Tax fraud verdict again exposes illusion of Trump the master businessman
The latest trouble for Trump strikes at the heart of his identity as a wealthy businessman who wrote the bestselling book The Art of the Deal. On Tuesday his company was convicted of a 15-year criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities.
The guilty verdict for the Trump Organization represents a major blow for the former president.
Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud, New York jury finds
“Add tax fraud to the long list of Trump’s accomplishments,” tweeted Adam Schiff, chairman of the House of Representatives’ intelligence committee.
The case centered on charges that the Trump Organization, which operates hotels, golf courses and other assets around the world, paid personal expenses like rent and car leases for top executives without reporting the income, and paid them bonuses as if they were independent contractors.
Trump himself was not charged but prosecutors alleged that he “knew exactly what was going on”. During his closing argument, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass showed jurors a lease Trump signed for a company-paid apartment and a memo Trump initialed authorising a pay cut for another executive who got perks.
“Mr Trump is explicitly sanctioning tax fraud,” Steinglass argued.
I’ll bet the N.Y. Times would have a story about some good old fashioned Trump bashing, but 1,100 of their employees are out on strike. The workers have been in negotiations for over 2 years but the cheapskates at the Times didn’t value their work. Boo Hoo.
thelordthygod666 over 1 year ago
It seems Hank really, really, wants to see Hunter’s pee-pee, pee-pee.
Kurtass Premium Member over 1 year ago
What if the National Enquirier did it, would that be okay?
https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-us-news-elections-american-media-inc-1beb4bf23d0043eab87396ec56054814
Maybe if it was fox colluding with the trump campaign. Would that be okay?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/25/sean-hannity-cnn-meadows-text-messages-election-day/
Rich Douglas over 1 year ago
Because Trump is the victim? Please stop.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
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Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
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Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
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Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Tax fraud verdict again exposes illusion of Trump the master businessman
The latest trouble for Trump strikes at the heart of his identity as a wealthy businessman who wrote the bestselling book The Art of the Deal. On Tuesday his company was convicted of a 15-year criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities.
The guilty verdict for the Trump Organization represents a major blow for the former president.
Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud, New York jury finds
“Add tax fraud to the long list of Trump’s accomplishments,” tweeted Adam Schiff, chairman of the House of Representatives’ intelligence committee.
The case centered on charges that the Trump Organization, which operates hotels, golf courses and other assets around the world, paid personal expenses like rent and car leases for top executives without reporting the income, and paid them bonuses as if they were independent contractors.
Trump himself was not charged but prosecutors alleged that he “knew exactly what was going on”. During his closing argument, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass showed jurors a lease Trump signed for a company-paid apartment and a memo Trump initialed authorising a pay cut for another executive who got perks.
“Mr Trump is explicitly sanctioning tax fraud,” Steinglass argued.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-tax-fraud-guilty-verdict-analysis#:~:text=The%20latest%20trouble,fraud%2C%E2%80%9D%20Steinglass%20argued.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Colbert on Herschel Walker ’Self-aware cinderblock’ who ‘didn’t belong in the Senate’
lawguy05 over 1 year ago
Very true!
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Trump will skip the 2024 election and just say he won.
RAGs over 1 year ago
Where are the rightwing trolls complaining about Payn’s TDS?
DrDon1 over 1 year ago
Is Payne being inspired by Giuliani and Greene?
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
Trump Disciple Payne again makes sh!t up and then LIEs about it.
eugene57 over 1 year ago
Yet Trump did have twitter remove some things associated with him that he did not want spread.
My First Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’ll bet the N.Y. Times would have a story about some good old fashioned Trump bashing, but 1,100 of their employees are out on strike. The workers have been in negotiations for over 2 years but the cheapskates at the Times didn’t value their work. Boo Hoo.
jader3rd over 1 year ago
Trump did collude with Twitter to suppress other stories.