Trump Org. CFO will spill tax fraud to New York jury, prosecutors say

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Source: yahoo.com





Erin Durkin Mon, October 31, 2022 at 3:30 PM·4 min read


NEW YORK — Convicted ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg will give the "inside story" of how the company allegedly used years-long tax fraud scheme to boost executive pay, Manhattan prosecutors said Monday.

The teaser came during opening remarks in the firm's long-awaited New York Supreme Court criminal trial — one case in an increasingly complex web of legal woes for former President Donald Trump. The former president is not involved in the case, but the charges could lead to financial penalties for the Trump Organization if a jury finds it engaged in a 15-year scheme to pay Weisselberg off the books.

“This case is about greed and cheating, cheating on taxes,” Susan Hoffinger, the chief of investigations for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, told the court on Monday. “The scheme was conducted, directed and authorized at the highest level of the accounting department." Weisselberg's testimony “will give you the inside story of how he conducted this tax scheme.”

In opening statements, Hoffinger detailed allegations that Trump personally paid private school tuition for Weisselberg's grandchildren and signed a lease for the top lieutenant’s Upper West Side apartment overlooking the Hudson River, because he wanted him to live in Manhattan rather than commuting from Long Island.

Trump Corp. attorney Susan Necheles, meanwhile, tried to insulate the former president and urged the jury not to let their opinions of Trump cloud their judgment.

“You must not consider this case to be a referendum on President Trump or his politics,” she said. "It started and it ended with Allen Weisselberg. Allen Weisselberg did this."

Weisselberg pleaded guilty in August to all 15 counts he faced, including tax fraud and larceny. Now he'll play star witness in the expected month-long trial, where prosecutors must convince a jury that Trump Org. units — the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation — share responsibility for concealing $1.76 million in compensation.
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Well, guess I will be skeptical until I actually see charges against Trump himself.

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[republianmushroom]

1. I LIKE IT.

[Justice matters.]

2. hair furhair will just post Weisselberg is making it all up to get less time in jail.

20 hours a day on Lie $ocial.

[Scrivener7]

3. Didn't he already say he would not implicate trump personally? Didn't they say

in August that was a condition of his deal?

[Cha]

4. Magnificent!! I saw something

earlier that said "DT threw AW under the bus"..

It looks to me like AW threw DT under the bus FIRST!

Ty rivers!

[ffr]

5. Fraud and more fraud. TFG is proving the crime pays and that there's no consequences for the rich

and powerful. Right, DOJ?

Prove us wrong.

[gab13by13]

7. Trump was prepared for this,

he moved his money to a small bank in San Diego.

[twodogsbarking]

8. difficult to prove tax fraud without the tax returns.

[FakeNoose]

9. Michael Cohen testified pretty much the same in federal court

I don't know if Cohen will be called as a witness in this NY state trial. But in any case both men were Chump Organization executives who benefitted from the illegal tax avoidance schemes. Weisselberg benefitted far more than Cohen did. I believe Weisselberg also worked for Chump's dad, Fred. This could be very big.

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10. Jury shown Weisselberg lease signed by Trump himself

Former President Trump signed the lease of an Upper West Side apartment used by former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, prosecutors showed the jury at the company’s criminal tax fraud trial on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported.

The lease represents part of the prosecution’s efforts to show that the Trump Organization and its executives engaged in a years-long scheme to avoid taxes — one that was sanctioned by the highest echelons of the company, according to Bloomberg.

Weisselberg, the prosecution’s central witness, reportedly received a $6,500-a-month apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and $10,000 for moving fees from the Trump Organization.

The lease shown to jurors on Tuesday noted that the apartment was meant to be leased by Weisselberg or other company employees and was signed by Trump himself, Bloomberg reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-shown-weisselberg-lease-signed-220123278.html

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11. The dam is about to break