Trump Org. was secretly held in contempt for hindering probe
By MICHAEL R. SISAK
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company impeded a grand jury investigation last year by repeatedly failing to turn over evidence in a timely fashion, leading to a secret contempt finding and a $4,000 fine, according to court records made public Tuesday.
The Trump Organization was found to have been “willfully disobeying” four grand jury subpoenas and three court orders, to the detriment of Manhattan prosecutors who were left ill-prepared to question witnesses, Judge Juan Manuel Merchan ruled.
The subpoenas, issued in March, April, May and June 2021, preceded the Trump Organization’s July 2021 indictment on criminal tax fraud charges for helping executives avoid taxes on company-paid perks. The company was convicted this month and faces a fine of up to $1.6 million.
The $4,000 contempt fine was the maximum allowable by law.
Merchan vaguely referenced the Trump Organization's contempt proceeding while presiding over the company's criminal trial, saying he would wait until after it was over to unseal records related to an unspecified proceeding held last year.
That proceeding turned out to be the Trump Organization’s closed-door contempt trial on Oct. 7, 2021 and Merchan’s partially redacted 28-page ruling finding the company in contempt, which he issued on Dec. 8, 2021.
While the company's name was blacked out in the court record released Tuesday, the details in the decision and the manner in which it was unsealed by the judge made it clear who was involved.
Manhattan prosecutors, frustrated with the company’s lack of compliance, had sought "coercive sanctions” of $60,000 per day, Merchan said.
Trump Organization lawyers argued that the company had been providing a steady stream of records, at one point totaling more than 3.5 million pages of records, but Merchan said that was “just enough to fend off” the prosecution’s request for penalties “while never fully meeting any of the deadlines.”
“When challenged (the company) provided one excuse after another," Merchan wrote. “At times it claimed it was impossible to meet deadlines because the demands were too voluminous, overbroad or vague. On other occasions, it blamed delays and omissions on human error” or technical issues.
In the recently concluded criminal tax fraud trial, two corporate entities at the Trump Organization were convicted Dec. 6 of charges including charges of conspiracy and falsifying business records. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 13. The defense said it will appeal. Trump himself was not on trial.
The company’s former finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, previously pleaded guilty to charges that he manipulated the company’s books to illegally reduce his taxes on $1.7 million in fringe benefits such as a Manhattan apartment and luxury cars. He testified in exchange for a promised five-month jail sentence.
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I don't see it as much any more but a lot of the animations/memes of tRump depict him as this muscular superhero type like in the video above.
It always fascinated me how people would fawn over that shit knowing (surely they know right? or are they so sheltered from actual news that they never really see him in real life?) that he's a fat slob with fake hair, fake teeth and he wears special shoes that make him seem taller than he is which is why he stands like a centaur.
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I don't see it as much any more but a lot of the animations/memes of tRump depict him as this muscular superhero type like in the video above.
It always fascinated me how people would fawn over that shit knowing (surely they know right? or are they so sheltered from actual news that they never really see him in real life?) that he's a fat slob with fake hair, fake teeth and he wears special shoes that make him seem taller than he is which is why he stands like a centaur.
....Which is funny because he's pretty tall, anyway.
From the outside of the cult, it just seems so strange. Is there a lacking of "self/cult-awareness" of just how ridiculous it looks to put his head on Rambo's body and how obvious it is that it's being done as overcompensation for the fact that he's a 179-degree turn from being that? Is it just the members displaying their own insecurities; people who brag about being alpha males (so they probably are not) displaying Trump (who definitely is not) as one? It kinda hit me when I saw someone on Twitter refer to him as "our alpha male president." You only need to say that when it's not true.
The whole "alpha male" thing seems so odd to me. First off, who gives a shit who is or isn't one? Secondly, do you see the Rock referring to himself as an alpha male? Stallone? Schwarzenegger? No. It's always the people who feel they have to convince everyone (including themselves). It's pathetic...but in some ways it works to rile 'em all up.
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OMG that is hilarious. Aren't NFT's already dead? I feel like this is a year late. But still, so typical for Trump to find a new way to grift his supporters.
And a self-proclaimed billionaire. Seriously, who in their right mind would want to hang out with this guy? Or work for him? Must have been the Dim one’s idea.
Anyway, I heard they were all sold out. Anonymous buyer in Saudi Arabia bought the whole lot.
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I wonder how many of our maga elite's in this forum (assuming they have not all abandoned him in favor of the now anti-vax gov of Florida by now) have pre ordered those bad boys...
I'm 99% sure this is a well put together deep fake. Better than Lincoln, better than Washington...I think it's too far even for him. It is a funny video though. Its probably the SNL guy that does those good impressions.
Really not sure which one is my favourite. It's the cowboy one I think.
"artwork pertaining to my life and my career"...DJT
Guess I slept through the times in his life/career when he was a: Old west sheriff Astronaut fighter pilot Nascar driver boxer
(I'll give him the football one since he's in a suit and could represent when he owned a USFL team, a league which he pretty much single handedly bankrupted by forcing a move to fall play head-to-head with the NFL)
Just totally embarrassing. I picture classrooms 50 years from now talking about presidential history and hitting this phase of the timeline. Apologies in advance, kids!
