record keeping and so on i also acknowledge that hi attempt to overthrow a free an fair election, the fani willis case, is also more significant in the eyes of people. but let s not forget what they did to alcona. they could not get him o murder, extortion, racketeering, and so on, so they got him o tax evasion. it s still a crime and we should not be ratin which crime is more importan for the american people to giv a thumbs up on it does not make any sense t me i went to prison, in part, because of this. i m not the one who had th fair he did i m just the idiot who paid fo it wow and interestingly enough, yo compare him to al component. one of the things that has bee striking to me is, they say, well, michael cohen is a felon he s going to testify first of all, we don t know wh all is going to testify. and he said there s pape background to backup what yo were saying. and that is but donald trump knows tha
proudly bouquets even in allergy school i was a very assertive, aggressive kids. and second grade i actually gave a teacher a black eye. a bunch music teacher because i didn t think you knew anything about music and i almost get expelled. this being donald trump, of course, even that has been called a lie by the music teacher in question, who says that it never happened. our components eventually sent to prison but not for the worst things that he did. not for the murders. they got el cajon for tax evasion. he was charged with 22 counts of tax evasion in 1931 he was convicted of five of them, which got him an 11 year sentence in federal prison, and that could be donald trump s next common alex with al component. joining us now is david cay johnston, pulitzer prize
the trump company faces penalties of up to 1.6 billion dollars that will be decided in the sentencing hearing on friday. donald trump and al component have a few things in common. our company was a famous 1920s organized crime boss who ordered the infamous so-called valentine s day massacre in chicago and reach seven members of an opposing gang were lined up and executed by firing squad. all of that earned our couple in the title of public enemy number one. in chicago newspapers. but none of that, none of it earned him a day in prison. alcona and donald trump both grew up in new york city. our capone got kicked out of school age 14 after punching a teacher. don trump claims he did the same thing when he was in second grade. it is ghost written book the art of the deal don trump proudly bouquets even in allergy school i was a very assertive, aggressive kids. and second grade i actually gave a teacher a black eye. a bunch music teacher because i didn t think you knew anything about music
this being donald trump, of course, even that has been called a lie by the music teacher in question, who says that it never happened. our components eventually sent to prison but not for the worst things that he did. not for the murders. they got el cajon for tax evasion. he was charged with 22 counts of tax evasion in 1931 he was convicted of five of them, which got him an 11 year sentence in federal prison, and that could be donald trump s next common alex with al component. joining us now is david cay johnston, pulitzer prize -winning investigative reporter and author of the big cheat, how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family. also tim o brien, senior oh editor of bloomberg opinion, an msnbc political analyst, and the host of the bloomberg podcast, crash course, which launched today. david, let s begin with the
criminal liability that donald trump could be facing. could he end up sharing that resume item with al component of tax criminal? absolutely. if alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney, goes after trump personally and he s got pretty close to a slam dunk criminal fraud case. donald trump, in 1984, filed a tax return with something called a schedule c in which he had no revenue and took over $600,000 an expensive s. the state of new york in city of new york auditors disallowed up. trump demanded a trial. in both cases he lost. the judges said that s civil fraud, not criminal, but civil. his own lawyer testified against him and essentially accused him of being a forger. once judges have said that, you are on notice. and yet as candidate and president donald trump filed 26 more of these schedule sees