NY prosecutors believe Ivanka skimmed millions from inaugural fund

[The Blue Flower]

https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/03/new-york-prosectors-believe-ivanka-trump-skimmed-millions-from-the-2016-inaugural-fund/


A new government lawsuit filed in January alleges that Ivanka Trump illegally over-billed the non-profit Inauguration Committee to bilk expenses and benefit the Trump family. It doesn’t take an FBI agent with 30 years of experience to see that all that money pouring in, over $114 million for an inauguration committee, a number that vastly exceeded all previous inauguration funding, despite this being a smaller party. Rumors circulated that much of the money originated outside the United States, which operated as a big red light. Apparently that strobing right light proved too difficult to ignore, and the investigations started.

more at link...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Oh no! Not Princess Moron!! nt

[PCIntern]

2. Of course she skimmed

If you elect Al Capone as president this is what you get of course. What did anybody think they were getting? Father Flanagan?

[wnylib]

12. What we did get was Father Coughlin,

Al Capone, and Adolf rolled into one.

[olegramps]

27. Coughlin was a real piece of work.

He used his position in the Catholic Church to spew so of the most vile crap. He was only silenced when the bishops could no longer allow him to spread his vicious propaganda due to the public outcry. It appeared that were in agreement until his condemnation became a national issue.

[MyOwnPeace]

28. That............

kinda' sounds like BunkerBoy and the Senate.....

[AdamGG]

84. Also, the FCC forced him off the radio after the start of WWII

In principle, I'm not in favor of the government stepping in to silence people, but that is part of what happened with Coughlin. It was wartime and he was supporting the Nazis and it was argued that the 1st amendment didn't necessarily mean that you had a right to radio broadcasting.

[spanone]

3. K&R

[lindysalsagal]

4. Stole. She stole that money.

Euphemisms be damned.

[malaise]

21. Ditto

Thieves steal

[Wednesdays]

34. If you're a poor POC

you get choked to death over a $20 bill by law enforcement.

Princess steals hundreds of millions...then meh.

[sheilahi]

47. good thing she's white

and selling loose cigarettes on the street gets you a death sentence.

[RVN VET71]

62. Not white: rich and white

If you're rich and non-white, you can go to prison for your crimes. (Unless, like O.J., you can hire the best lawyers in the country to go up against an inept prosecution and a laughably inept judge.)

If you're white and non-rich, you can go to prison for your crimes.

If you're both rich and white, you stay out of prison unless what you've done is so horrendously bad -- and at the same time stupid because your greed blinds you to the risks -- like Bernie Madoff and Kenny-Boy Lay and Ivan Bosky. Even Jeffrey Epstein managed to work a sweet deal out of his original bust.

[WinstonSmith4740]

79. Correct. Stole is absolutely correct.

But then again, she did say she got her moral compass from her father.

[soothsayer]

5. Well I believe this case is at EDNY, where Barr just stuck his boy duCharme

So not sure it’s going anywhere yet

[drray23]

48. yes but if the documents are there to prove it, they will still be there in january.

[soothsayer]

54. They can't dismiss it or anything? Asking sincerely

The can’t throw it out?

[drray23]

59. She has not been charged yet as far as I understand.

So there is nothing to dismiss. A subsequent DA may decide to charge her at a later time.

[soothsayer]

60. Ah! Thank you

So if he charges her and dismisses it, we’d all see it.

Then could it be undone later?

[Bev54]

51. Yes and this case was filed in January

so what has happened since then. I hope some of these cases are tucked away until after the election when Trump cannot pardon them.

[Champp]

6. Republican grifters are the Greatest Grifters of All Time

Too bad America. Republicans have screwed you over yet again.

[Mike 03]

7. Interesting, delves into the logistics

This particular article doesn’t even get into the most unseemly practices that have been alleged. There are allegations that the committee paid an ungodly rate for services to Winston-Wolkoff, a very good friend of Melania, close to $24 million if memory serves (Winston-Wolkoff has the ring of someone who is comfortable dealing in large amounts of money and someone willing to look the other way on highly lucrative pay structures.) Let’s stipulate that over $20 million was paid to Winston-Wolkoff for her services provided for this 4-5 day event, and questions remain as to why such an extravagant payment went to Winston-Wolkoff, with many believing that she and her 6 week old company were nothing but a pass-through to Donald Trump.

Also, Winston-Wolkoff has a memoir due out September 1.

