Trump Organization criminal charges coming, because its lawyers are “outraged”
It begins…more likely prosecution of Trump corporate tax fraud coming first because it’ll always be about strong cases.
Trump Organization facing possible criminal charges, sources say https://t.co/yfzrKV0jGu
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) June 28, 2021
The Trump Organization is expected to be hit with criminal charges as soon as next week by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s office in a case that Trump attorneys say is tied to tax-related conduct, multiple people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
Ron Fischetti said that “the corporate office will plead not guilty and we will make an immediate motion to dismiss the case against the corporation.”
Also potentially facing charges is the company’s longtime CFO, Allen Weisselberg, The Times reported.
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NBC News confirmed this week that investigators had also been probing Matthew Calamari, the former Trump bodyguard who’s now the company’s chief operating officer. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the focus on Calamari, cited people close to the matter who said Calamari was being investigated over whether he received tax-free fringe benefits from the company.
Vance has been investigating a variety of allegations of financial improprieties against Trump’s company. Court documents show that Vance is probing “possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization,” which could include falsifying business records, insurance fraud and tax fraud.
“Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Trump.”
Tick Tock… there will be plenty of prosecutions remaining for the successor to the current DA.
Folks, leaks always come from the defense and allied parties, never prosecutors.
Donald's lawyers are openly talking so this is more creating his own reality nonsense. https://t.co/t1VGdGBT67
— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) June 28, 2021
She thinks that this, from 8/20, when we didn’t know what the Manhattan DA was investigating, is somehow inconsistent with me saying today (as I have been lately) that it would be super-hard to get Trump on tax fraud for undeclared payments to underlings. https://t.co/LCEfoVJ7eD
— LocalPoliticalHat (@Popehat) June 28, 2021
For some reason, news that Trump Organization lawyers tried to talk authorities into not charging the company with tax fraud reminded me of Gilbert Gottfried in Beverly Hills Cop II https://t.co/TlsThtz8wP
— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) June 28, 2021
Defeated ex-President closed tonight by saying we are “one people,” but at least he didn’t say it in German.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 27, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: We sent @waltermasterson to yesterday's Trump Rally in Ohio. MAGAs told him they left in the middle of the speech because they were bored and disappointed. pic.twitter.com/pTPsEZWeGs
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 28, 2021
As exemplified by the decision suspending Giuliani, that culture, at its best, seeks to vindicate factual truth and the rule of law — values entirely anathematic to Trump. Which is why the lawyers could never really be on his side.
To be sure, Barr’s rectitude that day doesn’t excuse his earlier kowtowing to Trump or his politicization of the Justice Department. And what Barr had done to precipitate his confrontation with Trump — issuing a bombshell public statement that the Justice Department had found no significant electoral fraud — didn’t exactly arise from high-minded motive: Karl reports that then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had prevailed upon Barr to make the announcement, fearing that Trump’s campaign to overturn the presidential election would cost their party the Senate.
