Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month: Nebraska State Senator Bill Kintner (R)
January 26, 2017 January 26, 2017 / Jack Marshall
This ridiculous State Senator doesn’t even know how to resign intelligently. Kintner, who has represented southeastern Nebraska’s District 2 in the Nebraska Legislature since 2012, found a way to leave office almost as embarrassingly as the way he occupied it, which is impressive.
Where do Republicans find these people, and why does anyone vote for them?
In June of 2015, Kintner attacked the Nebraska Legislature’s attempted repeal of the death penalty by posting graphic photos of a beheaded woman on his Facebook account. Let me tell you, this is one classy guy. His constituents didn’t discover quite how classy, however, until later in 2015. Then it was revealed that Kintner and a woman he met on Facebook had engaged in cyber-sex over Skype a year earlier, while the Senator was in a Massachusetts hotel. (This detail kept him from being indicted in Nebraska.) The episode constituted a misuse of a state-owned computer, but there were other problems with it, including the fact that Kintner and a woman engaged in cyber-sex (don’t make me explain it to you) over Skype, which makes what Anthony Weiner does look restrained.
Immediately after the session, the woman tried to blackmail Kintner, threatening to post the video to YouTube and share it with Kintner’s colleagues, including the governor. She reportedly has connections to an Ivory Coast crime syndicate, and demanded $4,500 from Kintner. Later, she contacted another State senator, offering to sell the video. That senator’s response was apparently, “No thanks, and by the way, ICK.”
Kintner rejected calls for his resignation from the legislature following the incident, after paying a $1,000 fine for misuse of public resources as part of a settlement with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission. “I fully understand the gravity of my action and how it reflects upon the fact that I carry the title and responsibility of a state senator. I have taken personal responsibility for my action. I have apologized to God, to my wife, to you and to my constituents,” he wrote in a letter to his fellow lawmakers. At least part of that apology seems less than sincere, however. When demands for his resignation or impeachment continued, Kintner asked, “What standard are all 49 senators held to that I violated and embarrassed this institution? I would love to know.”
If we really have to explain that to you, Senator, it’s not worth our time.
Then, suddenly, Kintner resigned yesterday. Not over his Skyped masturbation, mind you; no, he resigned because the criticism he received for giving a sexist tweet his endorsement by re-tweeting it was just too, too unfair. The re-tweeted tweet, by talk-show host Larry Elder, mocked demonstrators at last weekend’s women’s march by suggesting that they weren’t attractive enough to be sexually assaulted.
This sparked new calls for Kintner’s resignation, so Kintner quit, not in shame, but in disgust.
He began by saying “You won’t have Bill Kintner to kick around anymore.” Imagine: Kintner intentionally invoked this infamous Richard Nixon quote, which everyone thought ended his career in 1962 and is one of the most petty, self-pitying and petulant statements ever made by a national political figure. This is like a politician starting a press conference by saying, “I did not have sex with that woman!”
Later, in an interview following his resignation, Kintner said in part,
“I certainly have regrets. A lot of things I can do better. A lot of things I can say better. And that’s life….Everything you say can and will be used against you, and every time you make a mistake they’re going to beat the living tar out of you. They’re going to pick you up and whack you on the head. They’re going to take it for all the political gain they can get. It’s a blood sport game and that’s why people don’t like politics.”
No, Bill people don’t like politics because there are too many slime-balls like you involved in it, and they embarrass their constituents, party and government while blaming everybody else.
This is a wonderful example of someone doing the right thing for the wrong reason, and in so doing, proving why it’s the right thing. If Kintner really believed that he is being unfairly maligned, he had a duty to keep serving the district that elected him, and to finish the job they elected him to do. “Politics ain’t beanbag,” and putting up with partisan attacks is part of the profession. In mild defense of Kintner, his female colleagues who claimed that Elder’s tweet threatened the safety of women were unfair at best and hysterical at worst. It was a tasteless joke that elected officials shouldn’t be associated with, that’s all. No elected official should have to resign over a joke like that; an apology should be sufficient. Elected officials should have to resign when they set themselves up for blackmail by masturbating over Skype using a state-owned computer.
