Ivanka might turn on her dad, says Mary Trump

The Trump Organization is now feeling the heat, with its CFO on trial for robbery. Prosecutors are set to get this money man Allen Weisselberg to turn on his boss. But an interested observer says there may be another member of the Trump crew who is even more likely to turn against the Don: his daughter Ivanka.

Ivanka and Weisselberg both enjoyed a similar advantage, though this indictment by Manhattan prosecutors and reports from the New York Times are to be believed. Both were executives of the Trump Organization and simultaneously acted as consultants for the company. It’s an arrangement that appears designed to protect all parties involved from paying taxes and could expose Ivanka to tax evasion charges, just like her father’s CFO.

“She’s much less likely to stay loyal than Allen Weisselberg,” says Mary Trump, the family member who has turned against the clan.

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“But Allen had a pretty cushy gig where he was. And I think in the grand scheme of things, as counterintuitive as it sounds, I think Ivanka has one, more to lose and, two, more to hang on. Her husband’s family is legitimately very wealthy, ”replies Mary Trump.

She sees a number of similarities in the nascent case against Weisselberg and his legal dispute with her uncle, the former president. “The kind of fraud that’s alleged here is exactly the kind of thing my aunts and uncles did to me,” she said. “Motifs strongly imply intention, don’t they?” “

She adds, “After my father died, my aunts and uncles were my trustees, they were supposed to help protect my investments. And one of those investments was in a partnership called Midland Associates, which most of my grandfather’s core business, Trump Management paid for. [it] to manage his [real estate] Properties. And then in the ’80s, after my father died, they started a shell company called All County, the purpose of which was simply to divert money from both Midland Associates and my grandfather’s business. father, just to steal money from me … and second, to devalue Trump Management so much that when he died, they could claim he was only worth $ 30 million and thus avoid paying nearly $ 500 million in property taxes.

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“I think my case also sets a precedent for what the fraud case will hopefully show,” she concludes.

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