I AM IRONMAN Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 53 minutes ago, DBP66 said: You got him THIS (300th) time!š 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 The Trump Org Stiffed a Hotel. His Kids May Pay the Price. Ā Ā Jose Pagliery Mon, January 17, 2022, 3:39 AM Ā Ā Ā Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Former President Donald Trump and his family company have a long history of stiffing contractors, but thereās one bill they almost certainly wish they had paid. Ahead of theĀ 2017 presidential inauguration, the Trump Organization reserved a block of rooms at theĀ Loews Madison Hotel. When at least 13 people didnāt show up, the Trump Organization refused to pay the bill, something it has done many times in the past. The company then dodged a credit collection agency and eventually squirmed out of it by pushing the $49,358 bill off to the nonprofit presidential inaugural committee, the PIC. That dodged payment is now the crux of the attorney general for the District of Columbiaās latest effort to put the Trump Organization back in its crosshairs inĀ an ongoing investigationĀ into how the Trump kids used theĀ Presidential Inauguration CommitteeĀ to throw lavish parties of their own. āIt was their friends. It should never have been sent to the PIC. Thatās misuse of funding. The Trump Organization being involved in any way and getting the PIC to pay any sort of balance anywhere on their behalf? It just doesnāt seem legitimate,ā said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who coordinated inaugural events and is now the governmentās lead witness in this case. Ā Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Drew Angerer/Getty - ADVERTISEMENT - Winston Wolkoff is no friend of the Trumpsāany more. Although she was close to the family for more than a decade and eventually became āTrusted Adviserā to First Lady Melania Trump, there was a fallout after Winston Wolkoff felt that the Trump White House made her the scapegoat for inauguration misspending.Ā The New York TimesĀ identified a company associated with her, WIS Media Partners, as the recipient of a whopping $26 million, and Winston Wolkoff later overcame Justice Department resistance toĀ publication of her tell-all bookĀ calledĀ Melania and Me. D.C. Attorney GeneralĀ Karl RacineĀ continues to investigate how the inauguration committee allegedly misspent more than $1 million and was allegedly used to essentially enrich Trumpās own company on his way into the White House. And the Attorney Generalās office is trying to recover from a courtroom defeat late last year. In November, D.C. Superior Court Judge JosĆ© M. LĆ³pez seemed to doom the local attorney generalās investigation when he cut the Trump Organization loose from the lawsuit. His reasoning, which surprised those following the case, was that the familyās company wasnāt directly involvedāeven thoughĀ Don Jr.,Ā Ivanka, and other staffers at the companyās New York office were on a lot of the paperwork. So he dropped the Trump Organization from the lawsuit. Ā Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine Alex Wong/Getty The judgeās Nov. 8 order hinged on the companyās claims that Texas financierĀ Gentry BeachĀ didnāt have the authority to list the Trump Organization when he pulled out an American Express credit card and made the large and expensive reservation. However, Beach was no stranger to the Trump Organization. He was Donald Trump Jr.ās college pal and was handpicked to serve on the nonprofitās finance committee. He was alsoĀ outed by journalistsĀ even before the inauguration for being part of a nonprofitādirected byĀ Eric Trump,Ā Don Jr. and another wealthy Texanāthat seemed to be auctioning off access to the Trumps. Since then, Racineās office has filed documents in court seeking to reverse that, pointing to numerous receipts and memos that show how even the debt collector wouldnāt be duped into letting the Trump Organization weasel its way out of this one. In the typical fashion of an aggressive collections agency, Campbell Hightower & Adams in Arizona started bombarding the company with phone calls and emails in June 2017, picking up where the Loews Madison Hotel had left off. A collector, identified only as āSherie,ā jotted down notes when she repeatedly communicated with Don Jr.ās executive assistant, Kara Hanley. āUnfortunately, this was not an agreement made by anyone at The Trump Organization. Best, Kara,ā Hanley wrote on June 8. āA contract was signed and then 13 people did not show up for the rooms you reserved [sic] so according to the contract terms, those rooms still have to be paid for. What am I missing?