If I had to guess, I'd say Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort are in deep trouble.
Flynn, for fairly obvious reasons.
Manafort, for a whole lot of reasons, which are not going away.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/manaf ... ag-n739156A bank in Cyprus investigated accounts associated with President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, for possible money-laundering, two banking sources with direct knowledge of his businesses here told NBC News.
Manafort — whose ties to a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin are under scrutiny — was associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies on Cyprus, dating back to 2007, the sources said. At least one of those companies was used to receive millions of dollars from a billionaire Putin ally, according to court documents.
As the article points-out, having bank accounts abroad is not illegal. On the other hand, if your activity is raising red flags at banks in freaking Cyprus, you should take a long, hard look at your activity and wonder whom else may find that activity worthy of further inspection.
Offshore banking in Cyprus is not illegal, and the island has long been known as a hub for moving money in and out of Russia. Several U.S. lawmakers have raised questions about Manafort's business dealings in Cyprus.
A spokesman for Manafort told NBC News in a statement that all the accounts were set up at the direction of clients in Cyprus, a common banking center for Russians and Ukrainians, "for a legitimate business purpose."
Hmmm... let's see if investigators are satisfied with the "totes legit, ya'll" reasoning.
There is a whole bunch of shady stuff, even if it is sometimes hard to tell what's real, and what's being blown out of proportion since there's quite a feeding frenzy about anything between the Trump team and Russia.
Like what Kushner was up to.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/ ... sian-bank/When President Donald Trump's son-in-law and aide Jared Kushner voluntarily appears before the Senate intelligence committee, he will describe his interactions with Russians during the transition as a point man "looking for the right person to engage with on Russia," and nothing more, according to a source familiar with what transpired.
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In their meeting, Kislyak suggested Kushner also meet with Gorkov, whom Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed in February 2016 as chairman of VneshEconomBank, a Russian state development bank that has been under US sanctions since July 2014.
The bank, known as VEB, and its ties to the Russian government could have easily been identified in an internet search. But the Trump transition "had no mechanism for vetting anyone" and it was not done, the source said.
Okay, maybe it was nothing - Kushner simply didn't Google who he was meeting with, which is a Russian bank that the keen observer will note is subject to US sanctions. I mean, Kislyak suggested it, and obviously a bro wouldn't let a bro down.
Probably, it's just a political thing... and... erm...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/ ... veb-agent/As federal prosecutors in New York prepared their case against a man accused of covertly working for Russian intelligence two years ago, they began raising questions about an unidentified "third party" paying the defendant's legal bills.
The defendant's benefactor turned out to be VneshEconomBank, the same financial institution at the center of a recent controversy over its chairman's meeting with Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his top White House advisers.
On the one hand, it should be no surprise that bank, also known as VEB, was paying for Evgeny Buryakov's legal defense -- Buryakov was one of its employees, after all.
But what made the matter more complicated was that Buryakov was charged with illegally gathering intelligence on behalf of the Russian government and the Russian government owned the bank that provided his cover.
Well, okay, that might look bad, but maybe we should think of it this way; the bank employed the defendant, so they were being a caring, compassionate company - like the ACLU of Russian banks.
Why do you hate the ACLU?
A quantum state of signature may or may not be here... you just ruined it.