Donald Trump neuer Präsident der USA

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- Trump Organization Found Guilty in Tax Fraud Scheme -

... https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12...f31160b04e7429

Zitat von New York Times

Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was convicted on Tuesday of tax fraud and other financial crimes, a remarkable rebuke of the former president’s company and what prosecutors described as its “culture of fraud and deception.”

The conviction on all 17 counts, after more than a day of jury deliberations in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, resulted from a long-running scheme in which the Trump Organization doled out off-the-books luxury perks to some executives: They received fancy apartments, leased Mercedes-Benzes, even private school tuition for relatives, none of which they paid taxes on.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which led the case against two Trump Organization entities, had previously extracted a guilty plea from the architect of the scheme, Allen H. Weisselberg, the company’s long-serving chief financial officer. Mr. Weisselberg, one of the former president’s most loyal lieutenants, testified as the prosecution’s star witness, but never implicated Mr. Trump.

While prosecutors stopped short of indicting the former president, they invoked his name throughout the monthlong trial, telling jurors that he personally paid for some of the perks and even approved a crucial aspect of the scheme. The prosecution also sounded a drumbeat of damning evidence that spotlighted his company’s freewheeling culture, revealing that pervasive illegality unfolded under Mr. Trump’s nose for years.

The company’s conviction — coupled with the prosecution’s explosive claim at trial that Mr. Trump was “explicitly sanctioning tax fraud” — could now reverberate through the 2024 presidential race, providing early fodder for opponents and their attack ads.

It also might lay the groundwork for the district attorney’s office to intensify its wider criminal investigation into Mr. Trump’s business practices — and hush money paid to a porn star who said she had an affair with him — an inquiry that gained momentum in recent months, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The conviction on charges of tax fraud, a scheme to defraud, conspiracy and falsifying business records is hardly a death sentence for the Trump Organization. The maximum penalty it faces is $1.62 million, a rounding error for Mr. Trump, who typically notched hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during his presidency.

Yet the verdict represents a highly public reckoning for the Trump Organization, forever branding it as a felonious enterprise. A company that served as a launching pad for the former president’s tabloid celebrity, his star turn on “The Apprentice” and ultimately his political career, might now be best known for its conviction, rather than the hotels and golf clubs that Mr. Trump spent a generation building.

The former president has blamed it all on a politically motivated witch hunt. But while his attacks on prosecutors might appeal to his most loyal voters, lenders and the broader business world might now shun his company.

In a statement after the verdict, the company took aim at Mr. Weisselberg, noting that he “testified under oath that he ‘betrayed’ the trust the company had placed in him.”

“The notion that a company could be held responsible for an employee’s actions, to benefit themselves, on their own personal tax returns is simply preposterous,” the company said in the statement.

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[Kyuss]

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/immob...3-72a45d9795c9

[Kyuss]

https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland...-32983532.html

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Mehr Fakten & Hintergründe zum Ausgang der Stichwahl in Georgia um den Platz im Senat:

...... https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12...eorgia-senator


Die New York Times berichtet einmal mehr tiefgründiger und detaillierter als Spiegel & Co.
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[Kyuss]

https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland...-32984286.html

[Kyuss]

Na, habt ihr schon bestellt ? :-)

https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland...-33007296.html

[Kyuss]

Lock him up !

https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland...180975663.html

[User 173216]

Es ist ganz schön still geworden um Donald Trump, einen der weltbekanntesten Lügner unserer Zeit. Es ist wirklich nur zu hoffen, dass ihm der Prozess gemacht wird und er weiterhin keinen schädlichen Einfluss mehr ausüben kann. (Vielleicht werden die Geschichtsbücher später sogar zeigen, dass Russland unter dem Despoten Putin maßgeblichen Anteil am Aufstieg von ihm hatte.)

[User 173216]

Ich habe nie verstanden, wie manche Teilnehmer dieses Forums und die Hälfte der AmerikanerInnen jemals Partei für eine solche unsymphatische Unperson haben ergreifen konnten.

[Matousek]

Zitat von Frank S

Es ist ganz schön still geworden um Donald Trump, einen der weltbekanntesten Lügner unserer Zeit. Es ist wirklich nur zu hoffen, dass ihm der Prozess gemacht wird und er weiterhin keinen schädlichen Einfluss mehr ausüben kann. (Vielleicht werden die Geschichtsbücher später sogar zeigen, dass Russland unter dem Despoten Putin maßgeblichen Anteil am Aufstieg von ihm hatte.)

Was will man von einem Immobilienhai auch anderes erwarten. Da stecken Verbrecher ja schon Berufs wegen drin. Schlimm ist nur, dass es Menschen gibt die auf so einen Rattenfänger reinfallen. Als hätte es solche widerliche Personen noch nie gegeben?