[U] Mr. Trump's Personal Lawyer Said Something UNUSUALLY Stupid Today.

Ahem. It was reported earlier today that Robert Mueller, III has begun receiving subpoenaed bank records, from Deutsche Bank, as to Mr. Trump personally, and as to his family -- and their collective family of companies.

Perhaps in a testosterone-fueled (but colossally stupid) attempt to blunt the import of those news stories/disclosures, one of Mr. Trump's personal lawyers, a Mr. Jay Sekulow, was quoted by Reuters (later in the day) as saying that there had been no such turnover, and the bank itself had advised him of that.

Well -- Jay, the stupid -- it burns. You see, 18 USC § 1510(b) makes a bank's disclosure of such a subpoena, to someone like someone like Jay. . . a felony; and even if done without intent, it is still a one-year misdemeanor under §§ (b)(2)(B):

. . . .(b)(1) Whoever, being an officer of a financial institution, with the intent to obstruct a judicial proceeding, directly or indirectly notifies any other person about the existence or contents of a subpoena for records of that financial institution, or information that has been furnished in response to that subpoena, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

(2) Whoever, being an officer of a financial institution, directly or indirectly notifies —

(A) a customer of that financial institution whose records are sought by a subpoena for records; or

(B) any other person named in that subpoena;

about the existence or contents of that subpoena or information that has been furnished in response to that subpoena, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. . . .

It is highly unlikely that Deutsche Bank is unaware of this long-standing provision of federal criminal law. It is even more unlikely that the bank would risk felony prosecution -- by talking to Mr. Sekulow -- about Mr. Mueller's subpoenas of Mr. Trump's financial records, given that 45 himself is now very-likely a target of an obstruction investigation. UPDATED: 12.23.2017 -- Just as expected, some Kushner/Trump Deutsche Bank loans -- some $285 million minimum (only one month before Election Day 2016), are now part of the focus of Bobby Three Sticks. Were Russian-connected agents behind these loans? We shall see.

Now you know. Jay is a "pants on fire" liar, in my opinion.

[And, in passing, here is the expenditure report, from Mr. Mueller, through Q3 2017.] Sleep well -- we will cover the Ninth Circuit arguments, tomorrow afternoon.

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