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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 28, 2021, 11:45:47 pm
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Trump lawyer says New York DA considering charges related to employee perks
By Joseph Choi - 06/28/21 07:14 PM EDT
An attorney representing former President Trump said Monday that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office told him it is currently considering charges against the Trump Organization and individual employees over allegedly not paying taxes on company benefits — but not on hush money allegations or potential fraud regarding property valuations at this time.
Speaking to Politico, New York attorney Ronald Fischetti said Vance's team said in a meeting last week that it was not considering bringing charges against Trump himself when the first indictments are brought down.
“They just said, ‘When this indictment comes down, he won’t be charged. Our investigation is ongoing,’” Fischetti told Politico.
On Sunday it was reported by The Washington Post that New York prosecutors had given attorneys for the Trump Organization until Monday afternoon to provide an argument as to why the company should not face criminal charges.
Fischetti told Politico that he expects charges to come this week or next week.
"It’s like the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing,'" he said. "This is so small that I can’t believe I’m going to have to try a case like this."
“We asked, ‘Is there anything else?’” Fischetti added. “They said, ‘No.’ It’s crazy that that’s all they had.”
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/560621-trump-lawyer-says-new-york-da-considering-charges-related-to-employee-perks
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Manhattan DA Will Not Criminally Charge Donald Trump: Report
https://conservativebrief.com/manhattan-da-trump-43887/
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Charges related to employee perks? What perk could possibly be an indictable offense?
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Charges related to employee perks? What perk could possibly be an indictable offense?
Not paying taxes on something that should have been claimed as imputed income? Just a guess.
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Don't taxing authorities handle non-payment or misreporting of taxes?
It's like they're looking for a crime, after all the billowing smoke of gloom and doom.
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Don't taxing authorities handle non-payment or misreporting of taxes?
It's like they're looking for a crime, after all the billowing smoke of gloom and doom.
Exactly. I am certainly no expert in this area, but punishment probably won't amount to more than payment of taxes and perhaps a fine, so perhaps the goal all along was to cost them money by having to lawyer up and go through the process. Hence the Fischetti statement:
Fischetti told Politico that he expects charges to come this week or next week.
"It’s like the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing,'" he said. "This is so small that I can’t believe I’m going to have to try a case like this."
“We asked, ‘Is there anything else?’” Fischetti added. “They said, ‘No.’ It’s crazy that that’s all they had.”
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Cyrus Vance is a power hungry vindictive little shit. That is all you need to know as to the "Why".
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Don't taxing authorities handle non-payment or misreporting of taxes?
It's like they're looking for a crime, after all the billowing smoke of gloom and doom.
That's exactly what they're doing. Dan Bongino has spoken numerous times about his dangerous it is when the system switches from: investigate a crime, find the individual who committed it, to: investigate an individual and look for a crime you can prosecute.
This employee perks thing is the absolute must trivial thing you could go after. They're either doing this so the media can spin it as Trump corruption, or they're doing it in the hopes some employee will make a deal to avoid prosecution, and spill the beans on some larger offense they can pin on Trump.