Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg Expected to Be Charged Thursday
The Manhattan district attorney’s first charges in three-year probe will focus on alleged tax-related crimes at former president’s company
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is expected to charge the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer with tax-related crimes on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said, which would mark the first criminal charges against the former president’s company since prosecutors began investigating it three years ago.
The charges against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, the company’s longtime chief financial officer, are a blow to former President Donald Trump, who has fended off multiple criminal and civil probes during and after his presidency. Mr. Trump himself isn’t expected to be charged, his lawyer said. Mr. Weisselberg has rejected prosecutors’ attempts at gaining his cooperation, according to people familiar with the matter.
The defendants are expected to appear in court on Thursday afternoon, the people said.
The Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg are expected to face charges related to allegedly evading taxes on fringe benefits, the people said. For months, the Manhattan district attorney’s office and New York state attorney general’s office have been investigating whether Mr. Weisselberg and other employees illegally avoided paying taxes on perks—such as cars, apartments and private-school tuition—that they received from the Trump Organization.
If prosecutors could show the Trump Organization and its executives systematically avoided paying taxes, they could file more serious charges alleging a scheme, lawyers said.
Mr. Weisselberg and his lawyers haven’t commented on the investigation or impending charges.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:38 pm
by Python
Y’all really got him now.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:02 pm
by Mikey
Damn I love that southern accent.
Reminds me of magnolias, hush puppies, po'boys, mint juleps, and the sweet sweet sound of the travellin' minstrel show.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:20 pm
by Left Seater
Mr. Trump himself isn’t expected to be charged
Three plus years and you can't get anything on him? Step your game up DAs.
Derron wrote:You and Screwed in the Ass throw out all these names (Weisselberg) that no one of consequence has heard of, nor gives a flying fuck about. Screwed tossed some name in some lame ass smack attempt and true to topic, I have never heard of the dude nor give a fuck who he is or what he said, but Screwed invoked his name like he was some dinner table topic.
Three plus years and you can't get anything on him? Step your game up DAs.
We need him on trial in about 18 months.
From when the FBI discovered the fraud by Bernie Madoff to when Madoff was arrested eight plus years passed. Sit down & shut up.
Just make sure he is on trial when the Presidential Primaries get started.
The statute of limitations says when the charges must be filed by, not some jet jockey.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:24 am
by Left Seater
Better a jet jockey than a pedo.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:42 am
by Mikey
What they’re not really saying here, which seems pretty obvious, is that they’re hoping Wesselburger will rat out his boss to save his own ass. Pretty much how they get to the top of any criminal conspiracy.
This is not the end, by a long shot.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:38 am
by Softball Bat
Probably the beginning of the end of Dump's bullshit organization.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:54 am
by Left Seater
Softball Bat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:38 am
Probably the beginning of the end of Dump's bullshit organization.
What makes it bullshit? It is/was a functioning organization.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:18 am
by Screw_Michigan
Left Seater wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:54 am
What makes it bullshit? It is/was a functioning organization.
It's an organized crime syndicate and has always been one. Wake up already.
Left Seater wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:54 am
What makes it bullshit? It is/was a functioning organization.
It's an organized crime syndicate and has always been one. Wake up already.
Link.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:31 am
by Diego in Seattle
Mikey wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:42 am
What they’re not really saying here, which seems pretty obvious, is that they’re hoping Wesselburger will rat out his boss to save his own ass. Pretty much how they get to the top of any criminal conspiracy.
This is not the end, by a long shot.
Exactly. Weisselberg refused to cooperate with prosecutors, but I doubt he'll be able to help Trump. At the very least not w/o committing perjury. Additionally, I've read that Weisselberg's cooperation won't even be necessary in order to prosecute members of the Trump crime family. And I've read reports that Ivanka recently DID commit perjury while talking to federal investigators. Combined with her brothers Dumb & Dumber (don't ask which is which, apparently it's a competition) Mar-a-Lago will eventually be emptied out.
And prosecutors have yet to file on Trump's loan fraud....
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:32 am
by Screw_Michigan
Left Seater wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:25 am
Link.
Reality. Michael Cohen.
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:33 am
by Screw_Michigan
Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:31 am
Exactly. Weisselberg refused to cooperate with prosecutors, but I doubt he'll be able to help Trump. At the very least not w/o committing perjury. Additionally, I've read that Weisselberg's cooperation won't even be necessary in order to prosecute members of the Trump crime family. And I've read reports that Ivanka recently DID commit perjury while talking to federal investigators. Combined with her brothers Dumb & Dumber (don't ask which is which, apparently it's a competition) Mar-a-Lago will eventually be emptied out.
And prosecutors have yet to file on Trump's loan fraud....
Link
Sincerely,
Left " Can you believe I graduated from Rice" Seater
piptartt wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:38 am
Probably the beginning of the end of Dump's bullshit organization.
What makes it bullshit? It is/was a functioning organization.
Keep posting things like this and you'll end up on stupidity display, like Derron is in this thread.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:57 am
by Left Seater
Sorry that isn’t how it works. It isn’t bullshit just because you or some other liberal says so.
So link us up to facts not your hopes and desires.
And it is amazing your level of smugness given your track record here. You continue to be a laughing stock to many. I will say that your crap/idiocy/delusions do have a way of bringing those of us on opposite sides of many issues together. So props on that.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:42 pm
by Softball Bat
LS wrote:Sorry that isn’t how it works. It isn’t bullshit just because you or some other liberal says so.
So link us up to facts not your hopes and desires.
We had to wait nearly 3 years for Derron's bovine stupidity to be put on full display.
