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  1. anon_de_plume

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    Shooter should really offer to be Trump's lawyer. Seems he's got it all figured out.
     
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      Actually he's just pretending that all of that has already been proven utterly false.
       
      stumbler, Nov 28, 2022
  2. stumbler

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    This is an entirely new angle I never thought of. But consistent with Trump and his treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans dragging the US down to the level of a shit hole country run by a mentally ill dictator.


    'An unambiguous felony': Trump at risk in IRS audit probe

    Tom Boggioni
    November 28, 2022


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    According to a report from former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitchell Epner at the Daily Beast, Donald Trump's legal problems may be growing exponentially because there appears to be evidence he attempted to use the IRS to persecute political enemies before he lost re-election.

    At issue, Epner wrote, are accusations from former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that the former president demanded the IRS look into tax returns filed by, among others, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

    According to the legal expert, there is already an investigation by the IRS inspector general into the suspicious audits of the two FBI officials, with Epner writing, "As reported earlier this summer, both Comey and McCabe were subjected to highly unusual IRS audits. The odds of an individual randomly being subjected to this type of audit are similar to being struck by lightning. For both to be the subject of special audit by happenstance is about as likely as a whale falling from the sky and landing in the middle of a mountain range."

    As he notes, there is evidence Kelly is willing to provide evidence about Trump's illegal demand, with Epner writing that "a president who unlawfully seeks to have an individual audited is subject to up to five years in prison. The crime does not require that the IRS actually carry out the audit. The crime is completed with the mere request."

    RELATED: The coming indictment of Donald Trump will break his power: former Obama lawyer


    "If Trump made this demand while he was president, that is an unambiguous felony. Section 7217 of Title 26 of the United States Code makes it a crime for the 'President' to 'request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer,'" he wrote before adding, "Based on my training and experience as an Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted tax offenses, I expect that each IRS employee along the chain of command kept detailed notes and records of who ordered them to conduct the audit, and on the facts that were cited to support that audit demand. I would not be surprised if each of those IRS employees cooperated with the DOJ, with all fingers pointing in Trump’s direction."

    He concluded that "the nice thing about prosecuting tax crimes is that the crimes are very clearly delineated. Few jurors have any sympathy for people who cheat on their taxes or wrongfully sic the IRS on an individual to carry out a personal vendetta."

    You can read more here.

    https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-irs-2658789962/
     
  3. stumbler

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    Democrats Are Now In Possession Of 6 Years Of Donald Trump’s Tax Returns
    Paul Blumenthal, Arthur Delaney
    Wed, November 30, 2022 at 2:03 PM




    The House Ways & Means Committee is now in possession of six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns after a three-year battle to obtain them.

    The committee received the documents from the Treasury Department on Wednesday after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s final appeal on Nov. 22, according to the Treasury Department.

    “Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision,” a Treasury official said.

    The receipt of Trump’s tax returns brings to a close a three-year legal fight that began when Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) asked the Treasury Department to hand over the then-president’s tax returns under a law that allows congressional tax-writing committees to obtain tax returns for its investigations.

    Trump was the first major party presidential nominee since Richard Nixon to not publicly disclose their tax returns while running for the office or while in office.

    “I intend to see this through,” Neal told HuffPost on Wednesday when asked if he’d submit information from the returns to the full house this year.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-now-possession-6-years-210302085.html
     
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  4. shootersa

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    And not one of them is qualified or smart enough to understand what they're looking at.
    Not that it won't stop them from holding press meets to tell us what a crook Trump is.
    "LOOKIT!! TRUMP TOOK A DEDUCTION FOR OFFICE RENT!!
    "AND LOOKIT!! TRUMP TOOK A DEDUCTION FOR BUSINESS MILES!!"
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    And Shooter expects the most corrupt of the despicables will be leading the pack.

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  5. stumbler

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    Oh holy shit I love these guys. I never would have thought of this. Gee I hope it works and there aren't any leaks.:D



    House Democrats will try to 'crowdsource an audit' of Trump's taxes now they have them: expert

    Matthew Chapman
    November 30, 2022


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    On CNN Wednesday, Pulitzer Prize-winning tax expert David Cay Johnston predicted that now House Democrats have obtained tax returns from former President Donald Trump's years in office, they will try to put those returns out to the public and effectively "crowdsource" an audit, allowing people to look for signs of tax evasion or crimes.

