she appeared in ad bragging about how she needed the best service and the most luxury stuff. that s why you stay at her hotels. a familiar shtick. but it worked for her in the 1980s. until it didn t. turns out, despite being a billionaire, despite not only the image of immense ctuality o engaged in tax cheats, including having a bunch of renovations done at a vacation home in connecticut. her private home. it was renovations on that home, including putting in a dance floor and stuff. she billed the renovations to the hotel company. she had the company pay to do the renovations on her private home. that had for her the double benefit of her not having to pay for those renovations herself and also her hotel company got to deduct the payments as a business expense. even though they weren t. it was just stuff she wanted personally. she went to prison. the trial where she got convicted, probably made her more famous than her hotels had. this is a headline july 12, 1989 in the new
some of her hotels bragging about how rich and exacting she was and how she needed all of the best stuff. she insisted on it in all of had err hotels and why you should come stay at her hotels. kind of familiar but it worked for the 1980s until it didn t. turns out despite being a billionaire and not only the image of immense wealth. leona helmsly and her husband had engaged in a couple of chizling tech cheats including a couple of renovations done at a vacation home in connecticut. renovations like putting in a dance floor but she billed the renovations to the hotel company. she had the hotel pay to do those renovations on her private home that had the double benefit of not having to pay for those and also her hotel company got to deduct the payments as a business expense, even though they weren t. it was just stuff she wanted personally. yeah, she went to prison. the trial where she got convicted probably made her even more famous than the hotels. only the little people pai
insisted on it in all of her hotels and that s why you should come and stay at her hotel. sort of a familiar stick, i know. but it worked for her in the 19 eighties. until it didn t. turns out, despite being a billionaire, despite not only the image of immense wealth, but the actuality of it, leona and her husband had engaged in a number of chiselling text cheats, including, having a whole bunch of renovations done at a vacation home in connecticut her private home it was renovations on that home including by putting it a dance floor, but she built the renovations to the hotel company she had the helmsley hotel company paid to do the renovation on her private home that had for her the double benefit of her not having to pay for those renovations herself and, also, her hotel company got to deduct the payments as a business expense. even though they weren t. it was just stuff she wanted personally. she went to prison. the trial where she got convicted, probably made her even mo
we re passing each other all the time. it is great to be with my good friend, dana this morning. president biden insisting he told the truth, denying he lied when asked about his previous statements claiming he never had discussions with hunter about lucrative business arrangements overseas despite the fact they were traveling together on a number of these trips. karl rove saying if the president is telling the truth he should have said something to hunter to get him to stop. this was all in public. when hunter biden joined the burisma board it stunk. and the vice president of the united states, his father, was in charge of encouraging the ukrainian government to crack down on corruption and his own son was participating with a corrupt company in a corrupt act. he should have had a conversation with him about it and said what in the heck do you think you are doing? get off that board and stop trying to make money off my name. dana: david spunt standing by at the justice d
treated to a show. experts say the solar storm is no threat to humans. as for the dazzling displays there is still a small chance you might be able to see them tonight. your best odds for viewing is to get far away from the city lights. congresswoman jasmine crockett joins me in just a few minutes to talk about the biden administration s approach to israel. plus, she is documenting it, telling me the story without words. one of the trump trial sketch artist will join me to tell me what she is seeing and thinking as history plays out before her in this hour starting right now. t now. a very good day, welcome, everyone. we are on the brink of history in less than 24 hours. michael cohen will take the stand in a manhattan courthouse. transformer fixer is expected to testify how he fronted a big payment to stormy daniels to keep her quiet about the alleged affair with trump ahead of the election. i m kind of looking forward to it. you can be finished with something unless y