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AP News Radio
Trump's longtime CFO faces sentencing for tax fraud scheme
"Donald Trump's longtime CFO, who's testimony helped convict the former president's company of tax fraud is said to be sentenced today for dodging taxes. Alan weisselberg is expected to get 5 months in jail at Rikers. That's the deal the 75 year old took when he agreed to plead guilty to 15 tax crimes and testify against Donald Trump's company. Weisselberg will also pay nearly $2 million in taxes. He's the only person charged in the Manhattan DA's three year investigation of Donald Trump and his business practices. Sentencing in that case is Friday. The company faces a fine of up to $1.6 million. Julie Walker, New York.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is Bloomberg law with June grosso from Bloomberg radio. You're listening to a special yearend edition of Bloomberg law. Looking back at some of the biggest legal issues over the past year. I'm June Grasso. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. You have the namesake company of former president of the United States, held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg, to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, some talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment building as well as their car licenses and registration cared for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even likewise got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from APC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got these perks and they claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg, as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. They're still being paid. They're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were beholden still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict as little damage upon their employer. The Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million in fine for not having their employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's all three for a company like Trump or why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name and goodwill of the company that belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, signed checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments and you saw his signature in initial with a black sharpie okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executives getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments or these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that shows he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something or conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for you to go home to a cold house and learn an island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get in an apartment in Manhattan and you can work longer hours, so different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump personally now. And Donald Trump was personally paying for twice a first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, their private school commission, but you kind of a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks authorizing the payments by Trump and then later on when Trump became president who took over Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.. So weisselberg testified, yep, there it was. I had to go to Eric and dawn, and they signed the check. Authorizing the payment for the private school tuition. And then during the closing arguments, the prosecutor actually argued that Trump knew exactly what was going on. Joshua stained glass said, this whole narrative that Donald Trump is blissfully ignorant is just not real. Actually, with stunning because he got if at one point and he said, I'm going to argue now that Trump knew and defense got up there and said objection objection there was an instruction that just got a speech in which not allowed to argue Trump knew because tops on indicted and exotic defense table. And the judge told them, well, you're the one who brought Donald Trump into this discussion. You kept saying he didn't know, well now the DA gets to argue to the jury what they have that he did know that you
Bloomberg Radio New York
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"June grosso from Bloomberg radio. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. When you have the namesake company of a former president of the United States, held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, it's tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg, legal reporter, Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, and I'm talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment buildings as well as their car licenses and registration carries for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even likewise oberg got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from ABC carpet. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got the Kirk and the Nate claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. There's still being paid. You're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were beholden still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict his little damage upon their employer, the Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million and fine for not having your employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's paltry for a company like Trump or why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name, a goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president. He obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, signed checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okaying certain bonus payments. And you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharky okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executive getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments or these leads for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that show he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something or conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for you to go home to a cold house in Long Island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get in an apartment in Manhattan? And you can work longer hours, so different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump
