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the state of new york. this is a big deal. even if you agree with his lawyers that this shouldn t be a criminal matter. it s a big deal, even if you agree with the former president, who called the case, quote, the political-witch hunt by the radical-left democrats, with new york now taking over the assignment. why is this a big deal? simple. the investigation is not over. the pressor pressure just grew enormously, today, on allen weisselberg. and no one disputes how closely connected he has been to the man, whose books he has kept for decadings. decades. every single thing, when it was the acquisition of paperclips, light bulbs, furniture, mattresses, you name it. allen weisselberg s kids payments. rent, everything, would have a donald signature on it or his initial. in a moment, we will dig deeper into where all this could be going. first, the facts of the case from cnn s paula reid. reporter: the namesake company of former-president trump, now charged with ta ....
scheme and allen weisselberg making it happen. this is a pattern and practice of the trump organization for numerous executives and employees over a decade and a half. so this is really serious stuff, much more expansive than i would have expected given what s been said over the last few days. it s real trouble for trump and his organization. the indictment, jennifer, repeatedly mentions other employees who also got benefits from the trump organization. weisselberg was the only one charged. do you think this is only going to get bigger? i think that s right. i still don t know what s going to happen, as i said, with kind of the other tentacles of the investigation as far as manipulating asset values for bank fraud and tax fraud and that side of things, the hush money payments, et cetera. as far as this particular scheme is concerned, the indictment was very careful to not only talk about weisselberg and his son, but to make clear that other people benefitted and oth ....
new york. this is a big deal even if you agree with his lawyers that this shouldn t be a criminal matter. it s a big deal even if you agree with the former president who called the case, quote, the political witch hunt by the radical left democrats with new york now taking over the assignment. why is this a big deal? simple, the investigation is not over. the pressure just grew enormously today on allen weisselberg, and no one disputes how closely connected he has been to the man whose books he has kept for decades. every single thing whether it was the acquisition of paper clips, light bulbs, furniture, mattresses, you name it allen weisselberg s kids payments, rents, everything would have a donald signature on it or his initial. in a moment we ll dig deeper into where all this could be going. first the facts of the case from cnn s paula reave. reporter: the namesake company of former president trump now charged with tax crimes along with one of its top executive ....
everybody needs to read through the indictment instead of skimming through it. what you re going to find is the that alan weisselberg is in substantially greater jeopardy than he was last night. i ve seen this before and i want to say it to you as well. there s a big difference between when you re under investigation and when you re under indictment. the next step for alan weisselberg and possibly his children is prison. we already saw the numbers by your group before of seven years for each of the 15 counts. that s 105 years. nobody believes that he s going to get 105 years, but even three, like i was charged with, it s a long time. that feeling of the handcuffs or shackles or however else they paraded him through, that s real and he knows the reality now a lot greater than he did yesterday. michael, because you ve been in this very position in terms of being indicted and knowing the difference between an investigation and an indictment, what we ve learned, at least ....
his wife and makes plans to go back on stage, we re learning more about the man whose actions led to cosby getting out of prison. bruce caster, also known as one of trump s impeachment lawyers. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. a scheme to defraud that s what prosecutors said what former president trump s company did to the government for over 15 years. at the center of the case, trump s right hand main, allen weisselberg, charged with 15 feltny counts. you see him here in handcuffs walking into court. both the trump organization and weisselberg pleading not guilty today. but the charges are serious, and carry significant consequences. weisselberg is 73 years old and could face a significant amount of time in prison if he s convicted. weisselberg knows the inner workings of the trump organization. he s been by trump s side since 1973. even appearing with him on the apprentice. the former president praised wiseleberg i ....