2/25/2019

DONALD JR/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization fired back at investigations into its business Monday [2-25-19], demanding a House panel end its probe because of ethical conflicts. Separately, President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., accused federal prosecutors in a ‘Fox & Friends’ interview of resorting to ‘Stalinist’ tactics as they investigate the president’s inaugural committee and company. The Trump Organization said in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee that a lawyer assisting its investigation, Barry Berke, has tainted the panel’s work because he is partner at a law firm that has represented the family company for more than a quarter of a century. In his letter to the House panel, Trump Organization lawyer Alan Futerfas said hiring Berke, a partner at Kramer Levin in New York, violates ‘basic ethical precepts that govern the legal profession’ and his help ‘irreparably taints the Committee’s work.'”

Associated Press, “Trump Org Slams Probe; Trump Jr. Calls Feds ‘Stalinist’,” The New York Times online, February 25, 2019