Just a curosity question about TFG

[Ferrets are Cool]

Why the HELL hasn't he been charged with tax evasion yet? You know he is guilty of this crime and it seems as though it would be one of the easier crimes to prosecute.

[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... he seems to get away with crimes all the time. His fans love him for not paying his taxes - they think taxes are the Government's way of giving their money to lazy brown people. Still, you'd think he would have been charged with something, by now!

[gab13by13]

2. Is Cy Vance involved?

[lagomorph777]

3. Ask Merrick Garland.

According to some here, he has all the answers and is just Biden his time.

[unblock]

4. Actually I'm sure his taxes are an insanely complicated mess

It's more cut and dried in the sense that if you have all the records, you can objectively determine and prove a crime. You don't need to rely on witnesses the same way you do in other kinds of cases.

That said, whenever there's this much complexity, it becomes hard to make the case so clearly that it's still convincing even after expert defense obfuscation.

It can be done, but it takes a lot of time to go through all the details.

I *hope* they are diligently working on this.

[Hoyt]

5. That's assuming trump was making any money, rather than always needing another loan.

[FakeNoose]

6. I thought NY State was already working up a case against him

... even before he left the White House. Also NYC Municipal tax collectors had a case against him.

Even if the federal govt (IRS) never goes after him, his hands are full with the city, county and state cases. I'm sure his lawyers are using every delay tactic on the books, and then some. It's the business taxes as well as the personal taxes. They'll get him, don't worry.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. No They Won't

He's above the law.

[brooklynite]

8. How do YOU know he's guilty?

Because you read a newspaper article? Or a blog post? That's not how you build a criminal case.

Let me also observe that the IRS in the 8 years of the Obama Administration didn't charge Trump with tax fraud. Maybe the know more than you do?

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. Oh, give me a FUCKING break

Sheesh Go troll someone else.

[brooklynite]

10. Sorry if this bothers you...

...but "we all know he's guilty" isn't the basis for a criminal indictment, much less a conviction.

[maxsolomon]

11. Another one: why hasn't the JCOT resolved his 2011 tax return?

TFG got a $73 million REFUND from the IRS (and a couple million more from NY as a result), and has sat on that while they review it for TEN YEARS.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/02/919411676/congressional-committee-has-been-reviewing-trump-tax-refund-for-nine-years

It is now controlled by Dems:
https://www.jct.gov/about-us/committee-members/