case today. they re also prosecuting off the top of my head, also prosecuting deutsche bank and its russian money laundering scandal. proving to be a key line of inquiry when it comes to his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. and deutsche bank his biggest lender. the office is also the office that prosecuted the number two official at a russian state-owned bank valued veb. we talked about this last night. the new york branch of this russian bank, the guy the number two guy in charge there was at the same time he was working at that bank also secretly a russian spy. working at this bank in new york as his cover story but really he appears to have been an agent of russian intelligence. and we know that because pete barrara s office prosecuted for it. we now know that the director of that bank, the gentleman on the right here is the guy who inexplicably met with the president s son-in-law, with
pete barrara office. it was two days after ethics groups asked him to start such an investigation into the president that he was suddenly notified by the trump administration that he was fired. after previously being told after the election he d be allowed to keep that job. and the white house explanation for that u-turn, telling pete barrara he got to keep the job and then telling him he was fired, the white house explanation for that was basically, don t even ask. nothing to see here. nothing personal. nothing specific to pete barrara. this was all just routine. this is a standard operating procedure for a new administration around this time to ask for the resignation of all the u.s. attorneys. did he the president ask him to stay on during the transition? i was not privy to that conversation. i m not sure how it s relevant at the end of the day.
to answer such as, quote, why was mr. barrara fired? two, which white house or justice department officials are responsible for the decision to fire him? three, was he involved in or conducting an investigation of secretary tom price at the time he was fired. secretary tom price was reportedly buying and selling stocks in health care companies while he was simultaneously sponsoring and voting on legislation that would affect the stock price of those companies. it s been previously reported that pete bharrara s office was investigating that as a potential criminal corruption case when bharara was suddenly fired with no explanation. if bharrara was investigating secretary price at the time he was fired, were you aware of that investigation? was president trump aware of that investigation? were other white house or justice department officials aware of that at the time mr. bharara was fired? then the big one.
businessmen while trump was in moscow in 2013 to hold his miss universe pageant. that guy who organized that meeting for trump reportedly recommended sergei gorkov for his job. putin installed gorkov in that job last year right before his second in command in new york was tried and convicted as a russian spy. gorkov then in december or january for some reason was meet with jared kushner. and again it was not disclosed until yesterday. once again that story runs through pete barrara s office because they convicted the spy. his office also has geographical jurisdiction over any potential criminal cases that may arise involving the trump administration and trump tower. if there was ever, for example, to be an emoluments clause criminal prosecution bought against the president for receiving money from foreign governments through his businesses, that prosecution would likely be brought by the