Supreme Court Won't Halt Turnover Of Trump's Tax Records

[Shabibilicious]

Michael Cohen Reveals When And How Trump Will Flip On His Own Family To Avoid Jail

 

 

Ed Mazza

·Overnight Editor, HuffPost

Thu, May 20, 2021, 12:48 AM

 

 

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney and “fixer” to Donald Trump, delivered a blunt warning Wednesday to the former president’s closest associates and even his own family.

“I think Donald Trump is going to flip on all of them,” he warned, “including his children.”

Cohen spoke on MSNBC one day after it was revealed that the Trump Organization is now the subject of a criminal investigation by the New York attorney general.

“I really believe that Donald Trump cares for only himself, and he realizes that his goose is cooked,” Cohen said.

And that means he’ll start looking for others to blame, he said.

First, he said, Trump will blame Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg and others involved in his finances.

“It wasn’t me. It was Allen. It was my accountant. It was the appraiser,” Cohen said, mimicking a potential Trump argument. “It’s never Donald. See, this is the problem. It’s never, ever Donald Trump. It’s always somebody else.”

And when investigators start raising questions about Trump’s tax returns, he’s going to blame those closest to him.

“He’s going to turn on his accountant and point the finger,” Cohen predicted. “He’s going to say, ‘Don Jr. handled that, Ivanka handled that. Melania. Don’t take me. Take Melania.’ He’s going to tell them to take everyone except for himself. That’s just the kind of guy he is.”

Cohen worked for Trump for years until turning on him in 2018 and cooperating with investigators. He pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and campaign finance violations for arranging the hush-money payments from Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison but was released into home confinement last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On Wednesday, he said some of the information he provided ― including taped conversations with Trump ― shows how closely the former president directed everything around him and his organization.

And that, he said, could land the Trump family in prison.

“I do have to say that my credibility, I believe, is going to end up getting Donald, Don Jr., Ivanka, Jared, Eric, Weisselberg, his kids, some orange jumpsuits,” he said.

See his full conversation with MSNBC’s Joy Reid below:

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/michael-cohen-donald-trump-jail-044839777.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

Trump releases 909-word statement complaining about New York's criminal investigations into his business

Sonam Sheth

Wed, May 19, 2021, 2:22 PM

 

 

 

Former President Donald Trump. Getty

• Trump released a statement ranting about New York's criminal investigations into his company.

• The 909-word statement is the longest Trump has released since he left office in January.

• He accused the New York attorney general and Manhattan DA's office of political persecution.

Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement on Wednesday complaining about New York's increasing investigative scrutiny of the Trump Organization.

The 909-word statement came after the state attorney general's office told CNN that it was joining the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in its criminal investigation into the company.

"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature," Fabien Levy, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Tish James, told CNN. "We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan D.A. We have no additional comment at this time."

Trump in his statement said he'd learned "through leaks in the mainstream media" that the "Democrat New York Attorney General has 'informed' my organization that their 'investigation' is no longer just a civil matter but also potentially a 'criminal' investigation working with the Manhattan District Attorney's office."

 

He went on to describe James as someone who "literally campaigned on prosecuting Donald Trump before she even knew anything about me" and pointed to several statements she made criticizing his administration and business dealings while she ran for office.

"The Attorney General made each of these statements, not after having had an opportunity to actually look at the facts, but BEFORE she was even elected, BEFORE she had even seen a shred of evidence," he said. "This is something that happens in failed third world countries, not the United States."

"If you can run for a prosecutor's office pledging to take out your enemies, and be elected to that job by partisan voters who wish to enact political retribution, then we are no longer a free constitutional democracy," Trump, who frequently called for the prosecution and imprisonment of his political opponents while in office, added.

The former president also criticized his former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen as a "lying, discredited low life" and accused the Manhattan District Attorney's Office of using Cohen's congressional testimony as the basis for its criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.

He also falsely suggested that Cohen was serving a three-year prison sentence for "lying and other events unrelated to me." In fact, he's serving time for multiple felonies, including wire fraud, tax evasion, and campaign-finance violations that Cohen said he carried out at Trump's direction.

