Related story: UK Independent BY JORDAIN CARNEY – 12/15/16 10:53 AM EST A group of Senate Democrats will introduce legislation requiring President-elect Donald Trump to divest any financial assets that pose a conflict of interest and place the money into a blind trust. The bill would also consider any violation by Trump of conflict of interest or ethics […]
By COGAN SCHNEIER 11/03/16 07:10 PM EDT Updated 11/03/16 07:26 PM EDT The Obama administration threw Donald Trump a regulatory curve ball as he makes his final pitch to working-class voters. The National Labor Relations Board, the agency charged with enforcing federal labor law, ruled Thursday that the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas violated the National Labor […]
David A. Graham Nov 22, 2016 The Donald J. Trump Foundation apparently admitted in filings with the IRS it broke federal rules against self-dealing, The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold reports. According to federal law, charitable organizations like the Trump Foundation cannot use their funds to help their leaders’ families or business interests. But during the […]
By ERIC LIPTON and ELLEN BARRY NOV. 19, 2016 WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump met in the last week in his office at Trump Tower with three Indian business partners who are building a Trump-branded luxury apartment complex south of Mumbai, raising new questions about how he will separate his business dealings from the work of the government once he is in […]
By CHARLES V. BAGLI and ANDREW E. KRAMER MARCH 10, 2011 For Georgia’s president, it was a chance to show that his country, the former Soviet republic, is grand enough to attract the world’s best-known real estate developer. And for that developer, Donald J. Trump, it was yet another opportunity to demonstrate that he is world class. In a ceremony […]
By Hugh Bronstein and Luc Cohen | BUENOS AIRES Nov 25 The city of Buenos Aires denied a permit to build an office tower linked to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and developers will have to file a new round of paperwork for it to be reconsidered, the city government said in a statement on Friday. The “Trump Tower” project near […]
By Kurt Eichenwald December 13th, 2016. Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn in yet, but he is already making decisions and issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from American foreign policy, all to the benefit of his family’s corporate empire. Because of this, the next president of the United States is already vulnerable to […]
By ARUNA VISWANATHA, JENNY STRASBOURG and EYK HENNING September 16th, 2016 The U.S. Justice Department proposed that Deutsche Bank AG pay $14 billion to settle a set of high-profile mortgage-securities probes stemming from the financial crisis, according to people familiar with the matter, a number that would rank among the largest of what other banks have paid to resolve similar claims and […]
Chris Hayes looks at the parallels between Trump and Italy’s longest-serving prime minister – Silvio Berlusconi November 23rd, 2016 CLICK IMAGE for the video
JAMES MILLER 11.06.16 10:00 PM ET This is the fourth and last in our series of articles laying out all you ever wanted to know about Trump and Russia, but were afraid to ask. Read parts one, two and three. Why do so many of Trump’s campaign staffers have dodgy ties to Russian energy companies or Russian state clients? […]
