N.Y. prosecutor hires forensic accounting experts as Trump criminal probe escalates

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has retained forensic accounting specialists to aid its criminal investigation of President Trump and his business operations, as prosecutors ramp up their scrutiny of his company's real estate transactions, according to people familiar with the matter.

District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. opened the investigation in 2018 to examine alleged hush-money payments made to two women who, during Trump’s first presidential campaign, claimed to have had affairs with him years earlier. The probe has since expanded, and now includes the Trump Organization's activities more broadly, said the people familiar with the matter.

Vance has contracted with FTI Consulting to look for anomalies among a variety of property deals, and to advise the district attorney on whether the president’s company manipulated the value of certain assets to obtain favorable interest rates and tax breaks, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter remains highly sensitive. The probe is believed to encompass transactions spanning several years.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-tax-returns-new-york-investigation/2020/12/29/11c43a38-43c8-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html

[Botany]

1. N.Y. prosecutor hires forensic accounting experts as Trump criminal probe escalates

A headline so nice it needs to be posted twice.

[soothsayer]

2. They're coming for him

Hoo golly this is awesome and foreboding.

Hope he’s skeered.

[mitch96]

10. Nail his ass.....nt

[kurtcagle]

3. Fraud and Racketeering Charges

I also have to wonder how much such forensic examinations will bring to light money funneled through Trump's various corporations during his tenure as president. Money laundering and embezzlement are both state crimes rather than federal ones. Trump may be the first president to ever be considered a flight risk.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Check all his property tax evaluations

He pumps up the values to get loans, then knocks down the values for his property tax.

[sop]

4. Belated Christmas present!

[onetexan]

6. no more creative accounting for the Con's family? ha! I hope they dig into that cesspool called the

reelection campaign as well and put an end to it. It is just another grifting vehicle after all.

[bluestarone]

7. Our time is truly coming!

The next 20 days will be as BAD for him ( he knows what's coming) as they will be for us!

[stillcool]

8. That Dural deal was a beauty...

and Kushner's personal banker at Deutsch, who just resigned, inked the deal after it had already been denied. Don't know how Trump could satisfy that loan on the up & up.

[NEOBuckeye]

9. Throw the book at the motherfucker

He’s more than earned it.