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Executive at Trump Media said he was removed from the Board after he refused Trumps demand to give some of his shares in the company to Melania, and has now turned over messages, documents and audio to SEC alleging fraud.
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Co-founder of Trumps media company details Truth Socials bitter infighting
A whistleblower has provided The Post and the SEC with hundreds of previously unreported company messages, documents, photos and audio recordings that reveal a stunning portrait of the animosity that...
Last edited 1:51 PM · Oct 15, 2022
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
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Executive at Trump Media said he was removed from the Board after he refused Trumps demand to give some of his shares in the company to Melania, and has now turned over messages, documents and audio to SEC alleging fraud.
washingtonpost.com
Co-founder of Trumps media company details Truth Socials bitter infighting
A whistleblower has provided The Post and the SEC with hundreds of previously unreported company messages, documents, photos and audio recordings that reveal a stunning portrait of the animosity that...
Last edited 1:51 PM · Oct 15, 2022
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Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trumps start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trumps wife, Melania?
Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the companys shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.
Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldnt pay, Wilkerson said in an interview. Trump didnt care. He said, Do whatever you need to do.
Five months later, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant on the TV show The Apprentice, was abruptly removed from the companys board. Wilkerson said he believes it was payback for his refusal to turn over a small fortune to the former presidents wife. Litinsky thought so, too, according to an email Wilkerson and his attorneys shared with The Washington Post and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In that email, Litinsky complained that Trump was retaliating against me by threatening to blow up the company if his demands are not met.
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Co-founder of Trump's media company details Truth Social's bitter infighting (Fraud) (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2022
OP
Did they not know what a greedy double-dealing amoral disloyal psycho they were dealing with?
Wingus Dingus
Oct 2022
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Wingus Dingus
(8,054 posts)1. Did they not know what a greedy double-dealing amoral disloyal psycho they were dealing with?
Litinsky knew him since 2004. How fucking dumb.
Turbineguy
(37,332 posts)2. Touched by trump
and then you're fucked.
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)3. Can't wait to see/hear about the response!
The ketchup and hamberders are gonna fly!
IbogaProject
(2,816 posts)4. Are we supposed to care?
I sure don't, unless any of them face or are willing to testify about crimes.
Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)5. It's pronounced Trush Sushal
Fuck tRump
keithbvadu2
(36,809 posts)6. Social Truth Donald - STD
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)7. ETTD
Everything Trump touches, dies