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riversedge

(70,174 posts)
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 09:34 AM Jul 2021

Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump in Tax Scheme [View all]

Source: daily beast





As investigators look into a scheme at the Trump Organization to avoid paying taxes on employee benefits, one witness has set the scene to show Trump was involved.

Updated Jul. 16, 2021 5:26AM ET / Published Jul. 16, 2021 4:55AM ET


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The explosive claims come from Jennifer Weisselberg, the ex-wife of a longtime company employee, during a teleconference call with investigators on Friday, June 25, according to two sources who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity.


On that afternoon's Zoom call, those sources said, investigators with the Manhattan district attorney and New York state attorney general asked Jennifer Weisselberg whether Trump himself was involved in the company’s alleged tax-dodging scheme of making corporate gifts instead of increasing salary that would be taxed.

He was, she answered.
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If true, Jennifer Weisselberg’s claims would directly tie Trump to what a New York criminal indictment described as a corporate scheme to pay executives “in a matter that was ‘off the books.’”

“The scheme allowed the Trump Organization to evade the payment of payroll taxes that [it] was required to pay,........................

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/explosive-interview-directly-implicates-donald-trump-in-tax-scheme?via=twitter_page



Just hoping something sticks to Trump!!



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