It's a funny pseudonym. I reckon Inspector Morse would find a clue in there somewhere.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1047206293361123329?s=21
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...361123329?s=21
President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.
But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.
Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.
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That said, there are clear patterns and practices here that are worth looking at, and given that we are talking about state and local (as well as federal) taxes, the New York State authorities should definitely be interested.
And they aren't bound by DOJ guidance on charging a sitting President.
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I was under the impression that tax fraud was the one thing that the government could go after you for indefinitely. Which would make sense if they were much more hung up about losing money for their coffers than actually maintaining law and order.
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Under certain circumstances, yes, but that bar is very high.
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https://twitter.com/ap/status/1047170904088825856?s=21
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1047170904088825856?s=21
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Trump showing again that his empathy is with rapists not their victims. In other words, he is turning perpetrators into the "real" victims.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-america-video
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
This is an ongoing legal investigation and hearing. It would be beyond f**king ridiculous for any prominent figure to be seen remarking upon it in such a way.
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