ā Sherie wrote back. Ā Donald Trump Jr. Brandon Bell/Getty A few weeks later, Sherie notified the Trump Organization that she had just found out that yet another Don Jr. executive assistant, Lindsey Santoro, had initially requested the rooms and added Beach as the main contact for the deal. That information seemed to cement even further that the company was indeed involved. And when the hotel contacted the collections agency in July to request that the bill suddenly change the listed debtor to ā58th Presidential Inauguration Committeeāāwith an odd special note saying āIt just cannot say āThe Trump OrganizationāāāSherie grew suspicious. āI hesitate as they all seem to be pointing fingers and making excuses as to why they wonāt pay it and this seems to be another ploy so the Trump Organizationās name is not on it,ā Sherie wrote back on July 10. Records show the bill was eventually paid by the Presidential Inaugural Committee at the direction of Rick Gates, a Trump political operator ally who served on the committeeāand eventually served jail time for committing unrelated crimes caught by special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The District of Columbiaās AG hopes this evidence proves that the Trump Organization should remain part of the lawsuit, which seeks to seize money it deems was misused and divert it instead to another nonprofit. Otherwise, the civil investigation would continue only against the PIC (which is no longer active) and the Trump International Hotel Washington (whichĀ is being sold anyway). In court filings, a lawyer for the Trump Organization and Trump Hotel blasted the AGās last-ditch effort as merely ārehashed argumentsā that seek āseveral bites at several apples.ā On Dec. 14, attorney Rebecca Woods reiterated that Don Jr.ās buddy, Beach, didnāt have the explicit authority to make the deal. She also wrote that investigators shouldnāt be allowed to now seek sworn testimony from him or Santoro, the executive assistant. When approached by The Daily Beast, the AGās office pointed to the arguments it made in court. The Trump Organizationās lawyer didnāt respond to a request for comment. The collection agency didnāt return calls on Friday. Notably, none of these documents described yet another layer of Trump Organization involvement: how company chief financial officerĀ Allen WeisselbergĀ puzzlingly assumed the responsibility of auditing the nonprofit PICās finances. Last summer, D.C. investigatorsĀ wanted to interview himĀ under oath, but he was thenĀ indicted for criminal tax fraudĀ in New York City. The local attorney generalās request is now up to the judgeābut a different one this time. On New Yearās Eve, the case was reassigned to D.C. Superior Court Judge Yvonne Williams, a former NAACP lawyer appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFORDGAWOLVES Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/8/2022 at 9:43 PM, DBP66 said: no..I got my vaccine...you think it's funny....but hey...maybe Budweiser is good for your immune system?...good luck! I thought aquarium cleaner and uv light was the shit, no? bgw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 6 minutes ago, BUFORDGAWOLVES said: I thought aquarium cleaner and uv light was the shit, no? bgw TheyĀ have evolved!...now the go to cure is drinking your own piss!,,..briliant!...can't get anything past those know it all Trumpers!...š 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFORDGAWOLVES Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 5 hours ago, DBP66 said: TheyĀ have evolved!...now the go to cure is drinking your own piss!,,..briliant!...can't get anything past those know it all Trumpers!...š LMFAO!!!!!! bgw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation as she argued for the need to question Donald J. Trump and two of his children under oath. Ā ]]]]] Ā The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, has been investigating Mr. Trumpās business practices since March 2019.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times ByĀ Jonah E. Bromwich,Ā Ben ProtessĀ andĀ William K. Rashbaum PublishedĀ Jan. 18, 2022UpdatedĀ Jan. 19, 2022,Ā 6:20 a.m. ET The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, accused Donald J. Trumpās family business late Tuesday of repeatedly misrepresenting the value of its assets to bolster its bottom line, saying in court papers that the company had engaged in āfraudulent or misleadingā practices. The filingĀ came in response toĀ Mr. Trumpās recent effort to block Ms. James from questioningĀ him and two of his adult childrenĀ under oath as part of a civil investigation of his business, the Trump Organization. Ms. Jamesās inquiry into Mr. Trump and the company is ongoing, and it is unclear whether her lawyers will ultimately file a lawsuit against them. Still, the filing marked the first time that the attorney generalās office leveled such specific accusations against the former presidentās company. Her broadside ratchets up the pressure on Mr. Trump as he seeks to shut down her investigation, which he has called a partisan witch hunt. Ms. James is a Democrat. The filing outlined what Ms. Jamesās office termed misleading statements about the value of six Trump properties, as well as the āTrump brand.ā The properties included golf clubs in Westchester County, N.Y., and Scotland, flagship buildings such as 40 Wall Street in Manhattan and Mr. Trumpās own penthouse home in Trump Towers. Ms. Jamesās filing argued that the company misstated the value of the properties to lenders, insurers and the Internal Revenue Service. Many of the statements, the filing argued, were āgenerally inflated as part of a pattern to suggest that Mr. Trumpās net worth was higher than it otherwise would have appeared.