The past few years have not been the best of times for Deutsche Bank. In fact, one might characterize them as whatever is German for anni fucking horribiles, which is to say that at various points the lender has: failed its stress test; released its own! And on Thursday, this happened :. Two Deutsche Bank staff members are suspected of helping clients set up offshore businesses to launder money gained from criminal deeds.
Potentially helping customers create offshore accounts to avoid taxes is, of course, not the only problem facing the German lender at the moment. But it seems Deutsche has been more amenable to special counsel Robert Mueller, who reportedly subpoenaed the bank last fall. Archive VF Shop Magazine. Save this story Save. Bess Levin Politics Correspondent. Bess Levin is a politics correspondent at Vanity Fair. An essential voice of our current tragicomedy, she is an incisive, hilarious daily narrator of the horrors that never seem to stop.
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