Actually, it was a settlement to make the "charges" go away... since the time this happened was right as Trump was announcing his run for president (and speculation was already out there since he didn't renew his contract for Celebrity Apprentice).
Trump Resorts International owned 50% of the hotel and the other 50% was owned by the bondholders after the earlier refinancing deal.
The "charges" stem from alleged improper reporting of transactions over $5K.... I guess when someone cashes in their gaming chips the casino has to report it to the Feds to try and catch people laundering money by buying chips then cashing them in as winnings.
The Obama admin had a long history of shaking down banks and anyone else they could get away with.
The Sands Casino in Las Vegas paid a $45 million fine for the same thing.
Resorts World Sentosa paid $190K.
Marina Bay Sands paid $337K.
Normandie Casino in Gardena CA paid $2.4 million for the same thing.
An article on the shakedowns: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-casinos-analysis-idUSKBN0GF0BV20140815
This hardly translates to "Trump was possibly money-laundering for the Russian Government" in my mind and certainly doesn't justify subpoenaing anything from him.
“The Obama admin had a long history of shaking down banks and anyone else they could get away with.”
Absolute truth. The big banks withstood the 2008 meltdown because they had the dough to write off sub-primes. I have a relative to went to many shirts, tearing through them weekly, out of the anger over the illegal $hit going on then.
One Barack Hussein 0bama was in on the case brought before SCOTUS in the mid-1990s that set the entire fiasco into high gear: NINJA loans.