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To be fair, President Trump’s four years in office weren’t so bad, except when when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans

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Y’all about to get a great visual representation of Cullman, Alabama. Only good things to come out of Cullman are the Britt brothers (Roll Tide!) and orange rolls from All Steak restaurant. That pla

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Rudy, "We'll make the announcement outside the Super Bowl!"  

Staffer, "Well sir, there really isn't a Super Bowl place per se.  It's just the name of the game that moves around every year."

Rudy, "Bullshit, I found it.  And good news, it's in Texas in an Austin strip center.  Abbott's gonna help us set the whole thing up."  

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Rudy, "I want the podium where this Avalanche is parked!" 

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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Who's the douchebag in the front middle that doesn't understand how to take photographs with women? 

Also, I assume the woman on Bill's left arm is his wife?  Or?  The broad that looks like a 20's flapper got plastic surgery.  In the 1920's.  

Two brunettes seem cool though.  

I wonder what a super bowl party at mar-a-lago would consist of as far as food & beverage.

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The Bengals were getting ready to win this game. Frankly, they did win this game. They won this game. So the goal now is to ensure the integrity of football for the good of this game. 

If only they had counted the points in certain quarters and had stopped counting points in others!!

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With that many women, a man never stands in the front and if he has to, off to the side with turned shoulders.  He's in the dead center, all squared up, blocking not 1 not 2 but 3 women of greater import than himself.  

$50 says he's invited every year to this thing because he was the character witness in Georgetown's on-campus sexual assault incident involving Eric in 2004.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyregion/mazars-trump-organization-financial-statements.html

Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements

The statements are at the center of two investigations into whether the former president and his company exaggerated the value of their assets.

 

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"In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for Mr. Trump. The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided."

 

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Feb. 14, 2022, 4:01 p.m. ET
Donald J. Trump’s longtime accounting firm abruptly cut ties with his family business last week amid ongoing criminal and civil investigations into whether Mr. Trump illegally inflated the value of his assets, court documents filed on Monday show.

In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for Mr. Trump. The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided.

The letter instructed the Trump Organization to essentially retract the documents, known as statements of financial condition, from 2011 to 2020. In the letter, Mazars noted that the firm had not “as a whole” found material discrepancies between the information the Trump Organization provided and the actual value of Mr. Trump’s assets. But given what it called “the totality of circumstances,” the letter directed the Trump Organization to notify anyone who received the statements that they should no longer rely on them.

The statements, which Mr. Trump used to secure loans, are at the center of the two law enforcement investigations into the former president and his company. The Manhattan district attorney’s office and the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, have been investigating whether Mr. Trump used the statements to defraud his lenders into providing him the best possible loan terms.

The Trump Organization declined to comment.

The revelations appeared in the new court documents filed by Ms. James’s office, which is seeking to question Mr. Trump and two of his adult children under oath as part of her investigation.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers had asked a judge to prohibit the questioning, and in response, Ms. James’s office argued in court papers last month that the company had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices.

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Her filing on Monday — which marked her latest attempt to press ahead with questioning Mr. Trump as well as Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — included a copy of the Mazars letter, signed by the accounting firm’s general counsel.

The brief letter could bolster Ms. James’s investigation, which has focused partly on the statements and whether they overvalued Mr. Trump’s various hotels, golf clubs and other properties.

Mazars said it concluded that the statements were no longer reliable based in part on the attorney general’s earlier filings, its own investigations and information the accountants received from “internal and external sources.” The letter added that Mazars “performed its work in accordance with professional standards.”

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Because Ms. James’s investigation is civil, she cannot file criminal charges. But she could sue Mr. Trump and his company to seek financial penalties, and could try to shut down certain aspects of Mr. Trump’s business in New York.

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A spokeswoman for Ms. James declined to comment beyond the filing.

In a statement, the accounting firm said that “under our standards of professional ethics, we cannot comment on any client services or relationships.”

It is unclear whether Mazars’ break with the Trumps will have any bearing on the district attorney’s criminal investigation into Mr. Trump. The firm has been cooperating with that investigation, and Mr. Trump’s main accountant at Mazars has already testified before a grand jury hearing evidence about Mr. Trump.

A spokesman for the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, declined to comment.

Both investigations still face obstacles. While the statements may contain exaggerated estimates of Mr. Trump’s property values, those same documents also include a number of disclaimers, including acknowledgments that Mr. Trump’s accountants had neither audited nor authenticated his claims.

Another disclaimer notes that Mazars did “not express an opinion or provide any assurance about” the statements, a common caveat in statements of financial condition. The firm also disclosed that, while compiling the information for Mr. Trump, they had “become aware of departures from accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.”

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An empire under scrutiny. The New York State attorney general is currently conducting a civil investigation into former president Donald Trump’s business practices. Here’s what to know:

The origins of the inquiry. The investigation started after Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, testified to Congress that Mr. Trump and his employees had manipulated his net worth to suit his interests.

The findings. Ms. James detailed in a recent filing what she said was a pattern by the Trump Organization to inflate the value of the company’s properties in documents filed with lenders, insurers and the Internal Revenue Service.

The potential impact. Because the investigation is civil, the attorney general cannot file criminal charges and would have to sue Mr. Trump. Ms. James could seek financial penalties and try to shut down certain aspects of Mr. Trump’s business.

Mr. Trump’s response. Mr. Trump has filed a lawsuit against Letitia James, the New York attorney general, seeking to halt the inquiry. The suit argues that the attorney general’s involvement in the inquiry was politically motivated.

