Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal by a Chicago bank's former CEO who was convicted of bribery after approving $16 million in risky loans to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, in a bid to land a senior job in Trump's administration. The justices turned away the appeal by Stephen Calk, a former chairman and chief executive of Federal Savings Bank, of a lower court's decision to uphold his conviction and prison sentence of one year and one day. Prosecutors said Manafort, after obtaining the loans in 2016, recommended to the team that Trump put together to find people to fill top administration jobs after he won the election that November that Calk be nominated as U.S. Army secretary, the military service's top civilian job.