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In reply to the discussion: Morning Joe explains why Trump is 'spinning out of control' on Twitter: 'A shoe is about to drop' [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)41. Trump has already been under audit...
by none other than one of the highest level groups of the IRS known as the Global High Wealth Industry Group, or "Wealth Squad". Mueller should be able to gain access to their reports.
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The Wealth Squad is designed to allow the IRS to better understand the sophisticated financial, business and investment arrangements of the taxpayer by engaging a team of specialists to take a unified, holistic look at the entire web of inter-related entities controlled by a high wealth individual to discover the entire economic picture of the enterprise and to assess the tax compliance of that overall enterprise.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/irswatch/2016/02/28/no-ordinary-audit-donald-trump-is-facing-the-irs-wealth-squad/#39e970b24d71
Also, while there may not be evidence of direct involvement with the Trump Organization, the Prevezon money laundering case has already been under thorough investigation:
Federal prosecutors in New York launched their investigation into the Prevezon case in early 2013, sending evidence requests to countries including Switzerland, Latvia and Cyprus, according to court records filed this spring as part of an evidentiary dispute in the civil lawsuit.
Prosecutors also issued grand jury subpoenas to banks including Citigroup, Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG and TD Bank. Several banks produced records in response, according to court records filed by Prevezons lawyer.
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Several Democratic lawmakers looked at the Prevezon settlement in a new light two months later, when news emerged about the Veselnitskaya meeting in Trump Tower. In a letter, they asked whether the Russian lawyer, or members of the Trump team, may have put pressure on prosecutors in the matter. They also pointed out that Bharara, whose office opened the case, had been summarily fired by Trump as the case neared trial.
What wasnt publicly known at the time was that federal prosecutors in Bhararas old office were continuing a criminal probe into the laundering allegations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-15/russia-laundering-probe-puts-trump-tower-meeting-in-new-light
Sean Illing
Do we have any evidence that Trump was involved in any way with Prevezon?
Seva Gunitsky
We don't know that Trump was involved in any way with that. Obviously, it's kind of his wheelhouse, New York City real estate, so I am sure he at least heard about it. But we don't know if he has any direct connections.
But it's not even necessary for him to have any direct connections here. They're only asking for some relief in this case, in return for certain compromising documents. So the interesting thing for me is, was there pressure placed on the U.S. Attorney's Office by the administration, by the Department of Justice? What we know is that Preet Bharara, the attorney in charge of the case, was fired in early March, and shortly thereafter the Prevezon case was dropped.
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Seva Gunitsky
Veselnitskaya was ecstatic about the Prevezon case on her social media. She said it was "settled on Russian terms"; that's a direct quote. She said it was the beginning of the end of the Cold War, and she said there'd be more to come. Again, like so much of the evidence here, this doesnt prove anything definitively. But theres an unbelievable amount of smoke, and a massive web of overlapping interests.
https://www.vox.com/2017/7/18/15983910/donald-trump-russia-putin-natalia-veselnitskaya-collusion
My point is that there is a tremendous amount of investigation that has already taken place and Mueller has assembled a highly qualified team including money laundering experts to sift through it.
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Morning Joe explains why Trump is 'spinning out of control' on Twitter: 'A shoe is about to drop' [View all]
DonViejo
Nov 2017
OP
People have been saying that for the last year. Still the shoes are up there. They haven't dropped.
mucifer
Nov 2017
#2
First shoe was Mueller. Second was Manafort. Flynn likely the third & may drop soon. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2017
#4
Yep, that was John McCain who called it a centipede... I look forward to a barefoot centipede.
liberalla
Nov 2017
#35
This 'dropping shoe" is likely to be a diversion from the BOOT that is ready to fall.
sadiegirl
Nov 2017
#7
Ouchie!!! Scarface has really been poking the bear, forgetting that he's got his own skeletons in th
lindysalsagal
Nov 2017
#39