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  • Mar-a-Lago Should Be Taxed at Value Trump Gave It

    From Wile E. Coyote@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 13 22:16:44 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.immigration XPost: alt.politics.nationalism.white

    House Democrat Asks if Mar-a-Lago Can Be Taxed at Value Trump Gave It
    The former president’s valuation of his residence and private club is part
    of New York’s civil fraud case against him.


    Jonathan Weisman
    By Jonathan Weisman

    Oct. 5, 2023Updated 6:08 p.m. ET

    Attempting to call former President Donald J. Trump’s bluff, a congressman
    from Florida on Thursday asked Palm Beach County to tax Mar-a-Lago, Mr.
    Trump’s seaside residence and private club, at the value he claimed it was worth, more than $1 billion. The gambit, by Representative Jared
    Moskowitz, Democrat of Florida, goes to the core of New York’s civil case against Mr. Trump. The state has accused the former president of grossly inflating the value of his properties to obtain favorable bank loans while paying taxes on valuations at or below market value. Judge Arthur Engoron valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million, the low end of the $18 million to $28
    million appraisal used by Palm Beach County for property taxes. Eric
    Trump, Mr. Trump’s son, speculated on X, the social media platform
    formerly known as Twitter, that the home and resort could be worth $1
    billion. He called it “arguably the most valuable residential property in
    the country,” and said the judge’s figure was “an attempt to destroy my
    father and kick him out of New York.” In a letter to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser, Mr. Moskowitz asked, “If the property value of
    Mar-a-Lago is so much higher than it was appraised, will you be amending
    the property value in line with the Trump family’s belief that the
    property is worth well over a billion dollars?”



    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-appraisal.h
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  • From Fritz Wuehler@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 14 02:25:56 2025
    XPost: alt.california, talk.politics.misc, alt.abortion
    XPost: sac.politics, alt.war.civil.usa

    https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/dailyrepublic.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/65/26541f10-e6b0-591a-9f3a-11056f174fec/64add27758ded.image.jpg?resize=375%2C500
    Khary Je-Von Cook, By Robinson Kuntz

    FAIRFIELD — The trial for an ex-con who faces multiple sexual assault charges and the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison began Tuesday in Solano County Superior Court.

    Khary J. Cook, 36, is accused of raping a 26-year-old woman who he convinced to give him a ride from a North Texas Street McDonald’s to a Crowley Street apartment in Fairfield in exchange for an ounce of methamphetamine. He is also accused of
    repeatedly sexually assaulting a Suisun City girl starting when she was a 13-year-old middle school student.

    Cook has pleaded not guilty.

    According to police testimony at Cook’s probable cause hearing, after stopping by the Crowley Lane residence, he drove the woman to the parking lot of Jelly Belly in the predawn hours of Nov. 3, 2016. According to the testimony, he pulled a gun and
    threatened her before raping her in the back seat of his car.

    News of Cook’s arrest in 2017 and his photo published by local media prompted the girl, then 29, to go to police and tell them what Cook allegedly did to her starting in 2001. She told police and previously testified in court that Cook raped her at his
    Suisun City home where she had been hanging out with him and others. The sexual interactions continued a few times a week for several weeks.

    The sexual activity was interrupted by her having an abortion and by Cook going to prison for unrelated crimes. The sexual activity resumed briefly when she was a sophomore in high school and started going to Cook’s house on a weekly basis before he
    went back to prison.

    Cook is locked up with bail set at $1.5 million. The trial is scheduled to continue Wednesday in the courtroom of Judge William J. Pendergast.

    https://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/crime-courts/trial-starts-for-man-charged-in-fairfield-rape-case/article_239dca8f-7a34-5e26-b723-29c6ecdac6fb.html

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