware of Mr. Scaramucci’s contacts” with the Russian fund.
An individual under investigation for such violations should not be nominated to serve in the U.S. government,” Warren wrote in a June 15 letter to President Trump, citing reports that Trump planned to pick Scaramucci for an ambassadorial post.
“I think the sanctions had in some ways an opposite effect because of Russian culture,” Scarmucci said after his meeting with the sanctioned Russian bank.

Bloomberg News first reported the January 16, 2017 meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where Scaramucci—then advising Trump’s transition effort—met with Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which was among Russian financial firms covered by 2015 sanctions implemented after Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The sanctions bar Americans from conducting various financial transactions with the entities named. Scaramucci at the time ran a hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital (which he soon announced he was selling to a Chinese conglomerate).

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/scaramucci-may-have-a-russia-problem-of-his-own/

[Docreed2003]

1. Well of course he does...it just another coincidence....

A total coincidence that every person Trump surrounds himself with has ties to Russia!!!

I'm beginning to think it may be harder to find a single person in the administration that DOESNT have Russian ties!

[Solly Mack]

2. Who doesn't in that pile of bovine caca?

[Matthew28]

3. Trumps entire inner circle

appears to be a russian installed government

[Alice11111]

4. Amazing. Good for Warren! Well, at least he sold his shares

to the Chnese. Still, too close for comfort, and too much lobbying against the samctions. DT needed someone who understands to handle Congress.

[global1]

5. He Wanted This job So Bad Because....

he wants a presidential pardon.