Explosive Interview Directly Implicates Trump in Tax Scheme

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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,........................

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Just hoping something sticks to Trump!!

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[sop]

1. Nothing seems to stick to Teflon Trump.

[NanceGreggs]

3. That was often said of John "Teflon Don" Gotti ...

... who died in prison.

[2Gingersnaps]

6. Pretty sure Al Capone

was guilty of a lot more than tax fraud as well.

[sop]

10. One can only hope.

[Scrivener7]

2. 30 years I've been hearing he's about to be indicted.

30 years he SHOULD have been indicted dozens, scores of times.

Here we are.

[SharonClark]

11. Yep, I'm tired of breathless articles or tweets that imply that this whatever will bring Trump down.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Evidence

Not words. Evidence. Even if he signed the checks himself, they still need corroborating witnesses or written confirmation.

[twodogsbarking]

5. As a lifelong accountant the thing you don't want to do is

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pay personal expenses from a company account. It is one of the first things that auditors look for.
Trump did it and bragged about it. Get 'em.

[Grasswire2]

8. or keep two sets of books.

Book 'em.

[twodogsbarking]

9. On spreadsheets. That is a special kind of stupid.

[monkeyman1]

12. donny not to smart to begin with !

[DENVERPOPS]

7. Do you know how many undocumented workers

have this same sort of thing, but with a twist to this scheme done to them?????? Of course, the employers tell the worker that he needs to deduct payroll taxes, unemployment, SSI, etc out of the money he pays them, then the employer just pockets that as a bonus for himself.......
The cruelest tricks are the employers who fire them, without pay, the day before payday. Who are they going to complain to.
Or if the undocumented worker gets injured on a job, the employer just drives them to an ER, and leaves them standing at the door and leaves.........

[Calista241]

13. Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

He doesn't say "we're not going to pay taxes on those payments." And payments like that would seem reasonable, even a boon to the people that receive them. I know my parents would've much preferred to not have to pay for college, rather than get a 3% - 5% raise.

Conspiracy to defraud the government requires intent. And Trump can always say that he trusted his CFO to make the proper tax payments.

In addition, Jennifer Weisselberg seems to be highly partisan, and she's divorced from the family and described her divorce as 'bitter'. She's clearly got an agenda, and she's been screaming to anyone that will listen about this stuff for months. She's given half a dozen interviews to journalists. If the prosecution had any desire to use her at trial, they'd have made sure she didn't give interviews, kept a low profile, and all kinds of stuff.

[ck4829]

14. K&R