Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked the panel chairman Tuesday to subpoena documents from a bank that loaned millions of dollars to embattled former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort.
Oversight committee ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said panel chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., should subpoena the Federal Savings Bank in relation to more than $16 million in loans made to Manafort before the November election.
Cummings cited reports that said the money was provided in exchange for promises Manafort made to the bank’s chief executive officer, Steve Calk, that he would be named Secretary of the Army.
Cummings, along with Oversight member Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., said the Department of Defense provided information indicating Calk called Army administrative personnel “regarding the confirmation process in general” in November 2016.
Bank officials last month denied there was any quid pro quo, but Cummings and Lynch believe more information is needed from the bank about the loans.
The bank has so far provided the panel a one page document accusing Manafort of fraud.
Cummings said if Gowdy does not subpoena the bank, they will request a committee vote on the matter at the next committee meeting.
