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The UBS banker in the Mueller Report: Robert Foresman

04/18/19

The special counsel’s long-awaited report describes three separate occasions in which Foresman, vice chairman of the Swiss company’s investment bank, had Trump-related contacts with Russians.

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Ex-Congressman's Russian bank loses license over money laundering

04/05/19

Commercial Bank of Ivanovo, in which former North Carolina Representative Charles Taylor owns an 80% stake, regularly broke anti-money-laundering regulations and used “schemes” to artificially inflate its capital, according to a central bank statement.

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Mystery JPMorgan hacker nabbed by feds. What does Russian know?

09/07/18

Andrei Tyurin, a Russian citizen who is alleged to have performed key cyber-work in a hack of JPMorgan Chase and several other companies, was extradited to New York on Friday from the republic of Georgia.

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JPMorgan, Citi decry Russian plan to limit funds held abroad

08/22/18

JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are among foreign lenders protesting a Russian central bank plan that would drastically reduce their ability to move funds from local units to their parent companies outside of Russia.

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Banks that deal with sanctioned Russians could draw U.S. ire

04/10/18

British banks that deal with the Russian oligarchs and companies on a new American sanctions list will face "consequences," according to a senior U.S. Treasury official.

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U.S. banks caught up in hacking scheme tied to Russians

12/11/17

A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm that runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe.

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Behind Manafort's loans, a chopper pilot who flew into Trump's orbit

07/26/17

He is, by Wall Street standards, a small-time banker. But in 2014, with Donald Trump eyeing a run at the White House, Stephen Calk stepped into the big-money world of New York real estate — and a network of Trump associates.

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RadioShack Bankruptcy Plan Approved

10/01/15

RadioShack Corp., the fallen electronics retailer that had $1 billion in debt when it filed for bankruptcy in February, won approval of a chapter 11 plan that will distribute liquidation proceeds to creditors. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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