ā Ms. James highlighted details of how she said the company inflated the valuations: $150,000 initiation fees into Mr. Trumpās golf club in Westchester that it never collected; mansions that had not yet been built on one of his private estates; and 20,000 square feet in his Trump Tower triplex that did not exist. āWe have uncovered significant evidence that suggests Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization falsely and fraudulently valued multiple assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions for economic benefit,ā Ms. James said in a statement. It is unusual for such specific and serious allegations to emerge in court papers ā filed less than an hour before a midnight deadline to respond to Mr. Trumpās effort to avoid being questioned ā instead of in a formal complaint. Ms. Jamesās lawyers said that the release of the details would not hamper their investigation, and added that the office was also looking into other conduct not discussed in the filing. Lawyers for Mr. Trump and his company did not respond to requests for comment. Because Ms. Jamesās investigation is civil, she can sue Mr. Trump and his company but cannot file criminal charges.Ā Her inquiry is running parallel to a criminal investigationĀ led by theĀ Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, which is examining some of the same conduct. Ms. Jamesās office is participating in that separate investigation, which is continuing. Mr. Bragg, also a Democrat, inherited the inquiry from his predecessor after taking office on Jan. 1. In early December, Ms. James issued a subpoena for Mr. Trump as well as for Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, seeking to question them as part of her civil inquiry. Ms. James already questioned another of Mr. Trumpās sons, Eric Trump,Ā in October 2020.Ā He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against incriminating himself in response to more than 500 questions, the new court filing said. After receiving the subpoenas, lawyers for Mr. TrumpĀ filed a federal lawsuitĀ seeking to halt Ms. Jamesās civil investigation and to bar her office from participating in the district attorneyās criminal investigation. The lawsuit, which accused Ms. James of violating Mr. Trumpās constitutional rights, argued that her investigation was politically motivated and cited a long list of her public attacks on Mr. Trump. This month, Mr. Trumpās lawyers alsoĀ filed court papersĀ in New York State seeking to block Ms. Jamesās subpoenas, prompting her filing on Tuesday. Ms. James, who is running for re-election this year, argued in the court papers that while her office had compiled evidence that Mr. Trumpās company had engaged in possible fraud, investigators needed to question Mr. Trump in order to determine who was responsible for āthe numerous misstatements and omissions made by him or on his behalfā ā and whether they were intentional. A case could be hard to prove. Property valuations are often subjective, and Mr. Trumpās lawyers are likely to note that his lenders and insurers ā sophisticated financial institutions that turned a profit off their relationship with the Trumps ā did not rely on the companyās estimates. Ms. James has been investigating Mr. Trumpās business practices since March 2019. In previous filings, she described some of the properties she was scrutinizing and said that her investigators were looking into whether Mr. Trump had inflated values in order to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits. In Tuesdayās filing, she went further, giving examples in which she said the former presidentās business had misrepresented the worth of some of its properties and showing how those claims had benefited the company, allowing it to receive favorable loans, insurance coverage and tax benefits. The accusations center onĀ Mr. Trumpās statements of financial condition, the annual record of his assets and liabilities that he gave to lenders and insurers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DBP66 Posted January 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 Former President Donald Trump tells A Bunch of Lies at his Rally Ā Ā Murjani Rawls Tue, January 18, 2022, 5:00 PM Ā Ā Ā Former US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, on January 15, 2022 Since 2016, the song is still a familiar tune. A Trump rally and big lies go together like mac and cheese or better yet, in the case of Trump, potato salad with raisins. Saturday night in Arizona began with election security expert and My Pillow owner Mike LindellĀ proclaiming the 2020 election will be overturned, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari LakeĀ stating Dr. Anthony Fauci should be in jail. It was an open mic night to the MAGA faithful, which somehow, a year later, believes the former President isnāt using them for his own gain. But everybody is used to these rallies, right? We have lived through five years of words just like this, with the former President tagging politicians and dissenters with nicknames, and outlets covered it because it brought ratings. Fast forward to last Saturday night where the former President had his first rally of the year amongst people who still take his word as gospel. Itās the continuation of fear-mongering, hate speech, and rhetoric for him to get applauseāthen heāll have another one whenever he feels terrible about himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 19, 2022 Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 Ā Who puts raisins in potato salad? Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, concha said: Ā Who puts raisins in potato salad? Ā Trumpers.....they'reĀ great in chicken salad with walnuts!....š Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 committee to get Trump documents Ā The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Jan.19, 2022, in Washington. In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) Ā MARK SHERMAN Wed, January 19, 2022, 6:17 PM EST Ā Ā WASHINGTON (AP) ā In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. The justices on Wednesday rejected a bid by Trump to withhold the documents from the committee until the issue is finally resolved by the courts. Trump's lawyers had hoped to prolong the court fight and keep the documents on hold. Following the high court's action, there is no legal impediment to turning over the documents, which are held by the National Archives and Records Administration. They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with Jan. 6 from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows. Alone among the justices, Clarence Thomas said he would have granted Trumpās request to keep the documents on hold. Ā Trumpās attorneys had asked the high court to reverse rulings by the federal appeals court in Washington and block the release of the records even after President Joe Biden waived executive privilege over them. In an unsigned opinion, the court acknowledged there are āserious and substantial concernsā over whether a former president can win a court order to prevent disclosure of certain records from his time in office in a situation like this one. But the court noted that the appeals court determined that Trump's assertion of privilege over the documents would fail under any circumstances, āeven if he were the incumbent." Trump spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 Ā Dimwit66 getting himself all worked up again. š¤£ Ā Ā 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, concha said: Ā Dimwit66 getting himself all worked up again. š¤£ Ā Ā worked-up?....LOL..not me champ...just watching the wheels of justice turn.....and enjoying the ride...8-1...š Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 55 minutes ago, DBP66 said: worked-up?....LOL..not me champ...just watching the wheels of justice turn.....and enjoying the ride...8-1...š Ā Sure. Not you. š¤£ Ā Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bormio Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 So much effort to avoid talking about Biden. Ā Posts that go on for days. Ā They donāt hide the disaster in the White House now. Ā And thatās what the next 2 elections are going to be about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Bormio said: So much effort to avoid talking about Biden. Ā Posts that go on for days. Ā They donāt hide the disaster in the White House now. Ā And thatās what the next 2 elections are going to be about. we're not done taking out the garbage and exposing all the insurrectionists....and trying to erase/expose the BIG lie that still lives...SAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bormio Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 12 minutes ago, DBP66 said: we're not done taking out the garbage and exposing all the insurrectionists....and trying to erase/expose the BIG lie that still lives...SAD. You keep working hard, Iām sure youāll get there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 12 minutes ago, Bormio said: You keep working hard, Iām sure youāll get there and you keep believing the BIG lie...šŖ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 The Guardian Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel Hugo Lowell in WashingtonĀ -Ā 6h ago Ā Ā© Provided by The Guardian The former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack that Donald Trump hosted secret meetings in the White House residence in days before 6 January, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The former senior Trump aide also told House investigators that the details of whether Trump actually intended to march to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse rally would be memorialized in documents provided to the US Secret Service, the sources said. The select committeeās interview with Grisham, who was Melania Trumpās chief of staff when she resigned on 6 January, was more significant than expected, the sources said, giving the panel new details about the