Trump's company faces criminal tax trial as his legal woes mount

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s family company is set to face a criminal trial on tax fraud charges in New York starting next week that could trigger fines and…

The Manhattan district attorney’s office in July 2021 charged the Trump Organization and its then-chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg with defrauding tax authorities by awarding “off the books” benefits to company executives since 2005, allowing certain employees to understate their taxable compensation and enabling the company to evade payroll taxes.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

The company’s lawyers also said prosecutors presented no evidence to the grand jury that returned the indictment that the Trump Organization evaded payroll taxes. They also said that prosecutors were seeking to punish the company because “a handful of its officers allegedly failed to report fringe benefits on their personal tax returns.

Trump has called the civil suit brought by James as well as the charges being pursued by Bragg politically motivated. The trial could make other companies wary of dealing with the Trump Organization regardless of any punishment the judge may ultimately hand down, said Miriam Baer, a professor at Brooklyn Law School specializing in corporate compliance and white collar crime.

 

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This tends to happen occasionally to the white collar criminal crowd.

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They’ll get him this time 🙄

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