'Most damning evidence' yet unveiled by Trump's prosecutors: reporter
In total, the Trump Organization paid Cohen back a total of $420,000 over the span of a year in $35,000 monthly increments.
It was these payments that prosecutors alleged were falsely logged as legal expenses when in reality they were an illegal campaign contribution made by Cohen to ensure that damaging information about Trump did not come out ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Thanks Joe! ๐ ๐๐ฟ
' the IRS wants a 50% jump in the audit rate for households with incomes of $10 million and up, the agency said in a report Thursday. Itโs also seeking to nearly triple the rate of corporate audits.
here are no plans to bump up audits on households making less than $400,000 '
Trump Media's accounting firm BF Borgers has been charged with widespread fraud impacting more than 1,500 filings. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/business/trump-media-accounting-firm-charged-fraud/index.html
#TrumpNYcriminalTrial
Andrew Weissmann:
Why Hicks is such a devastating witness against Trump:
1. Hicks makes clear Trump knew of the Cohen payoff scheme to Daniels.
2. Even if you believe his statement to her that he only learned after the fact.
3. Her testimony sinks Trump's defense since he is on record in a civil case admitting that he reimbursed Cohen the $130,000.
4. Hicks establishes that Trump knew that money was for Daniel's silence- not for the claimed legal fees 4ongoing legal work
Bannon is set to appear in a New York court Wednesday in connection with allegations that he defrauded people who donated to a campaign to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bannon, a former White House senior adviser, is scheduled to appear in front of Judge Juan Merchan for a pretrial motion hearing at the New York Supreme Criminal Court, where Bannon's lawyers are expected to argue that the case should be thrown out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/steve-bannon-to-face-the-music/ar-AA1nZrqf
Florida's 6 week abortion ban went into effect. The graphic in the article is sobering.The impact does not stop at the FL border.
#GiftArticle #Abortion #Florida
"Women in Miami who are beyond six weeks will now need to travel more than 700 miles to reach the nearest clinics โ in Charlotte, N.C., where state law requires two visits spread over three days."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/01/upshot/florida-abortion-ban.html
#Dachau #AuschwitzMemorial
#NeverForget
โApril 29 marks 'the Day of Polish Clergy Martyrdom During World War II'. โฉIt is observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Dachau where 868 Polish clergymen perished.โ
RIP. Memory Eternal.
' An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others '
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-grand-jury-fake-electors-trump_n_662994a0e4b005d7bf0c72a6
15 years ago, at a local PMI meeting, I found myself on the same table as an automotive I.T. consultant.
His view was that in 10-15 years, auto manufacturers would be giving away cars for nothing, because they would be making their revenues from onboard software.
Tesla appears to be the most aggressive with this model. However, other auto makers are occasionally trying it.
The era of your controlling ownership of any object controlled by vendor software may be ending quite soon.
Bill McKibben on Climate Crisis: How we got here and what we can do now
https://youtu.be/q-d296gUjgM
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