Preet Bharara's prediction re: Weisselberg

[FakeNoose]

Link to tweet

Preet Bharara:
I’m not optimistic that Weisselberg will flip but I am optimistic he’ll be convicted. The law is fairly clear on what is income & what is taxable. He’s a sophisticated executive; mistake is implausible. The company booked much of it as income. And juries hate rich tax cheats.
4:24 PM · Jul 1, 2021

[House of Roberts]

1. Lock up yon Wifflebooger!

[rurallib]

2. He's singing my favorite song

Hope Weaselburger gets 20+ years

[calimary]

9. Hey! I like that! Weaselburger!

Sure fits! And it’s funny!

[lastlib]

14. Insulting to the entire Mustelidae family....

Weasels are noble beasts compared to the trump scum.

but it IS funny!!

[druidity33]

30. Noble maybe... but they do smell funny. nt.

[KS Toronado]

15. I'll second that, fits perfect!

[lagomorph777]

22. Love it!

[Trueblue1968]

3. "French Revolution him " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Mary Trump fwiw just said she thought he wouldn't get jail time

I know, she's not a lawyer. But we are just talking taxes on a million over years, right?

[dflprincess]

6. She also said she'd expect her cousins to flip before he does nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. I know! Loved that part!

[ShazzieB]

35. Yes!

From what she said, she thinks Jr., Eric, and Ivanka would throw their dad under the bus before Weisselberg would. Which made me laugh and laugh. I guess family loyalty doesn't run very deep with that bunch.

[onetexan]

37. LOL in their wierdly dysfunctional family their relationships

Are purely transactional, as Mary Trump said.

[wnylib]

24. She predicted that her uncle's ego

would not let him run again and face the humiliation of losing after losing in 2020.

Oops! Off a little on that one. At least he is bluster-talking about running again. Maybe she forgot to take into account his desperation to use a return (reinstatement) to the presidency as a shield against prosecution.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. And it could all be an act. I think he's really good at that but his actions

Always point back to something that's good for him and his money making ability

If he says he's not running again the money could dry up?

[wnylib]

32. Could be right about not wanting

the money to dry up. I can't think of any other reason for him to say that he will be reinstated unless he really believes he can succeed in a second coup.

Or the reinstatement talk and the talk about running in 2024 are just part of a face-saving denial that he actually lost in 2020.

[Warpy]

11. Yes, he'll plead his age and go broke paying interest and penalties

Remember, the taxes came to 1.76 million over 15 years. At a 15% tax rate, it worked out to a little over $770,000 per year, which isn't in the chicken feed realm and was probably just enough to keep Weisselberg from retiring to some Caribbean island.

I hope his kids took full advantage of their high priced educations, it looks like they'll all have to work for a living.

However, if he pisses the judge off enough to merit any kind of a sentence, it will be months, not years, and he will get out early.

[Ilsa]

25. Yeah, Ivanka had a $2million salary,

but what did she do there?

[Warpy]

26. You mean other than designing bad fashion for aspirational midwesterners?

Collect. That's my gues(

Edit: Yes, that was unforgivably snarky. In my defense I have lived in the upper midwest. They don't call the look "the full Cleveland" for nothing.

[lunatica]

27. The Midwest is the unfriendliest place I've ever been

My family lived in Joliet, ILLINOIS. It’s south of Chicago. People were very unfriendly there. Especially in traffic! Winters are miserable!

[Ziggysmom]

28. Not true! The Midwest has many good, true-blue, liberal citizens who are neighborly,

charitable AND friendly 😊 True, I admit the Chicago vicinity traffic can be a real bummer and bring out the worst in people. The unfriendlies must be the magats!

As far as weather goes, I enjoy skating, skiing and tubing in winter; the change of seasons is refreshing to some.

[Warpy]

46. Maybe living there while I was growing up prepared me for New England

when I was an adult. I've heard people say the same thing about New Englanders, but I never found it to be true. Some of them just took a while to warm up, the person down the street you grunted back and forth with over the winter turning out to be a friend by summer. I really had no trouble either place.

It was Dixie I found clannish, intolerant, spiky, and impenetrable.

To each his own, i guess.

[Sherman A1]

33. Yes

It was snarky and unnecessary.

[smirkymonkey]

42. Just curious, what "look" is the full Cleveland?

I have only been to Chicago and Cinci, but not spent enough time in either to really get a handle on midwest fashion, except that it's not New York.

