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  • 2016-07-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Trump and Children Face $250 Million Tax Evasion Charges (en)
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  • On 18 July 2016, the Occupy Democrats web site published an article headlined Trump & Kids Face Charges in Massive $250 Million Tax Evasion Suit, a misleading title given that the story's opening paragraphs clearly stated that Trump and his children were merely witnesses who haven't been charged with anything: Speculation aside, neither Donald Trump nor his children have been slapped with tax evasion charges, nor does the case involve $250 million in unpaid taxes. Rather, Trump and his children were named as witnesses in a tax fraud lawsuit against Felix Sater and others, defendants who are accused by lawyers Richard Lerner and Frederick M. Oberlander of evading taxes on as much as $250 million in income (leaving them owing about $7 million in New York state income taxes and about $35 million in federal income taxes). Donald Trump's connection to the lawsuit is that it stems from four Trump-licensed real-estate developments, one of which was the Trump Soho New York, a luxury high rise in lower Manhattan. Donald Trump reportedly received tens of millions of dollars in fees and partnership interests from that development project, as did his son Donald Junior and his daughter Ivanka, making them all material witnesses in a tax evasion case filed not by the New York State attorney general, but by private citizens: According to the Associated Press, Felix Sater once served as a senior adviser to Trump's real estate business, despite having a criminal background: For his part, Trump has maintained he has little knowledge or memory of Sater's working for his organization: Although Occupy Democrats justified their misleading headline by stating that a material witness is a secondary suspect to a crime, the tax evasion case referenced here is a civil lawsuit and not a criminal proceeding: Eric Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general, learned of the case after it was filed in state court in August 2015 and has declined to intervene. (en)
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