Epstein Secrets

te.’ Seriously, dude?” Preate, putting out the Chinese food on a table, said, “It wasn’t their mandate to put Arthur Andersen out of business during Enron, but that didn’t stop Andrew Weissmann”—one of the Enron prosecutors. “You realize where this is going,” Bannon continued. “This is all about money

lic enemy; they expected nothing of him. But Priebus and Spicer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020089 they regarded as functionaries, and their job was to support the White House’s goals, which included their goals and interests. Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and a seeming dum

ce his exit from the White House six weeks before—he was on a crash all-sushi diet. “That building,” said his friend David Bossie, speaking about all White Houses but especially the Trump White House, “takes perfectly healthy people and turns them into old, unhealthy people.” But Bannon, who Bossie had declared

ptcy filing in U.S. history, with Lehman holding over $600 billion in assets, far surpassing those of previous bankrupt giants such as WorldCom and Enron. Lehman was the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank at the time of its collapse, with 25,000 employees worldwide. The Dow Jones closed down just ove

3 percent of G.D.P. in any year during that period. Applying the $897 billion in cuts under "Function 920 Allowances" to domestic spending programs, The White House projects a future scenario: The year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,

cally-motivated case. The Mueller view seems to be that the obstruction charges go to the heart of exposing how Trump has abused his power and turned the White House into a corrupt fiefdom. The President's scheme to obstruct the FBI's investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to

e legal charge is being led by his number two, Andrew Weissman, the aggressive prosecutor whose pursuit of the accounting firm Arthur Anderson in the Enron debacle end in its conviction —a judgement reversed well after the firm's bankrupcy and dissolution. Weissman is a particular bet noir and favorite w

sel's independence with regard to the Russian investigation, means he will let the indictment go forward. In one view—and in the suspicion of some in the White House—he may have already authorized Mueller to proceed with the indictment. The White House has made the argument-supported in many television appearances

w Weissmann. Weismann has a longstanding reputation for aggression: he was the prosecutor whose pursuit of the accounting firm Arthur Anderson in the Enron debacle ended in its conviction— a judgment reversed well after the firm's bankruptcy and dissolution. One White House advisor likened him to Victor