04/26/2024
  • Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization have been charged with tax crimes
  • Weisselberg, 73, will appear before a court on Thursday
  • Earlier on Wednesday it emerged prosecutors were looking at cash bonuses as they examine whether employee benefits were properly declared 
  • Donald Trump won’t be personally charged in the Manhattan district attorney’s first case against his business organization 
  • The former president called the DA’s investigation ‘a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time,’ in a lengthy, rambling statement  
  • Charges relate to alleged failures to pay taxes on corporate benefits and perks
  • They are not related to ‘hush money’ payments to porn star Stormy Daniels 
  • Trump Organization has denied any charges of wrong doing 
  • Charges likely in connection with fringe benefits the company awarded to Weisselberg, who prosecutors were hoping might flip
  • Weisselberg first started working for the company under Fred Trump in the 1970s