Donald Trump's tax law firm has 'deep' ties to Russia

[Julian Englis]

Source: ABC News

The lawyers who wrote a letter saying President Trump had no significant business ties to Russia work for a law firm that has extensive ties to Russia and received a “Russia Law Firm of the Year” award in 2016.

Sheri Dillon and William Nelson, tax partners at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, which has served as tax counsel to Trump and the Trump Organization since 2005, wrote a letter in March released by the White House on Friday stating that a review of the last 10 years of Trump’s tax returns “do not reflect” ties to Russia “with a few exceptions.”

In 2016, however, Chambers & Partners, a London-based legal research publication, named the firm “Russia Law Firm of the Year” at its annual awards dinner. The firm celebrated the “prestigious honor” in a press release on its website, noting that the award is “the latest honor for the high-profile work performed by the lawyers in Morgan Lewis’ Moscow office.”

According to the firm’s website, its Moscow office includes more than 40 lawyers and staff who are “well known in the Russian market, and have a deep familiarity with the local legislation, practices, and key players.” The firm boasts of being “particularly adept” at advising clients on “sanction matters."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-tax-law-firm-deep-ties-russia/story?id=47376041

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It's probably just another one of those odd coincidences. Not.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Honestly, is this some kind of test? To see how much of this Americans will accept?

To me, this is a true test of patriotism.

Not to condemn the President, but to at least check out some of these facts that are slapping us all in the face.

If someone is not willing to even look at the evidence, well, then...they have something other than the good of our Country in mind.

[jgmiller]

12. I agree I think we are all on an episode of Punked

[burrowowl]

2. I need to buy some popcorn!

[mulsh]

3. with out actual tax records this release is BS. & should be ignored.

n/t

[Cicada]

4. The firm's reputation is important to them

Trump is just one of many clients, a tiny bit of their business. They will not sully their reputation just to please Trump. So what they say is almost certainly true.

[joeybee12]

9. That's hilarious!

Their letter was BS. Income doesn't include loans or investment. It's a classic diversion not lying and not telling the truth. They've blurred the issue

[briv1016]

10. But how much of their other business is tied to Putin?

Don't forget who's really calling the shots.

[Bradical79]

11. They didn't say anything

Adding "with exceptions" cancels out the first part saying he had no income from Russia. It's a vaugue statement that admits he did have income from Russia. Just downplaying how much. And like others have pointed out, "income" excludes quite a bit.

[dalton99a]

5. Russia Law Firm of the Year vouches for Putin's Employee of the Year Donald Trump

[greymattermom]

6. Ties to Russia

mean direct ties, no doubt, but the money is moved through a lot of dummy accounts before it reaches Trump. Those accounts are in places that aren't Russia, like Cyprus, right?

[Achilleaze]

7. deep deep deep is the traitorous republican scuzz

[mrJJ]

8. Trump letter accounts for more than $100 million in Russian income since 2008

Source: McClatchy DC Bureau

WASHINGTON
President Donald Trump collected at least $100 million from Russian people or organizations between 2008 and this March, according to a personal letter from his tax counsels that he released Friday in response to a senator’s unofficial query.

The amount could be higher. The letter notes that money from sales of condominiums or other products would “not have been separately identified as ‘Russian’ in your books.” The letter goes on to state that regarding such income, “the amounts are immaterial.”

Also Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s office confirmed that he “will come to brief the full Senate next week,” according to Matt House, a spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who made the request this week. “The time and date are still being worked out.”

More: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article150276367.html

[dchill]

13. Geez! Let it go! Trump has a CERTIFIED LETTER!