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NEW YORK PROSECUTORS ARE FULL STEAM AHEAD RE: TAKING DOWN THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/trump-organization-manhattan-district-attorney-investigation-update. . .
Manhattan prosecutors are moving to advance their criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business affairs, fighting with his company over evidence and continuing talks with the lawyer of a Trump Organization executive who hasn’t been charged, said people familiar with the matter. Manhattan prosecutors and Trump Organization lawyers appeared at a secret court proceeding with New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan last week to discuss a dispute over documents the Manhattan district attorney’s office has subpoenaed, the people said…The dispute is related to documents prosecutors have sought for their continuing investigation, the people said. While the scope of the evidence in question couldn’t be determined, it includes a broad swath of financial documents, according to the people.
Why would the Trump Organization be so loath to comply with the subpoena? We can’t say for sure, but it’s presumably not because the documents in question clear its good name.
In another sign of movement in the criminal probe, prosecutors have been holding talks with a lawyer for Trump Organization executive Matthew Calamari Sr., partly to determine whether his cooperation would be helpful, according to people familiar with the matter. The next public court appearance for the Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg is Sept. 20, court records show.
Earlier this month, lawyers for Mr. Weisselberg asked for additional information from prosecutors, including the names of others involved in the alleged crimes, according to court documents filed in the criminal case. Prosecutors said in a filing this week that the unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment was Jeffrey McConney, a senior finance official at the Trump Organization. They noted that they had provided Mr. Weisselberg with more than three million pages of materials, but said they weren’t required to disclose additional information…Since the indictment, prosecutors have continued to investigate cars and apartments given to other Trump Organization employees, including chief operating officer, Mr. Calamari Sr., and his son, Matthew Calamari Jr., the company’s corporate director of security.
As The Journal notes, the elder Calamari has lived in an apartment at Trump Park Avenue for years, and has driven a Mercedes leased through the company. His son lives in Trump Parc East, across from Central Park. Though the indictment against the company does not mention the Calamaris by name, it references two other employees who “received substantial amounts of compensation in the form of lodging in New York City and the payment of automobile leases.” In the case of Allen Weisselberg, prosecutors have accused him and the Trump Organization of a “15-year-long tax-fraud scheme involving off-the-books payments and perks like cars and apartments to employees at the company.” Weisselberg allegedly dodged taxes on $1.7 million in perks that should have been reported as income. As Carey Dunne, general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney, put it when the indictment was unsealed, “This was a sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme.”
Manhattan prosecutors are moving to advance their criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business affairs, fighting with his company over evidence and continuing talks with the lawyer of a Trump Organization executive who hasn’t been charged, said people familiar with the matter. Manhattan prosecutors and Trump Organization lawyers appeared at a secret court proceeding with New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan last week to discuss a dispute over documents the Manhattan district attorney’s office has subpoenaed, the people said…The dispute is related to documents prosecutors have sought for their continuing investigation, the people said. While the scope of the evidence in question couldn’t be determined, it includes a broad swath of financial documents, according to the people.
Why would the Trump Organization be so loath to comply with the subpoena? We can’t say for sure, but it’s presumably not because the documents in question clear its good name.
In another sign of movement in the criminal probe, prosecutors have been holding talks with a lawyer for Trump Organization executive Matthew Calamari Sr., partly to determine whether his cooperation would be helpful, according to people familiar with the matter. The next public court appearance for the Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg is Sept. 20, court records show.
Earlier this month, lawyers for Mr. Weisselberg asked for additional information from prosecutors, including the names of others involved in the alleged crimes, according to court documents filed in the criminal case. Prosecutors said in a filing this week that the unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment was Jeffrey McConney, a senior finance official at the Trump Organization. They noted that they had provided Mr. Weisselberg with more than three million pages of materials, but said they weren’t required to disclose additional information…Since the indictment, prosecutors have continued to investigate cars and apartments given to other Trump Organization employees, including chief operating officer, Mr. Calamari Sr., and his son, Matthew Calamari Jr., the company’s corporate director of security.
As The Journal notes, the elder Calamari has lived in an apartment at Trump Park Avenue for years, and has driven a Mercedes leased through the company. His son lives in Trump Parc East, across from Central Park. Though the indictment against the company does not mention the Calamaris by name, it references two other employees who “received substantial amounts of compensation in the form of lodging in New York City and the payment of automobile leases.” In the case of Allen Weisselberg, prosecutors have accused him and the Trump Organization of a “15-year-long tax-fraud scheme involving off-the-books payments and perks like cars and apartments to employees at the company.” Weisselberg allegedly dodged taxes on $1.7 million in perks that should have been reported as income. As Carey Dunne, general counsel for the Manhattan district attorney, put it when the indictment was unsealed, “This was a sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme.”
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Is Matty gonna "sleep with the fishes?"
