In a letter on Thursday to Steven Cover, Director of the Federal savings Bank Chicago, Republic of Elijah Cummings, senior member of the house oversight Committee and Rep. Stephen Lynch, the requested documents amounted to $16 million loan to Cover the Bank of Manafort.
Cummings and Lynch questioned whether to Cover out on the loan in exchange for the promise of Manafort to help you to Cover appointed the Secretary of the army.
In February, “the wall Street Journal” reported that investigators of the special adviser Robert Mueller was made the requests in the message about loan of $16 million from the Bank to Cover Manafort. The journal report says that when the trump transition, “Mr. Cover up placing calls to the Pentagon and specifically to the army headquarters, asking for the briefings to obtain information and to prepare for possible work.”
Scott Olson/Getty ImagesA sign is hanging over the staff of Federal savings Bank in the market area Fulton on Feb. 23 2018 in Chicago
“The Federal Savings Bank is aware of recent press reports on unnamed “sources”, implying that Paul Manafort on granting loans in exchange for the promise of the administration office in trump. These messages are simply not true,” – said in a statement on Friday. “The Federal Savings Bank were to fully cooperate with the special adviser throughout its investigation and will continue to do it.”
The Pentagon confirmed that a Cover up did, in fact, to reach out to army administrative personnel office “somewhere in November 2016 in the confirmation process as a whole”, – said in the letter the Pentagon sent Cummings in response to Democrats ‘ request calk communication with officials of the Ministry of defense.
The Pentagon added that the army chief of staff “had the opportunity to hold Mr. Cover up 16 Nov 2016” at a conference in Chicago — just eight days after the election of the President of the trump.
“This new information presented on the DOD appears to confirm at least part of the underlying assertion, which is that you are actively inquiring with the Pentagon within a few days after the presidential election of high-level positions that would require the advice and consent of the Senate,” Cummings and Lynch wrote to Cover in the Thursday letter.
Cummings and Lynch asked for all communications between to Cover any member of the campaign of President trump, trump the commands of transition and the Pentagon. They also requested records related to all loans discussed, applied, considered, or granted to Manafort Federal Savings Bank.
Members request the above documents to Cover 26 APR.
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