Melania Trump's former aide to release 'explosive' memoir – report
Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former unpaid adviser to the first lady, will detail their 15-year friendship
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/06/melania-trump-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-memoir-report

[Nevilledog]

29. And apparently she's saying she didn't get that money.

[pandr32]

39. The book ought to be interesting

Right on the heels of DT's niece's book, too.

[dhol82]

44. So that's who she is! I knew that name sounded familiar.

Hope they all go down.

[Captain Zero]

57. Seems like Winston-Wolkoff would have had to pay taxes on the income passing through her accounts?

Did she?

I know someone who got scammed once in a "direct marketing mail drop" business this way.
The scammer convinced them he needed them taking orders for his business then he would ship the product.
Orders came in fast and furious and the scammer had the target set up a bank account to collect the credit card charges.

About a month later, the orders dried up. And the scammer had never shipped the products. He disappeared.
The targets found the account they had set up in their name to collect the charges was DRAINED.

And.
The targets were liable for income taxes on all the money running through the account to collect the credit card charges, which was credit card fraud too.

When you ask someone why they need your help in their business and they say "for income tax purposes".
It is time for you to walk away.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

80. "many believing that she and her 6 week old company were nothing but a pass-through to Donald Trump"

Everything he does is structured to allow him kickbacks or some other form of grift. Most corrupt US pResident ever.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. A guy taking a 75-cent candy bar would face more punishment than she'll ever see.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Why am I NOT surprised?

The Trump name exudes CORRUPTOPN at every level.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Let justice rain down on these reprobates

Rump is talking about TV ratings after he leaves office, failing to consider enthralled masses who will follow the prosecution of erstwhile first-family crimes.

[trusty elf]

11. Inmate Barbie

[47of74]

13. Oh please, oh please....

[Lock him up.]

16. Lock her up 2.

[uponit7771]

20. +1

[malaise]

23. Howling on the floor laughing

[trusty elf]

25. Hey malaise!

glad you enjoyed it!

[malaise]

26. I love your posts

[Champp]

32. Bwaaaa ha ha ha

[jmowreader]

78. You do of course realize....

...that now, every single person subscribed to this site wants a Trump Family Prison Playset for Christmas this year.

[AllyCat]

14. Grifters' gonna grift.

[MontanaMama]

15. Lock her up.

[dalton99a]

17. She learned well from her crime boss father

[C_U_L8R]

18. Did she pay taxes on it?

That's how Capone went down.

[packman]

19. And you can bet she had a lot - A LOT- of help doing the skimming

[KS Toronado]

22. What would happen if there was a law

that people could only bill a "non-profit Inauguration Committee " for hours
worked at the federal minimum wage ?

[Danascot]

30. Paging Bill Barr.

You have yet another clean-up on Pennsylvania Avenue.

[BComplex]

38. Ha! Well done!

[UTUSN]

31. Perfect cellmate for MAXWELL. If only.

[johnnyfins]

33. Why is this article being posted now?

March 9th?

More words to piss off the masses, but nothing will be done. No one is going to jail. Best we can hope for is him losing the election. It's sad, but true.

[RhodeIslandOne]

35. .....

[Vinca]

41. That's perfect. Should be framed and sent to all Trump golf courses.

[LaMouffette]

56. Love this!

Throw in the rest of the Trump circle that has already done time, and all the Republican Congressmen and women who SHOULD be doing time for aiding and abetting the Trump crime family and you'd have a miniseries called: Orange is the New Red (for Republican)!

[calimary]

86. Lock 'em up. Lock the whole damn family up!!!

[kacekwl]

36. Of course she did, the

whole family did cause that's what they do. Lock them up.

[cstanleytech]

37. I hope they do not just give her a slap on the wrist with a fine or a few weeks or months in jail.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. I remember at the time

people reporting that Trump had an all out meltdown temper tantrum that he wasn't getting all that money.
He was yelling "IT''S MINE", and not the inauguration or Republican Party's.......
Also wasn't there something about him paying his personal "designer?" fifty million that disappeared and was never spent??????

Needless to say, this is probably a drop in the bucket compared to all the money he, Ivanka, and Jared have grifted these past years.
Particularly everything they scammed from the Virus and PPE stuff.

[Brainfodder]

42. I'm so shocked, especially after reporting that they got less for more than Obama did?

[duforsure]

43. Makes me wonder now ,

How much of it did her dad let her keep after his cut?

[cayugafalls]

45. Overbilling is what she learned from Don the Con. He learned it from his mafia buddies.

The ones who built all his properties and milked millions from him and then he declared bankruptcy to avoid paying.

