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AntiFascist

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41. Trump has already been under audit...
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 04:11 AM
Nov 2017

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 Prevezon’s 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 wasn’t publicly known at the time was that federal prosecutors in Bharara’s 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 doesn’t prove anything definitively. But there’s 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.

This line is hilarious! PJMcK Nov 2017 #1
He HATES to be called by his first name NastyRiffraff Nov 2017 #29
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
pretty soon, to Trump azureblue Nov 2017 #9
This, I keep hearing this but nothing is actually happening Amishman Nov 2017 #6
Anyone who thought this was going leftynyc Nov 2017 #16
Lol, legal friends of mine have indicated this Flynn thing is importnat GusBob Nov 2017 #11
Patience. All good things come to those who wait. Pepsidog Nov 2017 #26
Very interesting comment, Pepsidog. slumcamper Nov 2017 #28
Actually, shoes have been dropping, one by one... Wounded Bear Nov 2017 #27
Yep, that was John McCain who called it a centipede... I look forward to a barefoot centipede. liberalla Nov 2017 #35
all of the shoes are still up there? BoneyardDem Nov 2017 #32
Drudge said so! It's gotta be true!1 klook Nov 2017 #3
May the donald's Faux pas Nov 2017 #5
I wonder how often he has to change his underwear? LiberalFighter Nov 2017 #18
LOL Faux pas Nov 2017 #21
This 'dropping shoe" is likely to be a diversion from the BOOT that is ready to fall. sadiegirl Nov 2017 #7
The reason to watch Flynn leftynyc Nov 2017 #17
If Trump wanted to distract everyone, hed drop another bomb on someone Calista241 Nov 2017 #8
what Trump is too arrogant to see azureblue Nov 2017 #12
I would love to see his assets as well as the kids seized. LiberalFighter Nov 2017 #20
If they seize his kids... dchill Nov 2017 #24
Mueller has less than 40 people on his staff, most of them lawyers Calista241 Nov 2017 #34
I would disagree... AntiFascist Nov 2017 #36
Mueller doesn't have enough people on his staff to figure that out. Calista241 Nov 2017 #40
Trump has already been under audit... AntiFascist Nov 2017 #41
The FBI still collects the facts Progressive dog Nov 2017 #37
I bet Trump now wishes he'd taken Obama's advice and not hired Flynn. Honeycombe8 Nov 2017 #10
I sometimes wonder azureblue Nov 2017 #13
I don't know what that means... Honeycombe8 Nov 2017 #15
Bre'r Rabbit (Brother Rabbit) is an African-American Trickster tale-cycle... Hekate Nov 2017 #30
Thanks. nt Honeycombe8 Nov 2017 #31
As soon as Trump heard it: dalton99a Nov 2017 #14
Ouchie!!! Scarface has really been poking the bear, forgetting that he's got his own skeletons in th lindysalsagal Nov 2017 #39
I'm still hoping this is the last year of his presidency IronLionZion Nov 2017 #19
Journalism by clickbait! Something's gonna happen, just keep watching this space! FSogol Nov 2017 #22
He's just a sh*tposter nothing more inwiththenew Nov 2017 #23
Right - there is no master plan Cosmocat Nov 2017 #25
Trump is losing it Gothmog Nov 2017 #33
They are friends oberliner Nov 2017 #38
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