Posted on 08/15/2022 7:07:37 PM PDT by bitt
Prosecutors have described an "off the books" scheme to help top officials of the Trump Organization to avoid paying some of their taxes
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty as part of an ongoing investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg into the former president's business, court filings show.
Persons familiar with the plea deal told NBC News it may come as soon as 9 a.m. on Thursday but did not specify its terms.
Prosecutors have described an "off the books" scheme over 15 years "to help top officials in the Trump Organization avoid paying taxes." Weisselberg allegedly avoided taxes on $1.7 million of his income, the outlet reported.
The DA's office has not accused the former president of any wrongdoing in relation to the scheme, and the Trump Organization is facing separate charges. A trial for Weisselberg had been set to begin in October.
Multiple investigations against Trump and his businesses are ongoing. New York Attorney General Letitia James sought the former president's testimony in her own investigation last week, though he chose to invoke the Fifth Amendment and not testify.
Trump pointed to James' history of publicly attacking him as one of the reasons for not testifying.
"James developed a political platform and made a career out of maliciously attacking me and my business before she was even elected, or reviewed one of the millions of pages of documents we willingly produced," he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
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I wonder if Hunter has kept his taxes to the letter
Circling all of their wagons, on all things Trump.
They let him pay his back taxes. No worries!
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By who ? Dementia joe ?
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Prog urinalist tripe.
The fact that the story specifically uses the term “avoid” is telling.
Tax avoidance is taking legal means to minimize your tax liability.
Tax evasion is deliberately not paying or underpaying the taxes you actually owe, which is a crime.
Now we see where 87,000 irs rats ate going.
Convenient October trial date, uh???
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