Trump Ordered to Turn Over 8 Years of Tax Returns to the Manhattan D.A.
Source: New York Times
A federal judge on Monday rejected a bold argument from President Trump that sitting presidents are immune from criminal investigations, allowing the Manhattan district attorneys office to subpoena eight years of the presidents personal and corporate tax returns.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump were expected to appeal the ruling from Judge Victor Marrero of Manhattan federal court.
The judges decision came a little more than a month after the Manhattan district attorney subpoenaed Mr. Trumps accounting firm, Mazars USA, for his personal and corporate returns dating to 2011. The demand touched off a legal showdown that raised new constitutional questions and drew in the Justice Department, which supported the presidents request to delay enforcement of the subpoena.
The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has been investigating whether any New York State laws were broken when Mr. Trump and his company reimbursed the presidents former lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, for payments he made in the run-up to the 2016 election to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, who had said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/nyregion/trump-taxes-lawsuit-vance.html
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)His new theme music.
smb
(3,473 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Just a liddl' bit.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)investigations and charges.
Remember trump's sister spilled the beans on trumps tax fraud over YEARS, that would include STATE tax fraud, outside the jurisdiction of Bill Barr;s corrupt reach of influence
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)...unless evidence of a crime is found and they're used in a criminal proceeding.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)we can only hope
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)that trump criminal family, inc has got away with for decades. Trump has bought off so many DA's, AGs and state/local politicians in his lifetime that we need patriots to step up
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"patriots" in the gop. They are all in lockstep with their orange ass leader. Is tRump admitting that he is a crook, by declaring that presidents are immune from criminal investigations? People with nothing to hide, hide nothing. For him to fight this hard, there must be lots of damaging evidence in these tax returns.
calimary
(81,322 posts)Another reason why he HAS TO be stopped. With actual and meaningful consequences attached.
Cha
(297,322 posts)this misadministration.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,624 posts)Lock him up.
(6,933 posts)And end up in jail because they adore him like nazis adored Hitler and will take the fall in jail to save his ass and rotten family.
KPN
(15,646 posts)just too horribly frustrating ... but I believe you are right. All we can do is do our part to elect Dem Senate and President. Until then, unless impeachment scares the crap out of enough GOP Senators, we are hamstrung.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Is this an infinite recursive loop or is there some endpoint? Supreme Court?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)we have before the election.
My guess is that he will keep going in the same direction he has been headed and he'll be toast on things he will do in the next few months.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Ding ding ding!
Fiendish Thingy
(15,624 posts)That's when an appeals court is scheduled to rule and order Duetches bank and Mazars to turn over all records pertaining to Trump to the intelligence committee (they have said they will comply with any court order). Even if this is appealed to SCOTUS, it's unlikely they will rule against the right of the intelligence committee to determine if Trump has been compromised by a foreign power.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)BOLD !!!!
It's COWARDLY!!
Come on NYT, get your honesty act together, what there is left of it...
smb
(3,473 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,722 posts)Jarqui
(10,126 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Jarqui
(10,126 posts)to stop the release of his tax returns
ancianita
(36,095 posts)the appeals court, with Katzenburg as their chief.
I don't know what this means, in terms of releasing taxes by 4 pm, but I'd bet that this case doesn't get to SCOTUS.
Polybius
(15,435 posts)I wonder...
ancianita
(36,095 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)It is the argument of a corrupt, guilty cowardly autocrat. Any of those adjectives would have been much more appropriate. Bold is arguing for an assault weapons ban when one of your key donors is the NRA. Trump will never demonstrate boldness or selfless courage. He is not bold. He is a shameless con man. I believe the "b" adjective you're looking for, NYT, is BRAZEN.
I fucking hate the normalization of Trump outrages!
packman
(16,296 posts)What could POSSIBLY be in those tax returns compared to the egregious, treasonable, sexist, racist , outrageous things this orange butt-hole has done over the past few years. Even if they show he got his money from China or Russia - so what in comparison to the other crap he's pulled.
Yes, I would love to see what he is so anxious to keep from the public eye - but, really it would seem so anti-climactic at this point.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)Here's the order denying Trump's "extraordinary claim" seeking to halt an investigation into his taxes, which the court says is "repugnant to the nation's governmental structure and constitutional values": https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.523086/gov.uscourts.nysd.523086.35.0.pdf .
Link to tweet
a kennedy
(29,673 posts)The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday granted President Donald Trump a last-minute reprieve in his effort to prevent New York prosecutors from obtaining his tax records.
The stay was issued not long after a federal judge rejected Trumps claim that he was immune from criminal investigations in a bid to block a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney seeking eight years of personal and business tax returns.
As a result of the stay, Mazars USA, the president's tax preparer, doesn't have to hand over the documents by 1 p.m. Monday, as was required. A panel of appellate judges will hear the case on an expedited basis and then issue a ruling.
Earlier Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero tossed the lawsuit Trump's legal team had brought against District Attorney Cyrus Vance arguing Vance should not receive Trump's tax returns because "'[v]irtually all legal commenters agree' that a sitting President of the United States is not 'subject to the criminal process' while he is in office.
In a 75-page order, Marrero called the presidential immunity Trump invoked in the lawsuit to stop the production of tax documents "unqualified and boundless."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-loses-new-york-court-fight-keep-tax-returns-hidden-n106318
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And will exploit some loophole, and ignore judges orders. He has no respect for them, the rule of law, or the truth. He knows if they come out it'll show he's corrupt , and a fraud, and will go to prison. If he turns over anything it'll either be incomplete, or doctored yo. I'd bet they doctor them up.