Of all the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump, the ones that presumably send the biggest shivers down his spine involve Deutsche Bank, the only financial institution that deigned to lend him money when other companies wouldn’t so much as let him take a meeting with their interns. Which makes the news that the German bank has started turning over financial documents concerning the president’s businesses to the New York attorney general probably an unwelcome development in the White House!

CNN reports that in response to a subpoena from Letitia James’s office for records concerning funding for “several Trump Organization projects,” Deutsche Bank has officially “begun the process” of providing such information. The A.G. opened a civil probe after Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, testified to Congress that the ex-real-estate developer had inflated his assets in order to obtain certain loans, presenting lawmakers with copies of financial statements that had been sent to Deutsche Bank. Per CNN, information being sent to the A.G.’s office includes loan documents and e-mails related to the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago; the Trump National Doral Miami; the Trump International Hotel in Washington; and Trump’s unsuccessful bid to buy the Buffalo Bills. At present, the president reportedly has outstanding loans with the bank totaling $340 million, which are due in 2023 and 2024.

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Last month, a comprehensive report from The New York Times shed some light on the relationship between the perennial bankruptcy artist and the German bank, the latter of which apparently had “a ravenous appetite for risk,” which meant executives were happy to not only ignore repeated, glaring red flags, but also go along with Trump’s cornucopia of financial lies. For instance, in 2004, Trump asked the bank’s commercial real-estate group to lend him more than $500 million to build his 92-story skyscraper in Chicago; it did, but not before employees concluded he was majorly inflating his net worth, and were told he’d “worked with people in the construction industry connected to organized crime.” In 2014, when Trump was trying to buy the Buffalo Bills and needed to prove to the league he had the funds to pull off a transaction that could exceed $1 billion, the bank agreed to vouch that his worth was $8.7 billion, something Cohen said was an (obvious, extreme) exaggeration before Congress in February.

The New York Attorney General’s office isn’t the only one interested in obtaining information from Deutsche. Last week, the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees issued a subpoena to the lender demanding documents related to the Trump Organization, as well as records related to “possible money-laundering by people in Russia and Eastern Europe.” That same week, the president’s lawyers sent a letter to his longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, urging it to ignore a subpoena from the Oversight Committee and threatening legal action. It quickly followed through, asking a judge for a court order to block Mazars from turning over eight years’ worth of the Trump Organization’s financial statements.

Deutsche Bank declined CNN’s request for comment. The Trump Organization did not respond to the Hive’s request for comment. Trump has not yet tweeted about this newest development, but he’s a little bit busy intimidating Mueller report witnesses. Give him time!

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