Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) A Trump-appointed judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the former president that was seeking to prevent the House Ways and Means Committee from publishing his tax returns. D.C. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden wrote in his opinion Tuesday that the former president is "wrong on the law." "A long line of Supreme Court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries," McFadden wrote. "Even the special solicitude accorded former Presidents does not alter the outcome. The Court will therefore dismiss this case." Former President Donald Trump's Treasury Department initially declined to turn over his tax returns for the congressional probe, prompting Richie Neal, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, to sue for them in 2019. With a new administration, the new Office of Legal Counsel issued a new opinion stating that the Congressional Committee can in fact publish the tax
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Cooking oil or crude? Italian restaurant owner was mistaken target of U.S. sanctions
By Daphne Psaledakis and Luc Cohen
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the final acts of the Trump administration was almost certainly one of the most confounding for Alessandro Bazzoni, a restaurant owner in Verona, Italy.
As part of a crackdown on blacklisted Venezuelan crude, former President Donald Trump s Treasury Department accidentally slapped sanctions against his company on Jan. 19 in a case of mistaken identity. It was a mistake, Bazzoni said, speaking to Reuters by telephone from his restaurant in Verona on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Treasury reversed course and acknowledged its error, removing sanctions from AMG S.A.S. Di Alessandro Bazzoni & C., as well as sanctions on what appears to be a graphic design company in Porto Torres, Italy.
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