Why Did Christie Drop Trump's Casino Tax Debt From $25M To $5M?

[turbinetree]

New Jersey auditors and lawyers had been battling for several years to collect long-overdue taxes from Trump's casinos.

By Susie Madrak

Of course, there's no way an honorable man like Chris Christie would ever have cut some kind of improper deal with a con man like Donald Trump! (nudge nudge, wink wink), but the New York Times thought it was worth a look:

By the time Chris Christie became governor of New Jersey, the state’s auditors and lawyers had been battling for several years to collect long-overdue taxes owed by the casinos founded by his friend Donald J. Trump.

The total, with interest, had grown to almost $30 million. The state had doggedly pursued the matter through two of the casinos’ bankruptcy cases and even accused the company led by Mr. Trump of filing false reports with state casino regulators about the amount of taxes it had paid.

But the year after Governor Christie, a Republican, took office, the tone of the litigation shifted. The state entertained settlement offers. And in December 2011, after six years in court, the state agreed to accept just $5 million, roughly 17 cents on the dollar of what auditors said the casinos owed.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/12/why-did-christie-drop-trumps-casino-tax

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. What are friends for? NT

[dem4decades]

2. Free all you can eat buffets?

[localroger]

4. For life! nt

[Kid Berwyn]

3. "Me a Mafiya"

Christie must be a very good soldier.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Same reason he cut the Exxon Superfund fine a couple hundred billion.

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The night it was signed, that fucker went out to dinner with the Exxon executives.

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[RT Atlanta]

6. I bet donnie t gives one helluva back rub

maybe he lotioned parts of chris's hairy back that he couldnt reach himself and the consideration for this was a $20m reduction in a company's tax burden?

[Fritz Walter]

7. EWWW!

Thank you for that mental image.
I didn’t really want lunch today — after gorging myself yesterday — but now my appetite is completely gone.

[RT Atlanta]

9. we help each other on here!

We all need some post-holiday caloric purge.

[DanieRains]

8. Because Our Government Is Corrupt That Is Why

Scammers like Trump can break law, after law, after law, and skate.

If he was a minority, or poor, he would be serving multiple 20 year terms in prison for all his crimes.

AMERIKKA!

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Now THAT's a point to tell every Trumper

If you broke the law like Trump .....

[ScratchCat]

12. It goes like this where I'm from

If you steal a TV from Wal-mart, you'll end up in jail.

If you steal a couple billion dollars from Medicare, you get to be Governor of Florida and U.S. Senator.

The moral of the story: If you are a thief, make sure you steal large enough sums to pay off the people charged with investigating you.

[marble falls]

11. You gotta pay to play.

[BSdetect]

13. Where was the FBI in all that dirt?

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Shoveling info to Rudy?

[nevergiveup]

15. Trump is a thug

Christie is a thug......case closed.

[BlueJac]

16. To suck up to Don the Con..

[Pepsidog]

17. I live in NJ and one thing NJ does exceptionally well is collect taxes. Christie came in and made

deals with State Democratic power brokers, the politics bosses who controlled the State house and senate. NJ party bosses control the state, NJ is much like a mafia state where the bosses, not the governor, wield the power. So I’m sure many law firms and accounting firms who contribute state candidates made huge fees on negotiating Trumps debt down. What’s worse is that the funds collected by Trump were trust fund taxes taken directly from employee/employer, sales tax, etc. taken directly from paychecks to be held in trust for the state and transmitted to the state monthly. No small business person would get this type of consideration. Disgraceful.

[B Stieg]

18. A quid without a quo?

Sux when you try to be corrupt, and the other guy is so corrupt, you don't get what you were hoping for?!
tRump tries to cheat at everything.

[Perseus]

19. Another one bites the bus!

All stupid Christie did for the con and then he was humiliated in front of the world.

I keep asking myself what do these people think? Do they lie in bed (well they lie everywhere ) and say to themselves "I am so special that I know my precious leader will not do to me what he does to everyone else, he will appreciate my loyalty to him and in return be loyal to me." Then they find out they are not as special as they thought they were, that happens as the wheels of the bus hit them from side to side.

[MarcA]

20. Christie is scum just like drumph.

If he was President he would do just like drumph. As Governor he was limited to just
harming people through bridge closures, making public beaches his private domain and
having people run off the road and then blaming them, although that last one may be
a NJ Governor thing.

[Buckeyeblue]

21. Why didn't this come out during the election?

[hughee99]

22. Were these the casinos that Trump ran into the ground and went under

Just a few years later?