I raised a brow at Cohen’s testimony — that Trump stole from his own company and ordered an accountant to cook the books to hide his own fraud from himself. Brilliant.
I am an Appeals Officer with the IRS. I am an attorney, not a CPA so I appreciate your thorough examination of this issue. I've handled more than a few tax trials as a government attorney in the past and I never had access to someone with your experience and understanding of both the legal and financial reporting issues. Thank you for this article.
I I’m truly humbled by your kind message—thank you so much. I also want to say how much I respect your role as an Appeals Officer at the IRS. It’s people like you who keep institutional power in check. Due process is something I care deeply about, because it recognizes the inherent flaws in human authority and the danger of letting power go unchecked.
I was kicked off LinkedIn for challenging widely accepted narratives—with proof of work. As someone who was born under CCP control and came to the U.S. as a first-generation immigrant, I can’t help but see the same patterns of national decline beginning to repeat here. The fire that once drove me out of my homeland now drives me to write.
You probably don’t realize how much your feedback means to me. Writing—especially as an amateur—can feel like a lonely road. Thank you for giving me the push to keep going.
I’m from a northern city called Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. My father side grandma was from Sichuan province, she married to my grandpa from Shanxi. That’s impressive that your father was in China at that time doing Lord’s work. Which area was he at? Was he endangered by the escalating sino-Japanese wars? I cannot imagine what he had experienced - it could be a great book! Also it is so interesting to see both Jewish and Christian element in you…
Dad was definitely in danger. He never talked about what he saw there. But he shot lots of home movies while he was there. I transferred them to video in 1986 and had him make a narration track. I also interviewed him. Here are likes to those videos:
I have a friend who is an artist in the US Virgin Islands. Her name is Shansi. Her father was in the province at some time in her life and named her after it.
“They didn’t start with a suspected crime, or with a victim, or with a complaint. They started with a target, with someone they wanted to charge with something, and then went looking for something to charge him with. No one reported Trump to the police; the DA just felt like investigating him. It is the quintessential totalitarianism of “show me the criminal and I’ll show you the crime””
When you have a Weaponized justice system against a man and a chosen Marxist judge, paid for an outcome, he gets away with corruption. nobody seems to know what the crime was times 34, which equals zero.
The fraud ( & amply proved to a jury) was paying hush money through his lawyer so it could be accounted as ‘legal fees’ instead of ‘hush money payments to a porn star’. His lawyer and his accountant served jail time and lost their professional licenses. You could argue the elevation from misdemeanor to felony…but not guilt. Likewise for defrauding a children’s charity.
I don’t think anyone cares if Trump is a serial adulterer, or plays fast and free with ‘plausible denial-ability’ accounting, but who in their right mind thinks someone like that should be running any public enterprise let alone a super power?
On more important matters, I think Jack Smith has got the goods despite Trump’s top tier legal defense team (the US Supreme Court) trying to delay and obfuscate. I can’t help but notice in this and all his legal woes NOWHERE does he mount any evidence of innocence only delays, exhaustively plays out legal technicalities- some admittedly quite innovative-and of course his core competence, being victimized by a system bespoke to protect older rich white men from any and all accountability. Time to move on isn’t it?
There is no fraud as there is no substantiated misstatement and there is no intent. The burden of proof is on the court. You need to get back to school and learn how to read. No need to further embarrass yourself with the nonsensical word piling.
I’m sure I’m a modest intellect, but I can muster enough intellect recognize a fraud, a liar, and when someone in defense of a common criminal lacks the intellectual honesty to mount a cogent argument and lacking that flails away at an ad hominem attack.
No you are not intelligent at all. You have no curiosity, no deep engagements, no humility, and no ability to doubt your existing position. You want the data to serve you, and you have no intention to be comfortably admit you are completely wrong. The world really is not in shortage of people like you.
Ok here is such external validation I can contribute to your vanity: you obviously is the smartest man in the world that coming here to educate a CPA and expert witness with your unparalleled and unfounded confidence.
Both fraud and intent were established by the prosecution and a unanimous fair verdict was rendered by the jury. I’m sympathetic to the incompetence of Trump’s legal defense argument as apparently better representation thought better of engaging him as a client. How miserable a client do you have to be when most lawyers won’t take your money?
Legal procedures and even accounting are confounded by judgment and factual ambiguity no matter how black and white they may appear in theory. You can argue technicality and the unknowableness of the human mind, but in the end, multiple judgments of multiple juries, bounded by legal and evidentiary expertise advocating for both sides, and ultimately well educated, experienced judges found fraud and intent. I’m certainly not arrogantly substituting my judgment for theirs. (My obvious lack of intelligence, humility and curiosity not withstanding)
Perhaps you’re in need of your own advice if you’re so obviously so much more knowledgeable and better informed than everyone else?
I am an Appeals Officer with the IRS. I am an attorney, not a CPA so I appreciate your thorough examination of this issue. I've handled more than a few tax trials as a government attorney in the past and I never had access to someone with your experience and understanding of both the legal and financial reporting issues. Thank you for this article.
