here s the breaking news tonight. a manhattan grand jury indicting the trump organization and its chief financial officer, allen weisselberg. that s what sources are telling cnn. the charges expected to be unsealed tomorrow. much more on this breaking story in just a moment. also, bill cosby is a free man. bill cosby is at home tonight released from prison following a stunning decision by the pennsylvania supreme court overturning his 2018 conviction of sexual assault. ruling prosecutors violated his due process rights. cosby served three years of a ten-year sentence. and the bodies of two children found in the rubble of the collapsed building in florida bringing the confirmed death toll to 18. 145 people still unaccounted for. one full week after the condo tower came crashing down. a lot to get to. and this is new tonight.
the trump organization and its chief financial officer, allen weisselberg expected to be charged with tax crimes. people familiar with the matter tell cnn that. the manhattan district attorney s office, building a case around perks awarded to employees and whether appropriate taxes were paid on them. let s discuss now, former nixon white house counsel john dean is here. john, good evening. good to see you. it s been way too long. let s get into this. the washington post reports that the new york grand jury filed the indictments today and that they will be unsealed tomorrow afternoon. sources tell cnn allen weisselberg is expected to turn himself in tomorrow. what does this moment mean? i think what it means, don, is how effective trump s and weisselberg s lawyers have been in sort of bracing the public for the fact this was going to happen. i don t think any of us are surprised to hear it. what we don t know and i don t think the lawyers know either is
what s going to be in the indictments that are sealed. mm-hmm. does that mean that their investigation is over or could there be subsequent charges? there well could be. there could be in fact, i would expect this is an early phase. i think they re trying to obviously build a case against weisselberg that will result in him becoming a witness. he probably is the best insider for the kind of financial fraud that appears or that the inquiry is focused on. and whether he ll flip or not, i don t know, don. he doesn t strike me as a gordon liddy type from watergate, who s going to go to jail and stay there and not speak until he can get a book contract. do you think the former president is at risk at all? oh, i do. i can t i can t imagine, from everything we know about trump s m.o.
we ve watched him in a rather public way in the presidency, that he s a hands-on guy. and everybody reports that that s the way he ran his business, that nothing slipped by him. they also say they ran it like a mafia don knowing how to give instructions where he didn t give instructions, but everybody knew exactly what he wanted, and that s pretty effective and can make it more difficult to prosecute someone who s clever criminally. how do you indict, though, how do you indict the trump org without indicting trump? explain that. well, as has been famously noted since citizens united, a corporation is considered a person. so it has it can be indicted like a person. and it will be treated somewhat like a person, although you can t incarcerate, incarcerate a corporation in the same way you can a person, weisselberg is clearly tied deeply with this