    The key obstacle, Johnston said, is that Trump's taxes still are not, legally speaking, a matter of public record, even after the lengthy court battle that made the IRS hand them over to congressional investigators.

    "The tax returns in question are primarily from the period when Donald Trump was president," said anchor John Berman. "How does that affect the investigation?"

    "I'd be much more interested in seeing the tax returns before he became president, because there's testimony in the ongoing New York City trial on tax cheating by the Trump Organization that they cleaned up their behavior once Donald Trump arrived in the White House," said Johnston. "But the issue the committee was concerned about was Donald Trump's repeated claims that he was persecuted by the IRS because he's a Christian — never mind in a book he called Christians fools and schmucks and idiots and is inherently anti-Christian. Are presidential candidates being treated properly by the IRS? That's an issue the Republicans might want to get into, depending on how facts turn out in the future. Not likely, but possible, since they're always trying to beat up the IRS."

    "So the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, Richie Neal, declined to release whether they will release these publicly," said Berman. "Will any of these see the light of day?"

    "They are concerned about a section of the tax return that makes tax returns a public record," said Johnston. "They used to be public records a hundred years ago, but they aren't now. He's having a meeting with his caucus on the committee, and I think one of the things they're certain to discuss is, is there a way for them to put this into the congressional record so that it's always there and people on the outside can basically crowdsource an audit?"

    Watch below:



    https://www.rawstory.com/house-demo...t-of-trump-s-taxes-now-they-have-them-expert/
     
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  6. manuel42

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    Ever notice how every claim that you have ever published by rawstory has never even come close to being true? How none of these articles ever pan out whatsoever?oh shit i forgot, you're a liberal and you don't care about facts, only how the stories make you feel. What you want to believe in your imaginationland.
     
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  7. manuel42

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    Kinda crazy how you're still talking about Trumps taxes meanwhile Joe biden has funnelled billions thru Ukraine, lost Afganistan to a bunch of cavemen, and his son Hunter is facing many Felonies regarding his Laptop. But no, you're still hung up on how Trump TOTALLY LEGALLY (like all the other corporate assholes, liberal and republican) played the system by using the tax code to his benefit. You're not upset that Trump and every other rich person didn't pay his fair share, you're mad that you don't know how to use the tax code in the same way.
     
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  8. Distant Lover

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    What bothers me is that conservatives do not mind the fact that rich people with good lawyers and accountants are able to evade the tax system.

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    Many conservatives argue that a flat tax is the solution to this problem. Those who advocate a flat tax acknowledge that tax deductions are unnecessary to the economy. I advocate a more progressive tax system with no deductions, and severe punishment for tax evasion.

    Beginning with the Reagan administration the rich have paid lower taxes on more money, while incomes for at least half of the country have stagnated or declined.

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    For years public opinion surveys have indicated popular support for a more progressive tax system.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=pol...gEKMS4xNi40LTEuMZgBAKABAbABCg&sclient=gws-wiz

    This is an issue that would help the Democrats to win back most of the white working class, and much of the once "Solid South." Instead the Democrat Party alienates working class whites and Southern whites with their policies regarding race, crime, and immigration.
     
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      based on your bar graph with heads on top, all the conservatives payed more than clinton... and since we don't know trumps tax returns, why does it say $750? you also seem to be arguing with me but we totally agree. Nobody seems to care that anybody with enough money will game the tax system.
       
      manuel42, Dec 2, 2022
  9. shootersa

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    Well, dog, if you have a problem with "rich people" obeying the tax laws and using "good lawyers and accountants" to make sure they are following the laws perhaps you should write your congresspeople and let them know you want the laws changed.
     
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  10. shootersa

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    And another wrong story as posted by the resident wrong story representative is proven to be false.

    Watchdog report shows Trump didn't order IRS audits of FBI leaders James Comey, Andrew McCabe - Washington Times
    Watchdog report exposes New York Times, shows Trump didn’t order IRS audits of FBI leaders
    An IRS watchdog report has debunked claims in the liberal media that former President Donald Trump ordered audits of the tax returns of former FBI chiefs James Comey and Andrew McCabe because they were critical of him and his administration.

