#Trammel Crow

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That’s Neo-Nazi billionaire Harlan Crow standing to the right of Ted Cruz. Crow is the top founder and primary director of the Federalist Society that selects far-right Republican judges. He is also the oligarch that selected Thomas and heaped millions of dollars in gifts to him. Crow sent his private jet to DC to pick up Cruz and SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas and bring them to Crow’s Texas mansion to swear in Ho. The ceremony took place in Crow’s library alongside his autographed copy of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. Just outside is his dictator garden with larger than life statues of Crow’s favorite dictators throughout history. Crow’s brother Trammel, who is under indictment for child sex trafficking, was just outside the photo. It must be nice to be able to summon Justices, federal judges, and US Senator’s at will. This is a glaring example of how oligarchs literally control a political party and the judiciary.

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(L-R) Trammell Martin, Richard Marcus, Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and guests attend a party in Dallas, Texas, on September 19, 1980. 

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"Andrew and Fergie continuously find themselves rubbing shoulders with a cast of sketchy characters."

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Paul Kiel at ProPublica:

For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs to divulge details about his gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, including globe-trotting trips aboard his 162-foot yacht, the Michaela Rose. Crow’s lawyer argues that Congress has no authority to probe the GOP donor’s generosity and that doing so violates a constitutional separation of powers between Congress and the Supreme Court.

Members of Congress say there are federal tax laws underlying their interest and a known propensity by the ultrarich to use their yachts to skirt those laws. Tax data obtained by ProPublica provides a glimpse of what congressional investigators would find if Crow were to open his books to them. Crow’s voyages with Thomas, the data shows, contributed to a nice side benefit: They helped reduce Crow’s tax bill. The rich, as we’ve reported, often deduct millions of dollars from their taxes related to buying and operating their jets and yachts. Crow followed that formula through a company that purported to charter his superyacht. But a closer examination of how Crow used the yacht raises questions about his compliance with the tax code, experts said. Despite Crow's representations to the IRS, ProPublica reporters could find no evidence that his yacht company was actually a profit-seeking business, as the law requires.

“Based on what information is available, this has the look of a textbook billionaire tax scam,” said Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore. “These new details only raise more questions about Mr. Crow’s tax practices, which could begin to explain why he’s been stonewalling the Finance Committee’s investigation for months.” Crow, through a spokesperson, declined to respond to ProPublica’s questions.

As ProPublica reported in April, Crow lavished gifts on Thomas for over 20 years, often in the form of luxury trips on Crow’s jet and yacht. One focus of the investigations is whether Crow disclosed his generosity toward Thomas to the IRS, since large gifts are subject to the gift tax. Another is whether Crow treated his trips with Thomas as deductible business expenses. (While the data sheds light on how Crow might have accounted for Thomas’ trips, there are no clear implications for Thomas’ own taxes, experts said.) Crow’s entry into the world of superyacht owners came nearly 40 years ago. By 1984, his father, Trammell Crow, had forged his real estate fortune, and Harlan, then in his 30s, was taking an increasing role in the family business. That year, father and son worked together to erect the 50-story Trammell Crow Center in downtown Dallas. They also formed a company, Rochelle Charter Inc., with the purpose of leasing out their new yacht, the Michaela Rose.

ProPublica’s trove of IRS data, which contains tax information for thousands of wealthy individuals, includes both Harlan Crow and his parents, who filed jointly. The data shows his parents with a majority share in Rochelle Charter. After they both died, Harlan Crow took full control in 2014. ProPublica’s data for the company runs from 2003 to 2015. Rochelle Charter reported losing money in 10 of those 13 years. Overall, the net losses totaled nearly $8 million, with about half flowing to Harlan Crow. By using those deductions to offset income from other sources, the Crows saved on taxes. (The wealthy often find ways to deduct the expense of a private jet; the records don’t make it clear whether Crow is doing so.) For Crow, the tax breaks from his yacht were just one way he was able to achieve a lighter tax burden. The tax code is particularly friendly to commercial real estate titans, and Crow generally enjoyed low taxes during that same period: He paid an average income tax rate of 15%, according to the IRS data. It’s a rate typical of the very wealthiest Americans but lower than the personal federal tax rates of even many middle-income workers.

