If you dig into his past business dealings it's hard to not come away with the picture of a front man for major money laundering operations by Eastern Europeans.
Ms. McFadden, a longtime anti-money laundering specialist in Deutsche Bank’s Jacksonville office, said she had reviewed the transactions and found that money had moved from Kushner Companies to Russian individuals. She concluded that the transactions should be reported to the government — in part because federal regulators had ordered Deutsche Bank, which had been caught laundering billions of dollars for Russians, to toughen its scrutiny of potentially illegal transactions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/business/deutsche-bank-trump-kushner.html
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(Old Spike)
this is textbook fake news. an automatic report, signifying nothing, used to suggest that trump might have criminal business.
the real news was a year or so ago, when banks such as hsbc, jp morgan, and citigroup were caught regularly laundering an estimated $2 trillion every year, and had to pay a couple $billion in fines. that is the companies paid the fines, no-one working at the banks or anyone responsible for overseeing the criminal transactions received any kind of punishment whatsoever.
as a result of that, banks now have systems that trigger warnings for all kinds of stuff. the last time i tried to send more than a couple $hundred overseas it generated a script which resulted in my bank calling me to make sure i wasn't sponsoring north korea or any terrorist organisations with the money.
(Old Spike)
If you read the NYTimes piece it appears to be more than nothing but you're right that it's in no way a smoking gun & that the big banks are terribly corrupt.