Senators demand probe into Trump’s dealings with Iran-linked oligarch

A group of Democratic Senators call for a federal investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s links to an Azerbaijani businessmen said to have extensive ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, violate US anti-corruption and sanctions laws.

Sherrod Brown, Ben Cardin and Dianne Feinstein outline their concerns in a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director James Comey.

The letter says even though the president’s real estate company pulled out of the Trump Tower Baku project, “serious questions remain unanswered about the Trump Organization’s potential criminal liability.”

A report in The New Yorker earlier this month alleged The Trump Organization’s “notoriously corrupt” local partner for building project in Baku previously headed an IRGC construction company and fought in the Iran-Iraq war.