'Like a Mob': Prosecutors Look at Trump's Ice Rink Man

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Investigators say they have proof that Barry Weisselberg did the same thing that got his dad indicted: receiving rent-free luxury apartments without paying taxes

‘Like a Mob’: Prosecutors Look at Trump’s Ice Rink Man
Investigators say they have proof that Barry Weisselberg did the same thing that got his dad indicted: receiving rent-free luxury apartments without paying taxes.
thedailybeast.com
9:40 PM · Aug 8, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/like-a-mob-prosecutors-look-at-trumps-ice-rink-man-barry-weisselberg

Ever since New York prosecutors hit the Trump Organization and its top financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with tax fraud charges in July, it’s been obvious they have more evidence of wrongdoing than they’ve laid out. But now, it’s certain: Prosecutors also have evidence that the executive’s son, Barry Weisselberg, received the very same kind of corporate perks that investigators allege should have been taxed as income.

Barry Weisselberg is the longtime manager of the Trump-owned Wollman ice rink in Central Park. Details about the financial arrangement, as well as tax returns showing that the additional income was unreported, were delivered to the New York attorney general and Manhattan district attorney by Barry Weisselberg’s ex-wife, Jennifer Weisselberg. And The Daily Beast has reviewed the material, which includes a decade of tax returns and statements of net worth.

As Barry Weisselberg explained in a deposition when his finances were under a magnifying glass in his divorce case, the Trump Organization owned the one-bedroom flat in Manhattan’s expensive Upper East Side where he lived in 2018.

“It’s a corporate apartment that I was given temporarily,” he testified under oath in August 2018, adding that he had no clue if rent was being paid.

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[marble falls]

1. One of the Wesselbergs will rat the boss out.

[Merlot]

2. My guess it will be the younger wesselberg.

[Hekate]

3. The son's ex-wife is assuredly trying to do that. AFAICT she is out for blood, having lost custody...

… of the children. Can’t say I blame her in the slightest — unless there is very good reason to take a mother’s children from her, that is a completely dick move on the part of the Weisselbergs, very Godfather.

[Corgigal]

4. Hey Daddy Alan,

they are gonna twist your child into a pretzel. Protect that boss, silly man.

[multigraincracker]

5. They just can't help themselves.

It's like they think taxes are just for the little people.