Trump White House and what the former US president was doing before the Capitol attack. Grisham gave House investigators an overview of the chaotic final weeks in the Trump White House in the days leading up to the Capitol attack, recalling how the former president held off-the-books meetings in the White House residence, the sources said. The secret meetings were apparently known by only a small number of aides, the sources said. Grisham recounted that they were mostly scheduled by Trumpās chief of staff,Ā Mark Meadows, and that the former chief usher, Timothy Harleth, would wave participants upstairs, the sources said. Harleth, the former director of rooms at the Trump International Hotel before moving with the Trumps to the White House in 2017, was once one of the former first familyās most trusted employees, according to a top former White House aide to Melania Trump. But after Harleth sought to ingratiate himself with the Biden transition team after Trumpās defeat in the 2020 election in order to keep his White House role, Trump and Meadows moved to fire him before Melania Trump stepped in to keep him until Bidenās inauguration. Grisham told the select committee she was not sure who exactly Trump met with in the White House residence, but provided Harlethās name and the identities of other Trump aides in the usherās office who might know of the meetings, the sources said. The GuardianĀ previously reportedĀ that Trump made several phone calls from the Yellow Oval Room and elsewhere in the White House residence to lieutenants at the Willard hotel in Washington the night before the Capitol attack, telling them to stop Joe Bidenās certification. Trump increasingly retreated to the White House residence to conduct work as his presidency progressed, according to another former Trump administration official, as he felt less watched by West Wing aides than in the Oval Office. Towards the end of his presidency, the former Trump administration official said, an aide to former White House adviser Peter Navarro tried at least once to quietly usher into the residence Sidney Powell, a lawyer pushing lies about election fraud, to speak with Trump. A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment on Grishamās interview that took place the first week of January. Harleth did not respond to questions about the meetings in the White House residence when reached last week by phone. Over the course of her hours-long interview, Grisham told House investigators that the mystery surrounding Trumpās promise at the Ellipse rally that he would march with his supporters to the Capitol might be resolved in Trump White House documents, the sources said. The former presidentās purported intention to go to the Capitol has emerged as a crucial issue for the select committee, as they examine whether TrumpĀ oversaw a criminal conspiracyĀ coordinating his political plan to stop Bidenās certification with the insurrection. Trumpās promise is significant as it served as one of the primary motivations for his supporters to march to the Capitol alongside militia groups like the Oath Keepers, and was used by far-right activists like Alex Jones to encourage the crowd along the route. But Trump never went to the Capitol and instead returned to the White House, where he watched the attack unfold on television ā after beingĀ informed by the Secret ServiceĀ before the insurrection that they could not guarantee his security if he marched to the Capitol. The select committee is now trying to untangle whether Trump made a promise that he perhaps had no intention of honoring because he hoped to incite an insurrection that stopped the certification ā his only remaining play to get a second term ā one of the sources said. Grisham told the select committee that Trumpās intentions ā and whether the Secret Service had been told Trump had decided not to march to the Capitol ā should be reflected in the presidential line-by-line, the document that outlines the presidentās movements, the sources said. The chairman of the select committee, Bennie Thompson, has told reporters the panel is already seeking information from the Secret Service about what plans they had for Trump on January 6, as well as what evacuation strategies they had for then-vice president Mike Pence. But the presidential line-by-line, which gets sent to the Secret Service, could also reveal discussions about security concerns and suggest a new line of inquiry into why an assessment about conditions that were too dangerous for the president were not disseminated further. Grisham also told the select committee about the necessary coordination between the Trump White House, the Secret Service and organizers of the āSave Americaā rally at the Ellipse on 6 January in order to ensure Trumpās appearance, the sources said. The former Trump aide suggested to the select committee that Trump was determined to speak at the rally once he heard about its existence, the sources said, and was constantly on the phone to oversee the eventās optics, the sources said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 