Posted on 10/25/2022 8:23:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Donald Trump may be called to testify in the Trump Organization’s fraud trial in Manhattan, a judge said Monday.
The announcement was made to a pool of more than 130 potential jurors at Manhattan Criminal Court in the criminal case against Trump’s namesake business, which is accused of helping its executives dodge taxes on perks like free apartments and cars.
Justice Juan Manuel Merchan told potential jurors that Trump was on the list of people whose names might come up and could be called to testify.
The selection process was set to continue Tuesday and was expected to take up to two weeks. The trial could last a month, officials said. No jurors were selected Monday.
The judge and lawyers in the case are looking to keep people with strong political opinions out of the jury box, which may prove challenging in the overwhelmingly blue borough. On Monday, Merchan privately questioned dozens of potential candidates who said they had a “good faith reason” not to serve and could not be impartial.
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Dream on!
There is no fraud.
There is an interpretation of real asset market values that differ from tax assessed values.
Market values are driven by different circumstances than tax assessed values.
In most all cases, market values exceed tax values.
Leticia James needs to be charged and tried for running a Bill of Attainder scheme against a political opponent.
Isn’t the value of a property worth whatever people are willing to pay for it?
What do you think the chances are that this fat black entitled affirmative action hire will ever face any consequences for using her position to harass political opponents? She is no doubt hoping to run for President next.
NYC is a crime ridden shithole.
The subway system is a dangerous warzone.
This case? At MOST, a low level tax evasion case.
They are desperate to get him in a perjury trap. He says the truth and they claim it is lie. But he thwarts them by just taking the fifth.
Or vice-versa, whatever an owner is willing to sell it for.
Everyone has a price.
If my shoreline home is $3 million to me and my neighbor sells his home for $2 million, no one is going to tell me I must sell my home for $2 million.
LOOK hard at your own property tax bill.
The retail value isn’t anywhere on that bill.
That’s right.
That’s the point.
Market values almost always exceed tax assessed values.
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