I can wait for you as well.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:29 pm
by Left Seater
Whatever.
Just make sure the charges against Trump are filed and put him on trial during the Presidential primary.
LS wrote:Sorry that isn’t how it works. It isn’t bullshit just because you or some other liberal says so.
So link us up to facts not your hopes and desires.
We had to wait nearly 3 years for Derron's bovine stupidity to be put on full display.
I can wait for you as well.
Keeping up the hope and prayers that your stupidity will be overshadowed? Good luck with that dream.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:18 pm
by smackaholic
And nobody bats an eyelash over Biden’s shakedown operation using his loser drug addict kid?
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Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:25 pm
by Softball Bat
New York (CNN)New York prosecutors on Thursday charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial
officer, Allen Weisselberg, with a 15-year alleged tax scheme that marked the first criminal case against the
former President's namesake company.
An indictment unsealed Thursday by the Manhattan district attorney's office charged the company and an
entity called Trump Payroll Corporation with 10 counts and Weisselberg with 15 felony counts...
smackaholic wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:18 pmAnd nobody bats an eyelash over Biden’s shakedown operation using his loser drug addict kid?
Your guy is, and always has been, a shit bag.
Gargle that.
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:08 am
by Diego in Seattle
Softball Bat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:25 pmNew York (CNN)New York prosecutors on Thursday charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial
officer, Allen Weisselberg, with a 15-year alleged tax scheme that marked the first criminal case against the
former President's namesake company.
An indictment unsealed Thursday by the Manhattan district attorney's office charged the company and an
entity called Trump Payroll Corporation with 10 counts and Weisselberg with 15 felony counts...
And here's a pic of the shitbag being led in handcuffs into court....
There's no doubt that he made off-the-books payments to Trump & Ivanka as well, and that they didn't declare that as income.
Shit's about to get real for the Trump grifting family.
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:28 am
by Screw_Michigan
Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:08 am
And here's a pic of the shitbag being led in handcuffs into court....
There's no doubt that he made off-the-books payments to Trump & Ivanka as well, and that they didn't declare that as income.
Shit's about to get real for the Trump grifting family.
Weiselberg is going to sing like a fucking canary. All the Trump kids are going down. They may never take down the king but they should at least keep their feet up his ass during primary season and the 2024 election.
Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:08 am
And here's a pic of the shitbag being led in handcuffs into court....
There's no doubt that he made off-the-books payments to Trump & Ivanka as well, and that they didn't declare that as income.
Shit's about to get real for the Trump grifting family.
Weiselberg is going to sing like a fucking canary. All the Trump kids are going down. They may never take down the king but they should at least keep their feet up his ass during primary season and the 2024 election.
This ain't all of it. There's still the question of what Ivanka (& possibly her father) did with the 2017 inauguration funds as well as loan fraud for Trump over-inflating his assets while applying for loans. I'm sure there will be more.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:31 am
by Python
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:03 pm
by Screw_Michigan
Papa Willie wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:11 am
It’s like this is the greatest thing that has happened in their lives, isn’t it?
I would indeed splooge all over the walls if Trump and his organized crime family ended up behind bars.
There's no doubt that he made off-the-books payments to Trump & Ivanka as well, and that they didn't declare that as income.
Link?
Among the revelations was that Mr. Trump reduced his taxable income by deducting about $26 million in fees
to unidentified consultants as a business expense on numerous projects between 2010 and 2018.
Some of those fees appear to have been paid to Ms. Trump (Ivanka), The Times found. On a 2017 disclosure
she filed when joining the White House as a presidential adviser, she reported receiving payments from a
consulting company she co-owned, totaling $747,622, that exactly matched consulting fees claimed as
tax deductions by the Trump Organization for hotel projects in Hawaii and Vancouver, British Columbia...
Well, maybe I am missing something, but if the money was paid to a consulting company and then the consulting company paid it's employee, what exactly is wrong with that?
My wife and I own the main company (call it flying) that I set up. My wife is an employee of a major insurance and financial services company. She also has an LLC in her name that is set up as a consulting company (call it consulting). When she does work for the main company (flying) that we own, the company (flying) pays her LLC (consulting) for her time and expertise. The main company (flying) then takes a deduction for the funds paid to her LLC (consulting) as a business expense. Her LLC (consulting) doesn't pay her a salary, instead it has expenses that the income she gets from doing work for (flying) covers. For example the LLC (consulting) owns her SUV and pays for all of the expenses of said vehicle.
So what exactly is illegal about payments to a consulting company owned by someone else? As long as those payments are all documented and the appropriate deductions and taxes were reported/paid along the way, what is wrong? Were the payments a way to reduce the companies business expenses? Yes, I am sure. However, that alone doesn't make it illegal.
Now, all of these shell games are just stupid. The tax code should be changed to do away with all of this and we should just move to a flat tax with zero deductions for businesses, individuals, etc, etc. Hell, I would even be in favor of an estate tax with a flat 10%.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:02 pm
by Softball Bat
The princess was already a well paid Dump employee.
There would be no reason for her to be a consultant to the company she worked for.
lol
Dump was paying bogus "consulting fees" (over the course of many years) to evade income tax.
Deliberate criminal activity.
Re: Paging 88braincells
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:36 pm
by Mikey
It's a form of money laundering.
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:15 pm
by Screw_Michigan
Softball Bat wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:02 pm
The princess was already a well paid Dump employee.
There would be no reason for her to be a consultant to the company she worked for.
lol
Dump was paying bogus "consulting fees" (over the course of many years) to evade income tax.
