Updated: President Donald Trump was personally involved in the search for outside lawyers to represent him in the special counsel’s investigation of his campaign and Russian influence in the election, according to the Washington Post. ABA Journal Daily News
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary is headed toward confirmation by the Senate Monday despite complaints by Democrats that Steven Mnuchin ran a “foreclosure machine” when he headed OneWest Bank. Votes on Trump's Cabinet picks have exposed deep partisan divisions in the Republican-controlled Senate, with many of […]
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The Senate Finance Committee had been scheduled to vote Monday night on whether to send Mnuchin's nomination to the full Senate. The vote was widely expected to help Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker and Hollywood movie producer, clear a major hurdle toward confirmation. Foreclosure News
President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. treasury secretary was untruthful with the Senate during the confirmation process, documents uncovered by The Dispatch show. Steve Mnuchin, former chairman and chief executive officer of OneWest Bank, known for its aggressive foreclosure practices, flatly denied in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee that OneWest used “robo-signing” on mortgage […]
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Team Trump's not wrong to think the media are gunning for it, as a bit of fake news from Politico on Steve Mnuchin, the president's pick to run the Treasury, shows again. The story's headline told the horrible tale: ” Steven Mnuchin's OneWest filed to take a 90-year-old woman's house after a 27-cent payment error […]
The temperature in Alaska's second-largest city never reached 30 degrees below zero last winter, but Mother Nature is making up for it this year Although he's a Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton, a 91-year-old New Jersey man will still be traveling to Washington to witness his 18th presidential inauguration in person Although he's a […]
Treasury Secretary-designate Stephen Mnuchin arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Mnuchin built his reputation and his fortune as a savvy Wall Street investor but critics charge that he profited from thousands of home foreclosures as the chief of a sub-prime […]
It's a little more than a day before Donald Trump becomes president and he still has no one ready to run American diplomacy until his nominee is confirmed President-elect Donald Trump has asked roughly 50 senior Obama administration appointees to remain in their posts after his inauguration to ensure continuity in government Even as he […]