I I’m truly humbled by your kind message—thank you so much. I also want to say how much I respect your role as an Appeals Officer at the IRS. It’s people like you who keep institutional power in check. Due process is something I care deeply about, because it recognizes the inherent flaws in human authority and the danger of letting power go unchecked.
I was kicked off LinkedIn for challenging widely accepted narratives—with proof of work. As someone who was born under CCP control and came to the U.S. as a first-generation immigrant, I can’t help but see the same patterns of national decline beginning to repeat here. The fire that once drove me out of my homeland now drives me to write.
You probably don’t realize how much your feedback means to me. Writing—especially as an amateur—can feel like a lonely road. Thank you for giving me the push to keep going.
Where in China? My dad was a doctor with Christian missionaries in China in 1936-1938. Oh, dad was Jewish and so am I.
I’m from a northern city called Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. My father side grandma was from Sichuan province, she married to my grandpa from Shanxi. That’s impressive that your father was in China at that time doing Lord’s work. Which area was he at? Was he endangered by the escalating sino-Japanese wars? I cannot imagine what he had experienced - it could be a great book! Also it is so interesting to see both Jewish and Christian element in you…
Dad was definitely in danger. He never talked about what he saw there. But he shot lots of home movies while he was there. I transferred them to video in 1986 and had him make a narration track. I also interviewed him. Here are likes to those videos:
https://youtu.be/f-Me2VqmMMM?si=BAOzz97Y8q9iLn6L
https://youtu.be/BmUmVi0XVfQ?si=fJcOWlerLGWTEIPB
I have a friend who is an artist in the US Virgin Islands. Her name is Shansi. Her father was in the province at some time in her life and named her after it.
I am glad my comments were so positively received. I can be very opinionated, but I value people I disagree with.
“They didn’t start with a suspected crime, or with a victim, or with a complaint. They started with a target, with someone they wanted to charge with something, and then went looking for something to charge him with. No one reported Trump to the police; the DA just felt like investigating him. It is the quintessential totalitarianism of “show me the criminal and I’ll show you the crime””
When you have a Weaponized justice system against a man and a chosen Marxist judge, paid for an outcome, he gets away with corruption. nobody seems to know what the crime was times 34, which equals zero.
It was all a hoax. Deep state couldn’t let him be president and expose all their corruption. That’s why they tried to kill him.
The fraud ( & amply proved to a jury) was paying hush money through his lawyer so it could be accounted as ‘legal fees’ instead of ‘hush money payments to a porn star’. His lawyer and his accountant served jail time and lost their professional licenses. You could argue the elevation from misdemeanor to felony…but not guilt. Likewise for defrauding a children’s charity.
I don’t think anyone cares if Trump is a serial adulterer, or plays fast and free with ‘plausible denial-ability’ accounting, but who in their right mind thinks someone like that should be running any public enterprise let alone a super power?
On more important matters, I think Jack Smith has got the goods despite Trump’s top tier legal defense team (the US Supreme Court) trying to delay and obfuscate. I can’t help but notice in this and all his legal woes NOWHERE does he mount any evidence of innocence only delays, exhaustively plays out legal technicalities- some admittedly quite innovative-and of course his core competence, being victimized by a system bespoke to protect older rich white men from any and all accountability. Time to move on isn’t it?
There is no fraud as there is no substantiated misstatement and there is no intent. The burden of proof is on the court. You need to get back to school and learn how to read. No need to further embarrass yourself with the nonsensical word piling.
Don’t feed the trolls!
I’m sure I’m a modest intellect, but I can muster enough intellect recognize a fraud, a liar, and when someone in defense of a common criminal lacks the intellectual honesty to mount a cogent argument and lacking that flails away at an ad hominem attack.
No you are not intelligent at all. You have no curiosity, no deep engagements, no humility, and no ability to doubt your existing position. You want the data to serve you, and you have no intention to be comfortably admit you are completely wrong. The world really is not in shortage of people like you.
Ok here is such external validation I can contribute to your vanity: you obviously is the smartest man in the world that coming here to educate a CPA and expert witness with your unparalleled and unfounded confidence.
You’re also a woke liberal.
Thank you. I do make the effort to extend my awareness beyond myself.
Both fraud and intent were established by the prosecution and a unanimous fair verdict was rendered by the jury. I’m sympathetic to the incompetence of Trump’s legal defense argument as apparently better representation thought better of engaging him as a client. How miserable a client do you have to be when most lawyers won’t take your money?
https://taxestechcpa.substack.com/p/why-you-dont-have-ownership-of-your
Legal procedures and even accounting are confounded by judgment and factual ambiguity no matter how black and white they may appear in theory. You can argue technicality and the unknowableness of the human mind, but in the end, multiple judgments of multiple juries, bounded by legal and evidentiary expertise advocating for both sides, and ultimately well educated, experienced judges found fraud and intent. I’m certainly not arrogantly substituting my judgment for theirs. (My obvious lack of intelligence, humility and curiosity not withstanding)
Perhaps you’re in need of your own advice if you’re so obviously so much more knowledgeable and better informed than everyone else?