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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell I did hear something very interesting today:
As a healthcare practitioner I have to respect HIPAA regulations so youre going to have to take my word, as a sixteen year DU member, that this came from a significant individual who is in a position to know:
Individual #1 has a problem - he took loans from the Russians WHO FORGAVE THE LOANS and #1 did not report it as income to the IRS.
Think Al Capone...thought this was of note.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)Mueller has indicted many.
SDNY will get the rest.
Time to focus on VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO
Hekate
(90,769 posts)KnR
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)the Mueller report - I don't think that's accurate. What I think is that becoming president was the absolute worst thing Trump could have ever done for his family and his family business. He might last until 2020, but the minute he's out of the WH, well, them wolves be HUNGRY!
Trump will lose everything, including his freedom.
Then we will have to clean up his mess while the Republicans whine on the sidelines like a bunch of Skeksis about how simply EVERYTHING is the Democrats' fault. Everything. It's that SOSHA-LISM!
HAB911
(8,909 posts)elleng
(131,053 posts)How long did it take to get capone???
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)wouldn't it be something if the IRS were the department to bring this orange abomination down? It's quite plausible. LOL for good thoughts for a change. DU is depressing tonight.
Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)leanforward
(1,077 posts)When and where and how did the funds show up in the Organization's accounts? If you find out, I'll keep it a secret.
At this point I had not thought of loan forgiveness. I've always thought he was receiving their money.
In my reading around, it bothered me about the Organization's use of 400 plus LLCs.
LiberalFighter
(51,020 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)plimsoll
(1,670 posts)1) The bigots won't care.
2) The small government crowd will think it's great that he wasn't paying his share.
3) The donor class think they pay to much already, why should he pay anything?
Other factors to consider: He's a rich white male, a jury might convict but a judge will consider his otherwise blameless life. Capone belonged to an ethnic group that wasn't always treated with respect at the time. So a little extra bigotry helped.
If we want change we need to keep resisting. And it is time to say that the phrase moderate Republican is meaningless. The extreme right is in charge of the GOP, and if you can't bring yourself to vote for a Democrat because "blah" why shouldn't you be considered a fellow traveler of the Neo-Nazi/White Nationalists?
Sad - but all of it true.
He'll probably leave this world without ever really seeing justice.
His prodigal children, and larcenous son-in-law, though (and many others besides) - that's a different story.
erronis
(15,324 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,289 posts)I've thought all along that the hold Putin has over Trump is that he knows, can prove and get the word out that Trump's "rich, competent businessman" persona is a complete fraud. IMHO, lsoing that image is what Trump fears most.
PatSeg
(47,560 posts)The "king of debt" all of a sudden was using cash to buy real estate in the early 2000s. It seemed to just fall from heaven. Did he think no one would notice?
eggplant
(3,912 posts)...it would be wonderfully delicious if that were the one true thing he has said, and it was the thing that brings him down.
spanone
(135,857 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Allen Weisselberg. And I think oh please please please, lets do this thang, Allen!!!
Appreciate your post here, helps me keep the faith!
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)We know trump had many dealings with Russia. We know that money changed hands. We know that trump files for bankruptcy a lot. We know trump refuses to pay workers. Why would paying Russia back be any different?
It would also explain that picture of trump & Putin after a private meeting. Putin looks like the cat who ate the canary and trump looked like his ice cream cone fell on the floor.
Trump runs for president. Russia interferes so he will win. Russia forgives his loans. Of course trump won't claim that on his taxes. Kompromat. They want sanctions lifted. Putin tells trump that in return for forgiving the loans to lift the sanctions. trump finds out, once he is in office that he can't unilaterally lift them. Putin handpicks who will cooperate with Mueller.
TlalocW
(15,388 posts)Is my street name.
TlalocW
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)ZZenith
(4,125 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)What does that have to do with Individual #1's Russian loan?
ZZenith
(4,125 posts)The original poster was prefacing the information he was about to impart by telling us that, because he is in the medical profession (perhaps as a dentist? Cant say for sure) he cannot be more specific about the identity of the person who relayed the information he is now relaying to us due to the confidentiality constrictions of said HIPAA act. The insinuation being, if he could name this person, the content of what he said would have weight with the reader.
But I am high as a kite at the moment, so I might be reading it wrong.
Native
(5,943 posts)HIPPA has to do with protected medical information. Don't think this qualifies as such.
lefthandedskyhook
(965 posts)...patient information on established legal grounds. The post is set outside HIPAA regulations due to those restraints
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)So he'd have to amend those returns, pay the taxes, penalties, and interest. I wonder what the statute of limitations is, and whether they would indict him for that (like Leona Helmsley)?
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)Has been true since they invented money and government.
Follow the money.