Vance to Subpeona Trump Tax Records

Timothy Birdnow

Cyrus Vance Jr., that scumbag Manhattan D.A., is trying to bring charges against President Trump over his tax returns.

According to the Epoch Times:

The filing is the latest argument made by New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in his fight to enforce a subpoena to gain access to eight years of Trump’s tax returns and financial documents as part of a criminal grand jury probe.

Vance’s legal team had previously suggested to the court that the prosecutor’s subpoena is part of an investigation into "possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization,” which could include bank and insurance fraud, but Monday’s filing is the first time the district attorney had suggested that his probe may include potential tax crimes.

The Manhattan DA argued that the numerous media reports detail allegations about financial misconduct by Trump and his businesses and that these reports are more than enough to uphold the subpoena.

They said that if misstatements about business properties were communicated from the Trump organization to its business partners, insurers, potential lenders, or tax authorities, then those misstatements could possibly establish a violation of state laws such as a scheme to defraud, falsification of business records, insurance fraud, and criminal tax fraud, according to the filing.

"Even if the grand jury were testing the truth of public allegations alone, such reports, taken together, fully justify the scope of the grand jury subpoena at issue in this case,” Vance’s team argued.

If the Democrats want to abuse the law to attack political opponents perhaps we should do likewise; I doubt Mr. Vance would fare well if HIS records were scrutinized (nobody does; it's impossible to follow our Byzantine tax law).

Guys like Vance do this now because they know they are being protected, by the FBI, by their state government, etc. They get away with it. The media never digs into their records. That has to change.

There was a time when both sides stayed away from this sort of thing. No more. But if we are going to have this we must have a balance of power, not asymmetrical warfare (as now.)

The Republicans still haven't figured that out.

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