The Trump Org claimed an apartment was worth $25 million while also offering it to Ivanka Trump for $8 million, New York AG alleges in fraud case Tom Porter Wed, January 19, 2022, 7:51 AM Ā Ā The New York attorney general alleged value inflation by Trump's businessĀ in new filings. An apartment was valued at $25 million, documents say, but offered to Ivanka Trump for $8 million. Donald Trump has long denied wrongdoing and says the investigation is politically motivated. An apartment leased by Ivanka Trump from the Trump Organization was given a sky-high public valuation but offered to her for far less, new legal documents allege. The Park Avenue property was said publicly to be worth $25 million, but Ivanka Trump retained an option to buy it for $8 million, according to a slew of legal filings from the New York attorney general. They are part of a wider case against the Trump Organization alleging that the company illegally manipulated the value of its assets for its own gain. In legal documents filed Tuesday night, staff for New York Attorney General Letitia James presented what they said was evidence of possible value inflation. Among the propertiesĀ identified in the documents is Trump Park Avenue, a luxury apartment complex in Manhattan. According to the documents, the Trump Organization in financial statements between 2011 and 2020 said the entire property was worth between $135 million and $350 million, with unsold residential condominiums representing about 95% of the value.Ā Ā Traffic in front of the Trump Park Avenue building in Manhattan.Frank Franklin II/AP Photo But, according to James, evidence indicates that the real value of the properties was boosted as part of a scheme, involving several other Trump assets, to secure financial gain.Ā "Evidence obtained by OAG indicates both that the reported values of the unsold residential units of the Trump Park Avenue building were significantly higher than the internal valuations used by the Trump Organization for business planning and failed to account for the fact that many units were rent stabilized," a news release from James' office reads.Ā One apartment, according to the release, was leased by Ivanka Trump, who is also a Trump Organization executive and who was a White House advisor during Donald Trump's presidency. According to the statement, Ivanka Trump was given the option to buy the apartment for $8.5 million even though it was valued at $25 million in Trump's financial statements. This, James alleged, highlighted the discrepancy between what the company was claiming the apartment was worth and its true value.Ā The complex is one of several Trump properties and businesses mentioned in the documents. Others include the Trump Tower apartment; a golf course in Westchester County, New York; and a golf course near Aberdeen, Scotland. Evidence indicates that the values of those were also inflated, according to the attorney general's office. In the documents, James' office says it "has not yet reached a final decision regarding whether this evidence merits legal action." In a statement posted on Twitter by his spokesperson Liz Harrington, Trump criticized James' investigation.Ā "The only one misleading the public is Letitia James. She defrauded New Yorkers by basing her entire candidacy on a promise to get Trump at all costs without having seen a shred of evidence and in violation of every conceivable ethical rule," said Trump.Ā Trump has long denied any wrongdoing and has claimed that James, a Democrat, is politically motivated.Ā Attorneys for the Trump Organization and Ivanka Trump did not immediately reply to requests for comment.Ā The release of the lawsuit comes after Trump soughtĀ to quash a series of subpoenas issued by the New York attorney generalĀ seeking testimony from him, his son Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka. The investigation is being conducted alongside a parallel criminal investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concha Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 Ā I liken Dimwit's reaction to anti-Trump press to when I yell "Treats time!" to our family dogs. š¤£Ā š¶ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 1 minute ago, concha said: Ā I liken Dimwit's reaction to anti-Trump press to when I yell "Treats time!" to our family dogs. š¤£Ā š¶ Ā and yourĀ support of the crazy, orange man is noted once again!....š¤” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I AM IRONMAN Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 39 minutes ago, concha said: Ā I liken Dimwit's reaction to anti-Trump press to when I yell "Treats time!" to our family dogs. š¤£Ā š¶ Ā It's beyond obsessive and getting a bit weird š Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBP66 Posted January 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 5 hours ago, I AM IRONMAN said: It's beyond obsessive and getting a bit weird š what's weirdĀ is the BIG lie still lives on and you still believe it......šŖ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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