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Trump's Accounting Firm Retracts Financial Statements
Trump’s Accounting Firm Retracts Financial Statements

February 14, 2022 at 4:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 140 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/02/14/trumps-accounting-firm-says-financial-statements-not-accurate/

"SNIP.......

“Donald Trump’s longtime accounting firm abruptly cut ties with his family business last week amid ongoing criminal and civil investigations into whether Mr. Trump illegally inflated the value of his assets,” the New York Times reports.

“The accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared… The letter instructed the Trump Organization to essentially retract the documents, known as statements of financial condition, from 2011 to 2020.”

Daily Beast: “The bombshell move by Mazars USA was revealed in court filings in New York on Monday.”

.......SNIP"

I hear you.

Hey man, I was just watching a Kathy Griffin comedy special and thinking about what the Trump people did to her…

This thought came through my mind:

“If they could actually put that son of a bitch in prison, I might really start believing there was some hope for this country.”

Time and trump dead will bring US back to a viable democracy. When Congress starts to have unbiased voting again, this will be a turning point.

I think that's a fair enough standard.

'Now we're going to trial': Trump kids suffer major legal blow in DC inauguration investigation
By Tom Boggioni
Published February 15, 2022

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According to a report from the Daily Beast, while Donald Trump and his family were reeling from a New York Times report that the Trump Organization's accounting firm was severing ties with the company while casting doubts about the past ten year's worth of financial statements, the family suffered another sting blow in a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.

As the Beast's Jose Pagliery reported, the Trump organization -- and specifically Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump -- are now facing the prospect of going to trial in a case involving the misuse of inauguration donations back in 2017.

According to the report, Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking to take Donald Trump and members of his family to court over more than a million dollars that the prosecutor maintains was used illegally.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dc-inauguration-case/

I can still remember Maddow asking ...what did they do with all that money, watch this space

Bill Barr appointed Durham "to investigate the officials who conducted the Trump-Russia inquiry"
His appointment appeared likely to create a headache for whoever Joseph R. Biden Jr. selects as attorney general.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/john-durham-special-counsel-russia-investigation.amp.html

By Charlie Savage
Dec. 1, 2020
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr revealed on Tuesday that he had bestowed special counsel status on John H. Durham, the prosecutor he assigned to investigate the officials who conducted the Trump-Russia inquiry — setting the stage to leave him in place after the Biden administration takes over.

In a letter to Congress, Mr. Barr disclosed that he had secretly appointed Mr. Durham as a special counsel on Oct. 19, before the election. “In advance of the presidential election, I decided to appoint Mr. Durham as a special counsel to provide him and his team with the assurance that they could complete their work, without regard to the outcome of the election,” Mr. Barr wrote.


Mr. Durham never fulfilled President Trump’s and his supporters’ expectations that he would bring to light some significant wrongdoing against the president before the election.
But the step appeared likely to create a headache for whoever Mr. Biden appoints as attorney general, who would take over supervision of Mr. Durham’s continuing work.

Mr. Barr also empowered Mr. Durham to hunt for crimes not only during the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation that began in July 2016, which has been his focus, but also during the period after Mr. Mueller took over that inquiry in May 2017 — making him, in effect, a special counsel for the special counsel.

Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, defended the legitimacy of the Russia investigation and condemned Mr. Barr’s move as an abuse of the special counsel power “to continue a politically motivated investigation long after Barr leaves office ”

Ah, the sweet smell of indictment:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-14-2022

"The Mazars letter told the Trump organization that Trump’s financial statements from years ending June 2011 through June 2020 could not be relied upon to be accurate,...that they were not reliable"

Lawyer George Conway interpreted the letter for non-lawyers. He tweeted:

'decision regarding the financial…statements’=they are false because you lied
'totality of the circumstances’=the D.A. is serious
‘non-waivable conflict of interest’=we are now on team D.A.
‘not able to provide new work product’=sorry we’re not going to jail for you”

Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/us/politics/durham-sussmann-trump-russia.html

No paywall
https://archive.fo/Jn1HP


WASHINGTON — When John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel investigating the inquiry into Russia’s 2016 election interference, filed a pretrial motion on Friday night, he slipped in a few extra sentences that set off a furor among right-wing outlets about purported spying on former President Donald J. Trump.

But the entire narrative appeared to be mostly wrong or old news — the latest example of the challenge created by a barrage of similar conspiracy theories from Mr. Trump and his allies.

Upon close inspection, these narratives are often based on a misleading presentation of the facts or outright misinformation. They also tend to involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time — raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims. Yet Trump allies portray the news media as engaged in a cover-up if they don’t.

The latest example began with the motion Mr. Durham filed in a case he has brought against Michael A. Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer with links to the Democratic Party. The prosecutor has accused Mr. Sussmann of lying during a September 2016 meeting with an F.B.I. official about Mr. Trump’s possible links to Russia.

