Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

[Javaman]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

Mr. Trump won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help.

But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.

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this came out last year and is a brilliant article. both the orange asshole and his asshole dad are long time crooks and grifters. it's a long but very informative.

anyone growing up in NYC knows this but much of the rest of the nation didn't/doesn't.

[Ohiogal]

1. If only

people cared. Many Americans just shrug and say "that's how the rich operate."

[uponit7771]

2. Looks like his sister, a judge, was in on some tax fraud shit too