Manafort Lender Gets One Year in Prison for Bid to Get Trump Job
- Chicago banker Stephen Calk sentenced after bribery conviction
- Calk gave loan to campaign chief to win administration post
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A Chicago banker convicted of trying to trade $16 million in bank loans to former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort for the chance at a top administration post was sentenced to a year in prison.
Stephen Calk, 57, was found guilty in July of financial institution bribery and conspiracy over the 2016 and 2017 loans. Calk, the founder and longtime chief executive officer of Federal Savings Bank, had hoped that then-President Donald Trump would name him to a powerful government post, including treasury secretary, defense secretary or ambassador to France or the U.K.