Trump was the victim of a blackmail attempt in 2016 to which he paid money to make it go away. Instead of going after the blackmailers, prosecutors used it as a gateway to turn Trump’s and Trump Org’s papers upside down with the goal and until they find something.
But NAVALNY!
But NAVALNY!
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1404933048928391169
According to NY law you need to keep accurate business records even if it has no tax implications. For example, if you pay $140,000 ransom to blackmailers through your attorney, and you file it as legal fees instead of marketing (or the other way around), it’s a misdemeanor.
You are wondering “is such a payment legal fees or marketing?” Exactly! It can be either which is why “business records” it’s not a felony and is rarely prosecuted.
Trump Org’s classification of the payouts to the blackmailers is where the Manhattan DA started his investigation.
Trump Org’s classification of the payouts to the blackmailers is where the Manhattan DA started his investigation.
It’s crazy enough for a DA to go after the business of a blackmail victim for a rarely-prosecuted, immaterial misdemeanor, but this is just the start. The Dem DA asked the Republican President to release years of personal tax records and years of business records. The attorneys
argued that if the question is how the blackmail payouts were classified, ask only for those records. So the Dem SA said in court that media reports suggest the Trump Org is corrupt so he needs to expand his investigation.
0 evidence; just reports.
READ in FULL:
0 evidence; just reports.
READ in FULL:
At this point we have
A) A Dem going after a GOP.
B) DA against a POTUS; rarely if ever happened before!
C) Blackmail victim being persecuted
D) for a rarely prosecuted immaterial misdemeanor
E) that’s expanded into a full investigation due to “published media reports.”
A) A Dem going after a GOP.
B) DA against a POTUS; rarely if ever happened before!
C) Blackmail victim being persecuted
D) for a rarely prosecuted immaterial misdemeanor
E) that’s expanded into a full investigation due to “published media reports.”
@maggieNYT I doubt highly that if Fox, WSJ, Newsmax and OANN were to have “published reports” of how politically corrupt the current Manhattan DA is that it would be reason enough for a (Trump era) US Attorney to criminally investigate the DA (to the cheers of “justice” Journos).
Disheartening about the above is that federal courts up and down the chain approved the continuation of all this despite the politically-motivated and abuse-of-power nature behind it all as shown in the thread.
In Russia, the courts also approved the persecution of Navalny.
In Russia, the courts also approved the persecution of Navalny.
Once a politically-motivated prosecutor gets to look for as long as he likes at a combined 18 years of tax records from a multi billion dollar company and a multi billionaire (all while being cheered by media), he will he able to find something somewhere. cc @AriMelber
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