1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that after Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick negotiated with Kazakhstan’s president to “to give a little-known American company access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten,” Trump and Lutnick’s sons both conveniently started doing business with that American company. A company partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a stake in the corporation working on the Kazakhstan project, while Lutnick’s sons, Brandon and Kyle Lutnick, steered the family-owned investment company Cantor Fitzgerald to help raise $210 million in new capital for an entity related to the deal, earning millions in fees for Cantor in the process. The White House unconvincingly denied that Trump and Lutnick are allowing anything but the public interest to guide their actions. The Kazakhstan project is just one of 14 instances of one or both families having ties to a company that is “actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals.” THIS CORRUPTION MUST BE STOPPED!!!!! CONGRESS MUST DO IT!!!!! NOW!!!!!