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MWAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA DOOM APPROACHES.
FTI Consulting is an expert witness that will be *lethally effective* in convicting Trump for state bank fraud charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-tax-returns-new-york-investigation/2020/12/29/11c43a38-43c8-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html
FTI Consulting is an expert witness that will be *lethally effective* in convicting Trump for state bank fraud charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-tax-returns-new-york-investigation/2020/12/29/11c43a38-43c8-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html
Forensic Technologies International was founded in 1982 by Joseph Reynolds and Daniel Luczak, and their specialty was presenting complex data so that juries made up of regular people could get the real story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1998/06/08/a-case-for-courtroom-presentations/dbff5862-2bcf-4dcc-8bde-e1b2da8bd4d8/
Mobbed-up and/or corrupt financial organizations thrive on unfathomable, *intentional* complexity. This serves multiple purposes.
Principally, it makes it so tax authorities don't have the manpower to examine you properly.
Otherwise, it just makes it hard to understand.
Principally, it makes it so tax authorities don't have the manpower to examine you properly.
Otherwise, it just makes it hard to understand.
Remember, Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg - who was FRED Trump's accountant - is cooperating to *some* degree with prosecutors.
He managed the intentional complexity, which allows, hypothetically for frauds *and* Mob payouts. https://www.propublica.org/article/prosecutors-investigating-the-trump-organization-zero-in-on-trump-cfo-allen-weisselberg
He managed the intentional complexity, which allows, hypothetically for frauds *and* Mob payouts. https://www.propublica.org/article/prosecutors-investigating-the-trump-organization-zero-in-on-trump-cfo-allen-weisselberg
Unfathomable, intentional complexity - especially involving offshore LPs, LLCs, SMARLs, etc - lets you, hypothetically, take in capital for real estate from multiple Mafia families and corrupt sources - and to pay out revenue to same.
It's a custom-made Gordian knot.
It's a custom-made Gordian knot.
In my 20+ years doing competitive intelligence (shout out to @TheCIFellows!) the reddest of flags was Financial Complexity That Didn't Make Sense.
Classic case: Guitar Center's finances seemed vastly more complicated than ExxonMobil's in their public statements.
Classic case: Guitar Center's finances seemed vastly more complicated than ExxonMobil's in their public statements.
Some businesses are complicated by nature, some because of supply chains, some because of global distribution - but if some business was complex...just to be complex?
Some more background on complex accounting and Trump according to an *excellent* source who knows FTI Consulting:
1. FTI has a world-class valuation practice.
2. Misstating the value of assets to get loans could be fraud.
3. Michael Cohen said Trump misstated assets.
1. FTI has a world-class valuation practice.
2. Misstating the value of assets to get loans could be fraud.
3. Michael Cohen said Trump misstated assets.
Now, what is Cy Vance looking at?
OH WOW IT'S MISSTATING THE VALUE OF ASSETS FOR MULTIPLE REAL ESTATE DEALS
whoops. potential fraud charges.
OH WOW IT'S MISSTATING THE VALUE OF ASSETS FOR MULTIPLE REAL ESTATE DEALS
whoops. potential fraud charges.
See, here's the issue with complex accounting, according to Excellent Source:
1. It's complex.
2. You might have multiple *approaches* to taxes, financing, franchise, etc.
3. Those better be consistent overall.
4. Otherwise, it looks like you're picking and choosing, i.e. fraud.
1. It's complex.
2. You might have multiple *approaches* to taxes, financing, franchise, etc.
3. Those better be consistent overall.
4. Otherwise, it looks like you're picking and choosing, i.e. fraud.
Excessive complexity is excellent in making consistency vs. inconsistency hard to distinguish. Too much data.
What does FTI Consulting specialize in?
Taking complex data and making coherent narratives for *juries.*
What does FTI Consulting specialize in?
Taking complex data and making coherent narratives for *juries.*
So: zillions of LLCs, LPs, Bitcoin dumps, CDOs, CDSs, or whatever the hell Deutsche Bank came up with to cover all the money that went in and out of Trump properties - some of it potentially from organized crime?
FTI Consulting would be a *compelling expert witness.*
FTI Consulting would be a *compelling expert witness.*
Hope Trump has a great day golfing, or whatever.
We can pull his operation apart. All of it.
And we shouldn't ever stop until it's all exposed. </>
We can pull his operation apart. All of it.
And we shouldn't ever stop until it's all exposed.
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