Could Trump’s Jones Day Lawyers End Up in Deutsche Bank-Gate?Lawyers from Jones Day have been functioning like a Praetorian Guard around the president since the day he took office. How the firm landed so many of its partners into key positions in the Trump administration has baffled the media, especially since its partners were big supporters of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. According to Bloomberg News, Jones Day’s lawyers contributed $7,422 to Trump’s campaign while showering Hillary Clinton’s campaign with $267,899.
Wall Street On Parade has previously reported that Jones Day lawyers in Trump’s White House Counsel office had previously represented Freedom Partners, the front group of Koch Industries, the giant fossil fuels company majority owned by the billionaire Koch brothers. Freedom Partners had quickly provided the Trump administration with a list of regulations it wanted gutted – like the Paris Climate accord (which Trump revoked on June 1, 2017) and numerous EPA rules. Jones Day had also been a lead law firm for Koch Industries’ mergers and acquisitions for years. SourceWatch reported last year that a dozen people who previously worked at Freedom Partners were given jobs in the Trump administration. Among that group was Marc Short, former Freedom Partners President, who became Director of Legislative Affairs for Trump. Short stepped down in July of last year after many of his key objectives had been achieved.
On the same day that Donald Trump was sworn into office, the Jones Day law firm issued a press release indicating that 13 of its lawyers were heading to the Trump administration. Key among the posts were Don McGahn, who had been General Counsel to Trump’s campaign committee, and was now going to be serving as White House Counsel. McGahn’s Chief of Staff was also coming from Jones Day, Annie Donaldson. Both had previously represented Freedom Partners...........
Last month the House Intelligence and the House Financial Services Committees subpoenaed documents from Deutsche Bank, President’s Trump long time banker which has, over the years, loaned Trump “a total of well over $2 billion,†according to the New York Times. During much of the time these loans were being made by Deutsche Bank, other banks refused to loan to Trump because of his history of defaulting and his businesses filing bankruptcy. That fact has raised the curiosity of these two House Committees because what Trump also has in common with Deutsche Bank is Russian money.In 2017 Deutsche Bank settled with U.S. and U.K. authorities over a $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme, paying a combined fine of $630 million. In November of last year, Deutsche Bank’s offices in Frankfurt, Germany were raided by 170 law enforcement officials. The probe involved potential money laundering..............
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