Letter to the Hon. Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury - Request for Treasury to Assess Trump's Global Business Contacts

Letter

Dear Secretary Mnuchin:

I write to follow up on our recent exchange in the Senate Banking Committee regarding Treasury's response to my questions, posed in the attached letter to you of March 2, 2017.

That letter posed questions about whether or not the many Trump Organization business partners, investors, and other associates -- including any politically exposed persons and related actors abroad -- have been or would be vetted by Treasury for potential conflicts with federal laws and regulations related to sanctions, terrorist financing, anti- money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, anti-corruption rules, CFIUS-related national security interests, or other similar concerns. Your staff person's one-paragraph response noting that CFIUS has a conflict of interest policy altogether missed the point of my inquiry.

I appreciate your agreeing to review my request again and confirm whether the President, his family members and the Trump Organization have provided to you such information, and if so whether the Treasury Department has screened the list for potential exposure to the risks I have outlined.

If you have not received such a list, will you request that President Trump provide one so that the Treasury Department, appropriate regulators, and appropriate officials within the US Intelligence Community may assess them and alert him and members of his family to any past malign activity by these associates, or any future risks posed by them? I am sure that the President, his children, and the firms they now control would want to sever their ties with any such actors -- or at least ensure going forward that compliance programs within the Trump Organization are sufficiently strong to enable them to identify any problematic business associates and respond accordingly.

Thank you for your personal attention to this matter. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,

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