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[yakov_a_jerkov]

This is a really big one.

NYT опубликовал результаты расследования финансов Трампа. Это огромная статья -- вроде, одна из самых длинных за всю историю NYT. Статья основана на конфиденциальных документах, относящихся к бизнесу отца президента, Фреда Трампа.

Одна из авторов публикации представляет ее так. Susanne Craig:

Russ Buettner, David Barstow and I got our hands on a massive trove of confidential docs - including 200 tax returns - from Fred Trump’s empire. We found Donald Trump received hundreds of millions from his dad, some of it via fraudulent tax schemes.

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

Учитывая длину статьи о результатах расследования, NYT также опубликовал краткую версию, которую легко осилить.

11 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Trump’s Wealth

Donald J. Trump built a business empire and won the presidency proclaiming himself a self-made billionaire, and he has long insisted that his father, the legendary New York City builder Fred C. Trump, provided almost no financial help. “I built what I built myself,” the president has repeatedly said.

But an investigation by The New York Times has revealed that Donald Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire. What’s more, much of this money came to Mr. Trump through dubious tax schemes he participated in during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, The Times found.

Как пишут, для NYT явно обвинить кого-то в мошенничестве с налогами, тем более, обвинить действующего президента -- это a huge deal.

Будет ли это расследование иметь последствия для президентства Трампа? Есть люди, и их много, которые считают, что на данный момент Трампу уже никакая информация повредить не может -- Трампу достаточно ответить fake news, и его сторонники будут удовлетворены.

Я не принадлежу к этим людям. На мой взгляд, Трамп отнюдь не неуязвим. А какие последствия будут у этой публикации -- посмотрим.

P.S. Добавлю сюда этот комментарий. Richard Rubin:

Still reading this but what's remarkable to me is the strength of the language -- "fraud," "sham" "con -- etc. and what kinds of legal/journalism conversations must have gone into those word choices.

One other thought: Trump himself said he was audited every year starting in 2002. This story -- thorough and exhaustive and detailed and impressive as it is -- doesn't even get into any of whatever the IRS looked into the past 16 years.

P.S. Пишут, что последняя статья за авторством Susanne Craig в NYT была опубликована в начале 2017 года. То есть, видимо, она с тех пор занималась этим расследованием.

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[tijd.livejournal.com]

Политические связи Трампа - тоже от отца, который мутил дела с нью-йоркскими политиками. Через отца он познакомился с Роем Коном и Роджером Стоуном, который после свел его с Манафортом.

"Come and make your pitch to me,” Roy Cohn told Roger Stone when they met at a New York dinner party in 1979. Stone, though only 27, had achieved a degree of notoriety as one of Richard Nixon’s political dirty-tricksters. At the time, he was running Ronald Reagan’s presidential-campaign organization in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and he needed office space.
Stone appeared on East 68th Street to find Cohn, just awakened, in his robe, sitting with one of his clients, Mob boss “Fat Tony” Salerno, of the Genovese crime family. “In front of [Roy] was a slab of cream cheese and three burnt slices of bacon,” Stone remembered. “He ate the cream cheese with his pointing finger. He listened to my pitch and said, ‘You need to see Donald Trump. I will get you in, but then you are on your own.’ ”
“I went to see him,” Stone told me, “and Trump said, ‘How do you get Reagan to 270 electoral votes?’ He was very interested [in the mechanics]—a political junkie. Then he said, ‘O.K., we are in. Go see my father.’ ” Out Stone went to Avenue Z, in Coney Island, and met Fred Trump in his office, which was crowded with cigar-store Indians. “True to his word, I got $200,000. The checks came in $1,000 denominations, the maximum donation you could give. All of these checks were written to ‘Reagan For President.’ It was not illegal—it was bundling. Check trading.” For Reagan’s state headquarters, the Trumps found Stone and the campaign a decrepit town house next to the ‘21’ Club. Stone was now, like Donald Trump, inside the Cohn tent.
And Stone soon seized the moment to cash in. After Reagan was elected, his administration softened the strict rules for corporations seeking government largesse. Soon Stone and Paul Manafort, Trump’s future campaign manager, were lobbyists, reaping the bonanzas that could flow with Favor Bank introductions. Their first client, Stone recalled, was none other than Donald Trump, who retained him, irrespective of any role Manafort might have had in the firm, for help with federal issues such as obtaining a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the channel to the Atlantic City marina to accommodate his yacht, the Trump Princess.
“We made no bones about it,” Stone recently said. “We wanted money. And it came pouring in.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship