Chicago banker convicted of bribing Paul Manafort
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FILE PHOTO: Stephen Calk, CEO of The Federal Bank of Chicago, leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York, U.S., May 23, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
By Jody Godoy
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal jury convicted the former chief of a Chicago bank on charges he approved millions of dollars of risky loans to Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, in an effort to gain a top post in the Trump administration.
Stephen Calk, former chairman and chief executive of Federal Savings Bank, was convicted on Tuesday of financial institution bribery and conspiracy, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan confirmed.
Prosecutors had said Calk helped arrange $16 million of loans to Manafort that later went into default.
"We are very disappointed by the verdict and will be pursuing all available legal remedies, including an appeal," a lawyer for Calk said in a statement. Calk had pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors alleged Manafort recommended to Trump's post-election transition team that Calk, a 16-year Army veteran, be appointed Army secretary, the service's top civilian job.
Calk interviewed in January 2017 for a job as under secretary of the Army but never joined the administration.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement: "Calk used the federally-insured bank he ran as his personal piggybank to try and buy himself prestige and power. Today’s verdict sends the message that corruption at the highest levels of federally regulated financial institutions will be prosecuted by this Office."
Calk is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 10, 2022.
Manafort was convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud and sentenced to 7-1/2 years in prison, but was later released to home confinement. Trump then pardoned Manafort in December.
(Reporting by Jody Godoy in New York; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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