Subpoena requests. The attorney general has subpoenaed Mr. Trump, and is also seeking to question Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, two of his children, as part of the inquiry. Eric Trump, another of Mr. Trump’s sons, was questioned in 2020.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers would likely argue that his lenders, sophisticated financial institutions like Deutsche Bank, would not have relied on the statements when providing him loans.

Still, in her court filing last month, Ms. James highlighted potential misleading statements about the value of at least six Trump properties, including golf clubs in Westchester County, N.Y., and Scotland, as well as Mr. Trump’s own penthouse home in Trump Tower.

According to that filing, Mr. Trump claimed that the triplex apartment spanned 30,000 square feet, giving it an eye-popping value of $327 million. In truth, the apartment was 10,996 square feet.

Mr. Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, later acknowledged to investigators that the company had overvalued the apartment by “give or take” $200 million.

(Separately, last summer, the district attorney’s office indicted Mr. Weisselberg and the Trump Organization, accusing them of orchestrating a 15-year scheme to provide certain executives with off-the-books luxury perks like free cars and apartments. Mr. Weisselberg and the company have pleaded not guilty and the case is tentatively scheduled to go to trial late this summer.)

Both the civil and criminal investigations have examined the underlying information the Trump Organization provided Mazars as the accountants compiled the annual financial statements.

Often, Mr. Trump’s company would estimate the value of its properties based on recent selling prices of comparable buildings, a common real estate valuation method. The authorities have zeroed in on whether the company cherry-picked favorable information to essentially mislead Mazars into presenting an overly rosy picture of Mr. Trump’s finances.

Ms. James has argued that the Trump Organization misstated the value of the properties to lenders, insurers and the Internal Revenue Service. Many of the statements, she argued in the filing last month, were “generally inflated as part of a pattern to suggest that Mr. Trump’s net worth was higher than it otherwise would have appeared.”

 

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41 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyregion/mazars-trump-organization-financial-statements.html

Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements

The statements are at the center of two investigations into whether the former president and his company exaggerated the value of their assets.

 

From the article:

"In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for Mr. Trump. The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided."

 

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I hate it when my accountants do that.

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4 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyregion/mazars-trump-organization-financial-statements.html

Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements

The statements are at the center of two investigations into whether the former president and his company exaggerated the value of their assets.

 

From the article:

"In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for Mr. Trump. The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided."

 

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Nothing to see here. Just legitimate accounting discourse 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Wtf does this tweet mean?

A "Bates number" means, historically, a number stamped on a document produced in response to a discovery request.  The numbers are used to keep track of which documents are produced and provide a uniform numbering so everyone in the case can figure out which document it is.

Historically, such a number was applied with a "Bates stamp."

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Now that documents are mostly produced in digital images, they are "digitally" applied.

Typically, they are sequential.  Sometimes interrupted for organizational reasons.

But yes, that suggests that Mazars has produced half a million documents.

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A "Bates number" means, historically, a number stamped on a document produced in response to a discovery request.  The numbers are used to keep track of which documents are produced and provide a uniform numbering so everyone in the case can figure out which document it is.
Historically, such a number was applied with a "Bates stamp."
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Now that documents are mostly produced in digital images, they are "digitally" applied.
Typically, they are sequential.  Sometimes interrupted for organizational reasons.
But yes, that suggests that Mazars has produced half a million documents.

In addition to not turning over docs, destroying docs, dumping massive amount of docs is part of Trump’s Roy Cohn-esque bag of tricks.
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In addition to not turning over docs, destroying docs, dumping massive amount of docs is part of Trump’s Roy Cohn-esque bag of tricks.

Well, to be fair, this is Mazar's doing, not Trump's.  And it's 10 years worth of working papers at an audit accountancy.  There are no doubt a shit-ton of duplicates, drafts, and such.  And there be dragons.

500,000 is a lot, but lawyers are used to hogging through shit like that.  It's why we say the job is simultaneously intellectually challenging and the worst kind of drudgery.

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Well, to be fair, this is Mazar's doing, not Trump's.  And it's 10 years worth of working papers at an audit accountancy.  There are no doubt a shit-ton of duplicates, drafts, and such.  And there be dragons.
500,000 is a lot, but lawyers are used to hogging through shit like that.  It's why we say the job is simultaneously intellectually challenging and the worst kind of drudgery.

This. 500k pages of doc production? Is that all you got? Bitch please. We’ll have that reviewed by this time next week, with hot docs tagged.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

A "Bates number" means, historically, a number stamped on a document produced in response to a discovery request.  The numbers are used to keep track of which documents are produced and provide a uniform numbering so everyone in the case can figure out which document it is.

Historically, such a number was applied with a "Bates stamp."

800px-Bates_numbering_machine.png

Now that documents are mostly produced in digital images, they are "digitally" applied.

Typically, they are sequential.  Sometimes interrupted for organizational reasons.

But yes, that suggests that Mazars has produced half a million documents.

Half a million pages. 
 

and Bates was the maker of the machine that created sequentially numbered stamps. 
 

If you were an associate or paralegal prior to 1990 you probably used one of those stamp machines. 
 

I know I did. 

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15 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/nyregion/mazars-trump-organization-financial-statements.html

Accounting Firm Cuts Ties With Trump and Retracts Financial Statements

The statements are at the center of two investigations into whether the former president and his company exaggerated the value of their assets.

 

From the article:

"In a letter to the Trump Organization on Feb. 9, the accounting firm notified the company of its decision and disclosed that it could no longer stand behind annual financial statements it prepared for Mr. Trump. The firm, Mazars USA, compiled the financial statements based on information the former president and his company provided."

 

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An accounting firm dumping a client is a pretty big fucking deal.    

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