Under Pressure From Tax Probe, Trump’s Older Sister Steps Down From Judgeship

Tycoon Donald Trump with sister Maryanne Trump Barry, at a press conference after visiting the house in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, where his mother was brought up before she emigrated to the United States. (Photo ... Tycoon Donald Trump with sister Maryanne Trump Barry, at a press conference after visiting the house in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, where his mother was brought up before she emigrated to the United States. (Photo by Andrew Milligan - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, has stepped down from her role as a federal appellate judge and thus ended the scrutiny into whether she and her siblings’ fraudulent tax schemes constitute a breach of judicial conduct.

According to a Wednesday New York Times report, the investigation was launched due to the Times reporting that Barry and her siblings financially benefited from chicanery and fraud committed in the 1990s.

Barry, 82, is reportedly an inactive judge and one step from full retirement. She resigned in February. On Feb. 1, individuals who brought complaints to the judicial conduct council’s attention received a letter from a court official saying the probe was receiving the council’s “full attention,” the Times reported. The investigation has since been dropped, as retired judges are not subject to conduct investigations.

Scott Shuchart, a lawyer who filed one of the complaints against Barry, told the Times he finds it “galling” that a minor change in her retirement status inoculates her against an investigation.

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  1. Why the hell should the investigation end because she step down, they broke the law. Arrest them.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    This indubitably strengthens Congressman Neal’s case to see Trump’s tax returns as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The day of reckoning is coming, just as it came for Assange today.

  3. Avatar for Bri2k Bri2k says:

    Between this and the Assange arrest I think I know why Agent Orange has been so unhinged lately.

    Gonna need more popcorn.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “Indictment Friday’s” are back! And are even coming a day early! Trump wants us to think it’s over by preemptively claiming victory as he did yesterday in strong terms. But it isn’t.

  5. This family is corrupt to the core.

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