The One You Don’t Hear: Just days after President Trump’s former personal lawyer testified before Congress that the Trump organization lied to the IRS and its insurance companies about the value of its properties, regulators in New York have subpoenaed records from Trump’s insurance brokerage.

  The company, Aon, is one of the largest insurance brokerages in the world. New York’s Department of Financial Services can’t file criminal charges but can refer them for prosecution if it seems necessary.

  The insurance inquiry becomes part of a tightening circle of investigation around Trump and just about everyone who’s rubbed shoulders with him. New York prosecutors present a special danger to Trump because he has no power over them and can’t pardon people convicted in state court. They can even indict the President. 

  Trump tweeted simply, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!”

   Yesterday, just 24 hours after Trump said he cooperates with everyone investigating, the White House refused to provide information requested by the House Judiciary Committee about how Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was given his top security clearance. The New York Times reported that Trump ordered Kushner’s clearance over the objections of his chief of staff and security agencies, including the CIA.

  And last night, CNN reported that Trump ordered security clearance for his daughter Ivanka, also over agency objections.

By the Numbers:A stunning 64 percent of Americans believe Donald Trump committed crimes before he became President, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Only 24 percent believe he did not, the poll says.

 Interestingly, 48 percent of Republicans, who are staunchly loyal to Trump, also believe he committed crimes before he entered the White House.

 Voters are more evenly divided — 45 to 43 percent  — on whether Trump has committed crimes while he has been president.

At the Border: Apprehensions at the southern border reached 66,000 last month, the highest for a month in 10 years, the Border Patrol says. The agency says its system for handling so many people is strained to the breaking point.

  Since October, Border Patrol agents have picked up more than 260,000 people, 90 percent more than the same period last year, the Border Patrol reports.

  The majority of those arrested were families or children traveling alone or without adult company, according to Customs and Border Protection. Many of the migrants say they’re running away from criminal gangs and poverty in Central America. 

  The White House immediately seized on the report — and a NY Timesreport about sexual violence against immigrant women — as proof that the border wall should be built.

Up in Smoke:Food and Drug administrator Scott Gottlieb, a rare Trump administration officer who exercised the power  of his agency for its intended purpose, announced he is leaving at the end of the month.

 Gottlieb was known for aggressive efforts to regulate the tobacco and vaping industries. He said he wanted to spend more time with his family, which has remained at home in Westport, Conn.

  But some anti-regulation Republicans didn’t like what Gottlieb was doing at the FDA. He proposed reducing nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels and has been pursuing a potential ban on menthol in cigarettes, which makes smoking more palatable.

From the Launch Pad: North Korea is rebuilding the facilities it uses to launch satellites and test technologies for its intercontinental ballistic missiles, US and South Korean officials say. This comes just after the breakdown of the second summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and President Trump last week in Hanoi. There’s some suspicion the North might return to testing missiles as a negotiating ploy.

Ketacure:A derivative of the painkiller Ketamine, once a popular club drug known as “Special K,” has been approved by the FDA as a surprise treatment for depression among people who don’t respond to other drugs or talk therapy.  The drug Esketamine would be administered by nasal spray twice a week for at least a month. Follow-up would be as needed.

  Unlike other antidepressants in the Prozac family that can take weeks or months to kick in, the ketamine drugs have worked within hours or days among some patients.

Oh, Trudeau:With seven months to go before Canada’s national election, the charming, handsome and heretofore squeaky-clean Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a scandal that has him fighting for his political life.

  Two cabinet ministers and his closest adviser have resigned.

  The Globe and Mail newspaper reported a month ago that Trudeau’s office improperly pressured his justice minister to settle with an international engineering company accused of paying bribes for business in Libya rather than press criminal charges.

  The prosecutor said Trudeau and his staff had pressed her not to prosecute because the company in question was threatening to cut thousands of jobs or leave Canada entirely, damaging the ruling Liberal Party in future elections. 

  Trudeau admits talking to the justice minister about the case, but says he never crossed a line and never asked for the charges to be dropped. The engineering company still faces the charges.

Fear of Crowds: Billionaire and three-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he’s not going to run for President. Bloomberg said that with such a crowded primary field — and more runners probably yet to come — he doesn’t see a clear path to winning the nomination.

Chill Out:Duluth, -4; Minneapolis, 8; Chicago, 10; Nashville, 18; Buffalo, 9; New York, 19; Windsor, Conn., 14; Boston, 18.

The Obit Page:Juan Corona, a notorious California serial killer who slaughtered 25 migrant farm workers in the late 1960s and early 70s, has died in state custody at age 85. He buried his victims in fruit orchards. — Ted Lindsay, a Hall of Fame high-scorer who helped the Detroit Red Wings win four Stanley Cup championships, died Monday in Michigan at age 93. — King Kong Bundy, a giant among professional wrestlers who battled Hulk Hogan and the Undertaker, has died at 63. He was bald, 6-4, and weighed 450 pounds. He had a move he called the “splash” in which he belly-flopped on an opponent. Oooh. 

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