D.C. Prosecutors Set Their Targets on Don Jr.'s Posse

[JoeOtterbein]

Source: Daily Beast

The District of Columbia’s attorney general on Monday will seek a judge’s permission to force three more people in the Trump family circle to testify, as investigators continue to look into whether Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration committee misspent more than $1 million and enriched his own company.

The AG’s office laid out its plan in court filings earlier this month that had previously been unreported.

The local government’s case centers on how Trump’s kids blurred the lines between the family business and what’s supposed to be a nonprofit, potentially milking the inaugural celebration by funneling events to the Trump International Hotel in Washington where the committee may have overpaid on services.

“The world’s about to learn how Trump’s inner circle—with Trump’s full knowledge—took advantage of the presidential inauguration,” said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who helped put together inaugural events and is now a lead witness for the government in this case.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-prosecutors-set-their-targets-on-donald-trump-jrs-posse?ref=home

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Creepy crooks!

[empedocles]

1. More good news

[Justice matters.]

3. What are the penalties for guilty verdicts?

100% guilty verdicts of course.

[zentrum]

4. Not holding my breath

...for any of these.

The story will be that it cost the Government more to bring it all to trial than the grifters grifted. A million isn't much.

[stopdiggin]

5. I'm thinking more

Yeah - probably insider dealing - "so what?" Trying to tell me there wasn't a little gravy dispensed here and there - in any previous inauguration? And, in this case - they didn't even go to any real lengths to hide what they were doing! Sour grapes! Get over it!

and, yeah .. a million isn't all that big a figure

[Maraya1969]

14. I cannot imagine Barack Obama or Joe Biden doing anything like this - at all.

Most people would not do anything like this.

[stopdiggin]

19. was outlining what I see as likely narrative

and the fact that a lot of people have pretty much shrugged their shoulders -- at all manner of crimes and misdemeanor carried out in brazen fashion by this criminal syndicate. And in the case of the inauguration -- not even an decent attempt at a convincing fig leaf. I just don't see either the public, or the political class, as getting very worked up about this. Would that it were not so, but ....

[yonder]

8. Yeah, me too......no breath holding.

But about that million not being much: remember the story about Barron's Cub Scout dues, I think it was, being taken out of the Trump Org. petty cash fund rather than daddy's wallet? I think it was 11 bucks, certainly less than 20 and maybe less than 10, that the old man wouldn't cough up himself.

That tells me that when it comes to money, that tightwad family thinks ANY amount is too much if someone else can be made to pay. And half of our countrymen appear to think that philosophy is admirable or even something to strive for.

The gross griftniness of that family is remarkable.

[Grins]

10. A million is PLENTY!

And it’s not the amount, it’s the crime. If someone embezzled $10,000 (and that’s what this is) or even far less - jail!

[progressoid]

15. The trump family has been getting away with their grift for decades.

There have been some fines here and there but they keep going on with their grift.

[zentrum]

16. Yes, that's how they'll do it.

Pay a fine. Deduct the debt from the taxes they don't pay. And continue.

[ShazzieB]

6. This may be a bigger deal than just the amount.

"...investigators continue to look into whether Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration committee misspent more than $1 million and enriched his own company."

This is about misspent inauguration committee funds. That means the actual amount of money isn't the only thing at issue. Maybe not even the most important thing.

This could be just the tip of a very large, ugly iceberg.

[Cryptoad]

7. I have yet to see,,,

anything being considered that would prevent this from ever happening again,,,,O!

[marble falls]

9. Which one is going to throw Eric, Ivanka and 45 under the bus. Coke habit'll make one do that.

[Initech]

11. Lock them up!

[CanonRay]

12. Don Jr. better hurry up and marry Kimberly

so there's spousal privilege.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Lock him up!!!!!

[Polybius]

17. Posse?

Who wrote that, someone from the 90's?

[Initech]

18. Lock 'em up and throw away the key!