The unknown Republican presidential candidate and attorney from Texas, who has sued multiple states to remove former President Donald Trump from office in 2024 using the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause, was taken into custody on federal charges.
“John Anthony Castro was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government,” The Hill reported last week.
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According to documents filed in court, “Castro would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers. In order to achieve these larger refunds, Castro generated false deductions, that were not based in fact, and which were submitted without the taxpayer’s knowledge.”
The Hill added as follows:
Prosecutors said that Castro was apprehended by an undercover police officer who pretended to be a client of his tax services. Castro claimed he could receive $6,007 in taxes, while a respectable tax preparer had promised the undercover agent a $373 return. Castro offered to split the difference in additional cash.
Castro then filed tax returns for the undercover agent, and according to the prosecution, those forms included nearly $30,000 in falsely claimed deductions.
On the same day that his New Hampshire ballot challenge is rejected, Castro is charged with a crime. Similar cases have also been turned down in Michigan, Florida, and Nevada. Regretfully, not one of the numerous 14th Amendment lawsuits that are still pending has made any significant headway.
Nevertheless, Trump has been eliminated from the ’24 ballot in Colorado and Maine; the U.S. The Colorado ruling’s appeal was accepted by the Supreme Court.
In anticipation of a decision from the nation’s highest court, the Maine Supreme Court decided not to rule this week on whether Trump would be barred from running for office in the state.
Shenna Bellows, the Democratic secretary of state, declared on December 28 that Trump was not allowed to be on the ballot; however, a state superior court judge stopped her, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling from December 19 that disqualified him from that state’s election will be heard by the US Supreme Court on February 8.
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The highest court in the country has declared that the deadline for submitting briefs in this case is January 31. Oral arguments will then be held one week later, as reported by Fox News.
“We now dismiss the appeal because we conclude that it is interlocutory and that no statutory or judicially created exception to our rule requiring a final judgment on appeal applies,” the Maine Supreme Court’s decision said in response to Bellows’ appeal on the hold.
Special Counsel Jack Smith unsealed a massive indictment against President Trump in August, which included four counts. These charges include conspiracy to obstruct the January 6 proceedings, conspiracy to deceive the United States, and conspiracy against the right to vote and fair election procedures. It’s noteworthy that Smith omitted the accusation that he encouraged rebellion against Trump.
“The Secretary of State suggests that there is irreparable harm because a delay in certainty about whether Trump’s name should appear on the primary ballot will result in voter confusion,” the court said in the unanimous, unsigned opinion. “This uncertainty is, however, precisely what guides our decision not to undertake immediate appellate review in this particular case. Multiple alternative outcomes would be more effectively addressed through the Superior Court’s order of remand to the Secretary of State.”
