Trump’s Money Man Just Linked Him to Tax Fraud Scheme

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Australian government donations[edit]
Main article: Clinton Foundation–State Department controversy
Donations totalling tens of millions of dollars from successive Australian and New Zealand governments to the Clinton Foundation were the subject of criticism from a number of groups including the Taxpayers union of New Zealand[106] for a perceived lack of accountability and perceived conflicts of interest,[107][108][109] some of the donations were made directly and some through AUSAID.[110]

In 2006, the then foreign minister Alexander Downer and former President Clinton jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006 that gave more than A$25 million to the Clinton Foundation across four years for a project to provide screening and drug treatment to AIDS patients in Asia. The donation was later made through an affiliate of the charity known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).[citation needed] The Australian government ceased funding CHAI in 2016.[111] In 2017 the Specialist Health Service (SHS) in a report commissioned by DFAT noted "Previously, there appears to have been an over-reliance on the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) for facilitating market access".[112]

In 2011, a pledge of A$270 million was made by Australian Julia Gillard government to the Global Partnership for Education[113] which in 2014 joined the Clinton Global Initiative.[114] Julia Gillard was made a member of the board of Global Partnership for Education in 2014 after losing the Australian federal election[115][116]

According to DFAT, Australia contributed A$340.8 million to the Global partnership for education between 2007 and 2014 [117] including A$90 million in replenishment between 2018 and 2020[118]

A Department of foreign affairs and trade (DFAT) spokesperson[who?] responded to questions by News.com by stating: "all funding is used "solely for agreed development projects" and Clinton charities have "a proven track record" in helping developing countries.[citation needed]

Ethics controversies and use of taxpayer funds[edit]
According to the hacked Podesta emails, Doug Band, an employee of the Clinton Foundation, accused Chelsea Clinton's husband Marc Mezvinsky of being involved in conflicts of interest. According to Band, Mezvinsky used the foundation to raise money for his hedge fund.[119] Band also said that he could name 500 different conflicts of interest involving the foundation and some that involved Bill Clinton.[120]

Using the Former Presidents Act Bill Clinton used taxpayer funds to supplement the pay of aides at the Clinton foundation and also used funds for IT equipment. Clinton withdrew 16 million dollars using the president act which was more than any other living president had withdrawn.[121]

Cash for access[edit]
Main article: Clinton Foundation–State Department controversy
In 2011 Raj Fernando who gave between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Clinton foundation was appointed to the International Security Advisory Board within the State Department despite being unqualified. Fernando's appointment came at the request of Clinton Aide Cheryl Mills and Hillary Clinton. Fernando resigned from the position shortly after an inquiry was made by ABC.[122]

In 2009 foundation aide Doug Band emailed Huma Abedin requesting a meeting with Hillary Clinton for Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa who had donated 32 million to the Clinton foundation.[123][124] 2 days later the meeting was arranged.[125]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation#Controversies

 

See above

 

A. I read nothing about them being fined.
B. From your source:
"According to the Clinton Foundation's website, neither Bill Clinton nor his daughter, Chelsea Clinton (both are members of the governing board), draws any salary or receives any income from the foundation. When Hillary Clinton was a board member, she reportedly also received no income from the foundation.[15]

Beginning in 2015, the foundation was accused of wrongdoing, including a bribery and pay-to-play scheme, but multiple investigations through 2019 found no evidence of malfeasance. The New York Times reported in September 2020 that a federal prosecutor appointed by attorney general Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the 2016 FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation had also sought documents and interviews regarding how the FBI handled an investigation into the Clinton Foundation"

You looked up "controversies" and got controversies. Then you put that up as proof of wrongdoing. I'm not saying the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton's were perfect, but there is no comparison between the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation in terms of wrongdoing.

Here are the results of a Trump Foundation controversies. I picked the same source you used.
You should read it before defending Trump on this subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation

From Wiki: "In June 2016, in response to criticism, Trump asserted publicly that he had given about $102 million to charitable causes from 2009 through 2015[51] and released a 93-page list of more than 4,800 donations. Just under $90 million of the total was in the form of conservation easements on Trump properties or land donations to the State of New York; the list also contained more than 2,900 donations of free rounds of golf.[52] Further investigations led to an increasing list of allegations of abuse inside the foundation since its creation."

One big difference in the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation: The Clinton Foundation actually gave a lot of money to charities.

 

No, you don't get both. Politifact confirmed Bill's statement.

why do you care about clinton when the greatest corrupt criminal that ever occupied the white house is Donald Trump, and you don't give a damn?

clearly, you have no leg to stand on and no credibility.

