{"id":53491,"date":"2022-11-04T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=53491"},"modified":"2023-01-07T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T02:13:10","slug":"greed-cheating-and-lies-top-shitholer-goes-whole-hog-at-the-public-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/11\/greed-cheating-and-lies-top-shitholer-goes-whole-hog-at-the-public-trough.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+2\"><em>Greed, Cheating, and Lies<\/em><\/font> <br><strong>Top Shitholer Goes Whole Hog at the Public Trough<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThis case is about&nbsp;greed and cheating on taxes,\u201d the chief of investigations for the Manhattan&nbsp;District Attorney told the court and promised the jury it would get the &#8220;inside story&#8221; of how the scheme was carried out. Unfortunately the trial has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/01\/nyregion\/trump-organization-trial-mcconney-covid.html?searchResultPosition=9\">delayed<\/a> due to a Covid infection. Until it resumes, here&#8217;s the outside story:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53768\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"658,810\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510-244x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53768\" width=\"380\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/americans-top-shitholer-e1667492016510-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Sonnet #48 <\/strong><\/em><span><strong style=\"font-style: italic;\">from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/That-Would-Ever-After-Said\/dp\/B09L3YWMSF\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1666998922&amp;sr=1-1\">ALL THAT WOULD EVER AFTER NOT BE SAID<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dec. 3 \u2014 The trial resumed a while ago. Prosecutors stressed in their final arguments that the top shitholer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/02\/nyregion\/trump-organization-trial-tax-fraud.html\">sanctioned his company&#8217;s tax fraud scheme<\/a>. The jury is to begin deliberations next week. The shitholer claimed on his social media site that he &#8220;had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/12\/02\/trump-tax-fraud-trial-weisselberg\/\">know knowledge<\/a>&#8221; of it. Funny how that claim is spelled like an involuntary admission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dec. 6 \u2014 The verdict is in: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/12\/06\/nyregion\/trump-organization-trial-verdict\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">G U I L T Y<\/span><\/a><\/strong> on all 17 counts of tax fraud and financial crimes. The jury needed only a day to decide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis case is about\u00a0greed and cheating on taxes,\u201d the chief of investigations for the Manhattan\u00a0District Attorney, told the court and promised the jury it would get the &#8216;inside story&#8217; of how the scheme was carried out. Unfortunately, the trial has been delayed due to a Covid infection. Until it resumes, here&#8217;s the outside story. 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