Surprised it took this long

New York state probe of Trump Organization is now criminal, attorney general says
Noeleen Walder and Jan Wolfe

The New York attorney general's office said on Tuesday it has now opened a criminal investigation into former U.S. President Donald Trump's company, increasing the legal risk for Trump and his family.

Attorney General Letitia James has been investigating whether the Trump Organization falsely reported property values to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits.

The latest announcement marked another escalation of the legal jeopardy Trump faces four months after leaving office, taking to three the number of known criminal investigations of the former Republican president.

"We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature," Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, said in a statement.

"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA," he said.

The Trump Organization, the former president's family-owned business, could not immediately be reached for ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/new-york-s ... -1.5433948

What a surprise.

As expected the Orange One is claiming that it's all political. After all, the AG is a Dem.

Good. Not as corrupt.

"We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA." ~ New York Attorney General Letitia James

After January 6th, I wonder what would happen if Grabem was actually arrested and charged.

Trump And The Trump Organization Are Under Multiple Criminal Investigations
Manhattan and the State of New York have joined their investigations while Georgia is pursuing criminal charges against Trump for election interference
Caren White

Don’t you miss Trump’s exaggerations? You know, when he claimed that anything that happened to him was worse than anything that had ever happened to anyone else?

What was fun about it was that you could either come up with numerous examples of people who had been treated worse than he was being treated or you could simply shrug and say that yes, no other president has ever been treated this way because no other president has ever acted this way.

It was win-win.

Biden doesn’t do that. He acts all presidential and floats above the fray. In fact, the Republicans aren’t campaigning against him in the midterms because he is so “boring.” Their word, not mine.

Although I gotta tell ya, I kinda like a boring president.

So the midterms will be all about Nancy Pelosi, AOC and their socialist agenda.

I’m drifting off-topic, aren’t I?

The New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has announced that ...

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Deadline Nears for Trump Organization to Avoid Charges

Can he trump the charges, or is it the end of the road for Teflon Don? U.S. prosecutors have given former President Donald Trump a Monday deadline to argue against criminal charges being filed against his family business. Any criminal charges would be the first brought by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance against the ex-president’s company and could bankrupt it. Trump has called the investigation a “witch hunt.” Prosecutors are reportedly probing whether Trump’s company gave misleading valuations of its properties to deceive tax authorities and lenders. They are also considering charging Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ion-report

Sort of sucks but nothing came out of the deadline. According to Trump's lawyer, the prosecutor said somewhere down the road there may be some minor charges against Trump's company and a few of his executives. But there will be nothing serious and no charges against the slime ball himself.

he makes tons of legal mistakes.
this is likely one of them.

Top Trump Executive Allen Weisselberg Surrenders to Face Charges
The Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg have been indicted in connection with a tax investigation and are expected to appear in court later Thursday.
By Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Jonah E. Bromwich

Donald J. Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, surrendered on Thursday to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as he and the Trump Organization prepared to face charges in connection with a tax investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The exact charges were not yet known. Prosecutors were expected to unseal an indictment later in the day against Mr. Weisselberg and the Trump Organization, the real estate business that catapulted Mr. Trump to tabloid fame, television riches and ultimately, the White House.

Mr. Weisselberg, accompanied by his lawyer, Mary E. Mulligan, walked into the Lower Manhattan building that houses the criminal courts and the district attorney’s office about 6:20 a.m. He is expected to appear in court in the afternoon along with representatives of the Trump Organization.

The charges against the Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg — whom Mr. Trump once praised for doing “whatever was necessary to protect the bottom line” — emerged from the district attorney’s sweeping inquiry into the business practices of Mr. Trump and his company.

As part of that inquiry, the prosecutors in the office of the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., had been examining whether Mr. Weisselberg failed to pay taxes on valuable benefits he and his family received from Mr. Trump, including private school tuition for at least one of his grandchildren, free apartments and leased cars.

The prosecutors, who are also working with lawyers from the office of the New York State attorney general, Letitia James, have also investigated whether ....

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/nyre ... ation.html

Trump Jr. Whines for 13 Minutes About 15 Felony Count Indictment Against Family Company: ‘This Is What Russia Does’
David Badash



“We run a clean company – no one questioned that prior to politics”

Donald Trump Jr. for 13 minutes rambled and whined on a Facebook video Thursday about the 15-count federal criminal felony indictment handed up by a grand jury against The Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg. The former president’s son falsely compared it to how Russian President Vladimir Putin punishes his political enemies, along with Iran and China, while falsely characterizing the depth and breath of the criminal indictment.

“How is this any different, how is this any different than what the mullahs in Iran do to their political enemies?” he asked.

(Some experts say the indictment could mean the end of The Trump Organization.)

Trump Jr. praised Weisselberg as The Trump Organization’s loyal “accountant,” yet laid the blame on him, while barely acknowledging the indictments also name the family company, except when he called it a “witch hunt” and an extension of the Mueller investigation. He also ignored that Weisselberg has been the Chief Financial Officer of the family business for more than two decades.

(Weisselberg began by working for Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father, in 1973 as an accountant. He became the company’s controller in the 1980’s, and ultimately CFO who co-ran The Trump Organization while Donald Trump was president.)

Trying to minimize the charges, which include a 15-year tax scheme “including a scheme to defraud, conspiracy, grand larceny and falsifying business records,” CNN reports.

Instead he claimed it essentially was about ...

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Just a question - how many companies have survived a criminal indictment?

Yet, it appears none of it will touch him personally. He may not be the brightest bulb in the pack, but he sure knows how to get away with things non-kosher, immoral, and illegal.

Tinker, Tailor, Mobster, Trump
What happens when a Confidential Informant becomes President?
Greg Olear

IN THE EARLY 1980s it was decided—by whom, and for what ultimate purpose, we can’t say for sure—that Donald John Trump would build a casino complex in Atlantic City, New Jersey—probably the most mobbed-up municipality in the state. Dealing with the mafia might have dissuaded some developers from pursuing a Boardwalk Empire, but not Trump. He was uniquely suited to forge ahead.

Donald’s father, the Queens real estate developer Fred Trump, had worked closely with Genovese-associated and -owned construction entities since building the Shore Haven development in 1947, when Donald was still in diapers (the first time around). Fred was an early mob adopter, the underworld equivalent of an investor who bought shares of Coca-Cola stock in 1919. The timelines is important to remember here. Organized crime did not exist in any meaningful way in the United States until Prohibition. Born in 1905, Fred Trump was just two years younger than Meyer Lansky, the gangster who more or less invented money laundering. Thus, Donald Trump is second generation mobbed-up.

When Donald first ventured from Queens to the pizzazzier borough of Manhattan in the seventies, he entered into a joint business deal with “Big” Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino syndicate, and Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, of the Genovese family he knew well through his father and their mutual lawyer Roy Cohn. As part of this arrangement, Trump agreed to buy concrete from a company operated jointly by the two families—and pay a hefty premium for the privilege. Only then, with double mob approval, could he move forward with ...

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/tinker ... ster-trump

actually, it is NOT what Russia does.
in Russia, such operations are part of the state.

Trump is fighting back by filing ridiculous lawsuits:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5 ... and-google

all of which will fail.
the best they do is forestall the inevitable.