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Post by SSHoya on Nov 4, 2021 14:32:30 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 20, 2021 7:52:11 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 22, 2021 10:24:26 GMT -5
You have to wonder if the property tax officials were on the take. The Trump Organization owns an office building at 40 Wall Street in Manhattan. In 2012, when the company was listing its assets for potential lenders, it said the building was worth $527 million — which would make it among the most valuable in New York. But just a few months later, the Trump Organization told property tax officials that the entire 70-story building was worth less than a high-end Manhattan condo: just $16.7 million, according to newly released city records. Among the other properties under scrutiny: former president Donald Trump’s California golf club, for which he valued the same parcel of land at $900,000 and $25 million depending on the intended audience, and an estate in suburban New York, for which Trump’s valuations ranged from $56 million up to $291 million. The valuations were all given in the five years before Trump won the presidency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-organization-investigation-property-values-vance-james/2021/11/19/78c15850-4706-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 22, 2021 22:03:40 GMT -5
You have to wonder if the property tax officials were on the take. The Trump Organization owns an office building at 40 Wall Street in Manhattan. In 2012, when the company was listing its assets for potential lenders, it said the building was worth $527 million — which would make it among the most valuable in New York. But just a few months later, the Trump Organization told property tax officials that the entire 70-story building was worth less than a high-end Manhattan condo: just $16.7 million, according to newly released city records. Among the other properties under scrutiny: former president Donald Trump’s California golf club, for which he valued the same parcel of land at $900,000 and $25 million depending on the intended audience, and an estate in suburban New York, for which Trump’s valuations ranged from $56 million up to $291 million. The valuations were all given in the five years before Trump won the presidency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-organization-investigation-property-values-vance-james/2021/11/19/78c15850-4706-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.htmlThe Big Insurrectionist is also The Big Fraudster. They really broke the mold with this guy.
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 24, 2021 6:34:34 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Nov 25, 2021 12:11:01 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 30, 2021 13:30:31 GMT -5
Grifters of a feather grift together. Apparently, the cost of grifting in Florida is only $10,000. It was not until Dec. 1, 2020, that Defending the Republic was incorporated as a business in Texas, with Powell listed as its agent and director, according to state records. An authorized representative for the group, Brandon Johnson, said in an August deposition taken as part of a defamation lawsuit against Powell that he knew nothing about donations made online before Dec. 1. “I don’t know where they went, but they did not go to Defending the Republic,” Johnson said in the deposition. In an estimated budget submitted this summer to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Defending the Republic projected revenue from donations of just over $7 million for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. The organization prepared the budget following a state complaint alleging multiple violations of Florida law, including failure to comply with charity registration law, and obtaining contributions by means of “deception, false pretense, misrepresentation, or false promise.” Defending the Republic paid a $10,000 fine to resolve the complaint, according to a settlement agreement reviewed by The Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/30/sidney-powell-defend-the-republic-criminal-probe/
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 6, 2021 10:26:25 GMT -5
Starting to sound like Bannon's fraud on raising money for the Build the Wall. The psychopath surrounded himself with fellow grifters/con men. Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that Defending the Republic raised more than $14 million, a sum that reveals the reach and resonance of one of the most visible efforts to fundraise using baseless claims about the 2020 election. Previously unreported records also detail acrimony between Powell and her top lieutenants over how the money — now a focus of inquiries by federal prosecutors and Congress — was being handled. www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powell-defending-republic-donations/2021/12/06/61bdb004-53ef-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html
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Post by hoya9797 on Dec 8, 2021 12:15:27 GMT -5
This will end up as the Trump grift to end all grifts. A lot of people are going to lose a ton of money in this thing but Trump and the rest of the crooks around him aren’t among them.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 8, 2021 12:22:56 GMT -5
^^^^ Already under federal SEC investigation and by FINRA a SRO (self-regulatory organization).
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 9, 2021 11:38:37 GMT -5
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Post by guru on Dec 9, 2021 13:01:22 GMT -5
I mean, we are waiting for Godot at this point.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 9, 2021 13:16:07 GMT -5
I mean, we are waiting for Godot at this point. As a retired 30+ year veteran of DOJ I am disappointed in the apparent inaction or lack of aggressiveness on the part of the Garland-led DOJ. One possible explanation I have heard is that if DOJ opened up a properly-predicated investigation on conspiracy regarding the attempted coup now, it would interfere with the January 6th Select Committee's work.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 14, 2021 18:14:32 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 14, 2021 20:44:19 GMT -5
Another legal defeat for the psychopath. A federal judge on Tuesday rejected former president Donald Trump’s long-running effort to block the Treasury Department from turning over his tax records to the House Ways and Means Committee, but put the ruling on hold pending an expected appeal. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, a former Trump Justice Department official appointed to the court in 2017, said even if the former president’s attorneys were correct that House Democrats wanted his records only to expose them for political gain, they were “wrong on the law.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/14/trump-tax-records-treasury-release/?itid=hp-top-table-main
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Post by tashoya on Dec 14, 2021 21:54:59 GMT -5
I guess that "audit" is still going on? That's a heck of an audit. He said he was excited to release his tax returns because they're so great and beautiful. It couldn't be that he was lying, right? That wouldn't jibe at all with, literally, every single thing we know about that piece of garbage.
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Post by hoyajinx on Dec 16, 2021 13:00:23 GMT -5
Melania Trump is now selling NFTs, which is the most on brand thing a Trump could do. I guess nobody in this family will miss any opportunity to scam somebody.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 17, 2021 8:28:06 GMT -5
Manhattan DA going hard after the psychopath's intent behind misrepresentations of the value of his assets.
Forbes, 12/17/21, Executive Editor Randall Lane testifies:
Almost three months ago, I was subpoenaed by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to appear before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump. I was subpoenaed to testify about the 2015 cover story I wrote chronicling his decades-long fixation with our net worth estimate. My colleague Chase Peterson-Withorn was also subpoenaed, for a related story on the value of the former president’s Trump Tower apartment.
We’ve been fighting these subpoenas ever since. They set a dangerous precedent: How do we keep an autonomous press when journalists suddenly must testify for or against the subjects they cover? Or manage the chilling effect, when sources of information on matters of public interest worry whether reporters could be dragged into a courtroom—or when journalists hold back, fearful of the resources needed to lawyer up? The mundanity in this circumstance – his fixation with his Forbes ranking is well known, and we’ve already shared the information the prosecutors seek with the entire world through our reporting, with the subject himself transparently doing the talking – makes it all the more alarming.
After months of objections, on Wednesday, the judge overseeing this grand jury process ordered us to testify, but limited the scope to simply confirm the accuracy of what was in the cover story and the article about the apartment. And so, yesterday we did just that. I testified for about 20 minutes; Peterson-Withorn followed for about five minutes.
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Post by DanMcQ on Dec 18, 2021 16:01:16 GMT -5
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