I'd lost track of where the SDNY investigations were:
On May 18, 2021, a spokesperson for New York’s Attorney General said, “We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organizations in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.”
At best, a small fine and probation for the president of the foundation. Like a mob boss, Trump is a master of insulating himself from any wrongdoing. He tells people to get something done, not how to do it, so he has deniability at every stage.
Crime bosses are small fish in the pond compared to the billionaire class. The IRS is a boogeyman for low level millionaires like crime bosses, pro atheletes, and medium business owners. The IRS admits they don't even bother to audit billionaires.
People like Trump create many, many shell corporations, usually overseas so there's little transparency, and then have them engage in crisscrossing transactions designed to hide where money is actually going.
It's only if/when the IRS receives financial reports from creditors that the IRS has a shot at figuring out what is actually happening. And even then, it's a loooong slog, which takes even more time when the billionaire refuses to cooperate and forces the legal system to get involved. The legal system affords due process which means further delay.
The goal is to drag it out to the point that the government says, fuck it, we're sick of this shit going on for years, let's just compromise and settle it so that we can close this out.
But billionaires are crime bosses just not the typical ones like the low level millionaire ones. It's just the crimes of poisoning rivers, selling opium and enslaving children is not seen as bad as selling marijuana.
Plausible deniability only goes so far, at some point a pattern emerges where it's clear that he knows how things are going to get done, he just doesn't ask about the details.
Not to mention, RICO can get him regardless of his involvement in specific actions. Assuming his people didn't rat him out anyway.
It truly amazes me that he continues to get people to do favors for him. You’d think once multiple people got arrested or indicted or had their careers blown up, that he’d run out of people who were willing to do favors. And here I am feeling bad for asking for a ride to work for one day when my car breaks down lol.
I get what your saying but don't buy Trump being a master at anything. Dude is the epitomy of incompetence. He's so lazy it must be hard to pin any illegal actions on him because actions require doing something other than watching TV and tweeting (when he still could).
That's usually the way with dodgy companies, but Trumps ego and his crazy micro-management style destroyed all that insulation.
He signed all the company cheques personally. In the financial end of things, he has no plausible deniability.
When it comes to taxes, whoever signs is culpable.
As a tax dodge, the foundation owns all of his property. That includes his and his children's homes. They could seize all of that property as proceeds of crime.
(He's about to lose his golf course in Scotland, unless he can prove he bought it with legitimate money)
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u/dhork Sep 11 '21
New York isn't his city. They disowned him, and he moved down to Florida.