Really not sure which one is my favourite. It's the cowboy one I think.
"artwork pertaining to my life and my career"...DJT
Guess I slept through the times in his life/career when he was a: Old west sheriff Astronaut fighter pilot Nascar driver boxer
(I'll give him the football one since he's in a suit and could represent when he owned a USFL team, a league which he pretty much single-handedly bankrupted by forcing a move to fall play head-to-head with the NFL)
Maybe he thought about being a sheriff, astronaut, etc., similarly to thinking he could declassify documents just by thinking about it.
Really not sure which one is my favourite. It's the cowboy one I think.
Damn! Palm Beach has mountains and grazing live stock now? Damn climate change! Or does POOTWH have a ranch in Rifle, Colorado that we didn’t know about?
Funniest video I've watched in a long time. On a serious note can we be surprised that his fans will pay$99 for this when some of us spend hundreds of dollars on posters and funky pops of our favorite band, better than the Beatles, better than the stones.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company impeded a grand jury investigation last year by repeatedly failing to turn over evidence in a timely fashion, leading to a secret contempt finding and a $4,000 fine, according to court records made public Tuesday.
The Trump Organization was found to have been “willfully disobeying” four grand jury subpoenas and three court orders, to the detriment of Manhattan prosecutors who were left ill-prepared to question witnesses, Judge Juan Manuel Merchan ruled.
The subpoenas, issued in March, April, May and June 2021, preceded the Trump Organization’s July 2021 indictment on criminal tax fraud charges for helping executives avoid taxes on company-paid perks. The company was convicted this month and faces a fine of up to $1.6 million.
The $4,000 contempt fine was the maximum allowable by law.
It's yet another kerfuffle involving Trump and allegations of mishandling or withholding records. In April, a judge held Trump in contempt and fined him $110,000 for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general. The former president has also been under investigation for storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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Merchan vaguely referenced the Trump Organization's contempt proceeding while presiding over the company's criminal trial, saying he would wait until after it was over to unseal records related to an unspecified proceeding held last year.
That proceeding turned out to be the Trump Organization’s closed-door contempt trial on Oct. 7, 2021 and Merchan’s partially redacted 28-page ruling finding the company in contempt, which he issued on Dec. 8, 2021.
While the company's name was blacked out in the court record released Tuesday, the details in the decision and the manner in which it was unsealed by the judge made it clear who was involved.
Manhattan prosecutors, frustrated with the company’s lack of compliance, had sought "coercive sanctions” of $60,000 per day, Merchan said.
Trump Organization lawyers argued that the company had been providing a steady stream of records, at one point totaling more than 3.5 million pages of records, but Merchan said that was “just enough to fend off” the prosecution’s request for penalties “while never fully meeting any of the deadlines.”
“When challenged (the company) provided one excuse after another," Merchan wrote. “At times it claimed it was impossible to meet deadlines because the demands were too voluminous, overbroad or vague. On other occasions, it blamed delays and omissions on human error” or technical issues.
In the recently concluded criminal tax fraud trial, two corporate entities at the Trump Organization were convicted Dec. 6 of charges including charges of conspiracy and falsifying business records. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 13. The defense said it will appeal. Trump himself was not on trial.
The company’s former finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, previously pleaded guilty to charges that he manipulated the company’s books to illegally reduce his taxes on $1.7 million in fringe benefits such as a Manhattan apartment and luxury cars. He testified in exchange for a promised five-month jail sentence.
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Still interesting to see how the magats react. I think my fb feed is a pretty good indicator as it has plenty of magats in it.
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It always fascinated me how people would fawn over that shit knowing (surely they know right? or are they so sheltered from actual news that they never really see him in real life?) that he's a fat slob with fake hair, fake teeth and he wears special shoes that make him seem taller than he is which is why he stands like a centaur.
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
From the outside of the cult, it just seems so strange. Is there a lacking of "self/cult-awareness" of just how ridiculous it looks to put his head on Rambo's body and how obvious it is that it's being done as overcompensation for the fact that he's a 179-degree turn from being that? Is it just the members displaying their own insecurities; people who brag about being alpha males (so they probably are not) displaying Trump (who definitely is not) as one? It kinda hit me when I saw someone on Twitter refer to him as "our alpha male president." You only need to say that when it's not true.
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The whole "alpha male" thing seems so odd to me. First off, who gives a shit who is or isn't one? Secondly, do you see the Rock referring to himself as an alpha male? Stallone? Schwarzenegger? No. It's always the people who feel they have to convince everyone (including themselves). It's pathetic...but in some ways it works to rile 'em all up.
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how stupid am I for thinking that this might be a VP announcement?
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2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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Anyway, I heard they were all sold out. Anonymous buyer in Saudi Arabia bought the whole lot.
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What in the actual fuck??!??? HAHAHAHA!
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Really not sure which one is my favourite. It's the cowboy one I think.
I think I prefer the Nascar driver.
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2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
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Guess I slept through the times in his life/career when he was a:
Old west sheriff
Astronaut
fighter pilot
Nascar driver
boxer
(I'll give him the football one since he's in a suit and could represent when he owned a USFL team, a league which he pretty much single handedly bankrupted by forcing a move to fall play head-to-head with the NFL)
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