How can they not charge Trump when he signed the tuition checks for Weisselberg
Is tfg claiming to be too stupid to know that paying these things was breaking the law? It's like tfg was driving the getaway car.
And I don't know why they specified that it was only Weisselberg responsible because normally, in a none tax evasion situation, the pay would go directly to the employee.
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Former President Donald Trump personally signed the tuition checks for Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's family members, Manhattan prosecutors alleged in a 25-page indictment charging Weisselberg and the Trump Organization with 15 felony counts.
According to the document, one of Weisselberg's family members started attending a Manhattan private school in 2012, and another one of family members started attending the same school in 2014. Prosecutors said that from 2012 to 2017, "Trump Corporation personnel, including Weisselberg, arranged for tuition expenses for Weisselberg's family members to be paid by personal checks drawn on the account of and signed by Donald J. Trump, and later drawn on the account of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, dated April 7, 2017."
The indictment went on to say that although the tuition expenses for the Weisselberg family members constituted taxable income and were part of his annual compensation in internal company records, the "indirect compensation in the form of tuition payments was not included on Weisselberg's W-2 forms" or reported to federal, state, or local tax authorities, "and no income taxes were withheld by the corporate defendants in connection with the tuition payments."
Prosecutors said that Weisselberg "intentionally" omitted the tuition payments from his personal tax returns even though he knew the payments "represented taxable income and were treated as compensation by the Trump Corporation in internal records."
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