HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030989.txt

The document reports a new book by Michael Wolff detailing a shady real estate deal involving President Donald Trump and Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. The book claims that Jeffrey Epstein played a key role in the deal, showing Trump a $55 million mansion but then discovering that Trump had bought it for about $40 million through an entity called Trump Properties LLC financed by Deutsche Bank. Epstein threatened to expose the deal until he faced investigation and later served time in jail as part of a controversial plea agreement brokered by future Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.