    The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that the IRS randomly selected Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe for audits of their tax returns from 2017 and 2019, along with thousands of others, as part of an IRS system known as the National Research Program.

    The New York Times reported last July that Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe were subjected to “intensive” audits of their returns and that the scrutiny was likely no coincidence.

    “The minuscule chances of the two highest-ranking F.B.I. officials — who made some of the most politically consequential law enforcement decisions in a generation — being randomly subjected to a detailed scrub of their tax returns a few years after leaving their posts presents extraordinary questions,” Times correspondent Michael Schmidt wrote at the time.

    According to the inspector general’s report, Mr. Comey‘s 2017 tax return and Mr. McCabe‘s 2019 tax return were selected under the National Research Program during the tenure of IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig, a Trump appointee whose term ended last month.

    Comey in May 2017, and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Mr. McCabe in March 2018, just before his scheduled retirement from the bureau.

    Mr. Rettig, whose term began eight months after the IRS began selecting returns for the 2017 audit, told investigators “that he had no conversations with the current or prior presidential administration relative to” the audit selection program.

    “Commissioner further stated that he was not involved in any of the sample selections or in directly or indirectly influencing who would be selected,” the report said.

    Mr. Comey has had no comment. Mr. McCabe could not be reached.

    In another article last month, The New York Times quoted former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as saying Mr. Trump had wanted several of his perceived political enemies to be investigated by the IRS. The article claimed that “Mr. Trump’s demands were part of a broader pattern of him trying to use the Justice Department and his authority as president against people who had been critical of him, including seeking to revoke the security clearances of former top intelligence officials.”

    Mr. Kelly said in addition to Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe, Mr. Trump wanted the IRS and the Justice Department to investigate former CIA Director John Brennan, Hillary Clinton, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, and former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

    Mr. Trump said he knew nothing about the IRS audits.

    The inspector general’s report found that the IRS audit selections are random, but taxpayers are divided into 88 groups to ensure that higher-income taxpayers have a greater chance of getting audited. In 2017, the year in which Mr. Comey was audited, taxpayers in the group likeliest to get audited had a 1 in 138 chance of being selected.

    In 2019, the year for which Mr. McCabe was audited, taxpayers in the group likeliest to be audited had a 1 in 202 chance, the report said.

    The inspector general “confirmed that the processes and computer programs worked as designed, which reduces the ability to select specific taxpayers for an NRP audit,” the report said.

    IRS hired an outside contractor last July to review its process. The contractor reached the same conclusion as the inspector general.
     
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      Yep, this appears to be true.
       
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  11. shootersa

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    We can reasonably expect a despicable to post this wrong story in the next couple of days.
    But what the heck, lets have some fun, shall we?

    Revealed: Trump paid off secret debt to North Korea-linked company while in office (msn.com)
    Revealed: Trump paid off secret debt to North Korea-linked company while in office
    Story by David Edwards • Yesterday 12:54 PM

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    There is a "chance" Donald Trump didn't break the law by hiding debt from his 2016 presidential campaign's financial disclosure reports, according to Forbes.
    Documents obtained by the outlet show that the then-candidate failed to disclose $19.8 million in debt to Daewoo, a South Korean company with a history of ties to North Korea.

    "There is a chance that Trump's omission may have been legal," the report said, noting that Trump may have used a loophole in the law.

    "Although officials have to list personal loans on their financial disclosures, the law does not require them to include loans to their companies, unless they are personally liable for the loans. The Trump Organization documents do not specify whether the former president, who owned 100% of the entities responsible for the debt, personally guaranteed the liability, leaving it unclear whether he broke the law or merely took advantage of a loophole."

    Forbes also pointed out that Trump may have hidden the debt because Daewoo, at one time, "was the only South Korean company permitted to operate a business inside [North Korea]."

    The documents, which were disclosed after being obtained by New York Attorney General Letitia James, said that Trump quickly eliminated the debt after taking office.

    "Daewoo was bought out of its position on July 5, 2017," one document explained...........

