{"id":16126,"date":"2020-02-15T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:37:31","slug":"dark-towers-deutsche-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16126","title":{"rendered":"Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The biggest shortcoming of \u201cDark Towers,\u201d however, is that while it raises provocative questions about Deutsche Bank and Trump, it never quite answers them. Was it incompetence or corruption that caused American and European regulators to do nothing about the bank\u2019s excessive leverage and mispricing of assets? Was Trump\u2019s relationship with Justin Kennedy, head of Deutsche Bank\u2019s real estate lending division, a factor in the decision of Kennedy\u2019s father, Justice Anthony Kennedy, to retire from the Supreme Court and Trump\u2019s decision to appoint one of his former clerks, Brett Kavanaugh, to replace him? Did Deutsche Bank help Russian oligarchs launder money through Trump\u2019s projects? Why did the U.S. criminal investigation of the bank\u2019s Russian money laundering suddenly go quiet after Trump\u2019s election? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/the-fall-of-deutsche-bank-lies-greed-money-laundering-and-donald-trump\/2020\/02\/14\/0ffd770a-30c3-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/the-fall-of-deutsche-bank-lies-greed-money-laundering-and-donald-trump\/2020\/02\/14\/0ffd770a-30c3-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest shortcoming of \u201cDark Towers,\u201d however, is that while it raises provocative questions about Deutsche Bank and Trump, it never quite answers them. Was it incompetence or corruption that caused American and European regulators to do nothing about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=16126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16128,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions\/16128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}