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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dollar21-million-tax-break-for-preserving-forest-at-his-mansion-under-investigation?ref=homeTrumps $21 Million Tax Break for Preserving Forest at His Mansion Under Investigation
INTO THE WOODS
Jamie Ross, Reporter
Published Oct. 09, 2020 9:44AM ET
Surely Donald Trump didnt have a hidden motive when he benevolently promised to preserve the beautiful woodland around his luxurious Westchester County mansion? The Washington Post has reported that the dealwhich saw the future president handed a $21 million tax break in 2016is now under investigation to determine whether the Trump Organization improperly inflated the value of the land. New York Attorney General Letitia James has launched the probe. The Post got hold of an appraisal which apparently showed the value was based on assertions and misleading conclusionswhich, in turn, boosted the value of his tax break. The Trump Organizations chief legal officer, Alan Garten, said the allegations are categorically untrue. Eric Trump, who now helps run the Trump Organization, sat for a deposition in the case Monday.
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Trump's $21 Million Tax Break for Preserving Forest at His Mansion Under Investigation (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2020
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pwb
(11,276 posts)1. You could rake a lot of forest for that money.
We could have raked all of California?
Deb
(3,742 posts)2. Does he manage it by sweeping?
That would make it enormously valued improved property.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)3. If it could be crooked
and Donnie did it, it is crooked.
underpants
(182,826 posts)4. Read this this morning. That is a sweet looking mansion
That looks a lot more Mr. Bigshot to me than his tacky apartment. I know, he wanted to be the man about town. Funny just like the TV city project it got stopped by the locals. With TV city all Trump had to do was go to local meetings, nod, smile and hed have had a dominant mark on the NYC skyline. Nope couldnt do it.
With this property I think he was butting heads with oooold money on their turf.
underpants
(182,826 posts)6. Oh yeah.
That screams WEALTH. Reminds me of something the Roys would have on Succession.
Celerity
(43,408 posts)7. I would live in it, lol. It is one of the very rare Trumpian things that do not look like tacky shit