Trump Organization companies found guilty on all charges in tax fraud trial in New York

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BREAKING: A New York jury has found two Trump Organization companies guilty of tax fraud and other crimes.

A jury in New York has found two Trump Organization companies guilty on all charges of tax fraud and other crimes. The verdict on 17 criminal counts was announced in court Tuesday afternoon.

The two Trump Organization companies, called the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation, were indicted in July 2021, along with the company's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, and accused of using a variety of methods to reduce payroll liability from executive salaries through untaxed bonuses and luxury perks worth millions. in August and agreed to testify against the company as part of a deal with prosecutors. He is expected to face a five-month jail sentence.

Jurors were told about an internal"clean up" conducted in 2017 at the Trump Organization after Trump became president. The company hired an outside lawyer to examine its tax practices. Her review led the company to cease many of the practices that led to these criminal charges, multiple witnesses testified.by Weisselberg, and they accused Bender of failing to protect the company from Weisselberg.

 

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No surprise there

Im shocked 😂

If his name is part of the organization, then he should have been charge! It doesn’t make sense.

Because they gave employees perks! Democrats want to tax every penny and then your last breath!

boring

Real news!

lionesscrowned Better find every DEMONrat guilty for FTX fraud and corruption.

Trump will say he doesn’t know the people who did this. Never heard of them.

'Trump is not charged. The Trump Organization case is the only trial to arise from the Manhattan district attorney’s office’s three-year investigation of Trump and his business practices.'

What , Trumpty Dumpty associated with more Tax fraud & other dodgy crimes!

Duh

Will appeal forever 🤷‍♂️

Trump is a

Funny how this witch hunt just keeps on finding witches.

Good Job...Keep Looking

Well, every business on earth can be proven guilty of tax fraud.

Breaking: Former Trump employee took a rental car and didn't properly write it off, liberals waste millions of taxpayer money on frivolous case.

Another Trump witch hunted down and caught. 50-60 left out there roaming free creating havoc. TrumpCrimeFamily

People make mistakes, this was a tax mistake not fraud. MAGA2024!

So, what would be the punishment?

Now let's see him locked away for a long time

'Never heard of those companies. Whoever runs them must be a loser, bigly.' - TFG

Zzzzzzzz

thank god new york isn’t biased against trump or this could have been an unfair trial

Lock him up!!!!

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