New York Times violates law to publish partial Trump tax return from 90s and speculate

American Thinker ^ | October 2, 2016 | Thomas Lifson

[DownInFlames]

The list keeps getting longer. Just look at Nachums list for the last 8 years.

[fluorescence]

Still nothing from the Times about Hillary’s beloved illegal aliens looting the Treasury, stealing billions a year in cash “refunds” of taxes never paid via “Earned” (lol) Income Tax Credits paid on fraudulent tax returns filed illegally under stolen identities.

[detective]

“This is only about the 5 millionth time I’ve seen an article describing some kind of criminal activity by the New York Times.
They never end up getting prosecuted for any of it, and for good reason: None of these involve specific instances of violations of the law.”

You need to learn about the law.

What the NYT did was clearly illegal.

“It shall be unlawful for any person to whom any return or return information (as defined in section 6103(b)) is disclosed in a manner unauthorized by this title thereafter willfully to print or publish in any manner not provided by law any such return or return information. Any violation of this paragraph shall be a felony punishable by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.”

[wny]

Trump should do what he can to drive the nyt stock price to zero. That’d be faster than a lawsuit.

[butlerweave]

During the Clinton Presidency ,well sue them out of business

[Black Agnes]

So would that be $5000 per copy printed maybe?

[crz]

Here is my take. Trump just paid for his entire campaign at the expense of the Times.

Just watch and see.

[Alberta's Child]

Please cite the full statute. I'm particularly interested in the following bold items:

It shall be unlawful for any person to whom any return or return information (as defined in section 6103(b)) is disclosed in a manner unauthorized by this title thereafter willfully to print or publish in any manner not provided by law any such return or return information. Any violation of this paragraph shall be a felony punishable by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

So you're telling me that if I mail my tax returns to the New York Times, then they are prohibited by law from publishing it? How did the information from Hillary Clinton's recent tax returns get out into the public domain?

[Black Agnes]

Unless it was hand delivered to the NYT by Trump himself that would be a legally iffy thing. Anyone can put any return address on a letter.

[Alberta's Child]

Trump's refusal to pursue any legal action here will be very telling. The strategy here is perfect. Trump can now pretend he's an aggrieved victim of a media-driven witch hunt. He has also given himself all the ammunition he needs to put his tax return issue to rest by answering any questions one of two ways:

1. "The New York Times broke the law by releasing my confidential tax return information, so I have to be extra careful about this sort of thing."

2. "The New York Times obviously has my tax returns already, so you can just get that information from them."

These two statements would work perfectly in a political campaign even if there is no truth to them.

[scooby321]

So you're telling me that if I mail my tax returns to the New York Times, then they are prohibited by law from publishing it? How did the information from Hillary Clinton's recent tax returns get out into the public domain?

Hillary released them is how but she never releases the amended ones

[detective]

“So you’re telling me that if I mail my tax returns to the New York Times, then they are prohibited by law from publishing it?”

There is no evidence that Trump authorized the NYT to publish his tax returns. Unauthorized is the operative word.

Here is the section of the tax code cited.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7213

[Alberta's Child]

It's also worth noting that the information apparently came from state tax returns that were turned over to the New Jersey casino commission as part of the process to close one of those casinos down, so I'm not sure Federal law would even apply in this case anyway.

[Black Agnes]

As mentioned on the other thread, it’s highly likely NY has the same sort of laws.

Else this sort of thing would be done in political races all the time.

[Alberta's Child]

See #33.

[COBOL2Java]

The lede paragraph...

The paragraph has German poetry?

[Phil DiBasquette]

What else can you expect from the paper that withheld the Holocaust news and wrung hands over the Rosenbergs. Clearly a class warfare gambit by Hillary to appeal to her sickophant nephew-Commies especially to the Bernouts.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Spellcheck lol, neo-Commies

[Alberta's Child]

Let's step back and ask ourselves an obvious question:

If a media outlet was going to break the law and publish information about Donald Trump's tax returns, don't you think they would publish something much more damaging than a report that he reported a $900 million loss? LOL.

Even in publishing this story they contort themselves into knots in a desperate attempt to make him look bad -- by suggesting that this massive loss MAY HAVE allowed him to reduce his tax exposure for UP TO 18 years.

[joshua c]

Here is the irony.

I am absolutely positively sure that the NYT has been taking a Net Operating Loss deduction themselves.

Someone needs to ask them about this.

They have had red ink at that newspaper for quite awhile.