Posted on 09/16/2019 1:39:57 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
State prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed President Trump’s accounting firm to demand eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
The subpoena opens a new front in a wide-ranging effort to obtain copies of the president’s tax returns, which Mr. Trump initially said he would make public during the 2016 campaign but has since refused to disclose.
The subpoena was issued by the Manhattan district attorney’s office late last month, soon after it opened a criminal investigation into the role that the president and his family business played in hush-money payments made in the run-up to the election.
Both Mr. Trump and his company reimbursed Michael D. Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and fixer, for money Mr. Cohen paid to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. The president has denied the affair.
It was unclear if the broad scope of the subpoena indicated that the office had expanded its investigation beyond actions taken during the 2016 campaign. A spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., declined to comment.
The state prosecutors are seeking a range of tax documents from the accounting firm, Mazars USA, including Mr. Trump’s personal returns and those of his business, the Trump Organization. The subpoena seeks federal and state returns for both the president and the company dating back to 2011, the people said.
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Here is my take on all this. Trump’s Tax returns are most likely clean as a whistle. He had deliberately blocked the dems just to keep them occupied looking for a way to get them Live leading them on like monkeys. And in the end, they will have more egg on their faces
Hey Rats,
That hole you keep digging gets deeper and deeper. Please keep it up.
So if the alleged “hush money” was paid in 2016, why go so far back? That alone should be worth a court fight to limit the scope of this fishing.
Trying to look busy and run out the clock to an election they will lose.
If he has evaded taxes isn’t that a matter for the Dept of Revenue?
Tar.
Feathers.
Fencerail.
District Attorney.
Some assembly required.
“Hush money” is not deductible? I guess I’m in trouble, too. I’ve been writing it off for years.
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Cyrus Vance, Jr. would very much like to change the Conversation and his office celebrated when Epstein was likely Murdered.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-plea-deal-casts-light-on-manhattan-da-cyrus-vances-role
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During the campaign Trump promised three times he would release his tax forms after the audit. Isn’t the audit over now 33 months later? He brought this on himself with his BS promises.
He's on constant audit.
This is un-American - government going after a politician it doesn’t like, with no probable cause, to try to “get” him on something, anything.
He has accountants who have full access to everything.
Perusing for errors is NOT a reason for getting them. We'll see.
A so-called “libertarian” condoning government to go after politicians they don’t like, without probable cause, searching for - hoping to - find a crime? Get lost.
Who else would he file his New York State and New York City taxes with?
Does anybody believe that a billionaire isn’t audited annually with a fine tooth comb? I really really hope if he does get forced to hand them over that they show staggering amounts given to charities
Then a red state needs to do the same for every Democrat candidate. Either we start playing the game or get ready for the gulag.
Not so-called changed. Mistake1.
I said he deserves the fight because he broke a promise.
Too bad that means nothing to you. Ethical till our guy is gored by his own horn.
I’m here, i f you want me lost stay away. The truth to you is like garlic to a vampire.
Would be schadenfreude deluxe to have them finally get a hold of the Trump returns and find that he donated 15% to charities.
I agree. Trump knows by now that running your mouth can cost you. He also can play the opposition. So he is either talking out his but, or laying a trap
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