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https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/03/new-york-prosectors-believe-ivanka-trump-skimmed-millions-from-the-2016-inaugural-fund/A new government lawsuit filed in January alleges that Ivanka Trump illegally over-billed the non-profit Inauguration Committee to bilk expenses and benefit the Trump family. It doesnt take an FBI agent with 30 years of experience to see that all that money pouring in, over $114 million for an inauguration committee, a number that vastly exceeded all previous inauguration funding, despite this being a smaller party. Rumors circulated that much of the money originated outside the United States, which operated as a big red light. Apparently that strobing right light proved too difficult to ignore, and the investigations started.
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)PCIntern
(25,656 posts)If you elect Al Capone as president this is what you get of course. What did anybody think they were getting? Father Flanagan?
wnylib
(21,797 posts)Al Capone, and Adolf rolled into one.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)He used his position in the Catholic Church to spew so of the most vile crap. He was only silenced when the bishops could no longer allow him to spread his vicious propaganda due to the public outcry. It appeared that were in agreement until his condemnation became a national issue.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)kinda' sounds like BunkerBoy and the Senate.....
AdamGG
(1,298 posts)In principle, I'm not in favor of the government stepping in to silence people, but that is part of what happened with Coughlin. It was wartime and he was supporting the Nazis and it was argued that the 1st amendment didn't necessarily mean that you had a right to radio broadcasting.
spanone
(135,950 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,795 posts)Euphemisms be damned.
malaise
(269,328 posts)Thieves steal
Wednesdays
(17,487 posts)you get choked to death over a $20 bill by law enforcement.
Princess steals hundreds of millions...then meh.
sheilahi
(277 posts)and selling loose cigarettes on the street gets you a death sentence.
RVN VET71
(2,700 posts)If you're rich and non-white, you can go to prison for your crimes. (Unless, like O.J., you can hire the best lawyers in the country to go up against an inept prosecution and a laughably inept judge.)
If you're white and non-rich, you can go to prison for your crimes.
If you're both rich and white, you stay out of prison unless what you've done is so horrendously bad -- and at the same time stupid because your greed blinds you to the risks -- like Bernie Madoff and Kenny-Boy Lay and Ivan Bosky. Even Jeffrey Epstein managed to work a sweet deal out of his original bust.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,060 posts)But then again, she did say she got her moral compass from her father.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)So not sure its going anywhere yet
drray23
(7,638 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)The cant throw it out?
drray23
(7,638 posts)So there is nothing to dismiss. A subsequent DA may decide to charge her at a later time.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)So if he charges her and dismisses it, wed all see it.
Then could it be undone later?
Bev54
(10,093 posts)so what has happened since then. I hope some of these cases are tucked away until after the election when Trump cannot pardon them.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Too bad America. Republicans have screwed you over yet again.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Also, Winston-Wolkoff has a memoir due out September 1.
Melania Trump's former aide to release 'explosive' memoir report
Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former unpaid adviser to the first lady, will detail their 15-year friendship
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/06/melania-trump-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-memoir-report
Nevilledog
(51,299 posts)pandr32
(11,644 posts)Right on the heels of DT's niece's book, too.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Hope they all go down.
Captain Zero
(6,867 posts)Did she?
I know someone who got scammed once in a "direct marketing mail drop" business this way.
The scammer convinced them he needed them taking orders for his business then he would ship the product.
Orders came in fast and furious and the scammer had the target set up a bank account to collect the credit card charges.
About a month later, the orders dried up. And the scammer had never shipped the products. He disappeared.
The targets found the account they had set up in their name to collect the charges was DRAINED.
And.
The targets were liable for income taxes on all the money running through the account to collect the credit card charges, which was credit card fraud too.
When you ask someone why they need your help in their business and they say "for income tax purposes".
It is time for you to walk away.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)Everything he does is structured to allow him kickbacks or some other form of grift. Most corrupt US pResident ever.
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,899 posts)The Trump name exudes CORRUPTOPN at every level.
Cirque du So-What
(26,032 posts)Rump is talking about TV ratings after he leaves office, failing to consider enthralled masses who will follow the prosecution of erstwhile first-family crimes.
trusty elf
(7,404 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Lock him up.
(6,955 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)malaise
(269,328 posts)trusty elf
(7,404 posts)glad you enjoyed it!
malaise
(269,328 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)jmowreader
(50,601 posts)...that now, every single person subscribed to this site wants a Trump Family Prison Playset for Christmas this year.
AllyCat
(16,267 posts)MontanaMama
(23,368 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)That's how Capone went down.
packman
(16,296 posts)KS Toronado
(17,468 posts)that people could only bill a "non-profit Inauguration Committee " for hours
worked at the federal minimum wage ?
