case to trial against the trump organization this fall. an important figure here is the trump organization s former chief financial officer, allen weissenberg. who was indicted on tax fraud charges last year. his case appears to be heading to trial. he reached a plea deal with prosecutors in august, which required him to give crucial testimony in back case against the trump organization. even though a conviction was reached in this case, it does not really affect donald trump, personally. rags cases against the trump organization, not against trump, the individual. sentencing is scheduled for january 13th. it is expected that the trump organization will be made to pay a financial penalty. because it is not a publicly traded company, the maximum penalty it faces one point $6 million. which is a drop in the bucket for the trumps. the other new york case could have other damaging consequences. in september, the new york state attorney general, letitia james, filed a civil lawsuit against
the department of justice gets criminal referrals all of the time, many of which they entirely ignore. obviously this one is different. yes. one thing i would take issue with is, it doesn t happen all the time. it is fairly rare to get a criminal referral from the to the department of justice from congress. i received them when i worked on the enron case, when i worked with special counsel investigations. it is a pretty rare thing. you do take it seriously. here, of course, the department of justice is largely looking into this already. although we do not know exactly what will be referred. one of the things that i will be keeping my eye on is, whether there are referrals other than donald trump. mark meadows, other people who may have lied or obstructed justice in some way in
the government, by the way, you ll recall, spent months trying to retrieve records from trump before the fbi conducted search mar-a-lago to discover dozens of documents in its search warrant, the espionage warrant, obstruction, and concealing a destroying government documents as the basic fourth of instigations. these, all of, these are the main investigations that we are going to continue to keep our eyes on. joining me now is andrew weissmann, the former chief of the criminal fraud section of the department of justice, and a former fbi general counsel. he was one of the senior prosecutors on the mueller investigation. he is currently a professor at nyu law school and an msnbc legal analyst. he is the author of the book, where law ends. inside the mall investigation. good morning to you, thank you for being with us. nice to be here. let s start with the january 6th, the things we are expecting in the next 18 hours. 24 hours. whatever the case may be. 18 hourswhat happens there?
he seen such a complete failure of corporate controls, never in his career. the guy that work on the enron case. will: and the tentacles go everywhere, media, big pharma, medicine, maybe foreign policy, certainly politics. we re going to do this later in the hour, a part two on this ftx scandal which really touches so many parts of our public life here in america. pete: exactly right. coming up, the 2022 fifa world cup kicks off today. fox sports world cup analyst demarcus beasley is here.
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