[conservative98]

Weisselberg avoided taxes on about $1.7 million of income

Fake news. Not income.

[TallahasseeConservative]

And Al Sharpton still owes the Feds 4 million, plus he owes the plaintiffs in the Tawana Brawley suit millions that remain unpaid. When will he be charged criminally?

[ClearCase_guy]

The IRS has not indicated any problem here.
The City of New York, however, is chasing this guy for federal taxes.

That’s not how federal tax collection works, and it is a good indication that they have absolutely nothing to charge him with.

[Alberta's Child]

Much of the untaxed compensation, more than $1.1 million from 2005 through 2017, came from the Trump Organization paying rent and related expenses for a Manhattan apartment where Weisselberg resided. While the apartment was Weisselberg’s main residence starting in 2005, the CFO falsely claimed to tax authorities that he wasn’t a New York City resident for a number of years and started paying city income taxes only after he sold a home on Long Island in 2013, according to court papers.

This little item itself would seem to vindicate Weisselberg. It sounds like something a person would do if the Long Island home WAS his primary residence.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I wonder if the governor of New York has to pay taxes based on the cost of living in the Executive Mansion.

[a fool in paradise]

#6 it’s another witchhunt show trial

[poinq]

I know personally lots of executives that are going to be in trouble if this goes through. I would say at least 10% of Manhattan apartments in mid-town are corporate apartments for executives that have a house somewhere else but keep an apartment in the city. I am not sure of the kids schooling. But everything else is very commonly done. I think its possible that his divorce caused him to tell one story to his wife and another to the IRS. Where normally he would have been more consistent. In order for him to keep the corporate apartment he would need a home somewhere else. But after the divorce she probably got the other house and he had no cover. He should have bought a small investment property in Florida or somewhere.

[Paleo Pete]

A Trump Organization spokesperson said in a statement hours before the indictment was unsealed that Weisselberg is “being used by the Manhattan District Attorney as a pawn in a scorched earth attempt to harm the former President.”

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Exactly.

The IRS has had Trump’s taxes under audit for several years, which I think is political because he publicly questioned stompy feet, and they have not found a thing.

This is exactly what DJT said, a political witch hunt. If anything was really there, does anyone really think obama’s IRS would not have raked him over the coals years ago?

[bert]

The weaponized law is no law

If there is no law, prosecutors are at risk

[unixfox]

If it was taxable income why did the IRS let it go for 15 years? To entrap him or because they knew it was legit.

Either way, it’s just another reason why we need to scrap the entire tax code and abolish the IRS.

See tagline.

[nanook]

Big difference between evaded and avoided. Evaded is a crime and avoided is allowed.

[Vaduz]

Strange how some prosecutors go after Trump but not Biden OH WAIT no it isn’t.

[Lisbon1940]

1. It’s bogus. 2. It’s small potatoes.3. Just about everybody does it. 4. This is all they have? 5. Allen ain’t flipping.