he signed off on corporate apartments and even the lease for the apartment that was given to allen weisselberg. those are all elements of the allegation where the trump organization they say had benefitted because they gave these employees these off the book compensation through those different sorts of benefits like the car leases and the apartment. now the government, you know, donald trump is not on trial, but they entered him into this case this afternoon by saying he signed off on this, and one of the things they pulled up an exhibit where it showed that trump had initialed what was a salary reduction for one of the executives. they don t tie trump to the specific fraud, but they entered it in a reason in which a prosecutor said mr. trump explicitly sanctioned tax fraud. after the closing statements wrapped, lawyers for the trump companies asked the judge for a mistrial. they said the prosecutor had went too far by calling him an unindicted coconspirator. the judge denied the mist
ways that are other than payments. car leases, tuition payments for grandchildren, all to avoid tax liability. that s the case in which allen weisselberg has played out. he will be a central witness. on halloween, that s when tish james gets her hearing about whether or not the trump organization has to have an injection against it with respect to the movement of material assets there has been some news that trump has tried to set up essentially a parallel trump organization in delaware and then move assets out of the existing trump organization to go into what s called a trump org to. not on my watch, not a new york, he don t get to that. let s i was about to, say add october 31st your calendar. lisa, ryan, thank you both. next, funding for ukraine becomes a political issue. republican cut aid in win back congress. just met with ukraine s president. he is with me next. a republican senate does not think joe biden won the 2020 election, which, you
company apartment, car leases. so the trump organization would pay his car lease, would pay school tuition for his grandkids or things like that? exactly. and then he wasn t paying income tax on that. so he s going to admit to all of this tomorrow according to sources. he will plead guilty to the entire indictment, and he will he s agreed to testify at trial. the trump organization, the corporate entity, no individual, is going to trial in october on these charges. now, they have had testimony from other people. they ve had an accountant who was worked with the trump organization who has testified before the grand jury. but this will be a live witness. it will be allen weisselberg, the longtime cfo. he s been with the company for 40 years, going to testify against the company if it gets to trial. is it just testifying in this particular scheme against the company, or the company and other things they may have been involved with? well, that s the thing here. this is just for h
the trump organization. it was in a 15 count indictment going back 15 years, that he was involved in this off the books compensations team. basically not play paying taxes from some corporate benefits he got. like apartment, car leases. so the trump organization would pay his car lease, would pay school tuition for his grandkids or things like that. exactly and then he wasn t paying income tax on that. so, he s going to admit to all of this tomorrow, according to sources. he will plead guilty to the entire indictment and he will, he s agreed to testify at trial. the trump organization, the corporate entity, no individual is going to trial in october on these charges. now, they have had testimony from other people, they ve had an accountant who has worked with the trump organization, who has testified before the grand jury. but this will be a live witness, it ll be allen weisselberg, the longtime cfo. he s been with the company for 40 years, going to testify against the company, i
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