Prosecutors say spreadsheets from Trump Organization offer a road map for its indictment....

[DonViejo]

Prosecutors say spreadsheets from Trump Organization offer a road map for its indictment. Where the investigation goes now is the question.

David Fahrenthold, Jonathan O'Connell, Shayna Jacobs, Josh Dawsey 1 day ago

In prosecutors’ telling, the Trump Organization provided a road map for its own indictment.

In documents filed in the New York Supreme Court last week, prosecutors claimed that the company had spent 15 years paying its chief financial officer “off the books,” giving him cars, an apartment, tuition payments and cash that were hidden from income tax authorities.

But at the same time, according to allegations included in the indictment, the Trump Organization also was keeping internal spreadsheets that tallied the payments that were being hidden.

Prosecutors treated the spreadsheets as the accounting equivalent of a confession. They said the ledgers themselves showed the size of the fraud, estimating that the CFO alone had avoided paying more than $900,000 in taxes. And that concealment, they said, showed that the Trump Organization knew it was wrong.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/prosecutors-say-spreadsheets-from-trump-organization-offer-a-road-map-for-its-indictment-where-the-investigation-goes-now-is-the-question/ar-AALKWhF

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This is very damning

Link to tweet

[triron]

4. Hope the DOJ is on this. It would be very discouraging to me if not.

[ashredux]

2. The Gun is emitting a lot of Smoke....

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's not a personal gift either, there are annual limits for that category

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Isn't there an annual limit also for when you can

Deduct for an exec's payroll as an expense?. Saw he was making $925k later on anyway. Perfect start to this ploy when you reach that limit??

[NewHendoLib]

5. a la Al Capone.

[reACTIONary]

7. The original article, as originally reported...

... by the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/prosecutors-say-spreadsheets-from-trump-organization-offer-a-road-map-for-its-indictment-where-the-investigation-goes-now-is-the-question/2021/07/03/f7df06f0-db81-11eb-8fb8-aea56b785b00_story.html

[malaise]

8. This is what happens when the Slobfather aka the king of Cons

does not want to be conned by his tools

[marble falls]

9. Now we knew why they couldn't turn the CFO, 45 had documented dirt on him.

[Poiuyt]

10. If you're doing a crime, don't keep two sets of books

It's like a bank robber who keeps newspaper clippings of his crimes.