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On 15 charges related to a 15-year tax scheme. the indictment alleges that illegal activity also involved other unnamed executives. weisselberg and the trump organization pleading not guilty to all charges, michael zeldin joining us right now, former special assistant at the department of justice. so good to see you, michael. so this indictment accuses weisselberg and others of evading taxes by getting bonuses that were off the books. how is that alleged to have worked? >> so it was interesting,...

Of checks and direct deposits. you know, and that indirect compensation was not included on w-2 forms. i mean, thats a smoking spreadsheet right there. they were avoiding paying taxes. >> that is whatt it seems like, at this point. and, you know, we are early into the case. and cases are, of course, tried in court and not just on the face of the indictment. but based on what we saw yesterday, it does seem like its a strong-documentary case. >> as someone whos covered this extensively for so long...

Some of those documents showed financial transaction from allen weisselberg to your family for payments for things like rent, cars, private school tuition. is there anything specifically in the documents that you turned over that you believe may have had contributed to this indictment? >> all of it. when i realized i had to fight for myself, i didnt have a lawyer, i couldnt find my kids based on a w-2 of $is a 2,000, where is the tax evasion, the tax fraud basement apparent. im happy today we fo...

To actually be collected? >> yeah, think of that. you and i pay our taxes, but there are others that dont pay theirs. the irs has been essentially crippled. going back to the obama administration, theyve lost a lot of their funding. they used to audit something like 1.5 to 2% of returns. now its down to less than half of 1%. and unfortunately, in the last few years, theyve been focusing their audits on lower-income people, are they cheating on the earned income tax credit, where theyll collect h...

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