Countdown Clock, Trump Going to Jail
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Eric Trump's interesting defense after Trump CFO's indictment
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I searched for Trump tax cheating www.google.com/search?q=trump+tax+cheating and found:
The former U.S. tax commissioner who went to jail for evading taxes
While the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg have pleaded not guilty to the charges and Trump was not charged in the case, he isn’t the first powerful former federal official to be linked to tax evasion. In 1956, a former U.S. tax commissioner went to jail for it.
In 1954, Joseph Nunan Jr. was convicted of evading $91,086 in taxes (equal to $911,000 today) between 1946 and 1950, including one year when he still was the nation’s top tax official. This involved taxes owed on $1,800 (about $18,000 now) that Nunan won on a bet that President Harry S. Truman would win the 1948 election.
The tax evasion was the tip of a massive scandal in the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Internal Revenue in the early 1950s. At least 20 tax officials were convicted of or indicted in tax evasion, taking bribes, illegally accepting outside income or charging “fees” to fix tax cases. Another 166 employees were fired.
At that time, most federal tax collections were overseen by 64 politically appointed district collectors. Congressional investigating committees found many tax collectors lived well beyond their modest government pay.
A tax agent in Brooklyn admitted splurging on a new car, a new house, new furniture and carpets, and a new TV set. The agent credited his sudden riches to a run of gambling luck. The agent, the Associated Press reported, boasted he had made quite a reputation “as a doper of fights, and he got racing tips from a bookie named Packy.” The agent was soon ousted for taking improper payments.
The head of the bureau’s alcohol tax unit in New York City bought his wife expensive mink coats. He admitted to being on the payroll of liquor companies that he oversaw for doing “nothing in particular.”
The St. Louis district tax collector, an old friend of Truman, was convicted of accepting payments to help companies win preference in federal programs.
The bribes to tax agents weren’t always in cash. “We discovered a case where an agent put in the fix for a contractor after the latter weatherproofed the agent’s house,” said James Dowling, the chief investigator for one congressional committee. “Another builder over the barrel built a brand-new garage for a tax agent.”
Sometimes “the tax agents picked out TV sets or washing machines in stores owned by their intended victims,” Dowling added. “One fellow had a dozen finely tailored suits. We learned he had processed tax returns for a clothing maker.” When asked to explain the free suits, the agent said, “I’m testing the fabric.”
The corruption reached all the way to Nunan, whom President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed tax commissioner in 1944. Nunan, an amiable Democratic politician from Brooklyn, was known as “the jolly tax collector.” When he resigned in 1947 to become a highly paid tax consultant, Truman praised him for fighting “tax chiselers.”
In 1951, congressional investigators charged that as a consultant, Nunan had improperly gotten a brewery company’s triple-digit tax bill reduced to a hefty refund. The investigators said Nunan failed to report tens of thousands of dollars of income over several years. A federal grand jury indicted Nunan in cheating on his taxes. The former tax commissioner’s defense was: “I have never held myself out to be a tax expert.”
At Nunan’s trial in federal court in Brooklyn in 1954, investigators testified that the former tax chief held large sums of money in three safe-deposit boxes. Nunan’s bookie testified that Nunan bet $900 (about $10,000 now) that Truman would win in 1948. Nunan said he didn’t report his $1,800 winnings because they were offset by losses on horse racing bets.
Prosecutors said Nunan’s wife, Kathryn, spent $29,524 (equal to $295,000 now) for “plain and fancy attire” at a Brooklyn clothing store over three years. Kathryn testified she was a “quite extravagant wife” and her husband didn’t know about the expenditures.
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Trump will be fine.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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Trump Org Terminates CFO Weisselberg From Some Duties. Is Trump Org Setting Him Up to Take the Fall?
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Trump will be fine.
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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There is no better place than Trump's America to be a white-collar criminal.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/takeaways-from-the-indictment-
of-the-trump-organization/ar-AAM1oaG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
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watching THUGR watch a clock that will tick forever but never strike while his own life tick tocks away reminds me of this ...
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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OMG. How interminable ... How limited ... How claustrophobic ...
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lol
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And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.
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