Never mind, though: Kintner’s judgment and values are so skewed and juvenile that it’s too much to expect consistency or a sense of proportion from him. He’s quitting because he thinks he’s too good for politics, and everyone is mean to him.
The main thing is, he’s gone, and that’s good for Nebraska.
Pointer: Fred
Sources; NY Daily News, Omaha.com, 1011
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25 thoughts on “Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month: Nebraska State Senator Bill Kintner (R)”
Sad. Ashamed to say I’m a Republican, now. Flip side, I’m seriously glad I’m not from Nebraska.
charlesgreen
Dragin…for me, a twist.
Sad. Ashamed to say I’m from Nebraska, now. Flip side, I’m seriously glad I’m not a Republican.
People like Kintner need to split off from the GOP and start the Deplorable Party. it’s not really much worse a name than “The Know-Nothing Party.” Daniel Webster ran for President under its banner in 1852. Then again, it did kill him…
Sadly, Nebraska was also the source of another semi-famed political dumb utterance.
Remember Senator Roman Hruska? He was accused of being ‘mediocre.’ His timeless response: “There’s a lot of mediocre people out there, and they deserve representation too.”
On the plus side: Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett are both Cornhuskers.
Charles, my niece is in a graduate program in Nebraska. Her accounts, perhaps exaggerated–I HOPE so, regarding her harassment on campus—including by a professor!–on the basis of her gender and political views curled my skull, my hair being unavailable. I still can’t quite believe a whole university would be that openly biased and bigoted, or that this could be typical of the state culture, as she believes.
I can assure you it didn’t used to be that way. My grandparents and parents grew up in, embodied, and respected a classic midwest culture of respect, humility, hard work, and generosity of spirit.
I was back two years ago for the first time in ages, and I now believe that your niece is probably right. Things have changed – a lot. And not for the better.
There are explanations, to be sure, but they don’t amount to excuses.
Considering where the best and the brightest have gotten us maybe we should try a little mediocre representation.
That was basically Roman’s argument. It’s also essentially the argument of a lot of Trump voters.
Pre-cisely.
You have my sympathy…on both counts.
“It’s only about sex”
“Everybody does it”
“It’s a private matter”
“If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find”
while the American electorate as a whole would accept these defenses, that does not mean these should fly with the voters of Nebraska District 2.
Really the guy is demonstrably dumber than a fence post and should have never been in public office. On the other hand statements above have been supported by Democrats since Mr Clinton’s demonstration of gutter morals. It ain’t determined by politics at all.
“Really the guy is demonstrably dumber than a fence post and should have never been in public office. ”
uhhhmmm… have you ever listened to Joe Biden? Just sayin’
Agree that it is on both sides of politics, too.
Neil A. Dorr
Jack, Apropos of nothing, NPR’s 8 am morning newscast featured a gaffe in which they began by saying “President Obama signed an executive order …” instead of Trump, regarding the wall with Mexico. I tried to record it, but the newscast has since been replaced and the first story is completely different. It made my whole morning, nonetheless.
It’s like me usually taking about two months to get the new year right…
Well one positive thing about Nebraska is that “About Schmidt” was filmed there. I’ve never been there but I have a strong feeling that the film captured the culture pretty well.
luckyesteeyoreman
While I am glad to see one fewer corrupt heterosexual (and, apparently, if he can be believed, God-fearing) white man representing people in Nebraska and the Republican party, I am still a bit anxious for Nebraskans. I can’t stop doubting that anyone less corrupt is going to fill Kintner’s state senate seat, no matter their god, their party, their gender, or their sex drive.
JimHodgson
“If I were a betting man,” as my father used to say, I would wager that there likely were signs of Kintner’s true character in evidence long before he ever ran for public office, had anyone bothered to really check out his past conduct. During more than forty years of involvement in local political campaigns (city, county, state legislature races), I can recall numerous prospective candidates who, had they not been carefully and thoroughly vetted, would surely have proven to become an eventual embarrassment to party and community. I know of a few successful candidates who fit in this category and got selected and elected despite their obvious character issues, and I check the news daily with great anticipation that they will be found out and hounded from office (or defeated by better people) before they do more serious damage to the offices they hold and the political process. That people (individuals and parties) so willingly and wholeheartedly endorse, support, elect and defend candidates of proven poor character (and all that goes with it) is one of the enduring disappointments of my participation in politics. It is the primary reason I have withdrawn from political campaigning in my retirement years to focus on other aspects of community life. I am not yet at the point of despair, but I’m headed in that direction.
