Untouchables
Trump Organization probe enters potentially ominous phase with grand jury convened
For more than two years, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., has been digging deep into the operations of former President Donald Trump's family business for possible fraud involving banks, insurance companies and taxing entities ....
This week, Vance's investigation appears to have entered a new and potentially ominous phase for the former president with the disclosure that a special grand jury has been convened to consider possible evidence of criminality by the president, his business associates or the company itself ...
So much depends on what Allen Weisselberg, Trump's CFO, is willing to testify to.
This reminds me of the fall of the notorious gangster Al Capone. A federal grand jury indicted him for income tax evasion, and he was convicted on October 17, 1931, and sent to prison.
Remember G-man Eliot Ness and his team, the Untouchables? They were special agents of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition and they spent a couple of years working to end Capone's career - they got him indicted for five thousand counts of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act ... "Although Capone would never be prosecuted on the Prohibition charges, that indictment formed the basis of a tax suit brought by the federal government following Capone's conviction for income tax evasion".
Remember the movie, The Untouchables ? This was the scene from near the end, where Capone is convicted in court, and Ness confronts him ...
Given all the bad things Trump is believed to have done, it would be interesting if what finally brought him down was tax crime.
For more than two years, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., has been digging deep into the operations of former President Donald Trump's family business for possible fraud involving banks, insurance companies and taxing entities ....
This week, Vance's investigation appears to have entered a new and potentially ominous phase for the former president with the disclosure that a special grand jury has been convened to consider possible evidence of criminality by the president, his business associates or the company itself ...
So much depends on what Allen Weisselberg, Trump's CFO, is willing to testify to.
This reminds me of the fall of the notorious gangster Al Capone. A federal grand jury indicted him for income tax evasion, and he was convicted on October 17, 1931, and sent to prison.
Remember G-man Eliot Ness and his team, the Untouchables? They were special agents of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition and they spent a couple of years working to end Capone's career - they got him indicted for five thousand counts of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act ... "Although Capone would never be prosecuted on the Prohibition charges, that indictment formed the basis of a tax suit brought by the federal government following Capone's conviction for income tax evasion".
Remember the movie, The Untouchables ? This was the scene from near the end, where Capone is convicted in court, and Ness confronts him ...
Given all the bad things Trump is believed to have done, it would be interesting if what finally brought him down was tax crime.
posted by crystal | 11:02 PM
3 Comments:
It's easier to get a conviction on something like tax crimes because you can prove it with numbers. I think it is quite possible for Trump to be convicted on something like that. However I think it's extremely unlikely that he will ever spend a day in prison. But I would be happy if he had to wear an ankle bracelet, and be required to report to a probation officer, and not leave the country. But most of all I want him to be barred from ever running for, or holding public office ever again.
Strange, I thought I replied to you earlier but it doesn't seem to be here. A news program I saw mentioned how many other countries have put former heads of state in prison, like France (Sarkozy), but we have never done that yet. Trump would make a good first.
LOL, yes he would!
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