The Special Monitor appointed to oversee the New York civil case against the Malignant Loser has flagged a scheme that the Malignant Loser used to knowingly and intentionally evade as much as $48 million in taxes. The findings have now been provided to Justice Arthur Engoron as he determines the penalties he'll impose on the fraudster and his criminal organization:
Tucked into a footnote in a letter written by former federal judge
Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor overseeing Donald Trump's New York business fraud case
is a bombshell that appears to indicate the former president may have
engaged in massive tax evasion, according to a new report released by The Daily Beast.
The letter, first reported by The Messenger, was delivered Friday to update Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Jones' findings while reviewing the former president's business dealings through his company, the Trump Organization.
In it, Jones writes that the financial information
filed to her by Trump's team has contained "incomplete" or
"inconsistent" disclosures containing multiple "errors." However, she
describes Trump and his businesses as "cooperative" with her
investigation.
But buried in the sixth footnote of the 12-page
letter is what the Daily Beast indicated is a clue that Trump may have
evaded taxes on $48 million in income, with Jones writing that the
massive sum — which Trump has claimed for years that he owes as a debt
to one of his companies — never existed.
"When I inquired about
this loan, I was informed that there are no loan agreements that
memorialize the loan, but that it was a loan that was believed to be
between Donald J. Trump, individually, and Chicago Unit Acquisition for
$48 million," Jones wrote.
She added: "However, in recent discussions with the Trump Organization,
it indicated that it has determined that this loan never existed — and
thus that it would be removed from any upcoming forms submitted to the
Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and would also be removed from
subsequent versions of MAML," Jones wrote, referring to corporate
financial statements filed by the company. [snip]
However, per the Daily Beast, as recently as October, Trump has claimed in financial disclosures that he owes the sum to his company, Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC, listing his debt as more than $50 million.
The
discrepancies, if true, would indicate that the disclosures Trump has
filed with the federal government were intentionally submitted with
inaccuracies related to the debt equating to tens of millions of
dollars. "It would appear, assuming Judge Jones' letter is accurate,
that this amounts to tax evasion," Martin Lobel, a tax lawyer, told The
Daily Beast.
Of course, the broad outline of the Malignant Loser's tax evasion techniques has been known for some time:
[I]n 2019, Mother Jones reported a significant portion of Trump's debt was forgiven by the hedge fund he owed money to after he paid about half of it.
So, instead of paying income taxes of up to 39% on the forgiven debt, the outlet reported, Trump "invented a loan
— and then parked it." Debt parking is the process of purchasing debt
using a corporation to avoid paying income taxes on it. The maneuver is
legal as long as the borrower intends to repay the loan but is illegal
to engage in indefinitely.
Adam Levitin, a Georgetown University
law professor specializing in commercial real estate finance, told
Mother Jones at the time that the plot was "pretty brazen," adding: "if
he didn't actually buy the loan, this is just garden-variety fraud."
"While
the reasons behind claiming this fake loan are still unknown, at the
very least he misled the government for years about his finances,"
Jordan Libowitz, communications director at Citizens for Responsibility
and Ethics in Washington, told The Daily Beast. "It appears that Trump
knowingly and intentionally broke the law. The only question is how many
laws."
Adding the amount of taxes evaded, along with interest and penalties, along with the $370 million New York is already seeking in penalties, the $83 million Carroll defamation judgement, and Manhattan DA Bragg's pending business fraud/ mistress payoff trial -- all in State courts, where he can delay but can't nullify the results -- should be sufficient to eventually cause the Malignant Loser to have to sell off significant chunks, if not all, of his properties. It also means, the sociopathic narcissist will be ranting about nothing else but himself from now until Election Day, if he gets that far without being DQed or pulling a stint in the slammer (a.k.a., the American Dream).
And, contrary to the Malignant Loser's latest whine, This Is America.
