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♪ me and you singing in the park ♪ ♪ me and you, were waiting for the dark ♪ new york prosecutors taking aim at the heart of former president trumps business. charging the trump organization and its cfo, allen weisselberg, with 15-felony counts, in connection to a 15-year alleged tax scheme that helped weisselberg and other executives evade taxes on perks and bonuses. lets discuss, now. cnn senior legal analyst is here. laura coates. laura, hello to you. so, its -- its criminal-tax fra...

This is only the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to the multitude of illegalities the district attorney is currently looking at. and i think its wrong for us to assume this is it. this is the big surprise. look, were going to get allen wieselberg. its not allen weisselberg theyre looking for. >> interesting point there, the prediction from former trump organization employee and lawyer michael cohen. the trump organization and cfo have pleaded not guilty to tax charges. back with us is neil cot...

For how exactly you were supposed to order soup at his restaurant. if you didnt follow the rules, he screamed at you, no soup for you. the soup nazi on "seinfeld" was based on a real guy on west 55th street in manhattan run by a guy who would scream at you if you didnt order fast enough or didnt stand in the right place. the cfo for the soup company went to prison. for years, if god forbid you worked at the place, you would get paid through all sorts of little chiselling off the book schemes des...

Moment. the prosecutor says to the judge. while these charges are eligible for bail, we believe from is a flight risk. so surrender of the passport is necessary to reasonably assure the return to court. the defendant has been and will remain the cfo. the evidence would demonstrate an ample record of travel by private jet with significant means and connection outside the jurisdiction. the surrunder of the passport is an alternative condition to ensure defendants will return to court. it is our un...

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Scheme to defraud. i mean, a criminal case solely on failure to pay taxes, that is unusual, isnt it? >> it is unusual. but it is also unusual that we see one on this scope and committed i might add by the financial mastermind, the cfo of the company. so the be question is here how many other senior executives were benefiting from this fraudulent tactics or this scheme. all ever all of those folks should be concerned that they might be next in the next round of indictments and charges. so this is...

His return to court. this defendant has been and apparently will remain the cfo of a company with international tentacles and the evidence on this would demonstrate ample record of travel by private jet and defendant has significant means and connections to support himself outside the jurisdiction including in places beyond our powers of extradition. the surrender of the passport is the least restrictive alternative conditions that would reasonably assure his return to court. its our understandi...

And donald trump will have been furious at the way he saw his chief financial officer treated today. the powerful money man of donald trumps business empire today led into court in handcuffs, surrounded by police — a heavy—handed and deliberate show of force by the new york authorities. the charge is being led by the district attorney, cy vance. hed been hoping to flip mr weisselberg so that hed work with prosecutors, but the trump cfo is having none of it. and a statement from the trump org...

Infamously in his debate with hillary clinton said he was smart because he didnt pay taxes. we dont know yet whether this case will ultimately reach him right now its limited to the corporation thats his name sake corporation and to the cfo but those comments in that debate may come back to haunt him. >> andrew, lets talk a little bit about what the next act might be in this ongoing investigation. we know that, first, there is what was accurately described as audacious plan to just boldly with a...

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