 

Ever hear of rule 15?
Copyright infringement?

 

Weisselberg is full of it.
Trump, Junior and Eric knew what was going on and signed the checks for his grandchildren's private schools which were entered as evidence.

'Prosecutors rest case in Trump Organization's criminal tax fraud trial'

Source: Reuters

"The prosecution rested its case on Monday in the criminal trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump's real estate company on charges including tax fraud after calling five witnesses over three weeks, setting the stage for the Trump Organization to begin to mount its defense....

Weisselberg during three days of testimony said he worked with the Trump Organization's controller to misreport his and others' income on company tax forms, which let the company save on salary payments as well as payroll taxes. The testimony gave a boost to the prosecutors, who in order to win a conviction must show that executives acted in their official capacity when committing crimes.

Under cross-examination by the defense, Weisselberg said his intention in carrying out the arrangement was to benefit himself, calling the company's savings a "byproduct." He choked up as he said he was embarrassed about having betrayed the Trump family's trust....

The case is separate from a $250 million civil lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general against Trump, three of his adult children and his company in September, accusing them of overstating asset values and his net worth to get favorable bank loans and insurance coverage."


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...sedgntp&cvid=aa50763a5f484016ad2d61c7dd2884fc


Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Signed Checks at the Center of ...
https://www.vanityfair.com › News › trump organization

3 days ago — would sign checks for as much as $100,000 to pay for his grandchildren's private school tuition.


Trumps had role in fraud scheme, Allen Weisselberg testifies ...
https://www.cbsnews.com › U.S.

3 days ago — Weisselberg said Donald Trump, or at times Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr., signed checks to pay up to $100,000 for private school tuition ..

 

It just never ends with some of our right honorable friends here does it? The Trump Organization’s CFO basically testifies that yes, laws were broken and fraud was committed and we still have whatabout crap directed toward the Clintons. These folks so tediously argue in support of Donald Effing Tump, who only holds R interests in the palms of his tiny little hands by threat of running as an indy, that they make such enormously egregious claims believing they are somehow supporting the best interests of, well, of what? Putin is the only thing that makes sense to me….

 

What's the end-game with all these disturbing similarities you see and are addressing?

 

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Ever hear of lack of rebuttal?

 

Which does not prove they were aware of the fraud in which Weissenlberg engaged and the prosecutors could not show it.

 

I showed you the multiple legs on which I stand while you have nothing.

 

Right, checks were signed by Trump and sons up to 100,000 and No questions asked.
You conveniently missed this.

Trumps had role in fraud scheme, Allen Weisselberg testifies ...
https://www.cbsnews.com › U.S.

3 days ago — Weisselberg said Donald Trump, or at times Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr., signed checks to pay up to $100,000 for private school tuition ..

 

No, you just imagined you did.

That's just it, imagination isn't reality.

Clearly, you can't fathom the difference.

 

When it comes to corruption, Trump wins that pissing contest, hands down.

https://prospect.org/mapping-corruption-interactive

this is one page of hundreds of pages and annotations on Trump administration's corruption and cronyism.

This one is just the corruption map of Trump's Treasury Dept. There's a corruption map on every department.

But, what, in response, to Republicans say? They just ignore it and point to a few items committed by the Clintons, as if that comes anywhere remotely close to Trump's corruption on a scale hitherto not seen by any president in history.

they just shrug their shoulders and they don't give a damn, nevermind the fact that Trump is the only president in history accused of sex predation by no less than 25 different women of whom some were republicans, some were democrats

• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin got personally rich during his 17 years at Goldman Sachs, specializing in the kind of private-label mortgage securities that would end up nearly wrecking the global economy in 2008.
• He got richer by capitalizing on the carnage to buy a failing, scandal-stained bank on the cheap and carry out 36,000 foreclosures (many involving high-risk reverse mortgages marketed to elderly homeowners) while collecting federal subsidies intended to help keep people in their homes.
• In 2015 and 2016, Mnuchin led the fundraising effort for candidate Donald Trump, raising $169 million.
• A day after being nominated for the job, Mnuchin declared the watering-down of Dodd-Frank bank rules his “top priority.”
• As head of the Financial Stability Oversight Council and leader of the agency overseeing the IRS, Mnuchin has been the administration’s point man in efforts to weaken bank regulations, obscure scrutiny of financial activities, and provide favorable tax rulings for wealthy individuals and businesses—an expanse of territory filled with opportunities for him to bestow favors on industry cronies.
• In 2017, Mnuchin’s office released recommendations for tax regulations that were almost entirely lifted from a memo put out by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
• Mnuchin overruled IRS lawyers to block disclosure of Trump tax returns.
• After attending a conference hosted by convicted securities crook Michael Milken, Mnuchin intervened in rule-writing deliberations, making it easier for Milken to qualify for the “Opportunity Zone” tax break. Milken later secured a presidential pardon with Mnuchin’s further assistance.
• In other decisions involving Opportunity Zones, Mnuchin’s team failed to insist on eligibility guidelines ensuring that low-income areas and residents benefit, as the law stipulates. “At every step, the Treasury Department has made it easier for wealthy investors to reap a taxpayer windfall” from Opportunity Zones, says Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who has introduced legislation that would force investors to disclose more information about their spending and its effects.
• Others in a position to benefit from Treasury’s Opportunity Zone decisions include the family of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner; former Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey; Richard LeFrak, a New York real-estate magnate and longtime Trump associate; and former White House aide Anthony Scaramucci.

WHAT AM I DOING HERE?

• Mnuchin is a former hedge fund manager and bank CEO—the fifth of the last eight Treasury secretaries with a Wall Street background, and the third with Goldman Sachs on his résumé.
• His bank, OneWest, evicted a 103-year-old woman for missing a single payment on her homeowner’s insurance; foreclosed on a 92-year-old over a mortgage check written for 27 cents less than the correct amount; and changed the locks on a Minnesota family in the middle of a blizzard.
• OneWest was implicated in the use of cooked or robo-signed backup documents, among other practices that a New York judge characterized as “harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive.”

SELF-AND-CRONY-ENRICHMENT

• After committing himself to the divestment of his share in a movie company, Mnuchin “sold” it to his fiancée (now wife) Louise Linton.
• In his first six months as Treasury Secretary, Mnuchin spent $1 million flying on government jets. He would have used one for his honeymoon if department lawyers hadn’t warned against it.
• Incorporated and unincorporated businesses and America’s richest families received huge benefits from the 2017 tax cut bill. To make those benefits seem more reasonable and affordable, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans claimed to be closing loopholes at the same time. Since the law’s enactment, the Treasury Department has taken steps to significantly reopen two key loopholes.
• That rule-writing process was overseen by a top Mnuchin deputy, Chip Harter, who spent years at the accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the law firm Baker McKenzie helping companies take advantage of such tax-avoidance techniques.
• With the assistance of lobbyists from Harter’s former firms, a group of foreign-owned multinational corporations—including the Swiss food giant Nestlé and the Dutch chemical manufacturer LyondellBasell—won a concession that will re-legitimize a complex currency-accounting ploy as a way to reduce their U.S. taxes.
• In similar fashion, a group of foreign-owned banks—including Credit Suisse and Barclays—succeeded in exempting a large class of bank transactions from the supposed crackdown. Many tax experts, including some at Treasury itself, insisted that the law did not give the department the authority to grant such an exemption. Harter dismissed their arguments. Erika Nijenhuis of the law firm Cleary Gottlieb was one of the lobbyists who made the banks’ case in private meetings with top Treasury officials; in September 2019, Nijenhuis joined the department’s Office of Tax Policy, which continues to work on these rules. As a result of Treasury’s decisions, the foreign banks stand to gain as much as $50 billion, and the loophole-closing measure is likely to collect only a small fraction of the $150 billion in new revenues originally projected by Congress.
• Altogether, federal tax collection efforts are running tens of billions of dollars behind Congress’s original projections, significantly inflating the cost of the 2017 tax bill. In 2018, the United States had the sharpest decline in tax revenues of any of the 36 OECD nations.

THE BOSS’S BIDDING

• Mnuchin was instrumental in overruling career IRS lawyers to block disclosure of Trump tax returns.
• IRS Chief Counsel Michael Desmond, also involved in that decision, previously worked for the Trump organization and continues to receive rent from Trump-branded condos.
• Desmond got his position after the president leaned on the Senate to expedite his confirmation.
• In negotiations over a proposal to move the Secret Service from the Homeland Security Department back to the Treasury Department, Mnuchin has been trying to block disclosure of Trump-related travel and security expenses until after the 2020 election.