Bloomberg Radio New York
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Is Bloomberg law with June grosso from Bloomberg radio. For the first time, a Trump business has been convicted of criminal conduct. After a monthlong trial, a New York jury convicted the Trump corp and Trump payroll corp of all 17 counts against them, including a scheme to defraud conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap on CNN. It's consequential. I'm going to have the namesake company of a former president of the United States held accountable by a jury by way of a criminal conviction. At trial prosecutors proved a scheme that allowed executives such as former chief financial officer Allen weisselberg to evade taxes on company paid perks, including free apartments and luxury cars for more than a decade. And then when we look at the conduct here, you know, it's tax fraud, but really it's cheating, it's lying, it's greed. Joining me is Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Herta, who covered the trial. Pat tell us about some of the evidence that convinced the jury. The evidence showed that the employees, including many high ranking executives, dot Kirk, some talking about the company, CFO, Alan weisselberg, the chief operating officer, Matthew calamari, senior, many of these men. They would get perks like apartments that the company would pay for that the employees didn't pay taxes on. Many of them got his and her Mercedes Benz for themselves and their wives. Many of them got parking paid for in their apartment buildings as well as their car licenses and registration cared for. They never pay taxes on. Many of them even likewise will Burke got flat screen TVs and furnished his Florida condo with furniture and with carpeting from ABC arc. You know, it was a very nice way of living if you were a Trump executive, you got the Kirk and the Nate claimed they were quote unquote backing them out of their salary. So they would get like a $100,000 worth of perks, but they were getting them deducted from their salary. And then they were not paying state and federal taxes. Tell me about weisselberg's testimony because he was the prosecution star witness, but it sure seemed like he was reluctant to be there. Yeah, I mean, basically the prosecutors elicited that weisselberg as well as the current company controller. They're all on the Trump payroll. There's still being paid. You're still on the books as employees. Weisselberg hopes to collect his annual bonus of another $400,000 at the end of this year. The DA was arguing they were beholden still to the Trump company and wanted to inflict his little damage upon their employer, the Trump organization. So they were very careful in what they said, especially weisselberg, who has an agreement. It was in a cooperation agreement with the DA per se. It was just an agreement to testify truthfully. So both sides tried to elicit testimony from him that supported their case. What's the likely sentence? Well, both of the companies now face what is estimated to be a grand total of $1.6 million and fine for not having your employees pay these taxes and for being convicted. Some may say, well, that's paltry for a company like Trump court. Why does it matter? But it's a huge paint on the good name, a goodwill of the company. That belongs to the former president, he obviously was tweeting about it and complaining that he knew nothing of this fraud. Some people are suggesting to us that it may make it more difficult for the company to do business because some lenders and possibly partners may not want to do any business anymore with the Trump board and its entities because of this conviction. Because why would you want to do business with a felon? In a statement, Trump said that this was all about Alan weisselberg, committing tax fraud on his own for himself. He and every witness repeatedly testifying that president Trump and the Trump family knew nothing about his actions, but pat wasn't their evidence at trial that Trump knew about the scheme, find checks. They showed ledger or memos where Trump was personally okay, certain bonus payments. And you saw his signature in an initial with a black sharky, okay, these payments you saw him approving certain executive getting car leases. There were three employees that testified for the prosecutor and the testimony showed that basically Donald Trump had to and did approve and sign every check over $2500. So when you start thinking about what would a Donald Trump see and what came across his death, that's obviously many of these payments like including payments or these leases for these Mercedes Benz were approved by Donald Trump. There was also evidence that showed he had had conversations with weisselberg about getting them apartment for him paid for by the Trump corporation. So there were many indications that Trump knew and the amazing moment at the trial. For days repeatedly, the defense had solicited questions that Donald Trump know, no, he didn't know whether witness would answer. And then the DA had evidence showing Donald Trump had signed something or approved something or sanctioned something for conversations like he had with weisselberg. We said, you should have an apartment. Your wife's not there, it's terrible for you to go home to a cold house in Warren island. It's such a long time for you to be on the Long Island railroad home. So why don't you get into the department in Manhattan? And you can work longer hours. So different conversations that witnesses cited indicating Donald Trump personally now. And Donald Trump was personally paying for twice a first one grandchild, and then a second grandchild, a private school person, but you're quite a big chunk of change. And the jurors saw those checks authorizing the payments by Trump. And then later on when Trump became president, who took over, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
Opening Arguments
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Opening Arguments
