• HollandJim@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No - it’s good. He’s inflated his net worth, so we get him for all the loans he’s gotten using that false valuation.

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        haha oh yeah, plenty of lies to go around… we’ll be milking this legal cow for a while, and everyone gets a turn at the teat…

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    10 months ago

    So, how many years is $3.6 Billion in fraudulent reporting worth on the sentencing guidelines?

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      Civil courts have a lower standard of proof than criminal. That’s why when a civil court found that Trump had raped Carroll, he didn’t automatically go to prison. Same deal here: the relevant tax fraud would still need to be proved in criminal court.