re: Manhattan DA charges Trump's company, CFO with tax fraud

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didnt think i had to spell it out for you.

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You haven't spelled out shite. The only thing quoting that passage demonstrates is that you're clueless.

Why do you think they made it a point to say there were treated as comp INTERNALLY? In other words, not labeled and reported as employee comp (and therefore taxable to the employee) in EXTERNAL reporting. That's the whole fricking idea of taxation of fringe benefits--the company can't just take the deduction and not report the income as taxable to the employee.


And the part that you quoted that was me isn't speaking to the legality of fringe benefits, ya dolt.

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You seem to be the one with a problem with me saying fringe benefits are legal.

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More like laughing at you because you are too stupid to understand the issue. Not once has anyone here made an issue over the legality of fringe benefits.

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How many thousands of men are in jails right now because they lived in stop and frisk neighborhoods and got caught with a dime bag?

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Tell us. How many guys are in jails right now because, and only because, they lived in stop and frisk neighborhoods and got caught with a dime bag?

Tell us, longway.

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It's just interesting to see people get that "This is railroading" energy when it's a rich dude connected to their political heroes.

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And of course you know that's not the issue for the vast majority of us. We don't care about this guy, and if he cheated he deserves the back taxes and fine he'll pay.
It's the politics here that we oppose, and apparently you're okay with. So two things:

1. Why are you okay with the politicization of the legal system?

2. Why are you okay with the very obvious, very distinct justice systems - one for liberals and the other for conservatives. For a person concerned about the guy that has no criminal history until he was caught with a dimebag in a stop/frisk neighborhood because of disparate law enforcement in the past, it's pretty odd that you cheer on law enforcement/DOJ as they treat citizens differently today, depending on their politics.

And I'll add this: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and won't assume an answer to this question, but tell me - do you give Trump great credit for remedying some of the outcomes of disparate law enforcement, the product of legislation championed by Joe Biden? Do you hold that racist bullshite against Biden?

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Tell us. How many guys are in jails right now because, and only because, they lived in stop and frisk neighborhoods and got caught with a dime bag?

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Thousands.

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1. Why are you okay with the politicization of the legal system?

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You're not following. Justice in this country has always been political. After all, it is a political decision that we underfund tax enforcement for rich tax cheats so much that he was able to run this scam for so long. So why were you ok with it until yesterday?

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2. Why are you okay with the very obvious, very distinct justice systems - one for liberals and the other for conservatives. For a person concerned about the guy that has no criminal history until he was caught with a dimebag in a stop/frisk neighborhood because of disparate law enforcement in the past, it's pretty odd that you cheer on law enforcement/DOJ as they treat citizens differently today, depending on their politics.

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Cheering? Now you're just making shite up. Re-read what I have written on this thread. I haven't come close to cheering anything. I noted that he committed garden variety income underreporting and underpayment and will probably pay a big fine or do a small bid. No big deal. I feel precisely the same way about this dude as I did about the NBA refs who went down for something similar and as I did when crooked Democrats commit crimes. I have said it is fascinating to see all of you guys in tears over some rich tax cheat all because he touched the hem of Trump's garment. Surely if the CFO of the Clinton foundation was paying himself off book, y'all would be equally forgiving...

I’ll answer. Less than 5% of state inmates and less than 1% of federal inmates are in jail solely for drug possession charges.

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Thousands

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No chance this is true.

The only thing I cannot see Weisselberg and his lawyers explaining away is the tuition thing for his grandchildren but that is maybe a liability of 360,000.00. If the Trump Org reported that they are in the clear and Weisselberg pays up with a new tax bill with a penalty. The other stuff is pure harassment and selective prosecution against an unpopular person. Companies foot the bill for car leases all the time as a perk for key employees and in reality reporting that is extraordinarily rare for the individual as is the corporate apartment and it gets into a gray area inside of the tax code. The other stuff is all about the Keough contributions. If that money went in to a self funded retirement plan, what's the big deal? New York and the Feds just wait and gets it on the back end...of course New York wants to get you coming and going. They want tax the money on the front as regular income, then you place it in a Keough where it grows tax deferred and then New York wants an additional bite at the apple.

I can tell you that the feds would not care about the apartment. If the actual owner is the Trump Org , it is entitled to use it as it sees fit so long as nothing felonious is going on. If it is a long term crash pad for Weisselberg and his wife, so what? NYC wants to prove Weisselberg actually lived there instead of Long Island just to force payment in a punitive sense.

If I were his lawyers and Mazar the accounting firm, I would tell Vance, Game On!!! Let's take this to court. They don't really want to because it's a loser.

Another witch hunt. Make up stuff. Then get the MSM to push this over and over and over.

Repeat a lie often enough and people will eventually come to believe the lie.

Trump - DeSantis 2024

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I’ll answer. Less than 5% of state inmates and less than 1% of federal inmates are in jail solely for drug possession charges.

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Hey, man You are ruining the guy's truisms and virtue signals.

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were treated as compensation by the Trump Corporation in internal records

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Yeah this is a problem if they didn’t report it as compensation to the IRS. Just because it was treated as something internally doesn’t mean they reported on a tax document correctly.