A veteran tax fraud investigator has tweeted out what he calls evidence that President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is laundering payments through Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort.
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold revealed that the Trump campaign pumped $380,000 into the president’s private property in 43 separate payments for an early March “donor retreat,” broken into payments just under the Treasury Department’s reporting requirement for receipt of cash payments, reported The Daily Beast.
“The Trump Organization’s record of the payment raises many questions I’m familiar with from my 30-year career as an investigator at the IRS,” wrote retired tax crimes investigator Martin Sheil.
He added: “Is the $380,000 income? If so, what was delivered in exchange for it? Were these payments for past services rendered or for future expected returns? Who were the donors? Why didn’t the Trump Organization just report the entire $380,000 in total? Why break that down into separate transactions? Why was each payment identically described as ‘Facility Rental/ Catering Services’? Is something being disguised here?”
In just two days, @realdonaldtrump’s campaign pumped $380K into Trump’s private business, in 43 separate payments. Trump Org says this was for a weeklong “donor retreat,” held in early March at Mar-a-Lago.
Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS pic.twitter.com/1kf39vAqkt— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 17, 2020
This sure looks very suspicious.
