{"id":352616,"date":"2018-03-17T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-subpoenas-trump-organization-requesting-documents-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:32:10","slug":"mueller-subpoenas-trump-organization-requesting-documents-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-subpoenas-trump-organization-requesting-documents-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller subpoenas Trump Organization, requesting documents on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents, including some related to Russia, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It marks the first time that Mueller, who is investigating alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, has demanded documents directly related to President Donald Trump\u2019s business. According to the NYT\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-organization-subpoena-mueller-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>, the subpoena was delivered in \u201c<em>recent weeks\u201d<\/em> and Mueller asked the organization to <em>\u201chand over all documents related to Russia and other topics<\/em>\u201d that he is investigating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White House does not push back against Mueller for subpoena to Trump Organization: &#8220;We\u2019re going to continue to fully cooperate out of respect for the special counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterbakernyt\/status\/974360540196851712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Trump Organization is the umbrella company which oversees Trump\u2019s business ventures. Trump\u2019s lawyers are in talks with Mueller\u2019s office about how investigators could potentially interview Trump himself. His attorneys are reportedly advising him to decline an interview.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Trump said he was <em>\u201clooking forward\u201d<\/em> to meeting personally with Mueller, but his lawyers later walked back his comments, saying he was <em>\u201cspeaking hurriedly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/420548-nunberg-subpoena-trump-mueller\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.03\/thumbnail\/5a9dceb5dda4c8e4048b45a0.jpg\" alt=\"Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg appeared on multiple cable channels \u00a9 MSNBC screenshot\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>A senior congressional source has told MSNBC that Mueller\u2019s decision to subpoena the organization rather than issue a more typical request for documents indicates that he is putting the organization\u2019s staff members \u201c<em>on alert not to destroy evidence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the New York Times in July, Trump said that if Mueller began looking into his business and family finances unrelated to Russia, he would be crossing a red line.<\/p>\n<p>Of possible interest to Mueller is a \u201c<em>letter of intent\u201d<\/em> Trump signed in 2015 to build a Trump Tower in Moscow \u2014 a deal that never materialized. Trump has insisted that he does not own buildings in Russia and does not make money from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The latest subpoena suggests the investigation which Trump had hope would be cleared up months ago will drag on indefinitely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/421446-mueller-subpoenas-trump-organization\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents, including some related to Russia, according to a new report. It marks the first time that Mueller, who is investigating alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, has demanded documents directly related to President Donald Trump\u2019s business. According to the NYT\u00a0report, the subpoena was delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}