President Donald Trump’s banks wouldn’t say Friday whether they had copies of Trump’s tax returns on hand, prompting a three-judge appeals court panel to order a sealed written response on the matter, CNN and other outlets reported.
I smell the hand of Barr in the till.
Wait. What? The banks are going to decline to answer a court order? How does that work?
Just how deep does all this go? How many people will be implicated should this information ever become public?
They just say no. The Federal Court is not going to go and arrest them, they can refer to the DOJ… but guess what? Those won’t do shit either.
Yes, we have the tax returns.
We have shit you wouldn’t believe.
We have documentary proof of the commission of a lotta financial crimes.
Bet you’d like to see it, too.
Have we ever seen this level of lawlessness in our country?
Well, some wanted the country to be run like a business, and now it is being done.
What is the Bankruptcy King hiding?
More fraud than the almost $1B losses he has declared in his 6 x bankruptcies?
Or
More money that he cannot mansplain how he got it?
Or
More signs of money laundering from within his biz (All Country LLC to overvalue expenses & undervalue assets) and from other sources?
Or
Is he afraid to show that he is really NOT worth the $10B he claims he is worth?
I wonder what happens when an entire bank is held in contempt of court…
The Court can simply pull their charter to do ANY business in the United States. Ka-Boom their stock goes straight into the toilet. These banks deserve to go under.
These are parts in the WaPo reporting that make me laugh:
Prober and Capital One’s attorney, James Murphy, both said “contractual obligations" prevented the banks from answering the judges’ questions.
As the judges appeared to grow frustrated by the attorneys’ resistance, Judge Peter Hall added: “Should we go to court and seek an order? I’m serious. We need to know.”
A court needing a court to make the court jester’s lawyer play ball.
Trump’s attorney Patrick Strawbridge told the court. The subpoenas would sweep up every debit card transaction and check written by Trump, his children and even his grandchildren, he said.
Trump’s oldest grandchild is 12, so no teenagers would be harmed if their debit card transactions get published. Can’t vouch for the parents though.
“Contractual obligations” that override the order of a Federal Appeals Court? What kind of contract are we talking about here, one on their families and kids?
“Contractual obligations” — particularly those regarding privacy and confidentiality — fall to court order. Full stop. No question.
Documemts typically are antithesis to money launderiing schemes. Hence, the use of a “Personal Banker” instead of all the other regulated stuffs.
Thing about Europe, they jail their bankers.
“That unfortunately is not a question we’re able to address,” Deutsche Bank lawyer Raphael Prober responded. Per Reuters, Prober cited “contractual obligations.”
“Contractual obligations”?!
How about you answer the freaking question from the freaking US Court of Appeals before the freaking judges order a freaking marshal to haul your freaking ass into a little freaking windowless room for a long freaking extended stay to cool your contemptuous freaking heels in their $5,000 freaking loafers while you give some long, hard freaking thought the question of complying with freaking federal law?
Word of the moment, freaking!!!
Hmm if the freaking bank lawyers are hauled off to a cell to cool their contemptuous freaking heels, would their time in the freaking cooler be considered billable hours?
They see Trump > the judicial branch.
I see it like Scott Hancock viewed Sickles march into the Peach Orchard, they’re going to regret that decision.
