Wednesday, May 6, 2020

DONALD TRUMP, TAX EVADER - AND YOU THOUGHT HE WAS ONLY A TRUTH EVADER???




By Alice Wilder | May 6, 2020
Welcome to Trump, Inc., a collaboration between WNYC and ProPublica where we look at who is profiting from the Trump administration and at what cost.
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Meet the shadowy accountants who do Trump's taxes and help him seem richer than he is

Donald Trump displays a statement of his net worth during his announcement that he will seek the Republican nomination for president on June 16, 2015, in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
On May 12, after a six-week delay caused by the pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the epic battle by congressional committees and New York prosecutors to pry loose eight years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Much about the case is without precedent. Oral arguments will be publicly broadcast on live audio. The nine justices and opposing lawyers will debate the issues remotely, from their offices and homes. And the central question is extraordinary: Is the president of the United States immune from congressional — and even criminal — investigation? 
Next week’s arguments concern whether Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, must hand over his tax returns and other records to a House committee and the Manhattan district attorney, which have separately subpoenaed them. (There will also be arguments on congressional subpoenas to two of Trump’s banks.) Trump, who promised while running for president to make his tax returns public, has sued to block the documents’ release. The questions apply beyond this case. Trump has repeatedly resisted congressional scrutiny, most recently by vowing to ignore oversight requirements included in the trillion-dollar pandemic-bailout legislation. “I’ll be the oversight,” he declared.

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