Ivanka Trump would turn on her father to avoid jail, says Mary Trump Martha Ross Jul 7, 2021 https://www.afr.com/world/north-ame...to-avoid-jail-says-mary-trump-20210707-p587go New York | Donald Trump may have showered Ivanka Trump with adoration all her life and given her a job in his White House, but none of that would stop her from co-operating with prosecutors if it would keep her out of prison, said Mary Trump, the former president’s niece. “She’s much less likely to stay loyal than Allen Weisselberg,” Mary Trump said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast’s “New Abnormal” podcast. Mary Trump, who famously shared Trump family secrets in her 2020 book, Too Much and Never Enough, was referring to the Trump Organisation CFO who was indicted last week on tax fraud charges related to the former president’s real estate development company. Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office want to get Mr Weisselberg to flip on his former boss. But Mary Trump said her cousin, Ivanka, would have even more motivation to co-operate with prosecutors than the longtime CFO. Before working for her father in the White House, Ivanka Trump worked with her brothers, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as an executive vice president for the family business. Ivanka Trump. AP While Mary Trump said it’s hard to believe that Ivanka Trump would turn on her father in such a “low rent” Shakespearean move, she noted that all relationships between Donald Trump and his four adult children are “transactional and conditional”. “Allen had a pretty cushy gig where he was,” Mary Trump said on the podcast. “And I think kind of in the grand scheme of things, as counterintuitive as this might sound, I think Ivanka has, one, more to lose and, two, more to hang on to. Her husband’s family is legitimately very wealthy.” Ivanka Trump is married to Jared Kushner, with whom she has three young children. Kushner himself has a reported net worth of around $US800 million ($1.1 billion), and his family real estate, Kushner Companies, owns and operates $US7 billion worth of real estate assets around the country. Meanwhile, the Trump sibling least likely to flip on the patriarch is his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., Mary Trump suggested. In the past four years, Mr Trump Jr. has become one of his father’s most fervent political supporters and a popular exponent himself of conservative MAGA ideology. Donald had this fascination with Ivanka from the time she was little, and had no use for his sons. — Mary Trump Beneath all Mr Trump Jr.’s Twitter bravado, he’s “broken” because of the way his father treated him growing up, Mary Trump said. “It is never a good thing in the Trump family to be the oldest son,” Mary Trump said. “Donald had this fascination with Ivanka from the time she was little, and had no use for his sons. ... Like his father before him, Donald was very, very hard on Donnie.” For Mr Trump Jr., it still may be important for him to get the attention he always “craved” from his father, which is why he may stay loyal, Mary Trump suggested. Another Trump biographer has also said that Ivanka Trump could be in serious legal jeopardy. In fact, she’s potentially facing the same sort of trouble as Weisselberg because she allegedly did the same kinds of things the CFO is being prosecuted for, author Michael D’Antonio told CNN’s Jim Acosta. “The other person who I think is in peril is Ivanka Trump,” D’Antonio said, explaining that the Trump family business more resembles an organised crime operation than a regular company. “One of the things that Allen Weisselberg is in trouble for is taking money as a contractor and then claiming self-employed status so that he can get some of the retirement benefits that the tax code allows for self-employed people,” said Mr D’Antonio, author of the 2015 book, Never Enough. “Well, we know that Ivanka Trump got quite significant sums paid to her as non-employee compensation,” Mr D’Antonio said on CNN. “That freed the Trump Organisation from paying part of her taxes, and it put her in a status that I think the IRS would have lots of questions about. So, these folks don’t know how to play the game straight. I think everything they do is crooked.” MCT
Whomever outs Donald Trump in the Trump Organization, it will be someone that has children. Anyone else that has no children...will stay loyal and continue kissing his ring. In contrast, any former employee...they're probably trying to get book deals right now considering now that the IRS / Feds have the accountant (CFO) on charges. This is starting to look more and more like a mob story from the Al Capone days in Chicago. wrbtrader