The former president also accused New York of ignoring issues it has no control over, like the influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border, and of trying to destroy "the political fortunes of President Donald J. Trump and the almost 75 million people who voted for him."

"After prosecutorial efforts the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, they failed to stop me in Washington, so they turned it over to New York to do their dirty work," Trump said, likely referring to the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related criminal inquiries.

He added: "If these prosecutors focused on real issues, crime would be obliterated, and New York would be great and free again!"

The Manhattan DA is examining whether the Trump Organization broke state laws when it facilitated an illegal hush-money payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who alleges that she had an affair with Trump in 2006. According to previous court filings, Manhattan prosecutors suspect the sprawling real-estate company may have committed tax and bank fraud while organizing the payments, which Cohen admitted to making to Daniels at Trump's direction.

Earlier this year, state investigators scored a major victory when the Supreme Court cleared the way for them to obtain eight years of Trump's closely held tax returns. Legal experts also said in March that based on the office's aggressive investigative steps and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s upcoming retirement, the inquiry may be nearing its final stages.

Trumpworld, meanwhile, views the New York investigations, as well as an investigation in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office in Georgia, as far more dangerous than any prosecution from the Justice Department related to the January 6 Capitol riot would be.

Last week, Politico reported that officials in Florida, where Trump resides, were putting together "contingency plans" in case he faces a criminal indictment from New York.

Palm Beach County's top prosecutor told CNN this week that Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a staunch Trump loyalist, had no power to stop the former president from being extradited to New York if he was charged with a crime.

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-releases-909-word-statement-182235472.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

9 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Michael Cohen Reveals When And How Trump Will Flip On His Own Family To Avoid Jail

 

 

Ed Mazza

·Overnight Editor, HuffPost

Thu, May 20, 2021, 12:48 AM

 

 

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney and “fixer” to Donald Trump, delivered a blunt warning Wednesday to the former president’s closest associates and even his own family.

“I think Donald Trump is going to flip on all of them,” he warned, “including his children.”

Cohen spoke on MSNBC one day after it was revealed that the Trump Organization is now the subject of a criminal investigation by the New York attorney general.

“I really believe that Donald Trump cares for only himself, and he realizes that his goose is cooked,” Cohen said.

And that means he’ll start looking for others to blame, he said.

First, he said, Trump will blame Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg and others involved in his finances.

“It wasn’t me. It was Allen. It was my accountant. It was the appraiser,” Cohen said, mimicking a potential Trump argument. “It’s never Donald. See, this is the problem. It’s never, ever Donald Trump. It’s always somebody else.”

And when investigators start raising questions about Trump’s tax returns, he’s going to blame those closest to him.

“He’s going to turn on his accountant and point the finger,” Cohen predicted. “He’s going to say, ‘Don Jr. handled that, Ivanka handled that. Melania. Don’t take me. Take Melania.’ He’s going to tell them to take everyone except for himself. That’s just the kind of guy he is.”

Cohen worked for Trump for years until turning on him in 2018 and cooperating with investigators. He pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and campaign finance violations for arranging the hush-money payments from Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison but was released into home confinement last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On Wednesday, he said some of the information he provided ― including taped conversations with Trump ― shows how closely the former president directed everything around him and his organization.

And that, he said, could land the Trump family in prison.

“I do have to say that my credibility, I believe, is going to end up getting Donald, Don Jr., Ivanka, Jared, Eric, Weisselberg, his kids, some orange jumpsuits,” he said.

See his full conversation with MSNBC’s Joy Reid below:

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/michael-cohen-donald-trump-jail-044839777.html

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Wow.....how'd they locate such a credible source???

CL

[patrickgold]

3 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Wow.....how'd they locate such a credible source???

CL

You are correct, these sources are laughable.  They are known for misinformation, lies, fear mongering, ratings.

