Contractor Who Leaked Trump's Tax Return Gets 5 Years In Prison
Added 2024-03-25 08:31:33 +0000 UTCEpisode 1017
He had a plea agreement with the government which he thought would get him 8-14 months. He ended up with 5 years. What happened? Also, was this Democrats' version of January 6th Casey joins this week to help to answer an OA patron's question about the plea agreement reached in the prosecution of former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn for leaking records of Donald Trump, Rick Scott, Elon Musk, and a tragically high number of other innocent and blameless billionaires who are simply far too important to have to pay their taxes.
We then review the unique role of plea bargaining in U.S. law and exactly how these agreements are reached and play out in court. Did you know that approximately 98% of all federal criminal charges are resolved in a way which is portrayed in approximately 0% of law-related movies and TV show?
1. "The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax," Propublica (6/8/2021)
2. "How These Ultrawealthy Politicians Avoided Paying Taxes," Propublica (11/4/2021)
3. "Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance," NYT (9/27/2020)
4. "Most criminal cases end in plea bargains, new study finds," NPR (2/22/2023)
5. Boykin v. Alabama :: 395 U.S. 238 (1969)
6. Padilla v. Kentucky :: 559 U.S. 356 (2010)
Comments
The discussion on pleas and group culpability came at an interesting time. One of my wife’s cousins just got out of jail after basically exactly the hypothetical Casey described. He was 18 and an idiot and too proud to roll on any of his “friends” while the rest of them did immediately, so he lost 20 years of his life while the rest of them were out for only a few years. It was interesting to learn more about out how the process works
John Tanzer
2024-03-26 19:13:39 +0000 UTCSo . . P-Diddy? We're dropping everything for an emergency episode on him, right? Right?!!!!
Gmork
2024-03-26 01:56:53 +0000 UTCI love when Casey joins in!
SlightlyAskewSince1982
2024-03-26 01:16:39 +0000 UTCMike and Casey are both great as clearly very knowledgeable about their subject areas. I hope in the new Era, OA will liberally reach out to guests who are knowledgeable about other areas as it comes up.
Gmork
2024-03-25 20:13:22 +0000 UTCI would think that the AG would step into Trump's high-heeled shoes and have only whatever rights he has and be blund by all the same covenants.
Gmork
2024-03-25 20:10:33 +0000 UTCRe Trump assets, how common is it for an appellate court to reduce a civil bond. Not my area of law, but my dad's done Biglaw for 40 years and never heard or a court doing it. Is this special treatment for Trump or is it a common practice that I'm unaware of?
Gmork
2024-03-25 20:08:49 +0000 UTCIn general the tenant leases would need to be respected unless they could show some bad faith between Trump organization and tenant like a below market lease
FRED R GROOTHUIS
2024-03-25 18:52:00 +0000 UTCWith NY asset seizures imminent in the Trump case, I'm curious about a purely legal aspect of this situation. A lot of Trump's assets are in real estate. Many real estate deals have extra contractual provisions that go beyond the ability to sell your stake. For example, a lot of T3BE questions have focused on constraints set on real property related to inheritance. In commercial real estate there are often extra provisions related to "anchor tenants". I'm curious whether the government, after seizing a defendant's interest in property, are held to any of the related contractual provisions. For example, if the defendant's property interest was tied to them running an ice cream parlor in a corner unit of the building for a specific time period, would the government siezing the ice cream parlor be required to continue operating it? If they did not, could the other joint property owners have the right to sue the government for damages? If so, if the original defendant successfully appealed their case, are their property rights lost forever?
Drew Vogel
2024-03-25 15:48:34 +0000 UTCI was wondering what is a day like for a Maryland lawyer? I think that would be an interesting show.
Jesse D Miers
2024-03-25 11:03:36 +0000 UTCGood show keep up the hard work. This is something I can't wait for every Monday,and Friday.
Jesse D Miers
2024-03-25 11:02:09 +0000 UTC
