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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 07:10 AM Jul 2019

Lawsuit over Trump tax evasion in Panama takes a strange turn

Disputes about confidentiality rankle both sides as the lawsuit moves forward.
Casey Michel
Jul 2, 2019, 2:27 pm

From suspicions of money laundering, to watching his name vanish from the building’s facade, President Donald Trump’s former property in Panama has long served as one of the main headaches for the president’s ongoing business struggles since his ascension to the presidency.

Now, an ongoing lawsuit threatens to open a new chapter in the saga of the former Trump Ocean Club property — and fresh questions about the building’s finances.

The building, over which Ivanka Trump helped oversee construction and development, transferred to new owners last year, with Trump’s name being removed wholesale from the building. Led by majority owner Orestes Fintiklis, the new owners recently filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York alleging that they’d uncovered financial records showing that the Trump Organization had spent years dodging Panamanian taxes.

As The Washington Post summarized:

In the filing, Fintiklis does not give a dollar figure for the amount of taxes Trump allegedly evaded. But he says his company could now face “millions of dollars in liability” if Panama demands that it pay the taxes Trump did not. Fintiklis also asserts that the Panamanian authorities have audited the hotel’s books and “identified the failure to withhold and pay income taxes relating to Trump’s management fees.”

https://thinkprogress.org/lawsuit-trump-tax-evasion-panama-19d2a4903f7b/

In other words besides being a tax fraud, he is also a deadbeat, and a cheater...........................and since panama is a signed member of Interpol, maybe they should send out a warrant for his daughter and his arrest.........................

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Lawsuit over Trump tax evasion in Panama takes a strange turn (Original Post) turbinetree Jul 2019 OP
Ivanka is the worst of the kids, watoos Jul 2019 #1
In most normal situation if someone breaks the laws in ones own country turbinetree Jul 2019 #2
Jr. and Eric are mainly looking for approval from Trump and others muriel_volestrangler Jul 2019 #5
Just standard operating procedure for Trump Organization and the family. sinkingfeeling Jul 2019 #3
Another sordid saga of law breaking that goes unpunished. BSdetect Jul 2019 #4
He really is a crook and a cheat mountain grammy Jul 2019 #6
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. Ivanka is the worst of the kids,
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 07:42 AM
Jul 2019

she was behind the Trump tower in Baku that laundered money for the Iranian military.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
2. In most normal situation if someone breaks the laws in ones own country
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 07:46 AM
Jul 2019

and they are subject to a foreign system of breaking the law , they usually demand extradition or have warrant issued by Interpol............................this is just amazing. I really don't understand why they haven't issued that international warrant...................if it was you or me, they wouldn't be batting a eye about it...........................amazing..........

muriel_volestrangler

(101,306 posts)
5. Jr. and Eric are mainly looking for approval from Trump and others
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 02:32 PM
Jul 2019

(plus money, of course). Ivanka desires power and influence. Yes, she's the worst, because she has real ambition.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
4. Another sordid saga of law breaking that goes unpunished.
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 09:41 AM
Jul 2019

Why are our so called Intelligence groups never able to expose these crooks?

mountain grammy

(26,619 posts)
6. He really is a crook and a cheat
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 02:40 PM
Jul 2019

and he's the president of America.

Eventually, they have to nail him for something...right?

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