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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScary Moochey has a Russian problem of his own.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/scaramucci-may-have-a-russia-problem-of-his-own/Anthony Scaramuccis appointment as White House communications director is supposed to help President Trump move his messaging away from the relentless Russia scandalbut 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 Warrens 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. Scaramuccis 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.
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Who could have known, I ask you? /sarcasm off
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Scary Moochey has a Russian problem of his own. (Original Post)
deminks
Jul 2017
OP
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)1. What a tangled web
they weave....
onetexan
(13,043 posts)2. Love the new Nick name
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)3. Scary Moochey. Classic. Let it be thus!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Now covered under the Trump Pardon
Umbrella.