the trump organization of giving weisselberg some $1.67 million in untaxed compensation, meaning he cheated the government at different levels out of about 900,000. and falsely claimed more than 133,000 refunds he wasn t entitled to. he also allowed himself to be paid in this alleged scheme off the books as a self-employed person by different trump entities. this gets a little bit into the weeds. i think it s worth explaining it to you so you can kind of get your arms around how dedicated prosecutors believe trump folk were to avoiding the law, which is, you know what a keogh plan is, it s named after this lawmaker from the 70s. he came up with the idea of letting self-employed people and businesses that aren t incorporated have their own benefit programs, contribution
but even in the first degree, this isn t what some expected two years of earnest effort from the new york d.a. and the attorney general to yield. but again, it may not be the whole story. in the main, prosecutors accuse the trump organization of giving weisselberg some $1.67 million in untaxed compensation, meaning he cheated the government at different levels out of about 900,000. and falsely claimed more than 133,000 refunds he wasn t entitled to. he also allowed himself to be paid in this alleged scheme off the books as a self-employed person by different trump entities. this gets a little bit into the weeds. but i think it s worth explaining it to you so you can kind of get your arms around how dedicated prosecutors believe trump folk were to avoiding the law, which is, you know what a keogh plan is, it s named after