[Warpy]

43. Here. It was well known in the 70s and 80s more than it is now

especially in destination resorts around the country. It was a dead giveaway and no, I didn't invent the term.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=full%20cleveland

[smirkymonkey]

44. LOL!

Googled images and got this. It's kind of a 70's look. I would think that nobody dresses like this anymore. Leisure suit w/ white patent leather belt and matching shoes.

[Warpy]

45. I used to see them all the time in Florida and on Cape Cod

and occasionally seeing the sights in Boston.

Yeah, it really was a thing.

[OhioTim]

39. Just Like All The Rich

who get only fines

[Poiuyt]

5. Will he get any more than probation or a suspended sentence?

[Grins]

8. "...juries hate rich tax cheats."

Wait until they get Trump in the dock.

[Pepsidog]

10. He is going to eat the charges so if these are State charges let's see how long he lasts

in NY State prison system. Imagine him stripping, bending over, naked and coughing. He won’t last a week. State prison is not Club-Fed.

[empedocles]

12. When prison is more than a concept, but a closely felt reality - witness

some of the smaller convicts flipping, he may change his mind.

[flying_wahini]

13. I doubt Weaselburger will go broke. He's probably been skimming $$$$ from Trump for decades.

He’s an accountant, after all.
He is a crook cut from the same cloth as tRump.
He probably taught Trump everything he knows about cheating on taxes.

[Escurumbele]

21. You are most probably right, I have to think he has invested outside of the USA, maybe not invested

but saved money outside of the USA in case something like this would ever happen. That is the reason the judge took his passport away, they said he had the means to fly out of the country to a country where the USA has no extradition agreements and that he had enough money to live there happily ever after...I made the "happily ever after" up, the prosecutor did not say that, but the judge agreed that he was a fly-risk.

I am surprised he didn't take off before being indicted, he has known for months it was coming.

[SayItLoud]

16. My 2 Cents:

tRUMP has made it a point to be in the NY tRUMP tower offices of the tRUMP Organization instead of playing golf everyday, Why? So he can look the Weasel in the eye and remind him that what he (tRUMP) has on the Weasel is far worse than what the DA has. And the consequences of flipping will be far FAR worse for the Weasel and his family than a conviction with no jail time by the DA.

Weasel knows tRUMP is involved with the mob. NY and Russian. Men in cement shoes consequences for Weasel's family first then Weasel himself. And there's the Weasel kid who works for tRUMP, outta work in an instant along with Weasel.

Weaselberg is never going to flip and the consequences, even conviction, will get him a fine at most. (too old for the slam).

Hope the DA is looking for others to flip cause Weasel (IMO) isn't flipping.

[FakeNoose]

17. You could be right about this

People are saying that AW won't flip unless his son is also looking at jailtime. He'd do it to save his son. It's possible that Cy Vance has enough on Chump that he doesn't need AW to flip.

[Escurumbele]

23. I like your 2 cents, it makes a lot of sense, even if it is just speculation, it is a good one

Lets hope someone in the organization hates trump as much as 70% of the World and tells the story.

[jmowreader]

36. There is nobody "too old for the slam"

Witness one Winston Shrout, sovereign citizen tax avoidance guru. He is 73 years old, has hypertension, heart disease, lung disease and is overweight. He's also currently doing 10 years at FCI Terminal Island.

Given that, I don't think the feds need Weisselberg to flip. They know Trump is a micromanager. If they've got Weisselberg, they know Trump either allowed or ordered the things Weisselberg did, which means they can get Trump without having to rely on Weisselberg.

[ScratchCat]

18. I wonder if Preet has considered the possibility

That they are setting up Trump with a bribery sting? That maybe Weiselberg is only "not cooperating" publicly, but has already struck a deal where they will catch Trump trying to bribe or threaten him?

[Joinfortmill]

20. Ha! Love it.

[Joinfortmill]

19. It'll be real when the prison door slams behind him.

[Cha]

31. Didn't the TP brag about NOT paying Taxes?

[FakeNoose]

40. Yes he did, even while campaigning in 2016

The assholes voted for him anyway.

[Cha]

41. And look were we are now..

[Blue Owl]

34. Donald Trump: TAX CHEAT

Next time thank Diarrhea Donny for defunding the police...

[pansypoo53219]

38. i am quite sure the moron has padded his nest w/ millions to insure his silence.