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A Georgia prosecutor’s announcement of a timeline for a decision in connection with an investigation of Donald Trump suggests the former president’s legal troubles are likely to grow this summer, a prominent legal expert said on Friday.

Ryan Goodman, a NYU law school professor and former special counsel at the Department of Defense, said Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ announcement that any grand jury indictments would come during the first three weeks of August suggests an indictment in the Georgia election interference case is a foregone conclusion, and that special counsel Jack Smith is likely to slap the former president with indictments,too.

Willis indicated that she plans to have most of her staffers working remotely and asked judges not to schedule trials and in-person hearings during an Aug. 7-18 window, along with heightened security....

Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, the mortgage lender that convicted former CEO Stephen Calk attempted to leverage for an unsuccessful shot at a Trump administration post, has agreed to stricter oversight after regulators found “unsafe or unsound practices.” The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees federally chartered banks, is requiring the bank’s board to form a three-member compliance committee to adopt and implement “corrective actions” related to risk management, consumer compliance and bank secrecy. The agreement, dated Oct. 29, was published online Thursday by the OC......