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Danascot
(4,699 posts)You have yet another clean-up on Pennsylvania Avenue.
BComplex
(8,092 posts)UTUSN
(70,793 posts)johnnyfins
(868 posts)March 9th?
More words to piss off the masses, but nothing will be done. No one is going to jail. Best we can hope for is him losing the election. It's sad, but true.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Vinca
(50,334 posts)LaMouffette
(2,043 posts)Throw in the rest of the Trump circle that has already done time, and all the Republican Congressmen and women who SHOULD be doing time for aiding and abetting the Trump crime family and you'd have a miniseries called: Orange is the New Red (for Republican)!
calimary
(81,608 posts)kacekwl
(7,028 posts)whole family did cause that's what they do. Lock them up.
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,895 posts)people reporting that Trump had an all out meltdown temper tantrum that he wasn't getting all that money.
He was yelling "IT''S MINE", and not the inauguration or Republican Party's.......
Also wasn't there something about him paying his personal "designer?" fifty million that disappeared and was never spent??????
Needless to say, this is probably a drop in the bucket compared to all the money he, Ivanka, and Jared have grifted these past years.
Particularly everything they scammed from the Virus and PPE stuff.
Brainfodder
(6,424 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)How much of it did her dad let her keep after his cut?
cayugafalls
(5,669 posts)The ones who built all his properties and milked millions from him and then he declared bankruptcy to avoid paying.
Don the Con and Ivan the Connivan
SharonAnn
(13,781 posts)the Trump businesses so that her dad, aunts, and uncles could skim the profits.
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)Surely there isn't an imaginary rule that a sitting president's spawn can't be indicted?
gademocrat7
(10,688 posts)No moral compass.
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Sogo
(5,021 posts)Trump is nothing but a magnet for corruption. Everyone who comes in contact with him becomes, or already is, corrupted.
pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)If there were any russkie mobsters donating, could we use pretzel justice to attach it to money laundering (like trumphumpers use pretzel logic to explain ANYTHING the turd does), charge them, use RICO, and seize all their assets?
I'm putting my hopes and dreams on money laundering, and the NY AG, Letitia James. We know they did it. It can pretty much be proven (one example would be the 40 million $ Florida lot sold to a Russian oligarch for 95 million, which was never lived in by said oligarch, but promptly razed,... not to mention all the NYC apts sold to the russkies, some in Turd Tower). The turd was nothing but a Putinski Laundromat.
tanyev
(42,677 posts)Should have named her Chip.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)EleanorR
(2,397 posts)As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump, who at first dismissed the suit as a political attack, made 19 detailed admissions, acknowledging, for example, that the foundation had purchased the $10,000 portrait of himself that was ultimately displayed at one of his Florida hotels.
He admitted to using the foundations money to settle obligations of some of his for-profit companies, including a golf club in Westchester County, N.Y., and Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida which he frequently visits.
And he admitted that the foundation had given his presidential campaign control over about $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a veterans fund-raiser in Iowa in January 2016.
As part of the settlement, Mr. Trumps three children who were officers of the foundation Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were ordered to undergo mandatory training to ensure they do not engage in similar misconduct in the future.
OverBurn
(971 posts)sellitman
(11,611 posts)The mafia Don has fired everybody from edny. No problem now. His daughter is safe.
yonder
(9,686 posts)before these allegations can gain a head of steam and result in indictments, conviction and hopefully prison. She, her husband and brothers will always be looking over their shoulders for the skeletons rattling after them. For me, that's a hopeful thought.
essme
(1,207 posts)She and Jared, and her disgusting brothers have had decades of practice grifting- why NOT put it to good use?
I hope she goes to jail.
Skittles
(153,310 posts)disgusting
catrose
(5,079 posts)Blue Owl
(50,588 posts)n/t
genxlib
(5,547 posts)Was this skimming money that came into the fund through normal means?
Or
Was this withdrawing money that was specifically directed through the fund for them to skim.
Would it really surprise anyone one if this was a payoff mechanism of some kind?
I used to not be a conspiracy theorists. I hate it that people have made me cynical about everything.
volstork
(5,403 posts)to see her bony ass in prison!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I so want to see her in prison, along with her sleazy brothers and her husband. Her father goes without saying.
TeamPooka
(24,303 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)to settle his Trump University fraud suit, You know Trump didn't use his own money, it would go against everything he stands for.
BigmanPigman
(51,672 posts)who is close to getting prosecuted. I wonder what Ghislaine Maxwell has on Barr and the rest of them. Barr's dad hired Epstein and he wrote about pedophile sex slaves in his science fiction book. Birds of a feather...
trueblue2007
(17,250 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)ooky
(8,934 posts)Larceny is in their DNA.
RainCaster
(10,962 posts)Someplace where Pedo-daddy can't get to her