    So first, a bit of background on Daewoo. Incorporated in 1967 it was a conglomeration of companies manufacturing motor vehicles. It declared bankruptcy in 1999 and much of the company was broken up, but many companies still exist as Daewoo. Notably, Target partners with Daewoo electronics to manufacture TVS for Target. Another Daewoo unit is in construction and had a partnership in 2011 with the Trump Organization involving a building project in New York. Details are sketchy at this point, but the North Korean link the despicables will be twirling over is pretty non existent, eh?

    So in any case, the debt of almost $20 MILLION was paid off a few months after Trump took office.

    Now, while Trump is required to reveal his debts and income and what not, he is not required under the law to reveal the debts and income of his companies. If it were the case, a lot of congressional people would be scrambling to hide their business dealings.
    Eh Nancy Antoinette?
    But never let it be said a despicable will go with facts when innuendo fits the agenda better, so prominent in the story from Forbes is that TRUMP did not reveal the loan from DAEWOO.

    And finally we are noting that the information was first leaked by none other than New York Attorney General Letitia James.
    Really.
    You recall James, she campaigned for the job of New York attorney general on a platform of "getting Trump, no matter what it takes". And she's been pursuing Trump ever since. Now, it appears, she's "leaking" documents from the Trump tax trial to continue her vendetta against Trump. Here's the problem though; James isn't some pundit paid to take an agenda and run with it and facts be damned. James is an officer of the court and has at least some responsibility for keeping confidential information, you know, confidential, and for making sure the facts are accurate and properly portrayed for public consumption.

    James isn't stupid; she would know that the loan was a TRUMP CORPORATION document and Trump was not obligated to report it on his financial disclosure forms. She would know that the loan from Daewoo was in connection with a construction project in New York that Trump corporation was involved in, and not an unusual transaction at all. But say, when the mission is to get Trump, no matter what, a little propaganda and twisted truth is perfectly acceptable, eh?

    So fuck Letitia James and her politicizing of the New York Attorney General office, and Shooter wishes Trump would sue that delusional left wing shyster into the poor house.
     
  12. stumbler

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    Manhattan DA hires former DOJ official to head investigation into Trump's business practices

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    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is hiring a former senior justice department official who has a history of taking on Donald Trump to join the criminal investigation into the former president's business practices, The New York Times reports.

    Matthew Colangelo previously led the New York attorney general’s civil inquiry into Trump and will likely head the Manhattan D.A.'s investigation of Trump.

    As The Times' report points out, Manhattan prosecutors are looking into whether Trump illegally inflated the value of his assets. They're also renewing their focus on a hush-money payment Trump allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged sexual encounter.

    IN OTHER NEWS: Trump furiously denies calling for 'termination' of the Constitution in wild new rant

    "Mr. Colangelo, 48, who also worked in the Obama administration as a senior labor department official, will join the district attorney’s office as senior counsel. In addition to helping with its 'most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations,' he is expected to focus on housing and tenant protection and labor and worker protection, priorities for Mr. Bragg," The Times' report stated.

    “Matthew Colangelo brings a wealth of economic justice experience combined with complex white-collar investigations, and he has the sound judgment and integrity needed to pursue justice against powerful people and institutions when they abuse their power,” Bragg said in a statement.

    Read the full report over at The New York Times.



    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-investigation-2658834228/
     
  13. Distant Lover

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    I hope this is a criminal case that can put Trump into prison. I am tired of waiting.
     
  14. shootersa

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    Well, there you go.
    Now we got that rascal.
    This is gonna do it.

    TOLD YOU SO!
    TOLD YOU JUST WAIT AND SEE!
    WE'D GET THAT ASSHOLE, WATCH HIM DRAGGED DOWN THE STEPS BY THE FBI IN HANDCUFFS!
    AND NOW WE GOT HIM, THIS IS GONNA DO IT!
    JUST YOU WATCH!!


    30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Federal and state investigations.
    almost 8 years
    No Trump criminal indictments
    No perp walk.
    No prison time.

    Yes, he really is that innocent and his persecutors really are that incompetent.