This guy, Palladino in New Jersey, Alan Grayson in Florida and many many others, including some guy who owns hotels and casinos whose name I can’t quite come up with right now, all are in that category. Having fought all through the Clinton years over the “It’s not character, its the economy, stupid!” defenders of Bill, I feel that I am winning the battle but losing the war. Character should have disqualified Kintner, just as it should have disqualified Hillary Clinton and..TRUMP! That’s his name! But the public continues to be deluded into thinking that it’s safe and responsible to vote for someone untrustworthy as long as their policy positions sound right. Polls show that a large percentage of Trump voters find him unsavory in many ways, but voted for him anyway. I suspecty I will be proven right, and them wrong. As for those screaming about Trump now, they brought him to power by pushing an absurd “It’s not lies, corruption, greed and hypocrisy, it’s the vagina, stupid!” I have no sympathy for them at all, but unfortunately, we are all in the same boat.
“But the public continues to be deluded into thinking that it’s safe and responsible to vote for someone untrustworthy as long as their policy positions sound right…”
Any time we have a POTUS candidate with qualifications and character, he (or she, or it) seems to get destroyed by the process long before the primaries are over… does this mean we cannot elect such a person? The the process precludes such a person?
Or are the decent folks unwilling to endure the process in order to serve?
Slick, it has long been my contention that the people smart enough to be President are also smart enough not to run. Just for fun, imagine a President, conservative, who has the big brass ones of a DJT, but the smarts to filter and regulate what he said and how he said it. For the record, I think Twitter is the greatest weapon possible against a biased, slanted, prejudiced COMMITTED LEFT press. Letting DJT use it is like putting a loaded revolver in the hands of a 6 year old child.
Nail on the head, in many cases. I would add “and unwilling to subject their loved ones and friends to the incivilities of modern political campaigning.”
I have read through the comments and didn’t see this yet so I’ll comment on it. But it seems that Kintner is repeating the common misconception that rape is about sex. I know its not, and I can’t help but feel that I’m just a tiny island out in a sea of stupidity. If all those Social Justice Warriors™ could just focus on that, and make educating everyone about that aspect, it would do a lot for their cause.
Rape is about control, not sex. I am with you, Mike.
The traditional use in war was to break the conquered and mingle the gene pool in favor of the victors. (I understand it was actually worse for the boys in ancient times, as many did not survive the experience)
Yes, control, that is what I meant to say in my original post, but my irritation with Social Justice Warriors must have caused it to slip my mind. I’m sure they hit me with a 2 by 4. Yes, control is about power, and for them the power is pleasure. No one seems to get it. All sexual criminal acts, are about that. Rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and most of course, pedophilia. It is the reason many women are the victims of sexual crimes. They don’t even know what to look out for, so they are caught off guard when it occurs.


Two Artists Charged With Faking Indigenous Heritage To Make a Profit
After falsely identifying themselves as Native Americans, a pair of artists have been criminally charged.
Published on 12/16/2021 at 6:36 PM
Two Washington state artists were separately charged with violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act after misrepresenting their status as Native American.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lewis Anthony Rath, 52, said he was a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, while Jerry Chris Van Dyke, 67, who operated under the pseudonym Jerry Witten, claimed to be a Nez Perce Indian — neither had any tribal affiliation or heritage. Each sold a variety of art — including masks, totem poles, and pendants — respectively, at Raven’s Nest Treasure in Pike Place Market and Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in 2019.
Matthew Steinbrueck, owner of Raven’s Nest, told the Associated Press on Friday that he was unaware the goods were fabricated, believing the artists to be tribal members. “Our whole mission is to represent authentic Native art. We’ve had more than 100 authentic Native artists. I’ve always just taken their word for it,” Steinbrueck said.
Edward Grace, assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, said in a news release, “By flooding the market with counterfeit Native American art and craftwork, these crimes cheat the consumer, undermine the economic livelihood of Native American artists, and impair Indian culture.” The probe into each case began when the Indian Arts and Crafts Board received complaints regarding the fraudulent artists.
