Posted on 06/16/2018 8:03:10 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
As a former attorney for the chief counsel of the I.R.S. who specialized in nonprofit organizations, I believe Mr. Trump is also criminally liable for his actions. If I were still at the I.R.S., based on the lawsuit, I would make a criminal referral, on charges of tax evasion or false statements on a tax return, or both.
On the tax evasion charge, the government must demonstrate that the defendant willfully failed to pay a tax he owed and acted to disguise or attempted to disguise that evasion. For a false statement charge, the government must show the defendant willingly signed a return under penalties of perjury, making a materially false statement that he knew was false.
These are not easy charges to prove, but the Trump Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is entrusted with money to be used exclusively for public charitable purposes. Any use of foundation money to benefit himself is akin to theft.
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One would think someone who voted for Hillary would understand that rules are only for “the little people”.
Mr. Hackney should look into the Clinton Foundation if he wants a REAL case....
MEGA-BARF ALERT
This is the mother of all barfs.
Obama spent a lot of time weaponizing the IRS and turning it into another tentacle of the DNC. The ‘RATS shouldn’t let all of Obonzo’s “hard work” go to waste.
What is more is anyone who knows anything about foundations should be well aware the entire point of a foundation is to avoid taxes and still use the money to benefit yourself. Who started these things? The Rockefeller? The Fords?
Please bring it on and may the IRS suffer the same fate as the FBI.
LOL, morons!
Trump gets an ungloved rectal every stinking year from the IRS already and has his entire working life!
These people are insane.
That said, I put nothing past the Deep State.
I really didn’t get much past “NYT.”
Am I going crazy or what? Do we live in some kind of bizzaro world?
Don’t they already audit The Donald every year?
The IRS needs prosecuted. Why isn’t Sleepy Sessions doing just that??
Trump needs to stop playing victim and start playing The Boss.
Why would Trump do that? He runs an international hotel chain. Virtually everything he does is already a legitimate business expense anyway - his plane travel, hotel stays, meals entertaining potential clients....
It’s sad but still possible for a recognized charity to be very inefficient. I’d like, however, to see the kind of “law” this chap would gin up.
Didn’t the IRS already go after President Trump? What was that audit all about then?
THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE CLINTONS!!!
DRUMPF!!!!!!
You're about to join "Swingers Anonymous." Enjoy!
Why don't you go find something useful to do for your country?
The Feds nailed Al Capone on tax evasion; why not Donald Trump?
For the Deep State, anything goes. It isn’t going to stop bringing Trump down now.
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