Don the Con and Ivan the Connivan

[SharonAnn]

64. And she learned it from her grandfather who set up the "Maintenance" company that overbilled

the Trump businesses so that her dad, aunts, and uncles could skim the profits.

[dflprincess]

46. Why is this a lawsuit & not criminal charges?

Surely there isn't an imaginary rule that a sitting president's spawn can't be indicted?

[gademocrat7]

49. Opportunistic grifter

No moral compass.

[Sogo]

81. Oh, great....evidence in that article indicates Cy Vance is likely in the Trump's pocket....

Trump is nothing but a magnet for corruption. Everyone who comes in contact with him becomes, or already is, corrupted.

[pazzyanne]

52. Surprise, surprise, surprise! NT

[not_the_one]

53. "much of the money originated outside the United States"

If there were any russkie mobsters donating, could we use pretzel justice to attach it to money laundering (like trumphumpers use pretzel logic to explain ANYTHING the turd does), charge them, use RICO, and seize all their assets?

I'm putting my hopes and dreams on money laundering, and the NY AG, Letitia James. We know they did it. It can pretty much be proven (one example would be the 40 million $ Florida lot sold to a Russian oligarch for 95 million, which was never lived in by said oligarch, but promptly razed,... not to mention all the NYC apts sold to the russkies, some in Turd Tower). The turd was nothing but a Putinski Laundromat.

[tanyev]

55. Daddy's little girl.

Should have named her Chip.

[blueinredohio]

58. Lock her up.

[EleanorR]

61. Will she be ordered to take a don't steal class like she was for misusing the trump foundation $?

As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump, who at first dismissed the suit as a political attack, made 19 detailed admissions, acknowledging, for example, that the foundation had purchased the $10,000 portrait of himself that was ultimately displayed at one of his Florida hotels.

He admitted to using the foundation’s money to settle obligations of some of his for-profit companies, including a golf club in Westchester County, N.Y., and Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida which he frequently visits.

And he admitted that the foundation had given his presidential campaign control over about $2.8 million that the foundation had raised at a veterans fund-raiser in Iowa in January 2016.

As part of the settlement, Mr. Trump’s three children who were officers of the foundation — Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — were ordered to undergo mandatory training to ensure they do not engage in similar misconduct in the future.

[OverBurn]

63. Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!

[sellitman]

65. This is exactly why Trump just redirected EDNY

The mafia Don has fired everybody from edny. No problem now. His daughter is safe.

[yonder]

66. On the bright side and unlike her dad, she likely won't die of old age

before these allegations can gain a head of steam and result in indictments, conviction and hopefully prison. She, her husband and brothers will always be looking over their shoulders for the skeletons rattling after them. For me, that's a hopeful thought.

[essme]

67. Why, I would be personally disappointed if she DIDN'T

She and Jared, and her disgusting brothers have had decades of practice grifting- why NOT put it to good use?

I hope she goes to jail.

[Skittles]

68. they can never have enough money, can they?

disgusting

[catrose]

69. Please Please Please Please find something now and charge her & Jared

[Blue Owl]

70. Skim Scam Scum

n/t

[genxlib]

71. It begs the question

Was this skimming money that came into the fund through normal means?

Or

Was this withdrawing money that was specifically directed through the fund for them to skim.

Would it really surprise anyone one if this was a payoff mechanism of some kind?

I used to not be a conspiracy theorists. I hate it that people have made me cynical about everything.

[volstork]

72. Oh, how I would love

to see her bony ass in prison!

[smirkymonkey]

73. K&R

I so want to see her in prison, along with her sleazy brothers and her husband. Her father goes without saying.

[TeamPooka]

74. Of course she's a crook. She's a Trump.

[Snake Plissken]

75. Ya think? there was $26 million dollars unaccounted for the same week Trump paid his $25 million...

to settle his Trump University fraud suit, You know Trump didn't use his own money, it would go against everything he stands for.

[BigmanPigman]

76. Another reason Barr is firing everyone

who is close to getting prosecuted. I wonder what Ghislaine Maxwell has on Barr and the rest of them. Barr's dad hired Epstein and he wrote about pedophile sex slaves in his science fiction book. Birds of a feather...

[trueblue2007]

77. LOCK HER UP NOW!!!! Put her in a cell with Big Karen

[Baked Potato]

82. Just a little Sumthin-Sumthin for a rainy day.

[ooky]

83. They steal.

Larceny is in their DNA.

[RainCaster]

85. So kick her skinny ass into a prison,!

Someplace where Pedo-daddy can't get to her