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ElwoodBlues · M
Some legal nuts and bolts that helped me understand the structure of Bragg's hush-money case.
If you’re looking for the clearest statement of Bragg’s legal theory, you can find it in a November 2023 court filing opposing Trump’s motion to dismiss the case, along with Merchan’s ruling on that motion. Notably, in that ruling, Merchan clarified that § 175.10 “does not require that the ‘other crime’ actually be committed”—“all that is required is that defendant … acted with a conscious aim and objective to commit another crime.”
In his filing, Bragg sets out four potential object offenses: violations of federal campaign finance law under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA); violations of New York Election Law § 17-152; violations of federal, local, and state tax law; and additional falsifications of business records outside the Trump Organization. Merchan allowed Bragg to move forward with the first three theories but tossed out the last one.
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The potential tax fraud arises from the particular method by which the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen for his payments to Daniels. Bragg alleges that “defendant reimbursed Cohen twice the amount he was owed for the payoff so Cohen could characterize the payments as income on his tax returns and still be left whole after paying approximately 50% in income taxes.” Here, Bragg points to federal, state, and local prohibitions on providing knowingly incorrect tax information.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/charting-the-legal-theory-behind-people-v.-trumpIn his filing, Bragg sets out four potential object offenses: violations of federal campaign finance law under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA); violations of New York Election Law § 17-152; violations of federal, local, and state tax law; and additional falsifications of business records outside the Trump Organization. Merchan allowed Bragg to move forward with the first three theories but tossed out the last one.
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The potential tax fraud arises from the particular method by which the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen for his payments to Daniels. Bragg alleges that “defendant reimbursed Cohen twice the amount he was owed for the payoff so Cohen could characterize the payments as income on his tax returns and still be left whole after paying approximately 50% in income taxes.” Here, Bragg points to federal, state, and local prohibitions on providing knowingly incorrect tax information.
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ElwoodBlues · M
@MarthannBann888 Sorry, waiter, you have delivered word salad to the wrong table🤣😂
MarthannBann888 · 70-79, F
@ElwoodBlues
You should stop using terms you don’t understand. Nevertheless, what are your qualifications to use a technical term such as word salad? If you have that , it is time to show your qualifications because you have misused word salad.
You should stop using terms you don’t understand. Nevertheless, what are your qualifications to use a technical term such as word salad? If you have that , it is time to show your qualifications because you have misused word salad.
MarthannBann888 · 70-79, F
@ElwoodBlues
I understand it is embarrassing when we misuse words. It is embarrassing, too, when we are at odds within ourselves. Manufacturing guilt in Trump or his team leaves your internal state, that knows nothing but truth, at war with your conscience mind, that will lie or not depending on circumstances. Read some of the books on the Clinton murders. Those books link the crimes of the Clintons much more closely and logically than you have done with your several analyses. For example, while the individuals may have links with Trump, the nature of the links cannot be determined to occasion murder to any strong extent given the amount of power and money Trump has to solve problems. Although the opposition to Trump is characterized by unrestrained hatred combined with unrestrained need to damage him, it is only loosely tied to careful and deliberate research proving its assertions. Hence the inability to make anything stick. Then, then the party is left with hysterical assertions about failed to be proved accusations. It makes you look really bad.
I understand it is embarrassing when we misuse words. It is embarrassing, too, when we are at odds within ourselves. Manufacturing guilt in Trump or his team leaves your internal state, that knows nothing but truth, at war with your conscience mind, that will lie or not depending on circumstances. Read some of the books on the Clinton murders. Those books link the crimes of the Clintons much more closely and logically than you have done with your several analyses. For example, while the individuals may have links with Trump, the nature of the links cannot be determined to occasion murder to any strong extent given the amount of power and money Trump has to solve problems. Although the opposition to Trump is characterized by unrestrained hatred combined with unrestrained need to damage him, it is only loosely tied to careful and deliberate research proving its assertions. Hence the inability to make anything stick. Then, then the party is left with hysterical assertions about failed to be proved accusations. It makes you look really bad.
ElwoodBlues · M
@MarthannBann888 tl;dr
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