[patrickgold]

1 minute ago, patrickgold said:

You are correct, these sources are laughable.  They are known for misinformation, lies, fear mongering, ratings.

Their ratings are sinking, the people are waking up to their deceitfulness.  

[Shabibilicious]

Column: Michael Cohen gets to laugh last

 

 

Virginia Heffernan

Fri, May 21, 2021, 6:00 AM

 

 

 

Michael Cohen in 2019 in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

One of the symptoms of trauma in combat veterans and abuse survivors is an inability to laugh.

In “The Body Keeps the Score,” trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk explains that trauma survivors fear relaxing, convinced that they have to be vigilant so they don’t experience painful memories. “It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying … the shame of utter weakness and vulnerability,” he writes.

Mary Trump, a licensed psychologist and niece of Donald Trump, says the former president doesn’t laugh for similar reasons. “When you are able to laugh, you’re also letting your guard down,” she writes. That was frowned on in the Trump family.

It has been heartening to witness, in the last few days, as Trump hangers-on — abuse survivors themselves, arguably — have been overcoming the tacit prohibition on laughter. These former Trumpites seem unburdened, lighter and looser as they come out from under his control.

 

Consider Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Trump’s onetime fixer Michael Cohen.

Describing the heart-stopping trauma of being in the Capitol during the attempted coup Jan. 6, Cheney told ABC News this week that she resolved there and then to withdraw her support from Trump and his lies. “It’s my responsibility as a leader to lead and, and to tell the truth.”

Though Cheney was recently condemned by the former president as “bitter” (and worse), she looks relaxed, focused and confident. She says she regrets voting for Trump. She laughs robustly about her father’s blind support of her.

Then there’s Cohen’s even more striking story. He denounced his former idol in 2019, and now, like Cheney, he seems committed to a strenuous program of moral liberation: telling the truth.

This is the “personal nonparticipation in lies” that Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn described as his act of rebellion against the Soviet Union.

Nonparticipation in lies cannot have come easy to Cohen, who once described his job as a lawyer in the Trump Organization as “lying for Mr. Trump.”

Cohen once even said he’d die for Trump, though as another Trump advisor said, “Donald goes out of his way to treat [Cohen] like garbage.” Cohen’s own accounts have made clear that for years he was caught in a cycle known to many children of abuse: Defend your enemy, the one who treats you like trash.

But then, two years ago, Cohen finally hit his limit.

On Feb. 27, 2019, he appeared before Congress. He had just been sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations. He had lied, he testified, and he had deputized himself to “a racist, a con man and a cheat.”

At the tail end of Cohen’s painful testimony, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), then chair of the House Oversight Committee, offered him tentative forgiveness.

“You come saying, ‘I have made my mistakes, but now I want to change my life,’” Cummings told Cohen. We would be failing as a nation if we “did not give people an opportunity after they’ve made mistakes to change their lives.”

Cummings urged Cohen to see his travails as something that happened for him, not to him. Fealty to Trump, Cummings concluded, was “a part of your destiny. And hopefully this portion of your destiny will lead to a better Michael Cohen … and a better world.”

The hearing was televised. Cohen didn’t laugh that day. His face was frozen. He teared up.

But Cummings, who died of cancer eight months after the hearing, was right: “A better Michael Cohen” has emerged. On Wednesday on MSNBC, there he was, commenting on, among other things, the revelation that the New York attorney general’s office has added a criminal investigation to its civil investigation of possible fraud at the Trump Organization.

Cohen appeared to be solidly on the path Cummings hoped he’d navigate. Serving his prison term under house arrest because of COVID-19, Cohen, in casual clothes, in a comfortable Zoom setting, was remarkably at ease talking to Joy Reid.

He laughed off Trump’s latest effort to savage him for disloyalty and didn’t snipe back. Instead, Cohen condemned his former boss’ “continuing promotion of the Big Lie” — the outlandish agitprop about election fraud and Joe Biden's legitimacy in the White House.

The scales had also fallen from Cohen’s eyes about Trump’s bullying and threats. He joked about the former president's “temper tantrums masking as strength,” and Cohen's laugh was so infectious that even Reid, who holds no brief for the former fixer or the former president, smiled broadly.

Cohen embodied the enormous release of tension that comes when lying stops and fear abates. The deplatformed, disgraced and defeated has-been Trump has no power over him any more.

But Trump continues to cast an uncanny and dangerous spell over a big swath of Republicans. Many who were hurt or threatened by him obsess about — and even try to placate or aggrandize — their aggressor. Among a segment of the rank and file, his belligerent appeal and power hasn’t waned.

Let Michael Cohen and Liz Cheney, and the stands they've taken, show a traumatized nation a way out. It’s a hard road, but it’s the only path to integrity and well-being. Addressing what PTSD researchers call moral trauma requires admitting mistakes and accepting consequences. But the rewards, including integrity and peace of mind, are worth it.

It’s simple but not easy. First, you stop participating in lies

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-michael-cohen-gets-laugh-100027051.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

Jennifer Weisselberg says the Trump Org. CFO, her former father-in-law, will flip on Trump in New York investigations

Kelsey Vlamis

Thu, May 20, 2021, 11:20 PM

 

 

Allen Weisselberg, center, stands between President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Donald Trump Jr., at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 11, 2017. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

• Jennifer Weisselberg said Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Organization, will flip on Trump.

• She is Allen Weisselberg's ex-daughter-in-law, and was married to his son Barry.

• Jennifer Weisselberg has also been cooperating with prosecutors who are investigating Trump.

Jennifer Weisselberg said Allen Weisselberg, her former father-in-law and the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, will flip on Donald Trump.

Weisselberg was speaking to CNN Thursday about the New York investigations into the Trump Organization and the former president. Interviewer Erin Burnett asked her directly: "Will Allen Weisselberg flip on Trump?"

She responded with a simple "yes," prompting Burnett to note there was "no hesitation" with her answer.

 

Weisselberg was married to Allen Weisselberg's son, Barry Weisselberg, from 2014 to 2018. Trump and his wife attended their wedding and Weisselberg was also present at Trump's inauguration. Since September she has been cooperating with prosecutors who are investigating Trump's finances, and has turned over several boxes of documents and a laptop.

Trump is under two investigations in New York. The New York attorney general's office announced Tuesday it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity," as opposed to a civil one. The Manhattan district attorney's office is also conducting a criminal investigation into whether the Trump Organization committed tax and insurance fraud, among other crimes.

 

Both offices are also looking into the taxes and personal finances of Allen Weisselberg with the hopes of gaining leverage that could convince him to cooperate with prosecutors in the Trump investigations, CNN reported Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer, said that he believes Trump will be the one to turn on everyone else involved in the investigations into the Trump Organization, including his own children.

Weisselberg also told Burnett that while attending Trump's inauguration in 2017 it felt "dangerous" for him to become president.

"The amount of power given to a president - I just think it's irresponsible to give somebody who is self-serving and narcissistic that much power when it's inevitably always to benefit themselves," she said.

When asked why she is cooperating with prosecutors now, Weisselberg said it's because "it's so horrifying that Donald Trump could be president again, knowing what I know."

 

https://news.yahoo.com/jennifer-weisselberg-says-trump-org-032013284.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shelley]

9 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

Jennifer Weisselberg says the Trump Org. CFO, her former father-in-law, will flip on Trump in New York investigations

Kelsey Vlamis

Thu, May 20, 2021, 11:20 PM

 

 

 

 

Allen Weisselberg, center, stands between President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Donald Trump Jr., at a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 11, 2017. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

• Jennifer Weisselberg said Allen Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Organization, will flip on Trump.

• She is Allen Weisselberg's ex-daughter-in-law, and was married to his son Barry.

• Jennifer Weisselberg has also been cooperating with prosecutors who are investigating Trump.

Jennifer Weisselberg said Allen Weisselberg, her former father-in-law and the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, will flip on Donald Trump.

Weisselberg was speaking to CNN Thursday about the New York investigations into the Trump Organization and the former president. Interviewer Erin Burnett asked her directly: "Will Allen Weisselberg flip on Trump?"

She responded with a simple "yes," prompting Burnett to note there was "no hesitation" with her answer.

 

Weisselberg was married to Allen Weisselberg's son, Barry Weisselberg, from 2014 to 2018. Trump and his wife attended their wedding and Weisselberg was also present at Trump's inauguration. Since September she has been cooperating with prosecutors who are investigating Trump's finances, and has turned over several boxes of documents and a laptop.

Trump is under two investigations in New York. The New York attorney general's office announced Tuesday it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity," as opposed to a civil one. The Manhattan district attorney's office is also conducting a criminal investigation into whether the Trump Organization committed tax and insurance fraud, among other crimes.

 

Both offices are also looking into the taxes and personal finances of Allen Weisselberg with the hopes of gaining leverage that could convince him to cooperate with prosecutors in the Trump investigations, CNN reported Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer, said that he believes Trump will be the one to turn on everyone else involved in the investigations into the Trump Organization, including his own children.

Weisselberg also told Burnett that while attending Trump's inauguration in 2017 it felt "dangerous" for him to become president.

"The amount of power given to a president - I just think it's irresponsible to give somebody who is self-serving and narcissistic that much power when it's inevitably always to benefit themselves," she said.

When asked why she is cooperating with prosecutors now, Weisselberg said it's because "it's so horrifying that Donald Trump could be president again, knowing what I know."

 

https://news.yahoo.com/jennifer-weisselberg-says-trump-org-032013284.html

 

GO RV, then BV

Flip what ??? Pancakes ?

[Shabibilicious]

7 minutes ago, Shelley said:

Flip what ??? Pancakes ?

 

I don't know....never been to prison, don't know if they serve pancakes or not.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shelley]

2 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

I don't know....never been to prison, don't know if they serve pancakes or not.

 

GO RV, then BV

Did the judge give you the choice 

prison or Army , when you joined 

[Shabibilicious]

6 minutes ago, Shelley said:

Did the judge give you the choice 

prison or Army , when you joined 

 

Nope....wasting my scholarship helped me make the choice....as well as crushing the ASVAB in high school, which allowed me to pick an MOS worthy of a civilian career, if and when I decided to ETS.

 

A judge did give my squad leader the choice to reenlist after his Nam stint though....best soldier I ever met, and I met many.

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shelley]

3 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Nope....wasting my scholarship helped me make the choice....as well as crushing the ASVAB in high school, which allowed me to pick an MOS worthy of a civilian career, if and when I decided to ETS.

 

A judge did give my squad leader the choice to reenlist after his Nam stint though....best soldier I ever met, and I met many.

 

GO RV, then BV

I left out condescending in that last comment .... but I see you have to remind everyone , you are very .

[Shabibilicious]

4 minutes ago, Shelley said:

I left out condescending in that last comment .... but I see you have to remind everyone , you are very .

 

What?....you think my Army career post is condescending?

 

GO RV, then BV

[Shabibilicious]

Ivanka Trump In A Fog In Deposition About Role Of Investigated Top Trump Executive

 

 

Mary Papenfuss

·Trends Reporter, HuffPost

Sun, May 23, 2021, 1:44 AM

 

 

Ivanka Trump appeared confused during a deposition about the role of a longtime top Trump Organization executive who’s currently the subject of a criminal investigation by the New York Attorney General’s Office.

That would be Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the company, who has worked for Donald Trump and his late father for decades. Ivanka Trump has worked at the same company as executive vice president since 2005.

“Who is Allen Weisselberg?” Ivanka Trump was asked in a deposition in December with investigators from the District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office as part of its lawsuit alleging the misuse of inaugural funds.

“He is the — I would have to see what his, his — I don’t know his exact title but he’s an executive at the company,” she responded, according to a transcript released earlier this year.

 

The D.C. attorney general sued the Trump Organization and the Presidential Inaugural Committee last year, alleging they misused more than $1 million raised by the nonprofit by “grossly overpaying” for the use of event space at the Trump hotel in Washington for the 2017 inauguration.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, ex-friend of former first lady Melania Trump, claims that Weisselberg’s “hands were all over” the record-breaking $107 million collected and spent by the Inaugural Committee. Ivanka Trump was also unable to “recollect” in her deposition what role Weisselberg played in that situation.

Wolkoff, a former aide to the Trump family, helped organize the inauguration but indicated she had little to do with finances.

 

Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, felon Michael Cohen, who’s serving time for various crimes committed while working for his old boss, quipped on Twitter that Trump has “trained” his daughter well to play daft. “I don’t know. I wasn’t there,” Cohen mocked her answers. “Allen who?”

 

The investigation into inaugural spending isn’t Weisselberg’s only headache. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has been conducting a criminal investigation into Weisselberg’s personal taxes for months — and has also launched a criminal probe into the Trump Organization, her office revealed Tuesday.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is carrying out a parallel investigation into possible loan, bank and insurance fraud by the Trump Organization and its officers.

Investigators are reportedly using evidence of irregular financial arrangements by the Trump Organization to lean on Weisselberg and his son, Barry, to “flip” on Donald Trump. Barry Weisselberg ran the Wollman Rink for the Trump Organization, and his ex-wife has revealed that pricey perks like private school tuition and free use of Trump housing in Manhattan were part of his compensation.

New York Investigators have inquired about “untaxed” benefits collected by the Weisselbergs, The Washington Post reported last month. Officials are working on getting Allen Weisselberg and/or his son to cooperate with the investigation into Trump’s company, sources told the Post.

“Would Allen Weisselberg flip on Trump?” CNN’s Erin Burnett asked Jennifer Weisselberg, Barry’s ex-wife, in an interview Thursday.

“Yes,” she answered without hesitation.

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ivanka-trump-allen-weisselberg-deposition-inauguration-054438585.html

 

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[patrickgold]

12 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Ivanka Trump In A Fog In Deposition About Role Of Investigated Top Trump Executive

 

 

Mary Papenfuss

·Trends Reporter, HuffPost

Sun, May 23, 2021, 1:44 AM

 

 

Ivanka Trump appeared confused during a deposition about the role of a longtime top Trump Organization executive who’s currently the subject of a criminal investigation by the New York Attorney General’s Office.

That would be Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the company, who has worked for Donald Trump and his late father for decades. Ivanka Trump has worked at the same company as executive vice president since 2005.

“Who is Allen Weisselberg?” Ivanka Trump was asked in a deposition in December with investigators from the District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office as part of its lawsuit alleging the misuse of inaugural funds.

“He is the — I would have to see what his, his — I don’t know his exact title but he’s an executive at the company,” she responded, according to a transcript released earlier this year.

 

The D.C. attorney general sued the Trump Organization and the Presidential Inaugural Committee last year, alleging they misused more than $1 million raised by the nonprofit by “grossly overpaying” for the use of event space at the Trump hotel in Washington for the 2017 inauguration.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, ex-friend of former first lady Melania Trump, claims that Weisselberg’s “hands were all over” the record-breaking $107 million collected and spent by the Inaugural Committee. Ivanka Trump was also unable to “recollect” in her deposition what role Weisselberg played in that situation.

Wolkoff, a former aide to the Trump family, helped organize the inauguration but indicated she had little to do with finances.

 

Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, felon Michael Cohen, who’s serving time for various crimes committed while working for his old boss, quipped on Twitter that Trump has “trained” his daughter well to play daft. “I don’t know. I wasn’t there,” Cohen mocked her answers. “Allen who?”

 

The investigation into inaugural spending isn’t Weisselberg’s only headache. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has been conducting a criminal investigation into Weisselberg’s personal taxes for months — and has also launched a criminal probe into the Trump Organization, her office revealed Tuesday.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. is carrying out a parallel investigation into possible loan, bank and insurance fraud by the Trump Organization and its officers.

Investigators are reportedly using evidence of irregular financial arrangements by the Trump Organization to lean on Weisselberg and his son, Barry, to “flip” on Donald Trump. Barry Weisselberg ran the Wollman Rink for the Trump Organization, and his ex-wife has revealed that pricey perks like private school tuition and free use of Trump housing in Manhattan were part of his compensation.

New York Investigators have inquired about “untaxed” benefits collected by the Weisselbergs, The Washington Post reported last month. Officials are working on getting Allen Weisselberg and/or his son to cooperate with the investigation into Trump’s company, sources told the Post.

“Would Allen Weisselberg flip on Trump?” CNN’s Erin Burnett asked Jennifer Weisselberg, Barry’s ex-wife, in an interview Thursday.

“Yes,” she answered without hesitation.

 

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ivanka-trump-allen-weisselberg-deposition-inauguration-054438585.html

 

GO RV, then BV

I don't know about your sources, they're known to take quotes out of context, retract their stories and at times admit they misinformed.  But hey, their writings as you may know they tend to use certain words, phrases over and over and the un-woke tend to believe it as truth. Oh and we all know family/ friends and coworkers can turn on you at anytime out of jealousy, envy or just to be spiteful. 

[Shabibilicious]

8 hours ago, patrickgold said:

I don't know about your sources, they're known to take quotes out of context, retract their stories and at times admit they misinformed.  But hey, their writings as you may know they tend to use certain words, phrases over and over and the un-woke tend to believe it as truth. Oh and we all know family/ friends and coworkers can turn on you at anytime out of jealousy, envy or just to be spiteful. 

 

Feel free to post any articles, concerning DJT's legal woes, from any source you prefer, patrick.....that's what this thread is for.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Feel free to post any articles, concerning DJT's legal woes, from any source you prefer, patrick.....that's what this thread is for.  

 

GO RV, then BV

 

In this current cancel culture is anyone really secure posting the "source" they prefer?

 

Facebook, Twitter and Google have all suppressed the right.....banning posters or just not allowing legitimate links to pertinent news stories to be posted...(Hunter Biden pay for play) 

 

Seems these "private entities" can do what ever they please, on any whim.....I imagine that would include Montana......

Just a thought...     CL

[Shabibilicious]

Well.....not for a lack of effort by some posters, but I haven't been banned yet.....So Adam Montana has certainly proven himself a proponent of free speech, which is nice....And that's taking into account he doesn't have to bend to anybody on his own site.

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

2 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

Well.....not for a lack of effort by some posters, but I haven't been banned yet.....So Adam Montana has certainly proven himself a proponent of free speech, which is nice....And that's taking into account he doesn't have to bend to anybody on his own site.

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Yep...that includes all of us....😮

[Shabibilicious]

New grand jury seated for next stage of Trump investigation

MICHAEL R. SISAK

Tue, May 25, 2021, 7:02 PM

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's business dealings, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The development signals that the Manhattan district attorney’s office was moving toward seeking charges as a result of its two-year investigation, which included a lengthy legal battle to obtain Trump’s tax records.

The person familiar with the matter was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity. The news was first reported by The Washington Post.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into a variety of matters such as hush-money payments paid to women on Trump’s behalf, property valuations and employee compensation.

The Democratic prosecutor has been using an investigative grand jury through the course of his probe to issue subpoenas and obtain documents. That panel kept working while other grand juries and court activities were shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The investigation includes scrutiny of Trump’s relationship with his lenders; a land donation he made to qualify for an income tax deduction; and tax write-offs his company claimed on millions of dollars in consulting fees it paid.

The new grand jury could eventually be asked to consider returning indictments. While working on that case, it also will be hearing other matters. The Post reported that the grand jury will meet three days a week for six months.

Trump contends the investigation is a “witch hunt.”

“This is purely political, and an affront to the almost 75 million voters who supported me in the Presidential Election, and it’s being driven by highly partisan Democrat prosecutors," Trump said in a statement.

Vance’s office declined to comment.