    Perhaps the despicables could be encouraged to find a new target for their shit.
    Shooter is so tired of waiting for them to find something important to yammer about.
    Or, at least to be a little bit honest about whatever triggers them.
     
  15. stumbler

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    Let me guess. No no, this doesn't count. Its not Trump that got convicted just his companies that he owns 100% of.



    Trump companies convicted on all charges in Manhattan criminal tax fraud case
    Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY
    Tue, December 6, 2022 at 2:15 PM




    NEW YORK - A Manhattan jury on Tuesday convicted two of former President Donald Trump's companies on all charges in an criminal tax fraud scheme, adding a new complication to the many investigations and legal matters shadowing his third presidential campaign.

    The Trump Corporation was found guilty on all of nine criminal counts and the Trump Payroll Corporation was found guilty on all of eight criminal counts.

    The companies face criminal penalties of up to $1.6 million.

    Trump was not charged in the case, and did not appear in the courtroom during the trial. Defense lawyer Susan Necheles said trial evidence showed Trump was not involved. However, the former president criticized the prosecution in a late November social media post.

    The jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict after two days of deliberations in the trial focused on thousands of dollars in off-the-books perks, such as company-paid apartments and luxury cars the companies handed to top executives who routinely failed to report the income on tax returns.

    The trial also featured a legal clash over a difficult-to-parse New York state penal law that prescribes the standards prosecutors must meet to obtain criminal convictions of corporations.

    The outcome capped a trial that began in late October and was marked by a COVID-19 delay, at times testy legal arguments plus an unsuccessful defense move for a mistrial when a prosecutor asserted that Trump had "explicitly" sanctioned the tax fraud scheme.

    Jurors selected for the trial, some of whom said they had strong feelings about Trump, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and opposing legal teams early in the case that they would set those sentiments aside, decide the case on the evidence and be fair and impartial.

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    Former President Donald Trump after announcing a third run for president at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 15, 2022.
    The judge reminded jurors of that pledge Monday during his legal instructions to the panel before deliberations, and asked them to honor it.

    The main defense strategy was attacking Allen Weisselberg, the former longtime top financial lieutenant to Trump and an employee of the Trump family for nearly 50 years. He faced similar criminal charges as the companies, plus additional counts for false tax filings.

    The 75-year-old disgraced executive pleaded guilty to all of the 15 criminal charges against him in an August agreement with prosecutors. The deal tentatively allowed Weisselberg to avoid the maximum 15-year prison term he faced and instead serve roughly 100 days in jail. He's still employed and being paid by the Trump Organization, but he's no longer its chief financial officer. Weisselberg will be sentenced after the trial.

    In exchange, he agreed to repay nearly $2 million in tax underpayments and penalties and testify truthfully during the trial.

    "Weisselberg did it for Weisselberg," defense attorney Micheal van der Veen thundered during his closing argument for the Trump Payroll Corporation last week, invoking a defense mantra repeated throughout the trial.

    The defense lawyer also told jurors prosecutors had Weisselberg "by the b---s," and the prosecution's star witness would testify to anything.

    Weisselberg fought back tears during questioning by defense attorney Alan Futerfas that led him to acknowledge he'd betrayed the trust of Trump, his family and his companies.

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    NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 17: Former CFO Allen Weisselberg leaves the courtroom for a lunch recess during a trial at the New York Supreme Court on November 17, 2022. The Trump Organization was charged with criminal tax fraud, falsifying business records, and filing false tax returns in a scheme to defraud the state. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
    That line of questioning, along with repeated assertions that Trump was not aware of the tax fraud, proved problematic for the defense teams. Merchan cited them in ruling that Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass could contend during the prosecution's closing argument that Trump sanctioned the scheme because it kept top executives happy and saved his companies money.

    The argument prompted a lawyer for the companies to seek a mistrial, a request the judge denied.

    Prosecutors focused much of their case on eliciting a road map from Weisselberg that showed jurors his crimes and the falsifications, fraudulent tax filings and other ways the scheme was executed.

    They also questioned Jeffrey McConney, the controller of the Trump Organization who had reported to Weisselberg.

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    Trump Organization senior vice president and controller Jeffrey McConney returns to the courthouse after a break in the company's trial, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in New York.
    Testifying grudgingly under a grant of immunity from prosecution, McConney admitted he arranged the corporate paperwork that helped Weisselberg and other Trump executives evade taxes. He also acknowledged he kept a virtual second set of books that documented compensation tax-saving changes for Weisselberg and other executives.

    However, McConney testified that he merely followed Weisselberg's instructions.

    McConney testified positive for COVID-19 during the trial. So did the judge, and a court reporter. The illnesses delayed the trial for days.

    Both sides also questioned Donald Bender, a partner of Mazars, the international audit, tax and advisory firm that for years held the multi-million dollar tax-preparation contract for Trump's many businesses.

    The defense argued that Mazars failed Trump's businesses because its tax specialists inexplicably failed to find the scheming by Weisselberg and McConney, despite indications of it in Trump company ledgers. Prosecutors noted that Mazars' engagement letters with Trump's businesses required the companies to provide accurate information and said Mazars would not audit the records.

    Along with sorting out witness testimony and trial exhibits, jurors had to grapple with the terms of the New York penal statute that defines corporate criminal liability.

    The law states in part that convictions require evidence that the offense was committed by or involved "a high managerial agent acting within the scope of his employment and in behalf of the corporation."

    Given his former CFO role, Weisselberg could be that high-ranking official. So could McConney, despite his testimony that his job was not a managerial post.

    But what does "in benefit of" mean?

    During his instructions on the law to the jurors on Monday, Merchan said "if the agent's acts were taken merely for personal gain, they were not in behalf of the corporation."

    He also told jurors "it is not necessary that a criminal act actually benefited the corporations."

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-companies-convicted-charges-manhattan-205808953.html
     
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    "Let me guess. No no, this doesn't count. Its not Trump that got convicted just his companies that he owns 100% of."​
    The first post from stumbler in recent times that is both accurate and complete.

    And he apparently didn't burst into flames posting it.:)
     
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    I've got my diploma from Trump University hanging in my office. Degree in tax preparation.
     
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  18. Distant Lover

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    You should have minored in how to play the legal system.

    There is a maxim in law school: When the law is against you, and the facts are against you, pound the table. That is all Trump does, but he is very good at it.
     
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    Manhattan DA 'emboldened' to pursue new charges against Trump after tax fraud case victory

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    With a successful prosecution of the Trump Organization in the books, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is giving every indication his office may go after Donald Trump on new charges, according to former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade.

    During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," the former prosecutor said the successful prosecution of the former president's signature company that led to guilty verdicts on 17 felony charges may open the door to more investigations and criminal charges now that Trump's company has been on the receiving end of a major court loss.

    According to host Phang and McQuade, Bragg all but announced more charges in his comments about the recent guilty verdicts.

    "Let's talk about the Trump Organization -- found guilty by all 17 counts. he was disappointed but will appeal but he always says that, blah, blah, blah," Phang explained. "Alvin Bragg says his investigation it's still ongoing and he sees the Trump Organization case, quote, 'one chapter in the book for what his team is working on.' What does this conviction of the Trump Organization, the company itself, say to you?"

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    "I think it says that Donald Trump is not impervious to prosecution and he once famously said he could stand in the middle of 5th Ave. and shoot someone and it and it won't make a difference. I think that this shows that that is not true, that there is accountability even for Donald Trump," the legal analyst replied.

    "Although this was his organization, not him individually as a defendant, there was evidence that Donald Trump himself was involved in writing checks and approving the memos that were involved in this tax scheme," she elaborated. "Donald Trump sanctioned tax fraud -- that is what the evidence showed."

    "It was interesting to hear Alvin Bragg say that," she suggested. "It sounds like he is feeling emboldened to take the next step and see whether or not they can prove other kinds of business fraud, including charges against Donald Trump himself."

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  20. amypanee

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    Liberals are stupid
    Wtf are they going to get from Trump tax return
    It’s a job of IRS.
    I would like to see Nancy Pelosi tax return. All the insider trading done by her husband
    Btw Paul Pelosi attack was sham.
    NBC reporter who told the the truth was fired and he is no longer visible
    Corruption, corruption, corruption
     
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