October 20, 2020
Late last month, the New York Times published the first in a series of exposés on President Trump’s compliance (or non-compliance) with his federal income tax obligations. While readers of the Times articles may or may not be troubled by the assertion that the President paid $750 in federal income taxes for both 2016 and 2017 and can reasonably ask whether doing so violated the Internal Revenue Code, prosecutors in the New York County District Attorney’s Office were almost certainly envious of the reporters who spent many hours reviewing the intimate details of the President’s finances. [...]