Neither Raven’s Nest or Ye Old Curiosity Shop have been charged. Seattle Indigenous rights attorney, Gabriel Galanda, who belongs to the Round Valley Tribes of Northern California, is pushing for accountability.
Galanda told the Associated Press, “There has to be some diligence done by these galleries.”


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Giving More Workers Overtime Could Have Downsides, Employers Say
By Yuki Noguchi
Published September 15, 2015 at 3:45 PM MDT
New federal rules would make millions more workers eligible for overtime.
The Labor Department is considering changing rules that define who qualifies for overtime pay and who does not, and businesses say it would have far-reaching consequences that may not be good for workers.
Currently, the rules say you have to make less than $23,660 a year to be automatically eligible for overtime, but the Labor Department's proposal would more than double that required salary level to $50,440. That would mean an estimated 6 million more people would be eligible for overtime pay.
Worker advocates say the current rules open up millions of workers to abuse. Many earn relatively low salaries but are asked to work many extra hours without pay because they're exempt from overtime rules, says Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. She says some research shows women, who would make up about 3.2 million of those workers, would especially benefit.
"Either people will get an increase in their wages and will be paid for the overtime hours that they're working, or they won't be forced to work overtime hours without pay anymore, and they'll be able to spend more time taking care of their other responsibilities in life," Shabo says.
But employers do not believe it would be a windfall for workers. They say they will be forced to cut costs in other ways if the proposed rules take effect as written — and that workers may not like those changes.
The Michigan Health and Hospital Association employs 107 people, more than half of whom are currently salaried, and some of whom put in extra hours, especially during emergencies.
"It only takes one bus accident, or one fire or something like the Ebola crisis," says Nancy McKeague, chief of human resources.
She says her nonprofit can't afford overtime, but it also can't forgo having people work as needed.
"The last thing you want to do in the health care setting is to look at your watch and say, 'You got your eight [hours], you're out,' " she says.
McKeague says more work will fall to managers. The rules will also require her to review tasks associated with every job to see whether the position qualifies for overtime. Plus, she'll have to spend more administrative time on things like clocking employees in and out.
Cecilia Boudreaux is human resources director for the Regina Coeli Child Development Center, a Head Start program in Robert, La. Under the new rules, Boudreaux says, 26 of her 35 salaried employees would qualify for overtime pay, in the event of a building emergency or if a parent is late for pickup. But increasing salaries would cost at least $74,000 extra a year — meaning she'd have to cut costs elsewhere.
"Our grants stipulate how many children we have to have per classroom, so even to increase it we'd have to get permission," she says.
Boudreaux says she'd have to furlough employees. Or convert some salaried positions to hourly, then cut the hourly rate, which she dreads doing.
"Who would want to come to work the following day, saying that 'We have to move you to hourly, and oh, by the way you're not gonna make as much as you would make normally. You have to work this minimum number of hours if you want to still make the same amount,' " she says.
Tony Murray, HR director for Diamond B Construction, also based in Louisiana, says many workers would consider going from salaried to hourly a demotion.
"When I was younger, all I [wanted] to do was get to a salaried position just simply because you knew what was going to be coming in each week and you did have the flexibility," he says, including the ability to go to soccer tournaments or work late to make up for doctor's appointments. Murray says under the new rules, those converted back to hourly status wouldn't be able to do that.
"Millennials take into account more than anything workplace flexibility," he says. "And of course who do you think is in that entry-level management ... millennials more than anything."
Corrected: September 15, 2015 at 10:00 PM MDT
A listener emailed to say that this story misstates the current law on overtime rules and the proposed changes. He is right that many workers who make more than the Labor Department's new proposed threshold of $50,440 a year would be eligible for overtime pay. There is a "duties test," which considers the nature of a person's work. If the work is not "professional" or "white collar" in nature, overtime may be paid. Also, some employers may simply choose to pay overtime. Our story focused on the estimated 6 million workers whose jobs would qualify for overtime because of the proposed rules. The story also focused on how businesses are reacting to the change in rules.
