Stephen Calk is asking a federal appeals court to toss out his conviction in a bank bribery scheme that involved Donald Trump's one-time campaign chairman.
A sharp color photo may have been the closest that Stephen Calk and Donald Trump actually ever came; even though history will remember them standing together as the Quid and the Quo of a campaign-era deal that never was.
Trump's 2016 campaign chairman was Paul Manafort. The lanky political prince who received millions in loans from Chicago's Federal Savings Bank was courtesy of Calk, according to federal prosecutors, They convinced a jury that the Chicago banker okayed those loans with an expectation he would land a top Trump jobIn 2022, he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. But this week, Calk was back in the halls of justice, in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Calk's attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, told justices this was an unprecedented use of bank bribery statutes.In court, Judge Guido Calabresi of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals said, "What we're asking is what was in Mr. Calk's mind when he was doing this? And whether that is evidence of the value of this to him?"
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