Trump Sued over the Real Amount of His Personal Debts

[DonViejo]

Source: LawNewz


by Alberto Luperon | 12:58 pm, March 19th, 2017

A new federal lawsuit claims President Donald Trump’s federal financial disclosure forms may not have identified his actual personal debts.

From the complaint, filed Tuesday in a Washington D.C. federal court:

The purpose of these disclosure requirements is to allow members of the public to make informed judgments as to whether candidates for federal office have financial conflicts of interests that may impair their ability to faithfully execute their duties as public servants.

Health law finance attorney Jeffrey Lovitky is suing pro se, so he’s acting as his own lawyer here. He claims POTUS is grating against the Ethics in Government Act, but he actually doesn’t allege any wrongdoing here. He says he just wants more information for the sake of transparency. POLITICO, who broke the story, managed to get any interview with him.



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[Aristus]

1. Good.

If it achieves nothing else, I'm hoping it will at least cause Trump to spend the next several years finding out what it feels like to keep hearing: "No, let us see the real documents!"

[red dog 1]

2. Kick for exposure!

Good luck Jeffrey!

[world wide wally]

3. Dear IRS,

Please finish his fucking audit so he can be arrested for tax evasion.

[PSPS]

6. The IRS has nothing to do with anyone releasing their own tax returns.

For all we know, the "under audit" claim is another lie. But anyone can make their tax returns public at any time regardless of whether they're being audited or not.

[world wide wally]

7. I'm aware of that, but I wish they would make a "Comeylike" statement that he can't use that excuse

anymore

[spooky3]

11. I don't think they can. I think the law considers your tax

Return and audit status private and IRS can't say anything. You can release your own tax returns or lie about the audit status. But their hands are tied.

It's like your grades in school--you can lie and tell people your grade average was x.x, but the school can't release your transcripts.

[world wide wally]

12. "Laws" don't seem to matter anymore when it benefits Trump.

Didn't the Hatch Act forbid Comey from making an annoucement about Hillary 11days before the election too?

[spooky3]

18. Maybe, but here it wouldn't benefit Trump (probably)

and it would be a civil service employee who would be putting him/herself at risk in making an illegal disclosure.

[world wide wally]

20. And that is the incredulous irony of where we are as a country.

[FakeNoose]

21. How about leaking it to Rachel Maddow?

Any document can be leaked to the right person in the media.

Just sayin'

[spooky3]

22. Would you be willing to lose your job?

[cstanleytech]

13. They have said all they can say and they have pointed out that he is blowing smoke

as an audit does not in any way hinder him from releasing his past returns.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. They have.

During the campaign the IRS publicly stated that an audit does not prevent anyone from releasing their tax returns.

[MN_Caucus]

23. They said that during the election

Hell they said that during the primaries, but everyone in the media seems to have ignored that and didn't do any follow-up research into his taxes personal or otherwise.
Last I checked corporate taxes are a matter of public record are they not or are drumpf industries still all private?
Even so how hard would it actually be to get one of his screwed over accountants to turn over on him?

[Alice11111]

9. Yep! Yep!

[Kimchijeon]

4. GOOD. Every little bit helps.

Go get 'em!!

[AKing]

5. Trump has never produced any proof whatsover that he is "under audit"....

All we have is the word of the pathological liar

[Hortensis]

8. Actually, the IRS has stated that he can release

returns under audit, that there's nothing keeping him from it.

[colorado_ufo]

10. Trump IS sued,

not "Trump sued."

[Igel]

16. It's a participle.

"Barack Obama elected president".

It was hardly a claim that Obama on his own elected the president.

Auxiliaries get short shrift in headlines.

Yeah, there's that whole "preterite vs past participle" confusion thing that's been going on in English for the last, what is it, about 800, 900 years?

[colorado_ufo]

19. 800-900 years?

A great tradition!

[Enoki33]

15. Seem to recall one of Trump's sons saying that his father's tax

returns would not be released because they could be used against him. Nobody asked him in what way? Have not seen any journalist follow this up.

[Fast Walker 52]

17. I was wondering that... I saw his personal financial disclosures and I didn't buy his debt

claims, not to mention they were very vague for the largest amounts. like saying >$250 million to Deutsche bank or something like that.

I'm sure he owes a SHITLOAD.

[supernova]

24. I'm not sure on any given day

Trump has enough $$ to pay the parking attendant at TT, much les live the lifestyle he does. I think it's all a creative accounting shell game. And the IRS knows it.