Inner City Press





In Other Media-eg New Statesman, AJE, FP, Georgia, NYTAzerbaijan, CSM Click here to contact us     .



These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis
,



Share |   

Follow on TWITTER

Home -

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

CONTRIBUTE

(FP Twitterati 100, 2013)

ICP on YouTube

More: InnerCityPro

BloggingHeads.tv
Sept 24, 2013

UN: Sri Lanka

VoA: NYCLU

FOIA Finds  

Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UN - Update - Editorial

Support this work by buying this book

Click on cover for secure site orders

also includes "Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City"
 

 

 


Community
Reinvestment

Bank Beat

Freedom of Information
 

How to Contact Us



Banker Calk Waives Conflict of Lawyer Working With Rep Nadler Probe of Trump

By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
BBC - Decrypt - LightRead - Honduras - Source

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 9 – Stephen M. Calk was indicted in May 2019 for using The Federal Savings Bank which he headed to try to get a position with the Trump administration, including by making loans to Paul Manafort.  

 On January 9 without notice Calk appeared in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrates Court to answer questions about his lawyers' alleged conflicts of interest. Inner City Press has covered the issue and was the only media there. More on Patreon here.

Calk was asked about his law firm Kramer Levin having a partner, Barry Berke, who was selected by Rep. Jerrold Nadler to work on the House Judiciary Committee's oversight investigation into the Trump administration.

   Calk said that he understood and waved the conflict, and a separate conflict in which his lawyers at Loeb & Loeb have also represented The Federal Savings Bank and its holding company.

   Inner City Press has been covering this case since the beginning, including asking the federal banking regulators now intent on weakening the Community Reinvestment Act about The Federal Savings Bank's under-performance under that Act, including under the Freedom of Information Act which the OCC's Joseph Otting is also intent on undermining. 

  In terms of public transparency and accountability, Inner City Press is troubled by SDNY Judge Lorna G. Schofield's recent order allowing Calk and the SDNY prosecutors joint request to redact or seal much of the information in this case. There was no notice to the public or Press. Inner City Press will have more on this. More on Patreon here. The case is US v. Calk, 19-cr-366 (Schofield).

***

Your support means a lot. As little as $5 a month helps keep us going and grants you access to exclusive bonus material on our Patreon page. Click here to become a patron.

Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room 480, front cubicle
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA

Mail: Box 20047, Dag Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017

Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540



Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.

 Copyright 2006-2020 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com for