The favorite bank / money launderer for corrupt demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump has been Deutsche Bank. Over the past 20 some years, as American banks closed their doors to the frequently bankrupt Trump as a poor credit risk, Deutsche Bank kept the money flowing to allow Trump to keep his organization afloat, possibly with the help of Russian oligarchs tied to Putin. Recently, the bank has been the target of investigations into money laundering and has subpoenas from Congress specifically directed at customer Trump's apparent endless credit line.
So it was disturbing to see the news that Tom Bowers, the chief of the bank's American wealth-management division, who had signed off on the multiple loans to Trump over the years had reportedly committed suicide on November 19 in California. Bowers was the supervisor of Rosemary Vrablik, Trump's personal wealth manager, who managed the $100 million loan for Trump's purchase of his bedbug infested Doral resort. Bowers left Deutsche Bank in 2015, but was a key executive during the years when Trump borrowed some $2 billion from them. House committees and the New York State Attorney General's office are investigating Trump's curiously friendly relationship with the bank.
Bowers' suicide could have nothing to do with the Trump loans, but:
"Bowers isn’t the first Trump-connected Deutsche exec to commit suicide. In 2014, Deutsche derivatives analyst William S. Broeksmit, who reportedly had links to Trump and Russia, hung himself from a dog leash at his home in London."Some things are coincidences, others are not, particularly when they are tied to Trump's finances.
