themselves are hiding money offshore. these whistle-blowers have been asked to produce the documents relating to biden s offshore bank accounts rating to the house and ways committee. these documents cannot go to comber. have to go to house ways and means because of the only committee minutes to see it. sources told prime time they have not seen the documents. it goes to a vote and the documents will be released. put this in perspective. mitt romney was eviscerated for having offshore bank accounts in the 2012 election. he disclosed them. took a hit period. but mitt ram the ran bain capital. international leveraged buyout shop with a worldwide clientele and business. joe biden bragged for decades he is the poorest man in the senate. joe biden has never had a job in the private sector. number one, why would joe biden receive money through shell companies from his son and why would joe biden have an offshore bank account?
the accusation, employees helped create offshore companies to launder hundreds of millions of dollars. president trump has a long relationship with deutsche bank but there s no indication that this raid is connected to the president in any way. prosecutors say they acted after analyzing documents including famous 2016 panama papers which exposed how many people were secretly hiding money offshore. gerri willis reporting live from the new york stock exchange. that s right, shep. you got a lot of details correct here. one thing that is interesting, one of the employees being investigated today in deutsche bank responsible for fighting financial crimes. think of the irony there. you re right. 170 police officers. as you can see here, they descended on deutsche bank headquarters in frankfurt, multiple offices. they looked in management board offices, trying to find materials that would help prosecute this case.
then in februaobt mueller s team adds on a whole bunch of new felony charges, tax fraud, bank fraud. they charge manafort and gates on top of the charges they were already facing. and the ve next day, rick gates, money laundering, hiding money offshore, the guy alleged to have done all of this part and parcel with paul manafort, he flips. rick gates pleads guilty to just two counts and has all of his other troubles dry up and fly away because he agrees finally he ll start cooperating with prosecutors. then last month manafort s son-in-law also flips. his son-in-law was being investigated over real estate deals that he invested in with manafort. hetoo, agrees to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
okay. imagine you re in this guy s shoes. first at the end of october, special counsel dictment agains manafort and rick gates. that s the end of october. then in february robert mueller s team adds on a whole bunch of new felony charges, tax fraud, bank fraud. they charge manafort and gates on top of the charges thewe already facing. and the very next day, rick gates, money laundering, hiding money offshore, the guy alleged to have done all of this part and parcel with paul manafort, he flips. rick gates pleads guilty to just two counts and has all of his other troubles dry up and fly away because he agrees finally he ll start cooperating with
paul manafort owed this russian guy nearly $8 million, and this russian guy was really coming after him for it. and simultaneously for some reason paul manafort at the time was really scrambling to do what he could get his hands on millions of dollars in cash, and this was right up until he joins the trump campaign. he then joins the trump campaign, the pressure eases off a bit in terms of this guy coming off him for the money, and he starts communicating with this guy. can we use my position in the campaign. he accepts meetings and important messages from this guy about the future of his country. his country is russia. a month after manafort reportedly met with constantine to get these messages from deripaska, we now know from the indictment that rick gates