Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, is often described as a hotelier from the Pacific Northwest. But he has also had a long and sometimes controversial career in finance.
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.