Imagine that! Mr. Trump trying to avoid taxes
This should hit the MSM Monday unless the GOP convention sucks up all the air. You think they're going to end up holding him more liable for this than they previously intented die to the new evidence?
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A Manhattan judge has just unsealed documents in a civil tax fraud case connected to Donald Trump’s real estate projects. The lawsuit points to an alleged conspiracy to launder $250 million of profit from projects such as Trump SoHo in New York City. It named Felix Sater, a former Trump senior adviser who has an earlier conviction for stock fraud, Sater’s firm Bayrock Group and law firms Kramer Levin, Roberts & Holland and Duval & Stachenfeld as defendants.
“This is an important case because it not only exposes how Bayrock, while developing Trump SoHo in New York, Trump International in Fort Lauderdale, and Trump Camelback in Phoenix in association with Mr. Trump, took advantage of Delaware secrecy to arrange to siphon most of the profits out of the country untaxed, it also exposes how major law firms were willing to facilitate it,” said Frederick Oberlander, one of the lawyers representing the State’s claim.
However, state representatives said that new information “may significantly change that calculus.”
“Mr. Trump gave his consent to the transaction after receiving a full set of documentation which made clear that without it the deal would not go through. The extent of his involvement and any culpability will become clear in the course of the case.
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