What Mary L Trump Needed Was Forensic Accounting
In 2017, Mary was approached by the New York Times. She told them that she did not have any documentation, but they suggested that the attorney might. As it turned out there was a trove of documents, which she turned over to the Times.
According to her account, those documents would prove that her grandfather’s estate was worth a billion dollars.
Taking this at face value, the question is why were there not forensic accountants and independent appraisers going through those boxes before settlement? No offense to the Times, but they probably would have figured it out a lot quicker than a team of investigative reporters.
TIGTA – IRS Scores 98% On First Stimulus Payments
And then there are 40,656 individuals who already have their second stimulus payment, even though they were only supposed to get one. It appears that that was a sort of divorce bonus. People appeared as the secondary name on 2018 joint returns and then they filed their own return in 2019.
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