ICYMI: “On Barr’s public financial disclosure report, he admits to working for a law firm that represented Russia’s Alfa Bank..he received dividends from Vector Group, a holding company with deep financial ties to Russia.”
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“Barr has significant assets, between $100,000 and $250,000, with Deutsche Bank, which was the only bank that would lend to Trump when all other banks viewed him as too hot to handle. The bank has also been implicated in Russian money-laundering scandals.”- @Newsweek

“The legal standard is really clear about these issues. It’s not about actual conflict, it’s about the appearance of a conflict,” @jedshug, a law professor at Fordham. “We have so many flagrant conflicts that are so obvious, we get distracted from what the legal standard is.”