Court Lets Ivanka Trump Escape Financial Monitoring Order

In a decision that seemingly makes little sense, a court has agreed to let Ivanka Trump NOT have to be monitored by the financial monitor that the court put in place for the rest of the Trump family and their Organization. Ivanka had petitioned to be excluded from the order, and the New York Attorney General agreed that she could be released. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what this means.

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A couple weeks ago, Ivanka Trump had her lawyers go to court and say that, Hey, Ivanka's not involved in any of this Trump organization fraud. Therefore, she shouldn't have to also have her finances monitored by that. Recently appointed by the court special monitor who is looking at all of the Trump family and Trump organizations financial transactions. It was a stupid claim, a claim that also is not true because she has been specifically mentioned in court as somebody not just with direct knowledge of the, uh, fraud. We can't even say alleged anymore cuz they've had the ruling against them. Um, but she actually signed off on some of it. So her lawyers went to court and said, no, she has nothing to do with it. She's not even mentioned in this. Don't make her have to go to the Special monitor. And then something remarkable happened, instead of this being laughed out of court, the judge and New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed,

And this past Monday officially made the filing that Ivanka Trump does not have to have her financial transactions monitored by that, uh, court appointed special monitor. So Ivanka's off the hook, you can do whatever the hell you want with your money. You can spend it, you can invest it, you can buy up properties, you can move it from one account to another. We're not gonna be looking over your shoulders at all because for some reason we bought your stupid argument that again, was refuted in court that you somehow weren't involved. So again, Ivanka's lawyers who she hired her own counsel, she did not go with the same lawyers the rest of the family and the company did. She got her own folks, which probably pretty smart, but they said that she had nothing to do with the Trump organization after Trump was sworn in as president. She was officially done with it, not involved. Okay. The fraud goes back 15 years. Okay? So she hasn't been with the Trump organization for almost six years. So that creates, if my math is correct, 15 years of fraud, six years of no Ivanka, nine years of Ivanka, where she was there helping run the company while the fraud was happening.

So why does she not have to follow the same rules as the rest of the family? Why did New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed to this? Something doesn't smell right about this story, right? I mean, I, I I kind of think that's something we can all agree about. She was mentioned in court. Um, here, this is from, uh, the Daily Beast. Ivanca is actually closely involved in some of the core allegations made by the Attorney General in court papers last year. The ags office said she was a key player in many of the transactions under investigation, particularly because of the way she was involved in cutting deals that relied on faked documents. AG lawyers identified her as responsible for securing loan terms from Deutsche Bank for the company's golf course deal, inal Florida, a process that involved turning over documents that relied on dubious property valuations, her father's personal guarantee and statement of financial condition. So she was involved in the fraud according to the ags office that later said, no, that's fine. You don't have to abide by it. So what has happened? As I said, something doesn't smell right unless you know how these kinds of investigations work.

If say there was an individual that was involved in the fraud, but then went and talked to investigators and said, Hey, listen, here's what happened. I'll tell you, but I need to have, let's call it some kind of deal.