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Jan D.Weir
@jandweir.bsky.social
Lawyer, 50 years of experience. Taught law at the University of Toronto. Represented banks in $400M+ lawsuits, led class action benefitting 40,000+ pensioners. https://janweirlaw.medium.com
Congress has left an obvious dodge so that the Department of Justice can withhold files that may implicate Trump. Congress should have appointed a non-partisan oversight committee to review all of the original documents that the DOJ either redacts or withholds.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
For more on how private equity does it: janweirlaw.medium.com/how-hedge-fu...
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Senior Treasury official Dr May Edwards disclosed this repeated unresponsiveness to notices of crime at Treasury and was given jail time for exposing it: janweirlaw.medium.com/the-most-imp...
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
JP Morgan warned US of $1bn in Epstein transactions possibly related to human trafficking that Treasury ignored: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Canada can harm the US auto industry as it has harmed the US wine and liquor industries: youtu.be/xtRqNhjq86Q?...
October 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
CEO and executive pay are a main cause of today’s income inequality.
Raising income taxes on the rich would tax CEOs and executives. See: How the American Billionaires Got Their Power janweirlaw.medium.com/how-the-amer...
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A recent study shows in the case of the United States, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times. melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/publications...
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Today’s Tax Justice podcast explains how a conservative Catholic organization helps to fund the conservative movement including Trump from an investigation into the failed Spanish bank Banco Popular. podcasts.taxjustice.net/production/t...
September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My presentation today at 5:30 PM EST: Your Salary Has Been Stolen Here How
Explains how most workers’ salaries could be doubled from the amount spent on buyback alone without putting up product price.
Go to: mediumday.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There are completely indefensible tax breaks for the rich.

They likely endure simply because the public is not fully aware of them:
medium.com/@janweirlaw/...
September 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Bill Pulte’s parents claimed 2 primary residences:
www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
This follows on the revelation that three Trump cabinet members did the same: www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2...
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trump quietly hurts the workers who put their faith in him.

He lets job killing private equity raise money from employer-employee pension plans.

The strategy works: The more he hurts them in these undetected ways, the more they commit to him..

janweirlaw.medium.com/trump-just-g...
September 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A new study by the Institute for Policy Studies finds CEO pay at firms that pay their workers the lowest escalated to over 600 times median worker pay: ips-dc.org/report-execu...

For more on this: medium.com/age-of-aware...
August 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hedge funds and private equity do not make their huge profits by management skill but by slashing jobs and looting worker pensions

Absurdly, their predatory tactics against workers are largely funded by federal pension funds

Series begins here:
janweirlaw.medium.com/the-new-mark...
August 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice:
www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
August 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How tax evasion is easier and more convenient than ever for the truly rich: janweirlaw.medium.com/the-us-the-n...
August 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
15 years ago Robert Reich made this accurate prediction on Stephen Colbert: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
August 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New report shows how private equity harms 401k investments
ourfinancialsecurity.org/reports-publ...

It’s actually worse. Workers are invited to invest in private equity firms that loot worker pensions janweirlaw.medium.com/looting-work...
August 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thom Hartmann: “The horrible jobs report just released hours ago highlights not only how bad things were in July, but they had to “revise downward by 285,000 jobs” previous reports; it looks like Trump’s people have been cooking the books”. hartmannreport.com/p/the-coming...
August 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
owing to China,Trump blocked Taiwan president from visiting US, : www.newsweek.com/taiwan-presi...
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
When a whistleblower discloses how government regulators ignore illegal activity by the rich and powerful, the whistleblower is severely punished

The most important whistleblower of our era that you’ve probably never heard of:
janweirlaw.medium.com/42daa74eb554
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Trump is helping his billionaire buddies accumulate even more billions by little recognized but significant ways that get no attention in the billionaire owned media:

janweirlaw.medium.com/how-trump-is...
July 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
July 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The first in a series of how the wealthy can evade taxes:

First post, how simple it is

Coming post, effective straightforward solutions

Lastly, how Trump is secretly making it easier for his wealthy donors. janweirlaw.medium.com/easy-tax-eva...
July 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The first in a series of how the wealthy can evade taxes:

First, how simple it is

Second, effective straightforward solutions

Lastly, how Trump is secretly making it easier for his wealthy donors. janweirlaw.medium.com/easy-tax-eva...
July 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM