Posted on 07/05/2021 6:31:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says he believes federal tax fraud charges filed in New York City against The Trump Organization’s longtime finance chief will end up being dismissed.
“You can’t get a city district attorney indicting somebody for failing to pay federal income taxes when the IRS hasn’t even gone after him,” Dershowitz said in a July 3 interview with Newsmax. “One of the charges, a major charge, is grand larceny against the United States government.
“That shows the extent to which they are prepared to stretch existing law and the Constitution to give them authority over federal taxes. It’s absurd.”
On July 1, The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, were charged in what New York prosecutors called a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme in which Trump’s company and Weisselberg allegedly cheated the state and city out of taxes by conspiring to pay senior executives off the books by way of fringe benefits, such as apartment rent and car payments.
Prosecutor Carey Dunne said in court that the alleged scheme was “orchestrated by the most senior executives” at the firm and got “secret pay raises at the expense of state and federal taxpayers.”
Weisselberg and attorneys for The Trump Organization have pleaded not guilty.
Ahead of the unsealing of the criminal indictment on July 1, The Trump Organization criticized Manhattan prosecutors for what they claimed was a partisan criminal investigation designed to hurt Trump politically. In a July 1 statement, The Trump Organization said the probe “is not justice; this is politics.”
Dunne pushed back on the claim, saying that “politics has no role in the jury chamber, and I can assure you it had no role here.”
Alan Futerfas, a member of The Trump Organization’s defense team, disagreed.
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It’s just for show anyway
Does that response turn upon what the meaning of “can” is?
As in he CAN assure us, but he didn’t, and he won’t.
~Easy
Not in a New York courtroom.
All my liberal friends keep saying that DJT is going to jail among other slanderous garbage. There’s been so much time and this is the stupidity that they have?
That’s exactly my thoughts. They will do whatever it takes to convict anyone connected with Trump.
You still have liberal friends?
The DOJ and FBI have been doing it for forty years...or for ever
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Look at the Judges that Flynn. Stone, Papadopolous, and Manafort drew.
They were out for blood from the outset.
Amy Berman Jackson made statements about one or more of the defendants (rightly) dying in prison before one piece of evidence was submitted.
It’s way too late for peeps to be underestimating the Hate for Trump and his supporters. It’s more like - what won’t they do.
Alan Derxhowitz is a liberal. But he is a brilliant attorney.
How far America has fallen! It's considered a crime to try and keep more of your own money! While they preach endlessly about slavery they strive to make all of into free range slaves!
Add up all the billable hours of the Trump investigations the last 6 year’s and you could buy a Caribbean nation.
You can get them for not paying state taxes.
They were trying to get the guy to flip on Trump and he wouldn’t do it. There’s nothing to flip on. Trump isn’t a crook. Now the prosecutors are stuck with this debacle.
Lawyers working for elected officials committing political crimes, that’s all this is. The lawyer should be prosecuted.
In New York, the state taxable income is predicated on the federal reported income. If the amount was ok with the feds, the state can’t jack it up, after the fact, under the existing laws at that time.
So if someone is underreporting income to the Federal government then they are underreporting income to the state, and avoiding state taxes as well. Hence the state charges.
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