politics in here. you know, i think that there are various ways of looking at this, some people of course will say hey, he s getting a slap on the wrist, it is outrageous. and i think that that is certainly the republican point of view, the democrat point of view and others point of view that this is somewhat typical, in fact some would argue because he is hunter biden is being treated more harshly. many people engage in tax cheating who end up in civil litigation, pay the government back, nothing to see here and there is no prosecution. that is not to say that tax cheats are not prosecuted. they are. but it certainly depends on the degree and nature of the tax cheating that they have done. but there have been many at this level who haven t been and divergent programs are somewhat typical. so i think the judge are keep it on the merits and whether the plea deal is fair and appropriate and keeping what the justice system demands to ensure its integrity. and that legal filing from repr
did he fight so hard to keep from disclosing them since every presidential candidate and richard nixon when he was under audit have made their tax returns public? and their website that you can go to like the tax history project and see all of these returns. secondly, the irs did not audit trump even though there s a statute requiring this. both biden and obama said they were audited every year. that s misconduct by the current irs commissioner who was a tax lawyer specializing in helping people caught cheating the system. and congress really needs to look seriously at that and we need to understand that there is no serious effort in this country to go after high-level tax cheating. we get about 500 to 600 convictions a year. they re principally drug dealers, not people who cheat at
job? the treasury secretary, you ll recall, refused to turn over trump s returns. the case had to go to the u.s. supreme court to get this resolved, even though the law first enacted in 1924 says that any tax return shall be turned over on written request to certain people in congress, just as the president has the right to inspect any tax return so i think the look at is this lawless behavior, now the i.r.s. commissioner was a beverly hills tax lawyer whose spec was helps people suspected of tax cheating avoid indiamond by ginning up as much if the commissioner didn t go along with this. he should have resigned as a matter of principle. he didn t, so i think we can lay a lot of blame on him, as the government official designated
returns filed each year. there are roughly 500 to 600 convictions. and most of those are drug dealers who don t report their income, politicians who accept bribes, or business owners who bribe politicians. there is no serious effort in this country to pursue high-level tax cheating. a d. c. report, the news organization i run, three years ago i reported on the koch papers, about the third koch brothers, who had been under criminal investigation until his next door neighbor donald trump became president and showed how he was collecting more than $100 million a year through what was an obviously illegal scheme. and nothing has happened. the investigation was shut down shortly after trump became president. we make no serious effort to find tax cheating by the people
paying a little to nothing in income taxes, and certainly in comparison to the lifestyle he has, paying little or nothing. the real scandal here beyond the failure of the irs and the irs commissioner appointed by donald trump, who was a beverly hills tax lawyer specialist in helping avoid suspected tax cheats avoid indictment and pay as little as possible the real scandal is, we are not making any effort in this country to find tax cheating by people at the top, none. three years ago, d.c. report, we got a hold of 1000 pages of internal records of the third koch brothers business, and showed that he was collecting more than $100 million, a year, a total of a billion dollars and paying no income taxes, through a patently illegal device. what happened? we ll, is next door neighbor donald trump became president, the criminal investigation stopped, and nothing has been done since then. the roughly 25,000 people who