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Malibu Moon (USA)
February 23, 1997 – May 18, 2021
A.P. Indy (USA) x Macoumba (USA), by Mr. Prospector (USA)
Family 2-s
Bred in the purple on both sides of his pedigree, Malibu Moon flashed talent in winning a maiden special weight at Hollywood but was injured before demonstrating whether he was more than a flash in the pan. Given a chance at stud because of his stellar pedigree, he made good, becoming a Classic sire in the United States.
2 starts, 1 win, 1 second, 0 thirds, US$33,840
A rather coarse but rangy and powerfully made bay horse standing 16.1 hands according to stallion registers (16.3 hands according to his video at the Spendthrift Farm website, https://www.spendthriftfarm.com/stallions/malibumoon/#media), Malibu Moon had plenty of bone and substance and was generally well balanced with a strong hind end. A wide-chested horse, he appeared slightly base-narrow and tended to swing his left foreleg inward. He was forced into early retirement from racing by a slab fracture in one knee. He had a disposition described as "playful" and "feisty" as a young stallion but became more aggressive and dominant as he matured.
Malibu Moon tended to get runners that peaked as late 2-year-olds or during the first half of their 3-year-old seasons, though he sired horses (especially daughters) that have trained on well. He usually sired a big, strong, commercially attractive physical type. He showed an affinity for mares descending from Storm Cat and/or Deputy Minister. According to statistics complied by The Jockey Club, Malibu Moon has sired 128 stakes winners as of August 22, 2021.
Sire rankings
Per Arion Pedigrees (www.arion.co.nz):
Led the North American general sire list in 2010; 2nd in 2013; 4th in 2011; 6th in 2012 and 2017; 8th in 2009; 10th in 2015 and 2018.
Per The Blood-Horse:
3rd on the US general sire list in 2010; 4th in 2013; 5th in 2011; 7th in 2012; 8th in 2017; 10th in 2015.
Notable progeny
Ask the Moon (USA), Carina Mia (USA), Come Dancing (USA), Declan’s Moon (USA), Devil May Care (USA), Eden’s Moon (USA), Emilia’s Moon (USA), Funny Moon (USA), Gormley (USA), Heavenly Love (USA), Life at Ten (USA), Magnum Moon (USA), Malibu Mint (USA), Malibu Prayer (USA), Moonlit Promise (USA), Moonshine Memories (USA), Orb (USA), Ransom the Moon (USA)
Notable progeny of daughters
Bellafina (USA), By the Moon (USA), Girvin (USA), Kalypso (USA), Stellar Wind (USA)
Malibu Moon was bred and owned by B. Wayne Hughes. He entered stud in 2000 in Maryland at Country Life Farm. He was transferred to Castleton Lyons in Kentucky following the 2003 breeding season and stood there from 2004-2007 as a joint venture between Country Life Farm, Castleton Lyons, and Hughes. From 2008 onward, he stood at Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm. He died in his paddock of an apparent heart attack on May 18, 2021.
Foaled in Kentucky, Malibu Moon is inbred 5x5 to five-time American champion sire Nasrullah, also the English/Irish champion sire of 1951. He is a full brother to Lady Nichola, dam of Grade 3 winner Worth Repeating (by Giant’s Causeway), and a half brother to Curriculum (by Danzig), dam of Grade 3 winner Temple City (by Dynaformer). In addition, he is a half brother to listed stakes-placed Mutually Benefit (by Dynaformer), dam of stakes winner Compelled (by War Front).
Malibu Moon is out of 1994 Prix Marcel Boussac (FR-G1) winner Macoumba, who is a half sister to 1990 Prix de la Forêt (FR-G1) winner Septieme Ciel (by A. P. Indy’s sire Seattle Slew), to multiple Grade 3 winner Maxigroom (by Blushing Groom), and to French listed stakes winners Balchaia (by Blushing Groom) and Manureva (by Nureyev). The last-named mare is the dam of 2000 Atto Mile Stakes (CAN-G1) winner Riviera (by Kris). Macoumba is also a half sister to Supamova (by Seattle Slew), dam of Group 2-placed English stakes winner Supaseus (by Spinning World), and to Metisse (by Kingmambo), dam of 2009 Slovakian champion miler Steady as a Rock (by Rock of Gibraltar) and second dam of 2014 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby, FR-G1) winner The Grey Gatsby.
