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“Everybody wins here,” Hoffinger said. “Of course, everybody but the tax authorities. The problem with doing it this way is that it’s not legal.”Weisselberg agreed to testify as a prosecution witness at trial as part of a plea agreement for him to receive a sentence of five months in jail. A lawyer for the other unit charged – the Trump Payroll Corporation – is expected to give an opening statement later on Monday.
Weisselberg, was charged along with the company last year, and admitted in August to scheming with the Trump Organization and others not to report or to misreport substantial amounts of his and other employees’ income.Article content The day he pleaded guilty, the Trump Organization called Weisselberg a “fine and honorable man” who had been harassed by law enforcement in a “politically motivated quest” to get Trump.
More BS news from the Calgary Herald.
More bullshit that won't take him down
This is a given.
'Between at least 2005 and 2021, the company paid executives in perks such as rent and car leases without reporting it to tax authorities'. These were items which could help lowering tax. Why would anybody cheat tax authority by understating the expenses? Something not adding up.
What a shock hahaha