Let’s talk quickly about why mobsters get caught in tax frauds.
First & foremost, because they can’t claim the vast amount of income they make thru illegal means. What would they declare? $80 million in cocaine-trafficking profits, after paying off business fronts & attorneys? /1 https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/1184455019686453248

2/ So, they gotta lie on their returns. And they better have quasi-legitimate businesses/income to declare. With a lifestyle to match it.

Then there’s the case of donald. He’s a business front for organized crime. To keep that racket going (as if he had a choice)...

3/... he has to keep the brand at a level of value to match the amount of money being laundered through it.

Being on a tv show for over a decade, pretending to run an empire, helps. But when you’re just a front, you don’t have nearly as much income as the men who own you...

4/ So how would you be able to afford the tax on income that’s not yours? It’s a pickle that tax loopholes in real estate conveniently solve. That’s not an accident. Real Estate is structured to be a perfect laundering vehicle.

But donald faces a different dilemma b/c of it...

5/ He’s had a lifestyle for decades that exceeds his income. This + his tragic inability to retain one dime of his inheritance + bankruptcies + losses in law suits = not much to declare in whatever legit biz he may have been running. That tv show $ was kinda all he had. BUT...

6/... to justify the “loans” from dirty banks - loans that are vehicles for getting all that mafia money (from Cosa Nostra to RU-Ukrainian Mogilevich to Putin’s mobligarchs), he’s gotta justify a value to match the funds.
For the bank.
To cover their ass - & the asses...

7/... of the gangsters behind them, who own donald.
Donald’s tax fraud is not about his ego. It’s a mob racket.
Two sets of books is how they’ve always run their fronts in America. No matter the era. No matter syndicate.
BECAUSE of our tax laws.

8/ And that’s why we can always nail them on taxes.
Following the money means incoming the books. Tax returns are the money trail. That’s why donald will pull out every stop to fight their release.
Because he’s covered in as much blood money as Al Capone.
And just like Capone...

9/ It’s the two sets of books that will take him down.

Justice is coming.

Error in 8 above:
“Following the money means UNCOOKING the books”
And in donald’s case (his unique, tiny pickle), the second set of books is not hidden under the cannoli. It’s shared with a bank. It’s discoverable.

Side Note CODA:
I’m not advocating 4 this, but sharing from a mob perspective: If our gov. offered to mafiosos, “You can keep your rackets, but you gotta pay 90% in taxes,”... they would take it & file legit returns.
That’s how big both the moneypot & the barrier of tax laws are.