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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 Manhattan DA’s office has informed the Donald Trump’s office that they will probably get a grand jury to hand up criminal charges against his business organization and some connected to it….
They are NOT looking to charge the ex-President…
This is what one would assume was going to happen all along….
Donald Trump, was and still is a business man….
The DA is going after his money…..
This WILL affect Trump politically also….
We’ll have to see to what extent…
But it will garner his attention….
And time….
The DA’s office along with the New York State Attorney general are going over Trump and his families financial dealing faith microscope….
Their criminal finding’s could very well lead to New York State and IRS underpayment’s and fraud charges on the Federal level and in other states….
This will also affect his business contacts and credit which wasn’t much before anyways….
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has informed Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against his family business, the Trump Organization, in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
If the case moves ahead, the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., could announce charges against the Trump Organization and the executive, Allen H. Weisselberg, as soon as next week, the people said.
The criminal charges would be the first to emerge from Mr. Vance’s long-running investigation into Mr. Trump and his business dealings, and raise the startling prospect of a former president having to defend the company he founded and has run for decades.
While the prosecutors had been building a case for months against Mr. Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, as part of an effort to pressure him to cooperate with the inquiry, it was not previously known that the company also might face charges….
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It would be highly unusual to indict a company just for failing to pay taxes on fringe benefits, said several lawyers who specialize in tax rules. None of them could cite any recent example, noting that many companies provide their employees with perks like company cars.
Still, an indictment of Mr. Trump’s company could deal a significant blow to the former president just as he has flirted with a return to politics…
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It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will ultimately face charges himself. The investigation, which began three years ago, has been wide-ranging, examining whether the Trump Organization manipulated the value of its properties to obtain favorable loans and tax benefits, people with knowledge of the matter have said….
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In the coming days, Mr. Trump’s lawyers might still argue that any charges against the company could take a serious financial toll. Criminal charges, even against private companies like the Trump Organization, can threaten reputations and relationships with banks and business partners.
Companies, like people, can be tried for crimes, and if they are convicted or plead guilty, they can face fines and other penalties…
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The NY State Attorney General’s office already shut down Trump’s Foundation for bad practices….
Update….
Manhattan DA’s office now tells Trump lawyers they have one last chance to stop criminal charges coming to his organisation….
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New York prosecutors have given former President Trump’s attorneys until Monday afternoon to provide an argument as to why the Trump Organization should not face criminal charges, The Washington Post reported.
Last week, it was reported that the Manhattan district attorney’s office was considering bringing criminal charges against the Trump Organization as a whole and against executive Allen Weisselberg. The New York Times reported that Trump’s attorneys had made an appeal to prosecutors from the district attorney’s office to not file charges against the company.
Two sources close to the matter told the Post that Trump Organization attorneys now have until Monday to make a case as to why the charges shouldn’t be filed….
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Trump crying about his organization about to be indicted and NY State going after his money…
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Former President Trump denied wrongdoing and attacked New York prosecutors as politically motivated after they gave his attorneys a Monday deadline to make their final arguments about why his company shouldn’t face criminal charges related to its financial dealings.
“After hundreds of subpoenas, over 3 million pages of documents, 4 years of searching, dozens and dozens of interviews, and millions of dollars of taxpayer funds wasted, they continue to be ‘in search of a crime’ and will do anything to frighten people into making up the stories or lies that they want, but have been totally unable to get,” Trump said in a statement targeting prosecutors in New York City and New York state. He went on to call the investigation into the Trump Organization “a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.”
“They will do anything to stop the MAGA movement (and me), even if it involves prosecutorial misconduct and harassment of a political opponent, which they are using at levels rarely seen before,” Trump added. “They leak, they lie, and they campaign based on information that has already been gone through in other of the many investigations I have put up with.”…
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He’s looking at the man in the mirror.
Had he still the power, he would be doing exactly the same things he accuses the prosecutors of doing.
As for the Greatest Witch Hunt in history, it’s of course Trump’s unquenchable narcissism to compare his supposed persecution with those that happened in, say, Stalin’s USSR in 1937 or the Third Reich after the Generals’ Plot of 20 July 1944.
Indeed…
The circus show begins again….