Macoumba and her siblings are out of the Green Dancer mare Maximova, who won the 1992 Prix de la Salamandre (FR-G1) and three Group 3 events during her own racing days. She is a half sister to French Group 2 winner Navratilovna (by Nureyev), dam of French listed stakes winner Leo Girl (by Seattle Slew), and to French Group 3 winner Vilikaia (by Nureyev), dam of restricted stakes winner Legend of Russia (by Suave Dancer) and second dam of 2011 Nearctic Stakes (CAN-G1) winner Regally Ready and Grade 3 winner Sir Truebadour. Produced from the Swaps mare Baracala (au unraced half sister to 1974 French champion miler Nonoalco, by Nearctic, and to French Group 3 winner Stradavinsky, by Nijinsky II), Maximova is also a half sister to French listed stakes winner Moivouloirtoi (by Bering), dam of French listed stakes winner Alyzea (by King Charlemagne), and to Doigts de Fee (by L’emigrant), dam of French listed stakes winner Draconienne (by Trempolino).
Malibu Moon was lucky to get to the races at all, as his dam stepped on one of his hind legs and inflicted significant injury when he was just a few days old.
Portrait photo taken by Jessica Morgan at Spendthrift Farm in 2016. Used by permission.


IMDb app now available for Android-based devices
There's more good news for users of smart phones that run on Google Inc.'s Android operating system.
IMDb, the definitive database for all-things movies, announced on Wednesday that it has finally brought its mobile application to Android OS.
According to the company, the free app includes access to information on more than 1.5 million movie and television shows. Users can also access content related to the more than 3.2 million celebrities and crew members involved in the entertainment business.
But the IMDb app is more than just information-based. The program includes access to movie trailers, user reviews, and even critics' reviews of different movies and shows. Users can also see local movie show times in their area.
IMDb's app joins a growing number of highly-touted iPhone apps that are making their way to Android. Recently, Amazon announced that its e-reader Kindle app is finally available to Android owners.
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Deutsche Bank says records sought in Trump congressional probe include tax returns, without elaborating
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures Aug. 23 as he speaks to the press while departing the White House in Washington for the G7 Summit in France. | AFP-JIJI
NEW YORK – Financial records related to U.S. President Donald Trump and three of his children that congressional Democrats have requested from Deutsche Bank AG include tax returns, the bank disclosed in a court filing on Tuesday.
Two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives subpoenaed Deutsche Bank in April to provide financial records belonging to the president and his children Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.
Deutsche Bank’s filing, in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, revealed that it had tax returns that it would need to hand over if it complied with the subpoenas, which the Trumps are seeking to block. It was not clear whose tax returns it had, because names were redacted from the filing.
A lawyer for the Trumps could not immediately be reached for comment. Deutsche Bank declined comment.
The disclosure comes as Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are seeking to obtain Trump’s personal and business tax returns, which the president has refused to turn over, from the Treasury Department.
Deutsche Bank has long been a principal lender for Trump’s real estate business. A 2017 disclosure form showed that Trump had at least $130 million of liabilities to the bank.
The subpoenas on Deutsche Bank, issued by the House Financial Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee, seek records of accounts, transactions and investments linked to Trump and the three named children, their immediate family members and several Trump Organization entities, including records of possible ties to foreign entities.
Deutsche Bank said in Tuesday’s filing that it also had tax returns for people who “may constitute ‘immediate family’ ” as defined by the subpoenas, without giving any names.
A lawyer for the Trumps last week urged the 2nd Circuit to block the bank from handing over the records, saying Congress did not have the authority to demand them. The court has not yet ruled on the case.
The Trumps are also seeking to block a separate subpoena served by the Financial Services Committee on Capital One Financial Corp. seeks records related to the Trump Organization’s hotel business.
Capital One said in a court filing on Tuesday that it did not have any tax returns related to the subpoena. The bank did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
2nd Circuit judges had ordered both banks to disclose whether they had tax returns last week.
Before Trump, the custom for modern U.S. presidential candidates was to reveal their income tax returns during their campaigns.
U.S., Congress, taxes, banks, Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump


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