Crow’s biggest deduction from the Michaela Rose came in 2014, when, after the death of his mother, Crow decided to renovate the yacht. The interior needed updating to fit more contemporary notions of glamour (for one, less gold plating). The work was expensive: Crow’s tax information shows a $1.8 million loss from Rochelle Charter that year. In order to claim these sorts of deductions, taxpayers must be engaged in a real business, one that’s actually trying to make a profit. If expenses dwarf revenues year after year, the IRS might conclude the activity is more of a hobby. That could lead to the deductions being disallowed, plus penalties. Nevertheless, the ultrawealthy often pass off their costly pastimes, like horse racing, as profit-seeking businesses. In doing so, they essentially dare the IRS to prove otherwise in an audit.

ProPublica is back with its hard-hitting exposés on Harlan Crow, as it reported on how Crow slashed his tax bill by taking the ethics-challenged SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas on superyacht cruises.

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"The LA citadel, one of the very few examples of Mesopotamian/Assyrian inspired architecture."

Along the Santa Ana Freeway, southeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

"In 1929, architects Morgan, Walls and Clements, who also designed Los Angeles’ Mayan Theater, built the Samson Tire and Rubber Co. factory; the factory closed in 1978 and the Commerce government bought the site for $14 million in 1983. In 1990, Trammell Crow Co. was hired for the site's $118 million redevelopment into an outlet center and adjacent 201-room Wyndham Garden Hotel (now a Doubletree)." [Wikipedia]

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https://dallasexpress.com/national/trammell-crow-jr-named-in-human-trafficking-case/

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Votive painting (ema) with two shrine foxes (kitsune) making an offering. Meiji period, dated 1887. Wood, ink and pigments. Photo by Chadwick Redmon © Trammell and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas

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Xtra Thoughts

July 31

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God and feel His good presence; this will carry you through your day’s business.

–William Penn

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

–Thomas Paine

God is gentle with me. I am gentle with myself. I am in awe of God’s power; however it is God’s gentleness that moves me. God’s will for me is that which is best for me; yet God does not force anything upon me. Patiently, God waits for me to be still, to turn within and listen.  God’s gentle spirit is my foundation. When the cares of the world seem to overwhelm me and when challenges cause me to forget the truths that support me, God’s spirit gently caresses me, uplifting and sustaining me. Because God is gentle with me, I am gentle with myself and others. I do not condemn or speak hurtful words to others. My actions are ones that encourage the unfoldment of God’s divine plan in myself and others. Through gentleness and love, God’s work is done.

–unknown

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.”

– Norman Cousins

“Worry is like a rocking chair it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.”

–Dorothy Galyean

There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

–Trammell Crow

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Hanging out at the recently-opened O'Donnell Athenaeum on the campus of UT Dallas, which is the new home of the Crow Museum of Asian Art (though it still retains its old downtown space). Standing at the entrance to the galleries, the object on the left isn't actually part of the Crow's holdings but is on loan from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. It's one of Xu Zhen's pieces where he mashes up Western and Eastern sculpture, in this case the Nike of Paionios with the upside-down body of a bodhisattva. On the right, I like the suspended display cases in the ceramics gallery.

The Crow Museum began as the personal collections of Dallas tycoon Trammell Crow, who has a son named Harlan Crow, but his tastes run more towards collecting Supreme Court Justices and dictator statues instead.

