Ron Wyden: Harlan Crow's lavish gifts to Clarence Thomas look like a textbook billionaire tax scam

[Pluvious]

The more we dig, the more egregious and filthy we find the dirt…

This is so corrupt, it’s just GD sickening.
This must be pursued, it should not be ignored.
Otherwise the courts will doom us to fascism.

Link to tweet

Harlan Crow's lavish gifts to Clarence Thomas look like a textbook billionaire tax scam. As Chairman of @SenateFinance, nothing is off the table as I try to address these issues and compel answers to the questions we all have. Including subpoena.
-Ron Wyden

How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises
by Paul Kiel
July 17, 5 a.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

[Bluethroughu]

1. Who will get the award money for turning Harlen into the irs?

[maxsolomon]

7. I don't have much faith the IRS will do a G-D thing.

They appear completely cowed by the GQP, fake religions, and the ultra-wealthy.

Trump still has the 70 million dollar refund they advanced him in 2011.

[Bluethroughu]

9. I can't say I'm surprised.

All these Government haters are reliant on it and corrupt it for themselves.

[Bluethroughu]

2. Clarence Thomas should also be reported to the irs.

[onecaliberal]

3. The people who don't want to investigate need to go. I'm tired of these criminal pricks

Getting away with everything while we’re dying out here.

[The Magistrate]

4. When A Man Can't Deduct Bribes Paid A Judge From His Taxes, What Kind Of Country Is This?

Ain't a judge just a business expense?

The things little people get their knickers in a knot over....

[bullimiami]

5. What it looks like is textbook bribery.

[gratuitous]

6. Harlan Crow doesn't think he's wealthy enough

So he has to game the system and chisel the country for another bit of money. We can't feed, clothe or house our own citizens, but Harlan Crow gets a nice tax write-off, and it's still not enough.

For the oh-so-pious Justice Thomas and his system-corrupting wife, this is more than corrupt; it's a sin.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Corrupt Clarence can't be removed except by impeachment

However, it smells like there's a felony or two in this conspiracy. Let him and Mockalito issue their opinions from prison.

[Duppers]

10. K & R

"Democracy" bought & pd for.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

11. For a yacht owner to meet the legal standard of operating a for-profit business, said Michael Kosnit

For a yacht owner to meet the legal standard of operating a for-profit business, said Michael Kosnitzky, co-chair of the private client and family office group at the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop, “You have to be regularly chartering the yacht to third parties at fair market value,” typically through an independent charter broker.

ProPublica interviewed around a dozen former crew members of the Michaela Rose, some of whom spent years aboard the ship, and none said they were aware of the boat ever being chartered. ProPublica also reviewed cruising schedules for three different years. According to the former staff and the schedules, use of the vessel appears to have been limited to Crow’s family, friends and executives of Crow’s company, along with their guests.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

12. Oh! his father is Trammel Crow. I lived near a Trammel Crow business center. didn't know

Trammell Crow was a person.