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Dude took one for the team, hope he gets off with a minimal sentence.
I think the easiest way we could help him in the current judicial system is immediately stop paying all our bills and accept foreign investments, organize an insurrection and attempt to overthrow the election, and once you're made president then you can pardon him.
You forgot the first step, pull yourself up by your bootstraps by being born to a father with a real estate business who gives you millions of dollars.
A snall loan, to be sure
A million dollar loan, Nobody makes it on their own.. Without a million dollar loan. You'll reap what you've sown, From a million dollar loan. Call your father on the phone, And get that million dollar loan
The sollest of loans
Jury nullification.
Doesn’t work if “it could happen to my tax returns”.
Which the prosecutors will bring up a lot.
Tax records should be public.
Prosecutor won’t say that.
And defense won’t say that to a brainwashed jury
Doesn’t work if “it could happen to my tax returns”.
I'm not trying to be all "if you've got nothing to hide" about this, but unless you're a secret millionaire and you don't want friends to know, why would anyone care?
5 years.
Would have gotten less time if he had just done an insurrection instead
Even musk paying 30% in taxes is such a misnomer too. He accrued like 80 billion in assets during that time and just borrows money tax-free based off that imaginary asset valuation and can essentially have unlimited tax-free money as his assets appreciate...
Props to littlejohn
This man deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Robinhood and Littlejohn are fucking up their fortress. Oo-de-Lally.
Littlejohn
WHAT?! WHAT?! YEEEAAAAHHHHH!
Golly what a day.
Fucking legend.
Littlejohn right out of Robinhood's merry men and living up to his legacy name!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October to one count of taking tax return information without authorization.
On two separate occasions, Littlejohn provided tax documents belonging to Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk to two news organizations.
Littlejohn initially provided The New York Times with 20 years of Donald Trump's tax returns in 2019, which the news organization published a story about in September 2020.
Later, investigators began looking into a separate incident involving ProPublica, which published dozens of articles in 2021 on the tax returns of uber-wealthy Americans like Amazon's Bezos and SpaceX CEO Musk.
From there, investigators began combing through employee and contractor search data to see if there were unusual queries that did not align with their specified job descriptions, the Journal reported, citing those same unnamed people.
On Friday, a letter written by former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor overseeing the fraud case, appeared to indicate that Trump may have engaged in massive tax evasion by claiming he owed more than $48 million in debt to one of his companies — but the loan never existed.
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Just become a billionaire and then buy it from the IRS like the rest of us.
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