Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg surrenders in criminal case over company's business dealing

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Source: Washington Post

By
Shayna Jacobs, David A. Fahrenthold, Josh Dawsey and Jonathan O'Connell

July 1, 2021 at 6:43 a.m. EDT

NEW YORK — Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg surrendered to authorities early Thursday after prosecutors secured grand jury indictments against him and former president Trump's company.

Charges against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization are expected to be unsealed later in the day in New York State Supreme Court, several people familiar with the developments said. On Wednesday, people familiar with the case said the charges were related to allegations of unpaid taxes on benefits for Trump Organization executives.

Weisselberg is the first individual to be charged in connection with a long-running criminal investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. (D), who is now collaborating with New York Attorney General Leticia James (D) to investigate Trump's business practices. The Trump Organization also will be arraigned, represented in court by one of its attorneys.
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Weisselberg arrived at the Manhattan criminal courthouse through an employee entrance at about 6:20 a.m., according to journalists who saw him arrive.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-business-weisselberg-indictments/2021/07/01/e2b774a0-da15-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057_story.html

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1. Arraigned and out in hours?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. CNN's link

Top Trump Org executive surrenders to prosecutors ahead of expected criminal indictment

By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN

Updated 7:00 AM ET, Thu July 1, 2021
Trump Organization CFO surrenders after grand jury indictments

New York (CNN) Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney's office Thursday morning ahead of expected criminal charges against him and the company in connection with alleged tax crimes, his attorney told CNN. Weisselberg is set to be arraigned later Thursday at a lower Manhattan courthouse. A Manhattan grand jury filed the indictments Wednesday, and they are set to be unsealed Thursday around 2 p.m. ET, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The precise type or number of charges they are expected to face was not immediately clear. Though former President Donald Trump faced multiple federal and state prosecutorial inquiries during his administration, the district attorney's indictment would be the first to charge his namesake company, the Trump Organization, for conduct that occurred when he led it. Trump himself is not expected to be charged, his attorney has said.

The indictment of the Trump Organization is the product of more than two years of investigation by the district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., a probe that began with questions about accounting practices tied to hush-money payments made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and eventually led to a Supreme Court fight over a subpoena for Trump's tax documents. t is rare, according to lawyers who specialize in tax evasion cases, for prosecutors to bring charges solely related to fringe benefits provided by a company, and in recent weeks, lawyers for the Trump Organization met with prosecutors in Vance's office, hoping to persuade them not to bring the case.

"It's outrageous. It's unprecedented. It's never happened before," Trump attorney Ron Fischetti said last week regarding a company being indicted in connection with failing to pay taxes on benefits. ver the course of the probe, prosecutors have examined a wide array of possible violations, including whether the real-estate company misled lenders and insurers or committed tax fraud, even adding a special prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, to aid in the expansive inquiry. But in recent months, the focus has narrowed to taxes on benefits.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/politics/trump-organization-allen-weisselberg/index.html

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3. "It's outrageous. It's unprecedented. It's never happened before," Trump attorney Ron Fischetti said

Ask Al Capone.

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6. You might not even have to go back that far

like fast-forwarding to Enron and Ken Lay.

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4. Bummer, no perp walk

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5. I wonder if Ivanka still doesn't know who Allen Weisselberg is and his job title?

Link to tweet

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8. Some media is reporting

that MF45 provided Weisselberg's lawyer. Oh boy, if that is true then Weisselberg is in a world of hurt. A lawyer provided by MF45 will give Weisselberg the best advice to help MF45.

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9. Weisselberg's ex-daughter-in-law

was on CNN this morning. She's still providing info to the DA/GJ. She said Weisselberg didn't text or email much either and while both were in FL, he and Trump used FEDEX to send things back and forth despite living near to each other.

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10. RICO charges MUST be brought!

Al Capone was an amateur compared to that mob of crooks!

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS victims, and counting!

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11. May bad Karma follow him and anyone affiliated with him for eternity.

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12. recced nt

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13. What a growly looking old maskless buzzard. n/t