Thursday, 23 May 2019

Chicago banker accused of bailing Manafort out of foreclosure in exchange for Trump administration post

The chairman of a Chicago bank who allegedly bailed Paul Manafort out of foreclosure in exchange for a high-level post in the Trump administration was charged with bribery by federal prosecutors on Thursday. Stephen Calk, chairman of Federal Savings Bank, pressured his bank to lend Manafort $16 million in a string of three separate loans to try to gain an appointment in the Trump administration, prosecutors said. According to an indictment unsealed in Manhattan district […]



source https://therealdeal.com/national/2019/05/23/chicago-banker-accused-of-bailing-manafort-out-of-foreclosure-in-exchange-for-trump-administration-post/#new_tab

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