The new grand jury is the latest sign of increasing momentum in the criminal investigation into the Republican ex-president and his company, the Trump Organization.

Attorney General Letitia James said last week that she assigned two lawyers to work with Vance’s office on the probe after her civil investigation into Trump evolved into a criminal matter.

James, a Democrat, said her office also is continuing its civil investigation into Trump. She did not say what prompted her office to expand its investigation into a criminal probe.

In recent months, Vance hired former mafia prosecutor Mark Pomerantz to help run the investigation and has been interviewing witnesses, including Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Vance declined to run for reelection and will leave office at the end of the year, meaning the Trump case is likely to pass to his successor in some form. An election next month is all but certain to determine who that will be.

Trump said in a statement last week that he’s being “unfairly attacked and abused by a corrupt political system.” He contends the investigations are part of a Democratic plot to silence his voters and block him from running for president again.

In February, the U.S. Supreme Court buoyed Vance’s investigation by clearing the way for the prosecutor to enforce a subpoena on Trump’s accounting firm and obtain eight years of tax returns and related documents for the former president, the Trump Organization and other Trump entities.

The documents are protected by grand jury secrecy rules and are not expected to be made public.

Vance’s investigation has appeared to focus in recent weeks on Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg. His former daughter-in-law, Jen Weisselberg, is cooperating with both inquiries.

She’s given investigators reams of tax records and other documents as they look into whether some Trump employees were given off-the-books compensation, such as apartments or school tuition.

Allen Weisselberg was subpoenaed in James’ civil investigation and testified twice last year. His lawyer declined to comment when asked Tuesday if he had been subpoenaed to testify before the new grand jury.

A message seeking comment was left with Jen Weisselberg’s lawyer.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/grand-jury-seated-next-stage-230209304.html

 

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[Markinsa]

 Rudy Giuliani (on Manhattan empaneling a Grand Jury to indict Trump)

In a democracy, you investigate crimes that lead to people, in a dictatorship you investigate people to try to find a crime. We're headed in the direction of full dictatorship.

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18 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

 Rudy Giuliani (on Manhattan empaneling a Grand Jury to indict Trump)

In a democracy, you investigate crimes that lead to people, in a dictatorship you investigate people to try to find a crime. We're headed in the direction of full dictatorship.

 

Good for Rudy for speaking his truth.....if I was under investigation that's exactly what I would have said too.

 

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[Markinsa]

7 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

f I was under investigation that's exactly what I would have said too.

 

Fortunately for you, they wont' have time to get to you before your two years are up.

 

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[Shabibilicious]

4 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

 

Fortunately for you, they wont' have time to get to you before your two years are up.

 

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True that....they're focused on the mastermind behind warp speed and the impending death that comes with it.

 

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[Shabibilicious]

Trump's advisers reportedly in 'cloud of nerves' over Manhattan grand jury

 

 

Brigid Kennedy, Contributing Writer

Wed, May 26, 2021, 12:11 PM

 

 

 

Donald Trump Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump's team is more nervous than usual now that prosecutors have convened a grand jury in an investigation into Trump and organization executives, Politico reported Wednesday.

"There's definitely a cloud of nerves in the air," said an adviser to Politico. The shift in attitude compared to what Politico calls "the typical barrage of legal issues surrounding Trump," is reportedly attributed to fears that Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, whose taxes are under investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James' office, will "flip."

"I think the Weisselberg involvement and the wild card of that makes the particular situation more real," said the adviser. "The fact that they're dealing with a numbers guy who just has plain details makes people more nervous. This is not a Michael Cohen situation."

In a Tuesday statement, Trump maintained a seemingly different attitude than his team, claiming the whole probe is "purely political" and proof "our country is broken." "This is a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in American history," he added.

 

The latest development in the ongoing investigation into Trump and his business dealings, started by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in 2018, reportedly suggests prosecutors have found evidence of a crime. The grand jury will meet over six months to discuss possible indictments.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-advisers-reportedly-cloud-nerves-161113225.html

 

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