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This week, the Washington Post reported

that Donald Trump routinely inflated his net worth to lenders and investors

and both Capitol Hill and the Southern District of New York are investigating whether these exaggerations and misrepresentations may have crossed the line into fraud.

How do prosecutors follow the money when investigating financial crimes?

And what does President Trump have to worry about

even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller has wound down his investigation

into Russian collusion?

Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the

week's news. My name is Asha Rengappa and I am a former FBI agent, a lecturer at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a CNN legal and national security analyst.

And I'm joined by Patty Vasquez, a WGM radio host, who is a regular part of this podcast. I am guest hosting this week for the show's regular host, Renato Mariatiati who is preparing for a jury trial this week.

So Patty...

There's a lot here. I know I've been following your followers on Twitter who obviously wanted so much more from the Mueller report and you know are looking for things in the bar summary but I think a lot of people are

wondering why are we talking about financials now wouldn't we have known about so

much of these sort of you know inflated numbers before this week?

Yeah, I think that's a great question and I you know our guest this week is

Shanlin Wu he's a former federal prosecutor who focuses on white collar cases and that's you know one of the

questions that I want to ask him you know that Trump has been so high profile and you know I

think people are confused about why this is all coming out now

but you know I think that one thing that people who have been disappointed by Mueller's

report or our book report as I call it on the Mueller report.

You remember Patty this was the red line that Trump did not want Mueller to cross.

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