Prosecutors charge Trump Organization with a 15-year tax scheme

The indictment charges the Trump Organization, Trump Payroll Corporation and Allen Weisselberg. Prosecutors in court described a 15-year tax scheme and said the charges include 15 felony counts, including a scheme to defraud, conspiracy, grand larceny and falsifying business records. Prosecutors allege Weisselberg evaded taxes on $1.7 million of income. Prosecutors say they have digital drives with grand jury testimony, bookkeeping records, tax records, statements of potential witnesses... The indictment of the Trump Organization is the product of more than two years of investigation by the district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., a probe that began with questions about accounting practices tied to hush-money payments made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and eventually led to a Supreme Court fight over a subpoena for Trump's tax documents. It is rare, according to lawyers who specialize in tax evasion cases, for prosecutors to bring charges solely related to fringe benefits provided by a company, and in recent weeks, lawyers for the Trump Organization met with prosecutors in Vance's office, hoping to persuade them not to bring the case.
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