Jury finds Trump Organization guilty of
tax fraud scheme
NBC News,
by
Adam Reiss *
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/6/2022 4:12:37 PM
A criminal court jury in New York on Tuesday found the Trump Organization guilty of all charges in a sweeping, 15-year tax fraud scheme that prosecutors said was orchestrated by top executives at the company. Jurors deliberated for just over a day before returning the guilty verdicts on a total of 17 counts, including scheme to defraud, conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. The company faces roughly $1.6 million in fines at sentencing. The Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, its former longtime chief financial officer, were indicted last year after a multi-year investigation
Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/6/2022 4:15:18 PM (No. 1350558)
Oh, and somehow the annual IRS audit of all things Trump managed to miss this? I call BS and a tainted jury.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2022 4:15:33 PM (No. 1350559)
My bet is that they did exactly the same as dozens of companies who will not bebothered.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Avikingman 12/6/2022 4:22:49 PM (No. 1350566)
Small beer compared to the Bidet Family.
I doubt former President Trump was aware of it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DW626 12/6/2022 4:26:25 PM (No. 1350567)
The commiecrats are going to have a field day with this one.
An early Christmas present for them, perhaps.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimincalif 12/6/2022 4:31:07 PM (No. 1350568)
Those who rule us have deemed Trump an enemy of the state. In a real representative government, political opponents are not enemies. Only in authoritarian regimes do they deem political opponents to be enemies of the state. Which pretty well illustrates the sort of government we have today. Those who say we have to double down, try harder and beat them in 2024 are delusional, the regime determines the outcomes now. They slipped up in 2016, assuming Hillary would easily win. They won’t let that happen, ever again, no matter what. Trump will be hounded, discredited, possibly imprisoned, or maybe even poisoned like Putin’s rivals. But the Obamanal “transformation” has succeeded to the point that the ruling class answers only to themselves. We are no longer a republic. I don’t know where to go from here, but we can’t fix this at the ballot box.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hermoine 12/6/2022 4:32:38 PM (No. 1350570)
Are you telling me that it only took ONE day for a NY jury to return a verdict of guilty on ALL charges on a supposed 15-year tax fraud scheme that (if true) had to be pretty complicated and well orchestrated. A whole day? Why not 3 hours? Why not one hour? Laughable.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/6/2022 4:37:52 PM (No. 1350575)
$1.6Million over 15years? What did it cost to investigate and prosecute this?
But, OK fine...now do Al Sharpton, Warnock, The Coumo's, the Mega collapse bitcoin exchange dude...the Clintons, the Gates, Bezos, Soros....anyone with Highly paid execs that have cars, drivers, companiy abodes, expense accounts..include all of the BLM groups as well. Many of whom dropped $BILLIONS into tax exempt organizations to evade paying their fair share, but have verrrrry highly paid and compensated with perks staffs/family running them. Just the National Press Club dinner $numbers dwarf these...and nearly ALL is spent on the annual televised party, NOT on the scholarships it is exempted for because that is supposed to be it's "Purpose"
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
danu 12/6/2022 4:38:19 PM (No. 1350576)
sorrrr--yyyyyy but these ny juries couldnt recognise a true tax fraud scheme if it bit them all in the airse
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/6/2022 4:40:04 PM (No. 1350578)
My first thought was what expertise in fraud did this jury have that they could reach such a conclusion so quickly.
I suspect they have more expertise in the democrat party.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/6/2022 4:47:04 PM (No. 1350581)
I ask for a list of the number of criminal suits ever prosecuted on these types of charges. The answer is none.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 12/6/2022 4:47:44 PM (No. 1350583)
At this point any sane and reasonable person must clme to the conclusion that Trump may well be the cleanest and most honest Billionaire who ever existed.
Since 2015 he has been investigated with the full force and fury of the entire federal beurocracy. The IRS, HSA,CIA,FBI,DOJ and dozens of lesser offices, the full might of both the house and senate investigative powers, the diligent single minded drive of several rogue federal district attorneys, half a dozen states attorney generals and ever sleazy MSM slimeball. They have used every concievable method , over broad warrants, vague defintions, subpoenas, committees and secret grand juries. They have lied to the judiciary to obtain wiretaps, they have created plots out of thin air and sent hundreds of undercover agents to find anyone stupid enough to talk about them. They have destroyed many in the vain hope something, anything, might stick to Trump. E ery single morsel has been leaked to a corrupt and politicizrd media who breathlessly told that THIS TIME we finally got him.
They have. Collectively spent hundreds of millions of dollars and uncountable man hourson this. Often to the detriment of any other criminal inveztigation.
And 7 years later the ONLY thing they have is a guilty plea by an officer of one of his dozens of companies to tax evasion.
Cleanest Billionaire to ever swim in the Manhattan Cesspool.
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' The sentencing is expected to take place on Jan. 13, 2013.' Wow! They're even trying to get Trump retroactively--
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Gee, what a suprise NOT
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/6/2022 5:39:53 PM (No. 1350615)
I like that. Bidet family. Yes. The Clintons and Bidets and countless others skate. This is more banana republic antics from NYS AG.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/6/2022 7:00:45 PM (No. 1350665)
Ah, of course, a New York jury. Which court, NBC? Judge was an Obie appointee? No bias, right?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/6/2022 9:22:36 PM (No. 1350740)
I join #1 in the stew being served us. Capital B. Capital S. Writ large.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Harlowe 12/6/2022 10:08:07 PM (No. 1350759)
Reality Check: Former CFO for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, testified “he did not conspire with anyone in the Trump family, was taking off-the-books perks for himself, manipulated the company’s books and his own compensation package to illegally reduce his taxes.” Quote: “It was my own personal greed that led to this.”
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