FURTHER REFERENCE

• This Is Still Happening: Steven Mnuchin (Slate)
• Mnuchin: Dodd-Frank Reform “Number One Priority” (Americans for Tax Reform)
• Trump administration calls for rolling back Obama-era financial regulations (Washington Post)
• The Travels Of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (CREW)
• Treasury Completes Rules for Opportunity Zone Tax Breaks (New York Times)
• Trump Asked That Confirmation of I.R.S. Counsel Be a Priority (New York Times)
• R.S. Memo Undercuts Mnuchin on Withholding Trump’s Tax Returns (New York Times)
• Trump’s handpicked IRS chief and IRS legal counsel both have ties to Trump businesses (The Week)
• IRS whistleblower said to report Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence (Washington Post)
• Mnuchin seeks delay of proposed disclosure of Secret Service spending on presidential travel until after election (Washington Post)
• Steven Mnuchin ran a “Foreclosure Machine” and other fun facts about Trump’s shortlist for Treasury (Vanity Fair)
• Trump Treasury ripped its tax cut recommendations straight from the Chamber Of Commerce (Intercept)
• Symbol of ’80s Greed Stands to Profit From Trump Tax Break for Poor Areas (New York Times)
• Trump Tax Break That Benefited the Rich Is Being Investigated (New York Times)
• Milken Had Key Allies in Pardon Bid: Trump’s Inner Circle (New York Times)
• Broken Promises: More Special Interest Breaks and Loopholes Under the New Tax Law (Center for American Progress)
• How Big Companies Won New Tax Breaks From the Trump Administration (New York Times)
• Steve Mnuchin’s reign of destruction: From Wall Street to Trump’s Treasury (Salon)

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Throwing your spaghettis on the wall hoping something will stick again?

Diversion attempt noted.

 

Yea let's all take the word of the confirmed perjurer.

 

Checks drawn by the CFO who was committing the fraud not the Trumps.

 

Thank you for proving the point I made, thus;

they just shrug their shoulders and they don't give a damn

Your ignorance of Trump's corruption, the subject at hand, which proves your false allegation of diversion attempt, is noted.

Trump is a robust criminal, one act of corruption is the same as another, of which he has many, which is the salient point, though the OP is narrow on one small aspect of his corruption.

But, as you have thus proved, you don't give a damn.

You never will, because you are blinded by a demagogue.

 

HELLO, anyone home ?
Weisselberg didn't sign those checks, Trump & Sons did.

 

You listed a rant about Mnuchin, as a said throwing spaghettis on the wall in a diversion.
Trump is such a robust criminal he has all these criminals charges against him................................not. Been waiting for SEVEN YEARS.

 

And Weisselberg was the financial controller committing the fraud. What was the evidence presented at trial that any of the Trumps knew of the fraud?

 

Try reading CBS link on Weisselberg's testimony and the evidence presented before you go on your hourly White Knighting of Trump.

 

Less fighting and more cooperation in solving complex issues of the day. Once we become aware of our hypocrisy we can quit being hypocrites which will do much to reduce the conflict that it causes. So much of political strife is based in ignorance, bias and closed mindedness. Remove those and effective communication becomes much easier to achieve. That is how we make America great. Hypocrites being angry at those that do to them what we they do to others is a good way to tear a Nation apart.

 

Clinton lied about sex.

Excuse me, given that I am a member of the male species, I can categorically declare with a modicum of authority that
the male species will lie to everyone, everything, and God, Himself, let alone Congress, on the subject of sex.

Clinton is not a demagogue, Trump is.

The difference is former is not evil, the latter is.

And do you need congress to tell you who a liar is?

Hell, at least Clinton had the courage to testify before Congress, Trump doesn't, he is a coward.

 

Every charge on the hundreds of pages at https://prospect.org/mapping-corruption-interactive is about corruption surrounding Trump.

The treasury page was one page among hundreds on Trump's people, all corrupt, because HE IS CORRUPT. Corruption begets corruption.

If only one person in his cabinent were corrupt, but all of them are. Take for example his Secretary of Commerce: For nearly a year after his confirmation, Ross held onto his stake in Navigator Holdings, a natural-gas shipping company tied to Russian oligarchs and members of Vladimir Putin’s family Ross was director of the Real Estate division of Cypress Bank, a bank with ties to Putin, and Ross handled many of Trump's condo sales to Russians. Cypress bank is known for being the go to bank for Russian Oligarchs to do their money laundering. Ross conferred with leaders of state-controlled funds in Qatar, Japan, and Singapore which had previously placed money with his private equity firm.

It took the DOJ years to prosecute both Capone and Gotti. Trump will have his turn, the heads of corruption pyramids are always the hardest to prosecute, because they are clever.

Sad that you can't see it.