*snip*

"The danger with groups is when they are led by a leader with mental illness. Leaders are adored by their followers and emulated to a large degree as well. This is especially true under fascism. So if we have a sociopathic fascist leader like Mussolini, Hitler or Slobodan Milosevic, we see groups following them that start to behave like their hero. The group loses its mind and all hell breaks out. Many authoritarian leaders have been sociopaths, including Stalin and Pinochet (in addition to those mentioned above)."
--Steve Rasmussen

I’ve heard David Cay Johnson make predictions for years of how Trump was going down. But this is the first time I’ve heard him be this unequivocal:“Donald Trump will be indicted on a State racketeering charge. I’m confident of that.”

Indictment is one thing, but conviction is another. With 74 million Trump enablers, I think it would be near impossible to ever get an impartial jury or a conviction. Nevertheless, he should be indicted if for no other reason but historical.

The Trump Organization on Monday was dragged back into a District of Columbia court case that seeks to hold it accountable for its role in more than a million dollars of misspent funds during former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

The development marked the second whopping punch against the ex-president’s corporate empire on Valentine’s Day, following news that the company’s own accounting firm accused Trump of cooking up misleading financial statements.

The Trump Organization is now fighting a full-on multi-front war with prosecutors in Manhattan investigating tax fraud, in New York State investigating bank fraud, and in D.C. suing over alleged corrupt self-dealing with nonprofit money.

What caused the sudden shift in D.C.? A new judge who saw through a previous judge’s confounding error.

The Trump Org Stiffed a Hotel. His Kids May Pay the Price.
PAPER TRAIL
Jose Pagliery

In November, D.C. Superior Court Judge José M. López appeared to ruin the local attorney general’s investigation when he decided the case could proceed—but dropped the Trump Organization from the lawsuit. His odd reasoning was that Donald Trump Jr.’s financier friend, Gentry Beach, had made a deal on behalf of the Trump Organization without the company’s permission and therefore the company wasn’t really at fault. In reality, Don Jr., Ivanka, and other staffers at the company’s New York office were on a ton of the paperwork.

In that jaw-dropping decision, López ignored D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s request to get to the bottom of Gentry’s role by subjecting him to sworn testimony and instead put the Trump Organization on an escape boat.

As The Daily Beast reported last month, the Trump kids’ close involvement and the assignment of a new judge on the case offered a glimmer of hope to reverse that.

Indeed, Judge Yvonne Williams on Monday issued a ruling that zeroed in on the previous judge’s Catch-22.

“It was erroneous for the court to rule against the district based on the district’s failure to depose… Mr. Beach… when the Court had [withheld] ruling on the district’s request to conduct that very discovery,” Williams wrote.

The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Our lawsuit is moving forward fully intact & full steam ahead. We sued the inaugural committee for misusing funds to enrich the Trump family. Now we’re going to trial,” Racine wrote on Twitter shortly after the ruling.

Racine seeks to have the Trump Hotel D.C. pay back nearly $1 million in funds that were spent on what local government investigators describe as self-dealing by the incoming president’s adult kids—Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump—to personally benefit themselves using money meant to celebrate the nation’s peaceful transfer of power. His idea is to set up a trust fund that would be diverted to another nonprofit actually engaging in charitable community work.

At the crux of that alleged scheme is an episode in which the Trump Organization reserved a block of rooms at the Loews Madison Hotel, only to stiff the hotel when more than a dozen expected guests didn’t show up. The company managed to dodge a credit collection agency and pushed off the $49,358 bill to the nonprofit presidential inaugural committee, the PIC.

Wow. I hadn’t even considered the possibility of having MAGA zombies in the jury pool.

Ah, well. I got to feel optimistic for a few minutes, anyway.

lol... love your expressions. I hadn't either, and it seems doomed, doesn't it?

More of us than them vote in the jurisdictions involved. Jan 6 has already ended voting for over six hundred criminals. Their Orange Shitgibbon has been telling them non-stop that elections don't mean anything and has even told them to 'not vote'.

This is gaining momentum.
It is inevitable.
They are truly going down.

“Ended over 600 criminals”? Let’s be accurate here. There has been a minimal percentage of the 750 indictments that have received any substantive jail time. Most have received laughable slaps on the wrist. Don’t get carried away. The only thing that’s “inevitable” is
death. Justice for Trump and the lawmakers behind 1/6 may be remotely possible now, but it damn sure is not inevitable.

https://www.facebook.com/australianfreeindependentpressnetwork/photos/a.117424077371137/154274390352772/?type=3

Okay Builder, I’ll bite. What’s the significance of ‘Australian free press’ in the context of a post you address to me in a thread named ‘How stupid is Trump’?

74% of Americans Now Think They Will Be Involved in a War Within 12 Months. Where does that leave you, snood> ??

How about some fact with that "journalism"?


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