We know almost nothing about Donald Trump’s finances. He swears he’s a billionaire but refuses to prove it. He claims to have business dealings across the globe but won’t tell us where exactly he does business. Most of all, however, Trump refuses to let us see his tax returns. He says he’d love to release […]
Some very bad news arrived for Donald Trump from a court in Manhattan, and the end result may wind up being that all of us will soon know exactly what investigators discovered when the raided the office and residence of Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, back in April of 2018. According to Reuters: “Documents related […]
Now that Congressional Democrats have made it clear they’re going after Donald Trump’s tax returns, you can expect Trump to fight that request all the way to the Supreme Court, which certainly suggests that he’s got something to hide. And considering the way he’s done business over the years, his fears are likely justified. But […]
Conventional wisdom — based on nothing more than two memos written by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel — is that a sitting president cannot be indicted. But the issue has never actually been adjudicated in court, so it remains unclear if such a move would be allowed under the Constitution. However, two […]
Much like his more famous father-in-law, Jared Kushner is also in the real-estate business, a business that requires large sums of financing that banks aren’t always to supply, especially if you have a history of not being able to pick winning building projects. For almost a year now, we’ve known that Special Counsel Robert Mueller […]
Unless you live in Chicago, it’s a pretty good bet that you’ve never heard of Ed Burke. He’s an alderman on the city council, and on Thursday he was charged with attempted extortion. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: “After serving on the City Council for nearly half a century, Burke faced a federal judge Thursday, accused […]
With one lawsuit, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood managed to get the Donald J. Trump Foundation shut down. And that’s not all she was able to accomplish. In addition to the shuttering of the Trump Foundation, Trump will have to give away any remaining funds in the foundation account. Oh, and Underwood is also […]
For decades, there have been rumors about how Donald Trump has been able to obtain financing for his real estate deals, even when the U.S. and world economies were in a deep recession. How is Trump getting millions when other developers are on the sidelines, desperate for capital? A report from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay […]
For decades, there have been rumors that Donald Trump may have allowed the Trump Organization and real estate properties he owns to serve as vehicles for money laundering. In September, noted investigative journalist Craig Unger published a book entitled House of Trump, House of Putin, and his exhaustive look at the Trump empire has led him […]
For decades, Donald Trump and his family have allegedly avoided paying both state and federal taxes through a series out accounting tricks and outright fraud, the New York Times reported Tuesday. And it now appears that the penalties for that fraud could be fines so large that Trump and his children would be left without […]