Tax Evasion
Trump Faces Questions About His Net Worth in Interview He Tried to Avoid
For decades, Donald J. Trump has boasted with impunity about a subject close to his heart and ego: his net worth. “I look better if I’m worth $10 billion than if I’m worth $4 billion,” he once said when disputing his ranking on the Forbes billionaires list. In a court case, he acknowledged that when […]
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Analysis Deems Biden’s Climate and Tax Bill Fiscally Responsible
After more than a year of trying — and failing — to pack much of President Biden’s domestic agenda into a single tax-and-spend bill, Democrats appear to have finally found a winning combination. They’ve scrapped most of the president’s plans, dialed down the cost and focused on climate change, health care and a lower budget […]
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A Boston Consulting Firm Became a Power Broker, and Then a Pariah, in South Africa
“I am concerned that we are trading off short term access for long term issues,” Ms. Miller wrote in an internal email in 2014. She wrote that Bain was trying to recover its reputation after the presidential election in 2012, when the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, was criticized for his work at the consulting firm. […]
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Trump Is Guilty of ‘Numerous’ Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says
One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald J. Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” and that it was “a grave failure of justice” not to hold him accountable, according to a copy of his resignation letter. The prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted his resignation last month after […]
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Data Leak Exposes How a Swiss Bank Served Strongmen and Spies
The client rosters of Swiss banks are among the world’s most closely guarded secrets, protecting the identities of some of the planet’s richest people and clues into how they accumulated their fortunes. Now, an extraordinary leak of data from Credit Suisse, one of the world’s most iconic banks, is exposing how the bank held hundreds […]
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Trump Makes New Claims About His Wealth After Accountants Drop Him
“Mazars’ decision to withdraw was clearly a result of the A.G.’s and D.A.’s vicious intimidation tactics used — also on other members of the Trump Organization,” Mr. Trump said in his statement. “Mazars, who were scared beyond belief, in conversations with us made it clear that they were willing to do or say anything to […]
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Trump Fraud Inquiry Won’t Be Resolved When Vance’s Term Ends Next Week
The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time. Even as prosecutors in his office have ramped up their long-running investigation into former President Donald J. Trump in recent weeks, Mr. Vance is set to leave office soon without seeking criminal charges against Mr. Trump. Mr. Vance, a three-term Democrat who […]
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Fact-Checking Kevin McCarthy’s 8-Hour Speech
Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the minority leader, mounted his case against President Biden’s social spending bill in a record-breaking speech that stretched for more than eight hours from Thursday to Friday. Here’s a fact check of some of his remarks. What Mr. McCarthy Said “Just a few weeks ago, Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger […]
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