It’s always the “consulting fees”
It seems Princess Ivanka may have been detected in a crime.
A nugget in the New York Times’s investigation into the US president’s tax returns could potentially cause lasting damage to Ivanka, currently a senior adviser to the president and a leading surrogate for his re-election campaign.
Currently a sleazy nepotistic hanger-on helping her filthy daddy kill us all.
She apparently received “consulting fees” paid by the Trump Organization, helping reduce the Trump family’s tax bill, while she was simultaneously an employee of the organization.
“Trump’s private records show that his company once paid $747,622 in fees to an unnamed consultant for hotel projects in Hawaii and Vancouver, British Columbia,” the Times noted. “Ivanka Trump’s public disclosure forms – which she filed when joining the White House staff in 2017 – show that she had received an identical amount through a consulting company she co-owned.”
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Joshua Kendall, author of First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama, said: “There seems to be an overlap in terms of her declaring that same amount of money on her financial disclosure so this really could be very, very damaging. There has been some speculation about a criminal prosecution. This could really be a turning point for her.”
We can hope.
Maybe they’ll let her design her own orange jumpsuit.
Adam Davidson has been writing about the Trump Organization’s financial crimes for years (e.g. his extensive article in The New Yorker in 2017 about the Trump Tower Baku). I just shake my head at years going by with no action taken. Maybe this new development will prompt some action, but I just don’t know.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
I remember watching him talking to Maddow about Trump Tower Baku back then.
@iknklast #1
Does Ivanka wear her own designs?
Colin, be serious; the princess wouldn’t wear cheaply-made crap put together by kids in Chinese sweat-shops.
AoS, I was thinking more of the quality of her design than the manufacturing, but point taken.