US Supreme Court rejects appeal by banker tied to Trump ex-aide Manafort

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is held by the arm as he is escorted into court for his arraignment in New York Supreme Court in New York

(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal by a Chicago bank’s former CEO who was convicted of bribery after approving $16 million in risky loans to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, in a bid to land a senior job in Trump’s administration.

The justices turned away the appeal by Stephen Calk, a former chairman and chief executive of Federal Savings Bank, of a lower court’s decision to uphold his conviction and prison sentence of one year and one day.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)