FBI Says Closed Investigation Still Ongoing in FOIA Denial for Trump-Related Records: FRINFORMSUM 5/4/2017

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Anonymous Phone Call Threatens Violence if Bankruptcy Lawyer Keeps Bothering Trump; FBI “Inadvertently” Claims Call Investigation Still Ongoing in Response to Records Request

FOIA releases from the FBI raise new questions about President Trump’s business tactics, particularly when things were not going his way. The FOIA responses – to Buzzfeed’s Jason Leopold and MIT’s Ryan Shapiro – also shed new light on two previously unreported threatening phone calls – one the FBI characterized as “overt extortion” – related to Trump’s business dealings that were investigated by the bureau.

The more recent is a 2009 call that was received by a high-profile bankruptcy lawyer representing clients who “stood to lose more than a billion dollars” over Trump’s failed casino venture, Trump Entertainments Resorts. The caller told the lawyer, Kristopher Hansen, that “My name is Carmine. I don’t know why you’re fucking with Mr. Trump but if you keep fucking with…

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A middle-aged Caucasianoid human male who has inhabited this planet for most of my existence. I have my MA in History with an emphasis on Technology of the 20th Century specifically the German Rocket Team headed by Wernher von Braun that worked on and built the A4/V2 during WWII and designed & engineered the amazing Saturn V rocket that sent humans to the moon during Apollo. I am also very interested in the social, cultural & psychological aspects of WWII. Knowing the muzzle velocity of the 75mm gun on the Sherman is not my idea of WWII History even though it is one of those cool facts to know for dinner conversation. (The answer varies according to the variant model but typically it was 2,031 ft/s)