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Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:20 AM Oct 2018

Has Trump's sister, the judge, ever been investigated?

Did the father pass her over when it came to crooked financial distributions?

Is she somehow a normal, decent upstanding person?

I don't see how that could be, considering the stench that has followed Donald all his life.

Investigating her might be a way to go after Donnie. If he cares about her and what happens to her.

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,877 posts)
1. It was her required financial filing that let the cat out of the bag.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:26 AM
Oct 2018

I don't know that she intended that to happen (probably not, she's a Trump), but federal judges have to disclose certain financial information. What she filed showed a large amount of money she received from what turned out to be a shell corporation whose sole purpose turned out to be to mark up the cost of materials sold to Fred's property as a bogus way of transferring funds from Fred to his kids without having to pay gift tax.

radical noodle

(8,013 posts)
2. It appears that Fred
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:27 AM
Oct 2018

gave Donald a much larger percentage of his fortune than he gave to the other siblings. I wonder how they feel about that?

RockRaven

(15,018 posts)
3. Trump doesn't care about his siblings. But they all benefitted from the same fraud.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:29 AM
Oct 2018

They should all pay the penalty for that fraud, whether POTUS, judge, or not.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
12. yes, but this has been her history during her work years on the bench.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 05:55 PM
Oct 2018

She was instrumental in setting up the cheating, according to the story.

And she DOES have a federal pension and benefits.

PCIntern

(25,595 posts)
5. I know some court administrators here in Philly
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:32 AM
Oct 2018

She was 3rd Circuit....

They only said that she wasn’t warm and fuzzy but didn’t say anything bad about her judicial temperament or that she was eccentric.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
7. well, Raw Story says she is heavily implicated in the corrupt intent.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:38 AM
Oct 2018

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/trumps-retired-federal-judge-sister-heavily-implicated-ny-times-report-family-tax-evasion/|

From the link, RS quoting NYT:

Barry then joined with the other siblings to generate a series of scams to transfer the wealth without paying gift taxes.

“The Trumps’ plan, executed over the next decade, blended traditional techniques — such as rewriting Fred Trump’s will to maximize tax avoidance — with unorthodox strategies that tax experts told The Times were legally dubious and, in some cases, appeared to be fraudulent,” the report revealed. “As a result, the Trump children would gain ownership of virtually all of their father’s buildings without having to pay a penny of their own. They would turn the mountain of cash into a molehill of cash. And hundreds of millions of dollars that otherwise would have gone to the United States Treasury would instead go to Fred Trump’s children.”

Barry only gave a short statement when called for comment and refused to say more.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
8. She is retired.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:40 AM
Oct 2018

So she can't be thrown off the bench. If she were charged in the fraud, perhaps she would be at risk of forfeiting assets. She should at least be openly reviled for tax fraud.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
9. She is NOT A good person;as corrupt as 2-minute ToadieHead
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:42 AM
Oct 2018

She was on Toadie' s side in cutting off their great-nephew 's medical care cause the parents were contesting Fred's Will (or something money-related like thar) in which she was willing to let that baby die.

She also was miraculously handed the case of Toadie"s cocaine-dealing buddy Weichselbaum- who also miraculously only got a few years in jail by her. Whereas the people he actually had moving the drugs got 20+ years.

She's as much an asshole as her brother.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
10. Brother Donnie screwed her over when he bought her home in Florida, as well.
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 11:42 AM
Oct 2018

His real estate company negotiated a price several million below the asking price. It is by Mar-A-Lago and has an absolutely gorgeous view of the ocean. Of course, some day the ocean may be in her living room...but I digress.

Here is the link to the article:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210635552

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