!! Steve Bannon is under an "active criminal" investigation over his Florida residency claims

[kpete]

Last edited Sat Mar 11, 2017, 05:36 PM - Edit history (1)

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/during-his-political-rise-stephen-k-bannon-was-a-man-with-no-fixed-address/2017/03/11/89866f4c-0285-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.05336636d36d

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/during-his-political-rise-stephen-k-bannon-was-a-man-with-no-fixed-address/2017/03/11/89866f4c-0285-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?pushid=breaking-news_1489253797&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.e687481cbac1

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. The living gin blossom made two mistakes at one time. He ought to know better.

[louis-t]

2. My understanding is the house is vacant.

[janterry]

3. I like this :)

Hope they get him! Can trump just pardon it, though?
(still, like it since it will be another instance of trump perpetuating the 'swamp').

[elehhhhna]

13. I think the president can only pardon federal crimes

[MFM008]

4. hows his liver doing?

BannonsLiver needs to weigh in lol.

[Initech]

9. It's saying "Help me! Help me!"

[True Dough]

5. Another Trump crony who escaped "extreme vetting"

Unthinkable, isn't it???

[Achilleaze]

6. republicans and sleazy lies go together like

scuzz and scum

[GP6971]

7. The link is a long, but good read. n/t

[kpete]

8. behind the firewall

send snippets


kp

[GP6971]

10. Interesting...I don't subscribe

but somehow I was able to read the article.

[Maeve]

11. A bit more

The issue of Bannon’s legal residency has been simmering since last summer, shortly after he became chief executive of Trump’s campaign. The Guardian reported in an Aug. 26 story that he was registered to vote at a then-vacant house and speculated that Bannon may have signed an oath that he was a Florida resident to take advantage of the state’s lack of state income taxes.

In California, where Bannon had lived and owned property for more than two decades, income tax can exceed 12 percent.

However:

The Post found that Bannon left a negligible footprint in Florida. He did not get a Florida driver’s license or register a car in the state. He never voted in Florida, and neighbors near two homes he leased in Miami said they never saw him. His rent and utility bills were sent to his business manager in California.

Bannon’s former wife occupied the premises, according to a landlord and neighbors.

At the same time Bannon said he was living with his ex-wife, she was under investigation for involvement in a plot to smuggle drugs and a cellphone into a Miami jail, a law enforcement document obtained by The Post shows.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. "entire Jacuzzi bathtub seems to have been covered in acid"

This is the plot of a horror movie.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Or an attempt to clean his slime rings off the fixtures

Same difference

[sarcasmo]

14. If you had, Bannon with acid in the tub, you win Trump Clue.