"Obviously, prosecutors have to prove everything they say, but some of the things in the indictment - there's just no legal defense for it," said Daniel Shaviro, a professor of taxation at NYU Law... Shaviro said given the allegations laid out in the in the 24-page indictment, it would have been more astonishing if the Manhattan district attorney's office had looked the other way. "This is a lot clearer than I would have expected," he said, with prosecutors appearing to blow holes in the company's stance that Weisselberg enjoyed the same sort of fringe benefits that companies often reward to top executives. The company was "paying tuition for (Weisselberg's) grandson. That's kind of difficult to explain as a legitimate business expense," Shaviro said.