Since when is admitting a crime in front of thousands a good legal defense?
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M’on now, paying your kid’s tuition directly from the company with pre tax dollars is an A okay
corporate perk. Hunter did it all the time.
4 year investigation of Trump leads to $1.7 mm charge of tax avoidance
For some other guy. Real victory for the Manhattan and NY DA’s/AG’s.
Totally normal to make this puny item a criminal charge. This is never ever handled as a civil matter anywhere, right? Totally not desperate politics applauded by imbeciles.
It's banana republic kind of stuff.
The fascinating thing about their stupidity is that they never consider what will happen when the shoe is on the other foot.
Up here, they tried to recall Scott Walker twice, and failed, and then tried to get him for election law violations. And, golllllllllly, what happened last fall? An effort to recall Democrat Tony Evers. It failed, but it will surely be tried again against a Democrat for some nonsense reason. I don't want to hear any whining at that point.
If no big deal, why keep two separate accounting books?
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Of course. Hunter Biden should be allowed to use tax free corporate dollars to send his illegitimate
kid to the best private schools and save a million bucks. Just an accepted perk of the rich and powerful. Bummer he won’t be able to do it. There would be nary a whisper about that here ordinarily.
It's not right at all. However, with every other person, it's handled differently.
Again, this is banana republic behavior, targeting a political foe, which you know. The five year temper tantrum continues and even a conviction will not abate it.
Bullshit as usual. Anyone else trying to run kids tuition to the tune of close to 6 figures
through the company to avoid taxes for years gets treated the same way.
A four year politically-motivated investigation has yielded this ridiculous charge.
They couldn’t manufacture anything to charge Trump with, in spite of all the resources they brought to bear.
And you have no problem at all with the whole tainted process. Remarkably depressing.
I would have no problem with it if it were Hunter Biden. What you are saying is the problem
in general with our system. Close to 7 figure tax fraud isn’t puny. It shouldn’t be accepted no matter who does it.
It’s puny and immaterial. And you have no idea if there is any truth whatsoever to the charges.
It’s not as if anyone has stipulated that these payments were made and deducted.
Like, the best case for AG is that four years of this investigation might yield a $500k fine for someone not named Trump.
I will wager the sum you want that it’s documented.
If you think giving yourself nearly a million dollar tax break is puny, then so be it.
A 4 year investigation of this multi billion enterprise
Led to a charge of "nearly seven figures" to a guy not named Trump.
And yet you are such a political hack you can't admit that this is very small beer, indeed. Even if true. And you refuse to acknowledge that it is politics literally spinning out of control because your weird, extreme feelings for DJT have completely unhinged you.
#Pathetic
Seriously, if there had been a four year investigation of the Biden’s and this came out of it,
you would be whistling a different tune. It’s obvious tax fraud.. It’s not just aggressive corporate perks. It’s criminal conduct. You just want to give it a pass cause it’s Trump. You don’t insulate yourself against tax fraud by being a controversial politician.
Yes and no.
The lion's share of the 4 year investigation involved lengthy court battles, fighting over Trump's financial and tax records.
The Manhattan DA's Office has had those records for a few months after finally prevailing.
What they have charged thus far is criminal, but certainly not typically charged, at least without allowing a civil settlement to square up the unpaid tax bill.
If they have nothing else to bring and/or are relying upon cooperation to move the ball forward, then I do not understand why they would have charged as they did.
But, there has always been a reason why Trump would never agree to release his tax/financial records to the voters or prosecutors. Trump obstructs at every level. He is a dishonest corrupt person. Whether anything becomes "criminal" only happens when 12 jurors say so.
The car, even the condo, sure. There is at least arguable business purpose . Tuition
for grandkids while deducting it penny for penny from salary is tax fraud.
Yes. Tax fraud definitely in play.
My point is that this stuff is generally not prosecuted unless tied to more egregious fraud.
Fraud that obvious is pursued in this federal district all the time for much lower sums.
I don’t know of anyone who would be that arrogant to try to pull that tax scheme though.
Understood. The difference is this prosecution is brought against a former President’s company.
On one hand, no one is above the law.
On the other hand, when a state prosecutor in a deeply blue state files an indictment against a former President or his company, it has to rise above the optics of a politically targeted prosecution.
The current indictment struggles to overcome that threshold.
But, more to come I surmise.
Here’s the point. The investigation is completed. It’s found that this guy was committing
tax fraud for years to the tune of almost 7 figures for the tuition for his grand kids. And it’s outright tax fraud, not even arguably business related. That gets prosecuted whether it’s this guy or a Hunter Biden in my book. That’s the problem with this society. We excuse outright crime by the rich and powerful on the basis that everyone does it. No they don’t, and if they do, it should be prosecuted.
You have zero proof of the evidence in this case. But you do have acute TDS.
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We've finally arrived at the Coke bottle in the vault...the yellowcake in the desert!
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Would yah like to make a small wager on whether there is a conviction?
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Oh, Frank, I'm sure they'll finally get their conviction.
Buckle up. At some point, unprincipled, political hack boobs will come for your favored candidate.
You know this is a joke and how it would be handled with any American but him. What principles! What commitment to democracy! Bully for you! High moral standards!
Yah, think that the argument that everyone commits close to a mil in tax fraud won’t work?
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Where in the world did I say that? I hope strawmen across the fruited plain get royalties from you.
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I didn’t say you said it scarecrow. I say that’s gonna be the defense.
And I’m asking if you agree that it won’t work. No straw there.
You are really losing it.
Trump withheld his tax records for one of two reasons.
1) He is not nearly as rich as he claims (blow to ego)
2) he pays almost no Federal taxes (blow to his standing among the common people)
Could be both reasons together.
He certainly did not withhold them to avoid this being discovered. He is audited by the IRS virtually every year.
Have you heard of Trump v Vance litigation? Or Trump v Mazars USA?
Of course he is hiding dishonest bookkeeping at a minimum.
IRS audits are almost always resolved via civil settlement. And they do not do as deep a dive as you think.
Try doing that “puny item” in yer business and see what happens.
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Here’s what usually happens.
After the audit the IRS sends you a letter saying that you can’t deduct these as business expenses and tells you to pay with interest and penalties.
With ordinary aggressive deductions, yes. Not for that. Obvious fraud adding up to close to
7 figures.
Can you cite the similar cases brought recently by state or local DA’s?
I didn’t think so.
Show me all of the million dollar tuition cases that resolved civilly.
Didn’t think so.
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My little poodle puppet.
Dance, puppet, dance!
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Truth.
And that truth hurts.
Call me crazy, but this sort of behavior from prosecutors doesn't strike me as emblematic of the spirit of democracy, which I thought we all wanted to save?
CornPop would know.
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since hunter was born?
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biden oath of office?
Posted at 10:03 am on Jul 4, 2021
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Clinton Foundation? Chicago elections? Crossing the border illegally?
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