york. the prosecutor who called for the maximum sentence today said the conduct can only be described as egregious and said that the fraud extended far beyond weisselberg because, quote, this was from the top down. today, with the walls closing in on the ex-president, alvin bragg suggested this would not be the last we would here from him regarding the trump organization s shady business dealings. listen to that. the sentencing today and the sentencing earlier this week closes this important chapter of our ongoing investigation into the former president and his businesses. we now move on to the next chapter. thank you. you say closes this chapter. can you use weisselberg again to pursue mr. trump, sir? let s bring in nbc news investigations correspondent my colleague tom winter. andrew weissmann is still here. tom, a new book is a new book. a new chapter. what s he talking about?
that. the other thing which i think has a federal connection, which is the d.a. has consistently called out in its filings and. the a.g. in new york has called out in her filings the fact that there are federal tax charges here. it is unusual to see that being laid out in a state case saying, by the way, everything that we re doing can be done as well at the federal level because this wasn t just a local crime. and one of the things that s sort of unusual is that we haven t seen any movement at all, any sort of acknowledgment at the federal level that that is being investigated. so i d be interested in whether tom has any information on this or what you think about those potential abilities to go forward. okay. we are interested to hear the answer to that. we didn t ask you stay for two blocks. we need you to stay for two blocks. andrew, we need another one from
d.a. chose not to answer it. we ll have to see where that goes from an investigative standpoint. unbelievable that weisselberg is at rikers. these pieces have fallen where they have, that s stunning. tom winter, andrew weissmann, always a privilege when you are asking the questions, not me. thank you both. ahead for us, a stunning admission out loud from a republican official bragging about suppressing the african american vote in a key battleground state in america. the next hour starts after quick break. don t go anywhere.
are going through an unspeakable tragedy that we cannot even begin to imagine and i hope none of us ever experience. yasmin, our colleague tom winter described it as, quote, the greatest failure of law enforcement in modern american history when it pertains to an active shooter. is that conclusion by the parents who lost their babies and by the town? every single person i ve been speak toeg say what was law enforcement doing? some say they re not surprised. we have not begun to dig into the relationship between the community and law enforcement here, and i think that is the next step as we expand this story and look into what this investigation brings, but this community is asking those questions as to why it was the law enforcement did not act. i have heard of parents and we have seen the videos standing outside this school. there is a video posted to
democrats in the first impeachment trial for president trump in barbara quaid of the first district of new york, and thankfully for us, a msnbc legal analyst. and ken, i will begin with you, what we have learned so far about these charges are based on what the attorneys representing alan weisselberg, and certainly from the trump organization side, so, you don t know what is coming out of the indictments when we see them, but lay out for us some of the charges that we are expecting to see. that is a terrific point that you are making, ayman. you don t know, but from our colleague tom winter who is in the courtroom, we believe that the charges are in part, a tax avoidance scheme by the trump organization which is a scheme to pay the employees lavish