"So that's an awful lot of guilty verdicts. It will probably add up to 1.6 million in penalties for the Trump org. And if you say Donald Trump steals more than that from The White House on a daily basis, even now I would not disagree with you. I get it. I have been critical. This is the original Cy Vance prosecution and as the second it was turned over to Alvin Bragg, I have been critical of this in particular of the ridiculous sweetheart deal that was given to Allen weisselberg in connection where all he had to do was testify quote truthfully, other folks sort of said, well, you know, he can't testify truthfully and not implicate Donald Trump will shock her. He testified and did not implicate Donald Trump and did exactly what I predicted he would do, which is the I really abused Donald Trump's trust here and I just feel terrible about that. And you know, there is zero chance Alan weisselberg is going to be indicted for perjury in connection with that. And Alvin Bragg was making the rounds. He was on the various NBC shows, MSNBC shows last night touting this victory so yeah, that's all the bad. So if I'm getting that out of the way early, if what you want to say is, is this a real consequence? Most of that seems like no. I'm sorry, how? How is it that the organization has found guilty of a 170 things or whatever a lot of counts, but that means nothing bad for anyone. In my view, it does not mean nothing bad. Either for the Trump organization or for Donald Trump personally. So you said corporations are people, my friend, which, you know, is true with an asterisk, right? It doesn't put the Trump organ in orange jumpsuit, but it does mean that the Trump organization is a convicted felon, a multiply convicted felon, and when you apply for tries to get a job as another organization, when you apply for bank loans when you apply for
AP News Radio
At Trump Org. fraud trial, defense rests and deflects blame
"The defense has rested its case as the tax fraud trial against the Trump organization reaches its final stages. Closing arguments are slated for later this week in the criminal tax fraud trial against Donald Trump's real estate empire. Defense lawyers say prosecutors are seeking to punish the entire company for one person's scheme to avoid personal income taxes, on company perks like apartments and luxury cars. Finance chief Alan weisselberg has already pleaded guilty to taking $1.7 million in unreported compensation and he testified against the Trump organization. But defense lawyers blame weisselberg and longtime accountant Donald bender. Suggesting bander should bear the blame for not catching the fraud. There are no allegations against the former president nor members of his family. I'm Jackie Quinn
This Week in Tech
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on This Week in Tech
"How about Elizabeth Holmes going to jail for? 11 and a quarter years. I had funny feelings about it. Me too. I've had to I feel like I've had a look inside myself because my reaction has been very schadenfreude about her where I think that's unfortunate. I think she did, listen, the court jury decided to defrauded people. I think there's a lot of legal things you could say. But what she did, but I found myself having a little glee about like, oh, good they got her. And then I'm thinking, oh, this poor woman at some level. She did cause actual or seemingly caused actual harm to people who got misleading blood results. Like she could have put people in danger. And there are issues there. But I also think she got she got disproportionate attention because of her gender. And I think it was there was a sort of gendered response to it. She did lead a giant fraud and she should take responsibility for what she did and doesn't seem to be able to, but I don't feel like I should feel great about anybody going to jail, especially when it's clear she has lots of the fact that she can't really see that she did anything wrong that these things she is a futurist who was too optimistic. I think that is a sad thing not necessarily to be celebrated. Dwight, what do you think? Well, you know, she, I agree with half of what Glenn said. She committed fraud. She defrauded investors. She misled people. She, you know, to a certain extent, she provided hope when there was no hope, really, and the sentencing guidelines were what 11 years to 20 years. And I was looking at that and I was thinking, you know, her conduct was so egregious that I was thinking the judge could go 15 to 20. And so I was a little surprised that she only and I say, only. She got the minimum, I think. She got the minimum. And to we should say the judge has discretion and can't go lower than the guidelines. Right. She's not required to go in this case, but she did in this case. I think it's somebody like Alan weisselberg, who was the CFO of the Trump organization, who got what, 6 months? Well, he might get a hundred days, I think, if he fully cooperates. So I just feel like to me the rule is, don't defraud George Schultz. Because if you defraud the biggest, most important, most powerful people in the country were going to get you. Okay, wait, you want something fun to talk about as George Schultz has a Tiger tattoo on part of his body. Is he a Princeton man? Wait a minute, tell me you don't have a bulldog on your butt. I have no bulldogs on my beard. What kind of Yale man are you? Phil, what do you think? 11 years outrageous or appropriate. I'm Everly complicated feelings about it. I think it feels unfair to me. It feels unfair. Not compared to other people that have been sentenced for fraud. Madoff got a 150 years and Jeffrey skilling got 14 years or whatever. So that seems in line. But it feels unfair when you compare it to all the people that we know have done far worse that never get prosecuted. So I think it depends on the frame of reference. If you're comparing her to other people that have been sentenced for this kind of stuff, then yeah, it's about right. But it's hard for me not to compare it to all the people that I know do far worse every day. And that don't get prosecuted and don't get anything. And I think in general, I don't like these send a message sentences. I think they're unfair. I think what we should do is we should prosecute many more people. We should be much more consistent with prosecuting fraud. We should have much more prosecution on white collar crime. So that it should be a predictable outcome of defrauding people. As it is right now, we prosecute very few people. And