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Trump Organization CFO pleads not guilty to charges that he avoided paying $1.7M in taxes
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Allen Weisselberg, center, departs Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, July 1, 2021, in New York. The charges against the Trump Organization and the companyâs chief financial officer, Weisselberg, remained sealed Wednesday night, but were expected to involve alleged tax violations related to benefits the company gave to top executives, possibly including use of apartments, cars and school tuition, people familiar with the case said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-07-01 15:52:16-04
A grand jury has charged the Trump Organization and its CFO with 15 federal charges, including tax fraud and grand larceny, according to an indictment that was unsealed Thursday.
By Bill Galluccio
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Allen Weisselberg. The 25-page indictment accuses the company of a multi-year tax evasion scheme that dates back to 2005.
Prosecutors accused Weisselberg and other senior executives of evading taxes by paying employees off the books and providing them with benefits they never reported to the tax authorities.
Some of those payments included Weisselberg s rent, utilities, and garage expenses. They also included $359,058 in tuition payments to Columbia Grammar school for Weisselberg s grandchildren. Those checks were signed by former President
Donald Trump and the Donald J. Trump revocable trust.
The company did not withhold taxes on the payments and reduced Weisselberg s salary by the same amount, allowing him to pay less money in taxes. While Weisselberg reported his base salary when paying his taxes, he did not report the extra benefits he received. Prosecutors said that those payments totaled $1.7 million between 2005 and 2017.
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Updated July 1, 2021 at 4:42 PM ET
After years of a deadly counternarcotics campaign that has riven the Philippines, the International Criminal Court is a step closer to opening what international law experts say would be its first case bringing crimes against humanity charges in the context of a drug war.
On June 14, the last day of her nine-year term as the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda announced there was “a reasonable basis to believe that the crime against humanity of murder” had been committed in the war on drugs carried out under the government of President Rodrigo Duterte. Bensouda urged the court to open a full-scale investigation into the bloody crackdown between July 1, 2016, when Duterte took office, and March 16, 2019, when the Philippines’ withdrawal from the ICC took effect.