Posted on 10/02/2016 10:56:30 AM PDT by justlurking
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File legal action against the NYT. Adding cost to the NYT will bring it closer to bankruptcy and then the Trump Company can by the NYT up on pennies to the dollar. Just the way Trump likes it.
NYT’s entire legal department should resign.
Good job.
5.56mm
I wonder about this, legally speaking, and am glad to see others repsonding this way.
I figured it would be against the law to publish Trump’s old tax returns, even if the media got hold of them somehow.
Now that the Times has broken the law by publishing them, will they be held legally accountable? That’s the question.
Not good for the NY Slimes , opps NY Times. The shoe is now on the other foot as the NY times did not pay taxes last year. GE owner of NBC, MSNBC did not pay taxes either!
“Think about that for a moment. Mitnick may be 80 years old, but he’s not senile. If he’s semi-retired, he is likely still a CPA, and has maintained his professional association membership.
“Mitnick wouldn’t have confirmed the validity of the documents without permission.”
As a retired FL CPA, the fact that Mitnick said a single word to the NYT should be an indication that he IS to some degree senile!
Who in their right mind would open themselves up to being sued by Trump?
The NYT legal staff knows this and went ahead with the article anyway putting the old CPA’s life savings in jeopardy.
Question is statute of limitations I guess. Is there one? Does it involve years from when tax return was filed or from when return was leaked...
As I’ve said on previous threads. If this was a totally legal thing to do NY state politics would have been awash in tax return warfare for decades.
That's exactly my point. I don't think Mitnick would take this risk, and I'll bet he has Trump's permission in writing.
If the Times had any sense, they would have asked Mitnick if Trump had given him permission. They may have done so, but "neglected" to mention it in the article.
And remember, these are the CPA Society’s rules for CPA’s professional conduct. Releasing these returns is against Federal law as well (I understand). Of course federal law is currently only enforced against Republicans or conservatives.
First... I’m a CPA.
I am no longer a member of the AICPA so the their rules and regulations do not apply to me.
IRS circular 230 would govern most return preparers.
The legality of this depends upon the source of the returns. I find it ironic that they are only state returns and not federal.
Oh PLEASE!! The CORRUPT JUST US Dept. WILL DO NOTHING!!!! well, maybe they will indict Trump for something!!
Baquet made the comments the weekend of 9/10:
Dean Baquet, Bob Woodward say they would risk jail time to publish Donald Trump’s tax returns
The article is dated 2016-09-14.
Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, and Bob Woodward, associate editor of The Washington Post, made the comments during a panel discussion this past weekend at Harvard University.
The Times received the tax returns on 2016-09-23:
The Time I Found Donald Trump’s Tax Records in My Mailbox
In Metro, we get a lot of junk mail, and are regularly flooded with correspondence from prisoners in New York’s penitentiaries.
But Friday, Sept. 23, was different.
I walked to my mailbox and spotted a manila envelope, postmarked New York, NY, with a return address of The Trump Organization. My heart skipped a beat.
Last night I thought it was the Clinton Cartel that did this however today I am thinking Trump punked someone.
How in the name of Zeus butthole’ are you freeper people so smart to map all this out with such detail?
You’ve been doing more than justlurking.
Good work.
Just the legal department?
How about every person who had anything to do with this article? Writer, editor, editor-in-chief, ....
Scum. All of them.
Trump should also find out who leaked this to the Times and sue the pants off that person, too.
If any of this theory holds up, I would suspect that Mitnick had Trump’s permission, nay, encouragement to validate the forms. At worst Mitnick can expect a reprimand from the CPA organization, while at best, the editor of the NY Times can go to jail and Trump can sue the Times until their ears bleed.
Just a dream, just dream, all our plans all our schemes...
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