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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 Report: Trump got $413M from dad, much of it from tax dodges Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Times reported Tuesday that President Donald Trump received at least $413 mil- lion from his father over the decades, much of that through dubious tax dodges, including outright fraud. The 15,000-word Times report contradicts Trump’s por- trayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who started with just a $1 million loan from his father. The Times says Trump and his father, Fred, avoided gift and inheritance taxes by set- ting up a sham corporation and undervaluing assets to tax authorities. The newspaper says its report is based on more than 100,000 pages of finan- cial documents, including con- fidential tax returns from the father and his companies. A lawyer for Trump, Charles J. Harder, told the Times that there was no “fraud or tax eva- sion” and that the facts cited in the report are “extremely inaccurate.” The White House dismissed the report as a “misleading attack against the Trump fam- ily by the failing New York Times.” It criticized the news- paper and other media out- lets, saying their low credibil- ity with the public is “because they are consumed with attack- ing the president and his fam- ily 24/7 instead of reporting the news.” Trump expressed outrage today, accusing the newspa- per of “doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me.” The New York state tax department said it is review- ing the allegations in the Times and “is vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investi- gation.” The department typi- cally refers findings to the state attorney general’s office. The Trump family hid mil- lions of dollars of transfers from the father to his chil- dren through a sham company owned by the children called All County Building Supply & Maintenance, the Times said. Set up in 1992 ostensibly as a purchasing agent to supply Fred Trump’s buildings with boilers, cleaning supplies and other goods, the father would pad invoices with markups of 20 percent or even 50 percent, thereby avoiding gift taxes. Before Fred Trump died in the late 1990s, he transferred ownership of most of his real estate empire to his four liv- ing children, the Times said. The value of the properties in tax returns summed up to $41.4 million, vastly less than the Times says they were worth. The same properties would be sold off over the next decade for more than 16 times that amount. In total, the president’s father and mother transferred over $1 billion to their chil- dren, according to the Times tally. That should have pro- duced a tax bill of at least $550 million, based on a 55 percent tax on gifts and inheritance at the time. Instead, the children paid $52.2 million, or about 5 percent. Tax experts cited in the report say that Trump is unlikely to face criminal pros- ecution in helping his parents evade taxes because the maneu- vers occurred long ago and are past the statute of limitation. The president’s brother, Robert Trump, said that “all appropriate gift and estate tax returns” were filed. “Our fam- AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais A portrait of President Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, and three unsigned executive orders in the Oval Office. ily has no other comment on these matters that happened some 20 years ago,” he said in a statement to the Times, “and would appreciate your respect- ing the privacy of our deceased parents, may God rest their souls.” The Times report says docu- ments it reviewed show that the future president was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dol- lars at the age of 3. By the time Trump had graduated from col- lege, he was getting the equiv- alent of $1 million a year from his father. When he was campaigning, Trump repeatedly boasted of his ability to turn a small loan from his father into his fortune. “My father gave me a very small loan in 1975,” he said, “and I built it into a company that’s worth many, many bil- lions of dollars.” WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Pivotal GOP senators hit Trump for mocking Kavanaugh accuser WASHINGTON — Three wavering Republi- can senators lambasted President Donald Trump today for mocking a woman who has claimed Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, underscoring the risks of assailing Kava- naugh’s accusers as Senate support teeters for the Supreme Court nominee. The blowback to Trump’s scoffing at Chris- tine Blasey Ford came as lawmakers awaited results of a revived FBI background check, expected imminently, on accusations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh in high school and college. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCo- nnell, R-Ky., has said the chamber will vote on Kavanaugh later this week, and the conservative jurist’s fate is in the hands of a handful of unde- cided GOP and Democratic senators. At a political rally in Mississippi Tuesday night, Trump mimicked Ford’s responses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week at which she recounted Kavanaugh’s alleged attack on her when both were in high school. The audience laughed as Trump, at times inac- curately, recounted what he described as holes in her testimony. “I had one beer — that’s the only thing I remember,” Trump said. On NBC’s “Today” show today, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said that ridiculing “something this sensitive at a political rally is just not right.” Flake added, “I wish he hadn’t done it. It’s kind of appalling.” Separately, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters, “The president’s comments were just plain wrong,” and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said they were “wholly inappropriate and in my view unacceptable.” Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair- man of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a tweet that people can “decide who to believe” but everyone should stop the “personal attacks” against Ford, Kavanaugh and their families. Officials warn Arizona dam could fail, more floods possible PHOENIX — An earthen dam in Arizona’s southern desert could fail because the lake behind it is swollen with storm runoff, and more flood- ing caused by rain from the remnants of Tropi- cal Storm Rosa is possible elsewhere in the state, officials said today. Residents who live near the dam in the small Native American community of Ali Chuk on the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation near the U.S.-Mexico border were being evacuated Tues- day night. Water levels were within 1 foot of overtop- ping Menagers Dam, which could give way and flood Ali Chuk, the National Weather Service said. There were no reports of additional rain in the area today. Flooding from runoff on Tuesday made roads impassable in the area. Officials evacuated more than 30 people from a village elsewhere on the reservation because of flooding. Forecasters also warned of the possibil- ity of more flooding in the Phoenix area and else- where in Arizona on Wednesday. W EDNESDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM 3 win chemistry Nobel; Findings led to best- selling drug STOCKHOLM — Three researchers who “harnessed the power of evolution” to pro- duce enzymes and antibodies that have led to a best-selling drug and biofuels won the Nobel Prize in chemistry today. Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology was awarded half of the $1.01 mil- lion prize, while the other half was shared by George Smith of the University of Missouri and Gregory Winter of the MRC molecular biology lab in Cambridge, England. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which chose the winners, said Arnold, 62, con- ducted the first directed evolution of enzymes, whose uses include “more environmentally friendly manufacturing of chemical substances such as pharmaceuticals and the production of renewable fuels.” Arnold was only the fifth woman to win a chemistry Nobel since the prizes began in 1901. Smith, 77, developed a method to evolve new proteins and Winter, 67, used the method to evolve antibodies, which are disease-fighting proteins in the blood. The first pharmaceutical based on Win- ter’s work was approved for use in 2002 and is employed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel diseases, the academy said. The chemical name of the drug is adalim- umab, which has several trade names including Humira, one of the top-selling drugs in the world. Watchdog: US unprepared for ‘zero tolerance’ immigration WASHINGTON — Immigration officials were not prepared this summer to manage the consequences of a “zero tolerance” policy at the Southwest border, which resulted in the separa- tion of nearly 3,000 children from their parents, Homeland Security’s watchdog said in a report made public on Tuesday. The resulting confusion along the border led to misinformation among separated parents who did not know why they had been taken from their children or how to reach them, longer detention for children at border facilities meant for short- term stays, and difficulty in identifying and reuniting families. And backlogs at ports of entry may have pushed some into illegally crossing the U.S-Mexico border, the report found. While the Trump administration had been widely criticized for the policy, the criticism previously came mostly from political oppo- nents and not from independent, nonpolitical investigators. Investigators with Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General compiled the report after speaking with about 50 immigration employees, plus 17 detainees and parents who had been separated from their children and later released. They also reviewed documents and data. Homeland Security is the umbrella depart- ment for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A A flash flood watch issued for much of south-central Arizona was extended through this afternoon. The storm remnants dropped a record amount of rain on Phoenix on Tuesday. Evening listings WEDNESDAY O CTOBER 3 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 Jeopardy! 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