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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas 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.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,877 posts)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)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)They should all pay the penalty for that fraud, whether POTUS, judge, or not.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)And where is the IRS?
salin
(48,955 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)She was instrumental in setting up the cheating, according to the story.
And she DOES have a federal pension and benefits.
salin
(48,955 posts)PCIntern
(25,595 posts)She was 3rd Circuit....
They only said that she wasnt warm and fuzzy but didnt say anything bad about her judicial temperament or that she was eccentric.
FromTheAshes
(128 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)[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 Trumps 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 fathers 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 Trumps children.
Barry only gave a short statement when called for comment and refused to say more.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)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)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.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)She's a fixer too, then.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)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