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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: New York investigation could destroy Trump!
Fight over tax returns takes a turn Trump probably wont like
09/17/19 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
Theres a new subpoena for the presidential materials that takes the effort in a new direction.
The Manhattan District Attorneys Office headed by Cy Vance has sent a grand jury subpoena to President Donald Trumps accounting firm to get his tax returns and corporate tax returns for the past eight years, a person with direct knowledge of the matter tells NBC News.
Legal experts with such requests say that the subpoena will likely focus not just on the tax returns but will likely also ask for the underlying documents used to generate the tax returns such as bank statements, expense statements, and other financial documents.
Because the current president is at the center of a variety of jarring scandals, its worth emphasizing that this subpoena has nothing to do with the Russia affair. Rather, Trump has also been caught up in a hush-money controversy involving pre-election payments to his alleged former mistresses, which helped put his personal attorney in prison, and which is part of an ongoing investigation launched by a New York district attorneys office into the Trump Organization.
Prosecutors are exploring whether the presidents business falsified records to obscure the purpose of Trumps payment to Stormy Daniels.
More trouble for Teflon Don is listed at this link:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/fight-over-tax-returns-takes-turn-trump-probably-wont
09/17/19 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
Theres a new subpoena for the presidential materials that takes the effort in a new direction.
The Manhattan District Attorneys Office headed by Cy Vance has sent a grand jury subpoena to President Donald Trumps accounting firm to get his tax returns and corporate tax returns for the past eight years, a person with direct knowledge of the matter tells NBC News.
Legal experts with such requests say that the subpoena will likely focus not just on the tax returns but will likely also ask for the underlying documents used to generate the tax returns such as bank statements, expense statements, and other financial documents.
Because the current president is at the center of a variety of jarring scandals, its worth emphasizing that this subpoena has nothing to do with the Russia affair. Rather, Trump has also been caught up in a hush-money controversy involving pre-election payments to his alleged former mistresses, which helped put his personal attorney in prison, and which is part of an ongoing investigation launched by a New York district attorneys office into the Trump Organization.
Prosecutors are exploring whether the presidents business falsified records to obscure the purpose of Trumps payment to Stormy Daniels.
More trouble for Teflon Don is listed at this link:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/fight-over-tax-returns-takes-turn-trump-probably-wont
Meanwhile in California:
Los Angeles Times
Trumps tax returns required under new California election law
By JOHN MYERS SACRAMENTO BUREAU CHIEF
JULY 30, 2019 3:04 PM
SACRAMENTO President Trump will be ineligible for Californias primary ballot next year unless he discloses his tax returns under a state law that took effect immediately Tuesday, an unprecedented mandate that is almost certain to spark a high-profile court fight and might encourage other states to adopt their own unconventional rules for presidential candidates.
The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on the final day he could take action after it passed on a strict party-line vote in the Legislature earlier this month, requires all presidential candidates to submit five years of income tax filings. They must do so by late November to secure a spot on Californias presidential primary ballot in March. State elections officials will post the financial documents online, although certain private information must first be redacted. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-30/trump-tax-returns-california-ballot-gavin-newsom-law
Trumps tax returns required under new California election law
By JOHN MYERS SACRAMENTO BUREAU CHIEF
JULY 30, 2019 3:04 PM
SACRAMENTO President Trump will be ineligible for Californias primary ballot next year unless he discloses his tax returns under a state law that took effect immediately Tuesday, an unprecedented mandate that is almost certain to spark a high-profile court fight and might encourage other states to adopt their own unconventional rules for presidential candidates.
The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on the final day he could take action after it passed on a strict party-line vote in the Legislature earlier this month, requires all presidential candidates to submit five years of income tax filings. They must do so by late November to secure a spot on Californias presidential primary ballot in March. State elections officials will post the financial documents online, although certain private information must first be redacted. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-30/trump-tax-returns-california-ballot-gavin-newsom-law
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BREAKING: New York investigation could destroy Trump! (Original Post)
Jeffersons Ghost
Sep 2019
OP
How could traitortrump's tax returns have 'NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RUSSIA' - billions! ??
empedocles
Sep 2019
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. How could traitortrump's tax returns have 'NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RUSSIA' - billions! ??
?
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)3. Obviously, the reporter realizes...
There are so many felonies, by Teflon Don, in his tax returns and related financial statements that Russian issues will be eclipsed by their PUBLIC disclosure.
triron
(21,999 posts)6. How can treason br 'eclipsed'?
Paladin
(28,252 posts)2. Just how many "Could Destroy Trump!" stories have there been, so far?
20? 50? 100?
I don't even take time to read such reports, anymore.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)4. People who refuse to read fail to learn anything.