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Texas Philanthropist Trammell Crow to Face Sex Trafficking Suit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/texas-philanthropist-trammell-crow-to-face-sex-trafficking-suit?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy

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[ad_1] An funding administration firm is on the transfer in Dallas, delivering one other blow to downtown whereas extending a profitable streak for Uptown. Invesco has leased 58,500 sq. ft throughout the eleventh and twelfth flooring of the Union constructing at 2300 North Subject Road, the Dallas Morning Information reported.  Design agency HKS is constructing out the house, which is ready to value $1.5 million. The undertaking will start subsequent month, with completion slated for August. Invesco will relocate from the Trammell Crow Heart, at 2001 Ross Avenue, within the Arts District space of downtown. It’s unclear if the transfer marks an enlargement or a downsize of the corporate’s Dallas footprint. The Uptown lease might be barely bigger. A web-based itemizing reveals the Trammell Crow Heart’s full thirty third and thirty fourth flooring, spanning simply over 56,000 sq. ft, will turn into accessible on Sept. 1. RED Growth developed the Union in 2019 and offered it a 12 months later to an unidentified funding group, for greater than $370 million, though RED retained a small stake within the 21-story constructing. Together with 417,000-square-foot Class-A workplace house, the property options numerous eating places, a Tom Thumb grocery retailer and an adjoining residence tower. Invesco is certainly one of a number of corporations to ditch its downtown lease in favor of the fashionable Uptown space, the place quite a lot of workplace developments are within the works.  Financial institution of America, as an example, will vacate its namesake tower at 901 Principal Road, with plans to occupy 238,000 sq. ft within the 30-story Parkside Uptown. Building of that roughly 500,000-square-foot constructing is predicted to be accomplished in 2027, with KDC and Pacific Elm Properties main growth. Earlier this 12 months, skilled companies agency Deloitte leased greater than 100,000 sq. ft throughout 4 flooring within the 26-story 23Springs, a undertaking by Granite Properties and Highwoods Properties. Deloitte will relocate to the Uptown constructing from the previous Chase Tower on Ross Avenue, the place it’s operated for greater than 30 years.  Furthermore, JPMorgan Chase not too long ago relocated from downtown to Uptown, and actual property agency CBRE is planning an identical transfer.  —Quinn Donoghue Learn extra [ad_2]

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Margaret Crow Party for Princess Grace in Dallas

(L-R) Trammell Crow, Richard Marcus, Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and guest attend a party in Dallas, Texas, on September 19, 1980.

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Trammell Crow signs lease with Mattiq at 400 N. Aberdeen | Urbanize Chicago

Aberdeen ^ | The clean chemistry company will occupy 17,377 square feet of space on the sixth floor of 400 North Aberdeen, located in Chicago's Fulton Market ... http://dlvr.it/T3L1nb

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CoStar | Trammel Crowe Develops Apartments in Waltham & Peabody, Capitalizing on Northeast’s Stable Rent Growth https://bostonmultifamily.com/multi-family-apartment-investment-development-massachusetts/costar-trammel-crowe-develops-apartments-in-waltham-peabody-capitalizing-on-northeasts-stable-rent-growth/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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Report: Harlan Crow Has a Stake in 4 SCOTUS Cases — and Thomas Hasn’t Recused

October 11, 2023

The firm that provided Justice Clarence Thomas’s billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow with his business success and extreme wealth could stand to majorly benefit from several key Supreme Court cases that Thomas is set to rule on, new research reveals.

Crow, his real estate firm Crow Holdings and subsidiary Trammell Crow Residential (TCR) — a real estate development company founded by Crow’s father — have ties to at least four upcoming Supreme Court cases in which Thomas could essentially rule to provide a helping hand to the corporations whose profits have, indirectly, helped fund his luxury trips with the billionaire.

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This is incredibly unethical for any judge, much less a Supreme Court jurist, and it's likely illegal as well. And it's happening right in front of us, and nobody is doing a goddamn thing about it.

No one can respect SCOTUS LIKE THIS. Something needs to be done now

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ALSO:  https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/2:2022cv07957/866933