Michael Cohen. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is accusing the Treasury Department of refusing to provide documents and information related to President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. The documents Sen. Ron Wyden is seeking are related to Cohen's dealings with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis. The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is accusing the Treasury Department of refusing to provide documents and information related to President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer and his relationship with the Swiss drug company Novartis. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said through a representative on Wednesday that the Treasury Department was not cooperating with his May request for information on Michael Cohen and his dealings with Novartis. "Treasury refuses to respond to our request, let alone provide key financial documents related to Cohen and Cohen's business dealings with Novartis. There is no … [Read more...] about Top Democratic senator accuses Treasury Department of stonewalling his demands for Michael Cohen’s banking records
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Russian Lobbyist at Don Jr. Meeting Says He ‘Might’ Have Seen John McCain at Summit Where Senator Learned of ‘Pee’ Dossier
NEW YORK — In recently released testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a key participant at the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. admits to being present at the same security conference in Canada where Sen. John McCain was reportedly first informed about the anti-Trump dossier. Russian-born Washington lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin says he might have spoken to McCain and the senator’s assistant David J. Kramer at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2016. However, Akhmetshin claimed that he did not discuss the dossier with McCain or Kramer, and that he didn’t know about the existence of the controversial dossier.The information raises immediate questions about the possibility of dirty tricks in arranging the infamous Trump Tower meeting. This considering a recent Breitbart News report that email transcripts and other information disclosed in Akhmetshin’s testimony reveal a significant … [Read more...] about Russian Lobbyist at Don Jr. Meeting Says He ‘Might’ Have Seen John McCain at Summit Where Senator Learned of ‘Pee’ Dossier
League senator says Italy must freeze cooperative bank reform
By Gavin Jones and Valentina Za ROME (Reuters) – Italy should halt a reform of small cooperative lenders, a prominent senator in the ruling coalition said on Thursday, arguing that EU rules punished domestic banks for their high bad loans while overlooking risks at German rivals. Alberto Bagnai, a senator from the right-wing League, told Reuters the cooperative bank reform would increase an “asymmetry” in euro zone banking whereby Italian lenders are under closer ECB scrutiny than German peers, resulting in tighter credit for Italy’s small businesses. “Until the regulatory asymmetry is removed, we think it wiser not to proceed further with this reform,” he said. Rome’s new anti-establishment government plans to review changes to mutual and co-operative banks which were passed by the previous administration to try to streamline governance and improve lenders’ ability to tap investors for capital if needed. The 2016 reform drawn up by … [Read more...] about League senator says Italy must freeze cooperative bank reform
‘Let’s face it, he’s a Flake’: Trump launches a new attack on retiring senator from Arizona
John Wagner, The Washington Post Published 7:43 am, Thursday, June 7, 2018 WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took fresh aim Thursday at retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., mocking his "record low polling numbers" in his home state and questioning how he could possibly be thinking about running for office again. Flake, who has not ruled out a Republican primary challenge of Trump in 2020, is a frequent Trump critic and released excerpts Wednesday night of a floor speech he plans to deliver accusing the president of providing "not grown-up leadership" on trade. "How could Jeff Flake, who is setting record low polling numbers in Arizona and was therefore humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat without even a fight (and who doesn't have a clue), think about running for office, even a lower one, again?" Trump wrote. "Let's face it, he's a Flake!" It was not clear to which lower office Trump might be referring. LATEST SFGATE VIDEOS Now Playing: Now … [Read more...] about ‘Let’s face it, he’s a Flake’: Trump launches a new attack on retiring senator from Arizona
Senator Bernie Sanders hasn’t endorsed his son in N.H. Congress run
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page James Pindell and Matt Viser Globe Staff June 07, 2018 Senator Bernie Sanders has traveled to Iowa and narrated a 30-second ad to endorse one congressional candidate and journeyed to Allentown, Pa., on behalf of another. He publicly backed a mayoral candidate in Omaha.But while he’s busy endorsing politicians across the country who share his liberal values, closer to home Sanders is taking a noncommittal stand when it comes to his own flesh and blood.Sanders has refrained from endorsing Levi Sanders in his only son’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for a New Hampshire congressional seat. Advertisement The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate — who has an ardent following in New Hampshire, where he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary — also has not encouraged his legion of supporters to help Levi … [Read more...] about Senator Bernie Sanders hasn’t endorsed his son in N.H. Congress run