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Executives. allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer for the trump organization led into court in handcuffs. to the judge prosecutors described a 15-year tax scheme charging weisselberg, trump payroll corporation, and the trump organization. 15 counts against the cfo and 10 against the former presidents namesake company. prosecutors allege weisselberg evaded taxes on $1.7 million in compensation. all three defendants pleaded not guilty. weisselbergs attorney announcing in a statement he wi...

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Ever does go to jail i wont celebrate. i dont celebrate the jailing of anybody, thats not the point. its a punitive legal tactics being used against opponents of should scareat everyone. and throwing into solitary confinement for trespassing, its so disproportionate, what does the doj -- there must be people at the doj who are like, you cant -- if thats not justice. >> the amount of power that we have at the federal level is awesome at it used to be used judicially by a single minded people. it ...

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When they come out with an investigation into fringe benefits is a murky area of tax law. some is black letter law, some of it is not, but in this case it seems very anticlimactic. howie: susan, journalists cant say a charge against a cfo for allegedly inindividualing hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxes but if you look at the leaks over the year. trump organization defrauded banks. not in the indictment. the trump organization inflated assets, not in the indictment. donald trumps personal ...

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>> right, rebecca, you make the point that so much is focused on weisselberg as a person of entry. you make the point of any organization, a valid honest one would have a cfo thats setting the financial standards, not finding loopholes that may or may not be criminal. take a listen of what the head of the trump organization had to say about all this. >> well, i call it a continuation of the greatest and most disgusting witch hunt of all time. look. theres never been anything like it from the day...

He is vowing to fight these charges. but these charges today do increase the pressure on the long-time cfo to cooperate with prosecutors against his former boss, former president trump. now, so far weisselbergs team has told prosecutors he wont flip, hes not going to cooperate. but sometimes, alisyn, once you have criminal charges on the table and you have a chance to assess the strength of the evidence that can sometimes change ones mind. so well see what happens when these are unsealed, but at...

Do you have to -- does anybody know the answer to that stuff? okay? but they indict people for that. >> we hear a lot about using the company apartment. company apartment. his family was lying about the case and lied it was sympathetic quotes on trump tv. >> fringe employment benefits? is that really what the d.a. is focused on? theyll go after a corporate vehicle and a corporate apartment? >> they want to go after the cfo of the trump organization for free parking or something like that. >> the...