legal jeopardy that donald trump and others around him face either in new york state from the attorney general or from the brooklyn d.a. s office or the manhattan d.a. s office. this concept of an organized crime statute being applied to the trump organization is certainly new to me. it s an interesting option and when you summon a special grand jury like cy vance has, it means you re considering a lot of different charges. rico and new york s rico statute are interesting possibilities. they allow prosecutors to present all sorts of evidence that might not come in for trial as they evaluate and consider his conduct. let s talk about what this is for a moment. you and i remember rico from the old days, but we don t hear about it that much. we don t think about it this
when they come out with an investigation into fringe benefits is a murky area of tax law. some is black letter law, some of it is not, but in this case it seems very anticlimactic. howie: susan, journalists can t say a charge against a cfo for allegedly inindividualing hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxes but if you look at the leaks over the year. trump organization defrauded banks. not in the indictment. the trump organization inflated assets, not in the indictment. donald trump s personal tax returns win cy vance has, not in the indictment. your thoughts. looks like they re trying to get him to flip to a bigger secret about president trump, so they can go after the president. it seems like it is political. 10 years ago tim geithner was accused ever the same thing. he evaded taxes part of what he did was write off school tuition