Deutsche Bank and Wall
Street banks reportedly just gave Congress thousands of documents related to
Russians with possible ties to Trump
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Six
banks including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, have
been providing Congressional committees thousands of documents related to an
investigation into Trump's Russia ties, according to the Wall Street
Journal.
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The
investigation is reportedly looking into whether there was potential foreign
influence on Trump and his family.
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In
April, it was reported that the President, his children, the Trump
Organization, and the Trump family trust filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank
and Capital One to bar them from complying
with congressional subpoenas.
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley,
and Wells Fargo have been giving thousands of documents to congressional
committees investigating whether Trump had links to Russia, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people
familiar with congressional probes.
The Journal also said
that some banks were giving documents related to the President's own
business, the Trump Organization, to New York state investigators.
Investigators for the
House Financial Services Committee and the House Intelligence Committee are
reportedly working on a joint probe into whether there was potential foreign
influence on Trump and his family.
The Journal said that
more information will likely be handed over in coming weeks as the banks
respond to subpoenas sent in April.
Trump's
lawsuit, according to The New York Times in April,
claims the subpoenas "have no legitimate or lawful purpose" and were
issued to "harass" him and "to rummage through every aspect of
his personal finances, his businesses, and the private information of the
President and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be
used to cause him political damage."
Since
then Deutsche Bank, Trump's primary bank, according to the Journal, has turned
over emails, loan agreements,
and other documents related to the Trump Organization office of New York
Attorney General Letitia James, in response to a civil subpoena sent earlier
this year.
According to the Journal, the congressional
and state investigations are looking for different types of information. The
congressional probe, which is reportedly being contested
in court, is looking at a wide range of financial documents from the Trump
family.
The
state investigation comparatively, is looking at loans to the
Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the New York
investigation, the Journal wrote.