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10/19/2018 7:22:16 AM

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Trump’s Sister, A Federal Judge, Was Heavily Involved In Brother’s Tax Fraud

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Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, 1992.Screengrab/PublicResourceOrg/YouTube

Judge Maryanne Barry Trump played a significant role in the Trump siblings' tax evasion schemes.

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, sister to President Donald Trump, was revealed in The New York Times’ recent exposé on the Trump siblings’ tax evasion schemes as a key player.

Via Raw Story:

The report details the brazen fraud in wake of the senior Fred Trump’s death. Prior to his death, his son Donald urged his father to set up some ways for his brothers and sisters to score big without having to pay taxes. The elder Trump turned to Barry to consult about the legality of the idea.

“This doesn’t pass the smell test,” he told her, she recalled during a deposition.

Judge Barry read the codicil in Fred Trump’s will, and agreed with her father it was problematic.

“Donald was in precarious financial straits by his own admission,” she said, “and Dad was very concerned as a man who worked hard for his money and never wanted any of it to leave the family.”

The elder Trump did not wish for his money to fall into the hands of “Donald’s creditors” and asked Barry to find new estate planning attorneys.

It was at this point that Donald lost sole control over his father’s finances.

“Simply put, without immediate action, Fred Trump’s heirs faced the prospect of losing hundreds of millions of dollars to estate taxes,” The Times described. “Whatever their differences, the Trumps formulated a plan to avoid this fate. How they did it is a story never before told.”

Barry and her siblings came up with numerous ways to transfer the wealth without having to pay 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.”

Read The Times’ full investigative piece here.

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/trump-s-sister-a-federal-judge-was-heavily-involved-in-brother-s-tax-fraud-QEklbnkobUixvAXbxWxsWA/

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I suspect you're involved with this effort.==== Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked Print By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 18, 2018 The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken. The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren’t citizens, received the mailing. “This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle,” said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that’s made its mark policing states’ voter registration practices. The Texas secretary of state’s office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate. “If true there will be serious consequences,” he said. The PILF publicly released complaints it sent to Hidalgo and Starr counties asking for an investigation. The organization also provided copies of pre-marked voter applications and the affidavit from the man who said his non-citizen relatives received the mailing. The applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from the state. But the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party’s headquarters. The letter is emblazoned with “Urgent! Your voter registration deadline is October 9.” It continues: “Your voter registration application is inside. Complete, sign and return it today!” On the application, boxes affirming the applicant is both 18 and a U.S. citizen are already checked with an “X” in the Yes field. The mailing also urges those who are unsure if they’re registered to “Mail it in.” A person answering phones at the state party declined to connect The Washington Times with any officials there, insisting that a reporter email questions. That email went unanswered. Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas’s secretary of state, said they heard from people whose relatives were receiving mail despite having passed away 10 years ago or longer. One woman said her child, who’d been dead 19 years, got a mailing asking to register. “It looks like a case of really bad information they are using to send out these mailers,” Mr. Taylor said. He said some of the non-citizens who called wondered whether there had been some change that made them now legally able to vote despite not being citizens. Mr. Taylor said there is a state law against encouraging someone to falsify a voter application, but it would be up to investigators to decide if pre-checking a box rose to that level. PILF has been pushing state election officials in recent years to be wary of non-citizens who manage to register and, in many cases, to actually cast ballots. The organization has found thousands of people who later admitted they weren’t citizens, but who managed to register or vote in New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania The organization is also embroiled in a legal battle with Harris County, Texas, which has declined to provide PILF with similar voter data. PILF says usually the origin of non-citizens voting is motor vehicle bureaus, where people are pressed to register — and often ignore or miss the admonition that they must be citizens. In this case, though, the invitations were sent directly by a political party. The data from North Carolina suggests that non-citizens who vote skew decidedly Democratic, based on their pattern of voting in Democratic primaries. The affidavit PILF provided to prosecutors Thursday is from David C. Kifuri Jr. He said “several relatives” of his who are legal permanent residents but not citizens got the mailing, and were confused. He said in his affidavit he told them to report the mailing to local authorities and not to fill it out any further. The Hidalgo County election office said it forwards all applications that arrive to the state for processing. Officials can’t tell whether something was pre-checked or not when it got to the applicant. A county elections spokeswoman couldn’t say whether pre-checking the citizenship box was legal. Mr. Churchwell, though, said it crosses lines because prosecutors looking into whether someone illegally registered to vote need to be able to see the intent of the applicant, and a pre-checked box defeats that. Mr. Churchwell said the party was putting immigrants in a tough position, as evidenced by the number of them who were calling state officials wondering if there’s been some change allowing them to vote. “The victims will actually be the non-citizens,” he said. Copyright © 2018 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.