No presidential pardon would protect him from this.
Courtesy of NYT:
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been locked in a yearlong legal battle with President Trump over obtaining his tax returns, suggested for the first time in a court filing on Monday that it had grounds to investigate him and his businesses for tax fraud.
The filing by the office of the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., offered rare insight into the office’s investigation of the president and his business dealings, which began more than two years ago.
Mr. Vance, a Democrat, has never revealed the scope of his office’s criminal inquiry, citing grand jury secrecy. The investigation has been stalled by the fight over a subpoena that the office issued in August 2019 for eight years of the president’s tax returns.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump have said the subpoena should be blocked, calling it “wildly overbroad” and politically motivated. Mr. Vance responded to that argument in a carefully worded new filing that did not directly accuse Mr. Trump or any of his businesses or associates of wrongdoing and took pains to avoid disclosing details about the inquiry.
However, prosecutors listed news reports and public testimony that alleged misconduct by Mr. Trump and his businesses. The reports, prosecutors wrote, would justify a grand jury inquiry into a range of possible crimes, including tax and insurance fraud and falsification of business records. It was the first time the office had suggested tax fraud might be among the possible areas of investigation.
“Even if the grand jury were testing the truth of public allegations alone, such reports, taken together, fully justify the scope of the grand jury subpoena at issue in this case,” prosecutors wrote.
So a case that supposedly started to address Trump’s hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, has now evolved to include possible tax fraud.
And the thing is we all know that Trump cheated on his taxes, and probably did so for many, many years.
There is a reason that Trump has fought tooth and nail to keep his tax records secret and at his point, it cannot be simply because he is embarrassed for the world to find out that he is not as wealthy as he has claimed.
Well hell, if tax fraud was good enough to put Al Capone behind bars then it is certainly good enough to do the same for Donald J. Trump.
He has gotten away with too many crimes too many times, sooner or later is has to PAY for one of them.
Didn’t one of his CEOs say they kept two sets of books at the trump crime organization?
hurryhurryhurry.
Vance isn’t hampered like Pelosi is. She can’t impeach until after the election but Vance has no restrictions on the timeline of his investigation or court filings.
Who says she can’t impeach until after the election, is this another republican rule?
I don’t buy it for one minute.
Tax fraud? How about reckless endangerment resulting in thousands of preventable deaths? Ten thousand counts of manslaughter at a minimum. Jarhead should have to ocupy the same cell. Any lawmaker that is not working toward that end at this moment should be considered complicit. Dem or repuke alike
Wouldn’t it have been an omen if the escalator had unhinged and crumpled to the ground in a cataclysmic mess back in 2015?
How many times has this same tune been played? Wish in one hand shit in the other…..
It isn’t happening. Reality is your friend.
Yeah, it’s all bullshit.
Eric has to testify BEFORE the election. Hahahahaha!
https://news.yahoo.com/judge-eric-trump-must-testify-185204097.html
“Eric Trump must testify in a New York investigation into the family’s businesses before the November presidential election, a judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting lawyers’ claims that Trump’s “extreme travel schedule” on the campaign trail warranted a delay.
State Judge Arthur Engoron said that President Donald Trump’s son must comply with a subpoena for his testimony no later than Oct. 7, adding that the investigation and the court are not “bound by the timelines of the national election.”
Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, went to court to enforce the subpoena after Eric Trump’s lawyers abruptly canceled a July interview with investigators in a probe about whether the family’s company, the Trump Organization, lied about the value of its assets in order to get loans or tax benefits.”
Not the October Surprise they were expecting.
“James’ investigators are looking into how the Trump Organization and its agents assessed the value of Seven Springs, a 212-acre (86-hectare) estate north of New York City that Trump purchased in 1995 with the intent of turning it into a golf club.
After that project failed to progress, he granted an easement over 158 acres (60 hectares) to a conservation land trust in 2016 in order to qualify for an income tax deduction. In its initial court filing, James’ office said a professional appraisal done at the time determined that Seven Springs was worth $56.5 million prior to the donation. The land being conserved in exchange for the tax deduction was worth $21.1 million, it said.
Cohen said during his congressional testimony that when Trump was trying to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014, he provided financial statements to Deutsche Bank saying Seven Springs was worth $291 million in 2012.
The attorney general’s office is also attempting to collect information about the Trump National Golf Club near Los Angeles, where the Trump Organization donated a conservation easement over part of the property in 2014 and received a tax deduction.”
Ooooo. California. You don’t want to mess with California if you’re going to cheat on your taxes or property values.
“And investigators said they were also probing the circumstances of how the Trump Organization handled tax issues related to more than $100 million of debt related to the Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago that was forgiven between 2010 and 2012. Investigators said they have not been able to confirm whether any of that forgiven debt was recognized as taxable income, according to the court filings.”
How much do you want to bet Eric Trump is going to have early onset Alzheimer’s? “Don’t recall” is going to be his mantra. Not sure why the lawyer needs two months to coach him to say “I don’t recall.”