Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap':

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61. And accounting fraud, and bank fraud, and tax fraud

All of the above.

Whenever you have a company with lots of separate corporations, these frauds are very likely. It is the proverbial Enron structure.

There certainly are some legitimate (or at least legally accepted) reasons for separate corporations -- mostly for sheltering companies from liability (which IMHO is a kind of fraud). But in Trump's case, you can be certain that he used bankruptcy to wash out his debts. The way this works is that if you have 100 corporations, you pick one (or several) that you are going to push through bankruptcy. Once that decision is made, you start doing bogus transactions between the corporations in order to shift as many of your losses as possible into the entity that will go through BK.

Trump didn't invent that trick. Is has been used as long as there have been corporate protections. Imagine if regular people could do this. Let's say I can claim to have multiple personalities and each one is a separate legal entity, not responsible for the actions of the other personalities. I have $30,000 debt on a credit card and I owe $20,000 on a car load but my engine just blew up and the car is only worth $5000. I have $75,000 equity in my home. Well, I'll just claim my evil personality, Jerry, did all the bad stuff. I'll put the car loan and credit card in Jerry's name and Jerry will go bankrupt, but I'll keep the equity in the house.

That is Corporate Economics 101, and you can be certain Trump has been doing this for every penny he can.