Ivanka Trump is Probably Next on the Chopping Block: Former Federal Prosecutor https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/ivanka-trump-next-for-manhattan-da Experts say the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is likely looking into “consulting fees” paid to Ivanka despite her having been a full-time employee of the Trump Organization. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, last week the Trump Organization and its longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg, were hit with a slew of criminal charges, including conspiracy, grand larceny, and multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying records, all of which they pleaded not guilty to. Clearly this is extremely bad news for not just the company, which former executives believe is going to be “destroy[ed],” and Weisselberg, who faces more than a decade in prison if convicted on all charges, but the entire Trump clan too. While Donald Trump is obviously the first name that comes to mind when envisioning a scenario in which a Trump family member is sentenced to time in prison, according to numerous experts, his adult children should be extremely concerned as well, starting with his favorite offspring: Ivanka Trump. Appearing on MSNBC on Monday, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne told host Alicia Menendez that last week’s charges were merely “an opening salvo,” and that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has sent a message that (1) Weisselberg should really, really consider flipping and cooperating against the Trumps, and (2) Cyrus Vance Jr. is just getting started. “Prosecutors went to an amazing amount of effort to show Weisselberg ‘we have everything we need,’ and they’re really not only pressuring him to flip, but the amount of detail in this indictment tells me that they’re trying to tell other people you have got to flip, because ‘we have everything; we have the double books. We know what you told your tax accountants was a lie. We know that we’re gonna be able to prove these cases,’” Alksne told Menendez. “So I think...first it’s Weisselberg and [then] there are a lot of other people mentioned, ‘individual number one’ or ‘person X signed’ or ‘person Y signed.’ Those people who are mentioned in the indictment, I would expect they’re next and then it builds.” Asked how she would proceed if she were prosecuting the case and “had access to the years of hidden records kept by the Trump Organization,” Alksne said, “I would focus [the investigation] on the kids. Apparently they’ve had some testimony by the comptroller; in the state of New York that means they’ve essentially given him immunity. So I would focus on the kids. My guess is [COO Matthew] Calamari is kind of easy picking and that there are similar ways to give money for the kids. We’ve heard a lot of this reporting about Ivanka Trump getting consulting fees, ‘consulting fees’ for things that she may or may not have done. That looks to me like the next place, but we’ll just have to see.” (In November, The New York Times reported that both Vance and New York attorney general Letitia James had issued consulting-fee-related subpoenas to the Trump Organization following an investigation by the paper that revealed the president had paid little to no income tax over the last two decades. That report also showed that Trump was able to reduce his taxable income by deducting approximately $26 million in “consulting fees” as business expenses between 2010 and 2018. While the consultants’ identities were not shown on tax records, some of the fees definitely appeared to have been paid to Ivanka, given that on a 2017 disclosure form, she reported having received $747,622 in payments from a consulting company she co-owned, a figure that, per the Times, “exactly matched consulting fees claimed as tax deductions by the Trump Organization for hotel projects in Vancouver and Hawaii.” (At the time the payments were made, Ivanka was an executive officer of the Trump companies that made the payments, meaning she seemingly was treated as a consultant to a company at which she was, wait for it, a full-time employee.) Also predicting that Princess Purses could be in legal trouble was Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, who told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday, “The other person who I think is in peril is Ivanka Trump. One of the things that Allen Weisselberg is in trouble for is [allegedly] taking money as a contractor and then claiming self-employed status so that he can get some of the retirement benefits that the tax code allows for self-employed people. Well, we know that Ivanka Trump got quite significant sums paid to her as non-employee compensation. That freed the Trump Organization from paying part of her taxes, and it put her in a status that I think the IRS would have lots of questions about. So these folks don’t know how to play the game straight. I think everything they do is crooked.” Ivanka Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing; in response to the news that both Vance’s and James’s offices had subpoenaed records related to consulting fees, she issued a very testy statement on Twitter, writing: “This is harassment pure and simple. This ‘inquiry’ by NYC democrats is 100% motivated by politics, publicity and rage. They know very well that there’s nothing here and that there was no tax benefit whatsoever. These politicians are simply ruthless.” As for whether Trump would sacrifice himself to save his daughter, his former attorney Michael Cohen has a prediction:
I disagree with Cohen.I think Ivanka is the one and only person in the world Trump would give himself up for. I think he'd let Don Jr take the fall.
Donald Trump may want to sleep with his daughter, but he only loves himself. In a narcissist's world, no one else really exists. But time will tell.
So let's catch up with the headlines... Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner’s Marriage Is Reportedly in a ‘Toxic’ Place Right Now https://news.yahoo.com/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-marriage-162606007.html
Hmmmm. Interesting development, albeit nearly a given. Odds are, even though I'm sure he knows where more than a few bodies are buried, he was complicit enough to stay mum for at least a decade or so.