Trump, Attorney Vance and the allegations of tax evasion
The tycoon obliged to file tax returns. In 2016-2017 paid $ 750 per year.
In America it is universally recognized that on one aspect one cannot joke, and this aspect is that of paying taxes. There are many examples of people who thought they could get away with it but one above all makes it clear how serious the crime of evasion is considered, the case of the famous Al Capone put in jail not for murders or crimes against everything and everyone but precisely for having wanted to evade taxes.
And tax evasion is the main threat looming over the legal horizon of the most famous retiree in the United States, Donald Trump. In fact, as soon as presidential immunity was lost, thick dark clouds of the long and extensive investigation that Attorney Cyrus Vance is conducting in Manhattan began to move over the golden residence of the tycoon of Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
Just yesterday, the former president suffered a major legal defeat as the Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' latest attempt to hide his financial history. Trump's accountants will have to deliver tax returns and all other related documents required by the New York Attorney's Office.
The investigation had been suspended for four months due to Trump's refusal to give the information. Prosecutor Vance, considered a cold hound, commented on the Supreme Court decision with a three-word tweet: "The work continues."
The exact weight of the prosecution's investigations still remains a mystery, as they are protected by grand jury procedures. Of the court cases looming over Trump, Vance's is the only criminal case.
It began with the investigation into alleged payments to two women, allegedly declared as legal fees during the 2016 presidential campaign, in order to silence the sexual allegations.
But the investigation grew and Vance's team spoke of "extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization" and reported that various potential financial crimes are being investigated, from insurance fraud to tax evasion to banking and fraud.
"This investigation is the continuation of the largest political witch hunt in the history of our country," said Donald Trump after the approval of the request for documents, noting that he will continue to fight, just as he has done for the past five years, even before be elected despite all the electoral crimes that have been committed against him and is sure to win.
The prosecution had been asking about his finances since 2011.
During his first presidential campaign in 2016, Trump promised that he would make his tax returns public. But instead of that, once in the White House, he fought by all means so that that information never came to light. As the battle raged in court, The New York Times released a series of exclusive income reports from Trump, which revealed that his tax returns had not been paid for the past 18 years and that, in 2016 and 2017, they were only $ 750 a year was paid.
