Is Trump about to be indicted in NY?

Page 8 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
30,160
3,300
126
Judge rejects Trump's attempt to block NY attorney general from accessing his trust records:

CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
lite.cnn.com

A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request to block the New York attorney general's office from seeking materials from his private trust.

New York Attorney General Letitia James' office subpoenaed records relating to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, which Trump used to hold his companies when he became president in 2017.


Looks like New York Attorney General Letitia James isnt done looking at Trump corporate
 
  • Like
  • Love
Reactions: iRONic, Meghan54, Fenixgoon and 3 others
pauldun170

pauldun170

Diamond Member
Sep 26, 2011
9,133
5,072
136
At first glance, the income-tax data released this week by a House committee seems to show a turnaround in 2018 for former President Donald J. Trump. After a decade in which he declared no taxable income, his 2018 return reported taxable income of more than $24 million. He paid nearly a million dollars in federal income taxes.
In fact, his year in the black appears to have resulted largely from the final windfall of the vast inheritance that financed much of his business career — more than $14 million in gains from the sale of his father’s 1970s investment in the Brooklyn housing development of Starrett City.
But precedent soon reasserted itself. Because of business losses, he paid no income taxes in 2020, his last year in the White House.
That year, after obtaining more than two decades of Mr. Trump’s tax returns, The New York Times traced the boom-and-bust arcs that had marked his financial history: dubious tax avoidance, huge losses and a life buttressed by an inherited fortune. The newly released tax information, from 2015 to 2020, shows how that pattern extended through his years in Washington.
Click to expand...
www.nytimes.com

Trump’s Taxes: Red Flags, Big Losses and a Windfall From His Father (Published 2022)

The presidency of Donald J. Trump, a congressional report reveals, was marked by some of the same questionable tax maneuvers that had characterized his business career.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
Sunburn74

Sunburn74

Diamond Member
Oct 5, 2009
5,027
2,595
136
  • Like
Reactions: zinfamous, hal2kilo, Meghan54 and 1 other person
E

eelw

Diamond Member
Dec 4, 1999
9,004
4,328
136
Damn Weisselberg to serve 5 months at Rikers Island. Guess he wish he did throw the orange monkey fully under the bus
 
Pens1566

Pens1566

Lifer
Oct 11, 2005
11,569
8,018
136
hal2kilo said:
Rickers ain't no picknick. Better watch his cell.
Click to expand...

Agree. I think he either declines in health rapidly or something happens to him.

But I do think it's funny that in the one instance (so far) where they've had a rat and it was all "this is really gonna be the one that gets him!!!!" and the rat gives up almost nothing of value that implicates anyone else (no, Trump Org doesn't count) and gets off with basically the lightest sentence possible.
 
  • Like
Reactions: soundforbjt and Pohemi
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

Lifer
Feb 24, 2009
23,412
10,302
136
Pens1566 said:
Agree. I think he either declines in health rapidly or something happens to him.

But I do think it's funny that in the one instance (so far) where they've had a rat and it was all "this is really gonna be the one that gets him!!!!" and the rat gives up almost nothing of value that implicates anyone else (no, Trump Org doesn't count) and gets off with basically the lightest sentence possible.
Click to expand...
Seems to be what happens when you work for a Svengali criminal psychopath.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pohemi
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

Lifer
Feb 24, 2009
23,412
10,302
136
Pens1566

Pens1566

Lifer
Oct 11, 2005
11,569
8,018
136
hal2kilo said:
The beginning of the end of Trump Org.

Trump Org fined just $1.6M for tax crimes — but experts say "it spells doom" for the company | Salon.com

Legal experts predicted the fallout from Friday's sentencing is likely to go beyond the fine.

Former U.S. attorney and UCLA Law professor Harry Litman wrote that the "collateral financial and practical consequences could be far greater," than the relatively small financial penalty.
Click to expand...

A large part of that is based on a notional criminal prosecution. OK, we're waiting ...

As for the funding issues, they'll look overseas and/or go through a corp re-org and move on.
 
SMOGZINN

SMOGZINN

Lifer
Jun 17, 2005
14,202
4,401
136
hal2kilo said:
The beginning of the end of Trump Org.

Trump Org fined just $1.6M for tax crimes — but experts say "it spells doom" for the company | Salon.com

Legal experts predicted the fallout from Friday's sentencing is likely to go beyond the fine.

Former U.S. attorney and UCLA Law professor Harry Litman wrote that the "collateral financial and practical consequences could be far greater," than the relatively small financial penalty.
Click to expand...
They are fooling themselves. Everyone, and I mean everyone, that does business with Trump already knows that they are dealing with a criminal enterprise. They literally got fined for less than they saved with this scheme. Everyone should commit tax fraud in NY.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Thump553, soundforbjt, Pohemi and 1 other person
M

Moonbeam

Elite Member
Nov 24, 1999
72,398
6,075
126
SMOGZINN said:
They are fooling themselves. Everyone, and I mean everyone, that does business with Trump already knows that they are dealing with a criminal enterprise. They literally got fined for less than they saved with this scheme. Everyone should commit tax fraud in NY.
Click to expand...
Jesus, that's kind of like telling people the Supreme Court is biased.
 
Pohemi

Pohemi

Diamond Member
Oct 2, 2004
8,796
11,219
146
Yeah tbh that fine seems like a joke considering the scope of the crimes and of the investigation. It's peanuts, and they should have done better penalty-wise.
 
  • Like
Reactions: hal2kilo
M

Moonbeam

Elite Member
Nov 24, 1999
72,398
6,075
126
Pohemi said:
Yeah tbh that fine seems like a joke considering the scope of the crimes and of the investigation. It's peanuts, and they should have done better penalty-wise.
Click to expand...
My guess is that then penalties are statutory.
 
dawp

dawp

Lifer
Jul 2, 2005
11,345
2,705
136
didn't he say a while back that only the guilty plead the fifth?
www.cbsnews.com

Video of Trump deposition in New York fraud probe shows former president taking the Fifth, repeating "same answer"

Exclusive: CBS News obtained video of a portion of the deposition, which includes Trump saying, "Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool."
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

Trump did so more than 400 times during the course of the full interview, according to a New York attorney general court filing. After the deposition concluded, Trump issued a public statement saying that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
  • Haha
  • Like
Reactions: hal2kilo and Pohemi
SMOGZINN

SMOGZINN

Lifer
Jun 17, 2005
14,202
4,401
136
dawp said:
didn't he say a while back that only the guilty plead the fifth?
www.cbsnews.com

Video of Trump deposition in New York fraud probe shows former president taking the Fifth, repeating "same answer"

Exclusive: CBS News obtained video of a portion of the deposition, which includes Trump saying, "Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool."
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
Click to expand...
The fun part of all this is that, because this is a civil case, to the jury it is allowed to be seen as an admission of guilt.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pohemi and hal2kilo
E

eelw

Diamond Member
Dec 4, 1999
9,004
4,328
136
SMOGZINN said:
The fun part of all this is that, because this is a civil case, to the jury it is allowed to be seen as an admission of guilt.
Click to expand...
Sure Weisselburg’s testimony was the deciding factor, the orange monkeys lack of a defense had to have influenced the jury.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pohemi
blackangst1

blackangst1

Lifer
Feb 23, 2005
22,914
2,359
126
UNCjigga said:
White collar crime is hard to prosecute—especially when the “victim” of the crime is the government or taxpayers more generally.
Click to expand...
I get it. But it seems almost every day theres more and more evidence against Trump. How much do they need?

indictments have been right around the corner for 9 months-

Trump Prosecutors See Evidence for Bringing Obstruction Charges - Bloomberg
January 6 panel’s body of work boosts DoJ case against Trump, experts say | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
For experts, the evidence in two probes compels charging Trump | The Hill
DOJ lays out strongest obstruction evidence against Trump yet (usatoday.com)

ad nauseum
 
M

Moonbeam

Elite Member
Nov 24, 1999
72,398
6,075
126
blackangst1 said:
I get it. But it seems almost every day theres more and more evidence against Trump. How much do they need?

indictments have been right around the corner for 9 months-

Trump Prosecutors See Evidence for Bringing Obstruction Charges - Bloomberg
January 6 panel’s body of work boosts DoJ case against Trump, experts say | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
For experts, the evidence in two probes compels charging Trump | The Hill
DOJ lays out strongest obstruction evidence against Trump yet (usatoday.com)

ad nauseum
Click to expand...
How can you announce to the world how tolerant and liberal you are if you don't let criminals walk all over you?
 
  • Haha
Reactions: hal2kilo
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom