House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

A key Democrat on the House intelligence committee said the panel plans to start the new session of Congress by aggressively investigating President Trump’s finances, contending that there is already “probable cause” to believe his business was complicit in money laundering from Russia dating back to the early 2000s.

“We will open up a money-laundering inquiry as to whether the Russians were laundering money through the Trump organization,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., a member of both the House intelligence and judiciary committees, on the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery. “To use a prosecutor’s phrase, I think we have probable cause to do that, based on the Trump family’s own admissions that they had money coming in from Russia.”

Since 2013, Swalwell has represented California’s 15th congressional district in eastern Alameda County and central Contra Costa counties, to the south and east of Oakland, and he says he is seriously considering a run for president in 2020. His comments are the most specific yet to suggest how Democrats on the intelligence committee plan to pick up a Russia investigation that was cut short by the panel’s previous Republican leaders last year. Read more

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House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat

House will open up money-laundering inquiry into Trump-Russia ties, says key Democrat