Business Maverick: ‘He was the boss’: Trump’s sign-offs come up in tax fraud trial

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Jurors in the Trump Organisation’s criminal tax fraud trial saw how longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg collected a host of perks, including a rent-free apartment, flat-screen TVs and even private school tuition for his grandchildren.

Donald Trump himself put his distinctive signature on some of them, the jury learned. Then, after he was elected president, the firm brought in an outside auditor to review – and scrub – some of its unorthodox business practices, its controller testified on Tuesday.

“He was the boss,” controller Jeffrey McConney said of Trump, to the jury in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.The array of benefits came up as prosecutors questioned McConney about perks they allege he and other senior employees received to fatten their pay while hiding their and the firm’s tax obligations.

 

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Corruption at corporates seems to be controlled only at middle management and the lower levels. Seems like the people at the higher levels always feel entitled to help themselves from the honey jar.

Trump still living rentfree in Mavericks head

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