then the ones that we convict, sometimes they get massive sentences, but that doesn't seem fair to the person getting acceptance and B, that doesn't seem like the right kind of deterrent effect, because I don't think most would be fraudsters or deterred by, oh, yeah, this is the one in a million shot that maybe I would take on go to jail. If you were next Elizabeth Holmes isn't looking at this going, well, I better not defraud anybody, right? But if you were going to do this and you'd be like, well, there's a 25% chance that I'm going to wind up being convicted and going to jail for a year. I think that would be a much less return. So it feels wrong to me and it feels wrong because I know lots of people who do far worse and they don't get prosecuted at all. I hope you turn them in, Phil. By the way, Phil's plane has landed and now apparently he's in Tokyo for the first time in the spring. That's great. Tokyo last year in February. And we all have mixed feelings. Part of my mixed feelings are inappropriate, which is that she has a one year old, and she's pregnant with another child. That's two children who will not have their mom. Now, will she do 11 years or is there a good time? It's a federal sentence. Unless her appeal comes in, she's in. After all. Even if she goes to the country club jail, that's hard time. Look at this federal prison. Law & Order episode that a number of years ago that I
Mark Levin
Allen Weisselberg Testifies Trump Family Not Involved in Tax Fraud
"Don't want to pass up on this There was testimony today in a courtroom in New York City How about the Trump organization And Alan weisselberg a senior adviser former chief financial officer at former president Trump's organization He said he conspired with a subordinate to hide more than a decade's worth of extras from his taxable income Ready And I quote but that neither Trump nor the family were involved Excuse me But neither Trump nor the family were involved Can you tell me why that's not the leading story on every single cable news show I haven't even seen it once Can you tell me why that's not the lead story the headline at the New York Post front page Let's see if it is tomorrow Can you see if this is going to be the headline on one of the editorials from the office nerds at The Wall Street Journal Maybe it'll be a headline at the national review legal analyst Andy McCarthy He'll jump into this no question about that Let's just see Ladies and gentlemen how much the media how much the media focus on this
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"Wow. You can't say that in the morning. Radio show, but okay. You know? I mean, who just, who knows what that's all about. But at the end of the day, he's not entitled to those documents. They do not belong to him. They belong to you. And to me and to everybody else. Yeah, exactly. Can I just say our good friend Glenn kirshner said of your book? Michael Cohen exposed Trump's crimes. He testified about them to Congress he brought receipts, revealing to the American people the campaign finance crimes he committed with for the benefit of and that the direction of individual one Donald Trump and Michael paid the price yet no accountability for Trump. This is not how America is supposed to work. I mean, Michael, you're obviously a lawyer. Most of the legal experts like Glenn like Glenn that we talked to think we are closer than ever to actual justice for Donald Trump. Do you feel that way too? I do. I think that the district attorney's case on in October is going to provide more than what people are giving it credit. Alan weisselberg has the ability to escape a potential 15 year sentence for his crimes, which were, of course, in cahoots with Donald and the Trump organization.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Are We Close to Justice for Donald Trump? Michael Cohen Weighs In
"Can I just say our good friend Glenn kirshner said of your book? Michael Cohen exposed Trump's crimes. He testified about them to Congress he brought receipts, revealing to the American people the campaign finance crimes he committed with for the benefit of and that the direction of individual one Donald Trump and Michael paid the price yet no accountability for Trump. This is not how America is supposed to work. I mean, Michael, you're obviously a lawyer. Most of the legal experts like Glenn like Glenn that we talked to think we are closer than ever to actual justice for Donald Trump. Do you feel that way too? I do. I think that the district attorney's case on in October is going to provide more than what people are giving it credit. Alan weisselberg has the ability to escape a potential 15 year sentence for his crimes, which were, of course, in cahoots with Donald and the Trump organization. Despite the fact that the claiming that he will not be cooperating in any case against Donald Trump, you can not separate out the eponymous company that is owned solely by Donald from Donald. So whatever he testifies to can not be beneficial to Donald.
77WABC Radio
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Inaccessible to the public. And it is very common in these situations that information that would lead to the disclosure of their identity is kept secret Justice Department claiming it doesn't mind unsealing some materials, but believes the affidavit could compromise the investigation. The former CFO for the Trump organization pleading guilty in court today to more than a dozen felonies Alan weisselberg entering his guilty pleas and is looking at 5 months behind bars as plea coming with multiple conditions, including testifying at the company's upcoming trial in the fall. Three people have been charged in the 2018 prison killing of gangster James whitey bulger, authorities saved 55 year old of GS 48 year old Paul. And 36 year old Sean McKinnon would charge Wednesday with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. This according to the U.S. attorney's office for West Virginia's northern district, a prison guard, found bulger's body in his cell on October 30th, 2018 at the U.S. penitentiary in West Virginia, the leader of Boston's Irish mob was captured in 2011 and was serving a life sentence. A man arrested for landing a punch on another man knocking him out and leaving the victim fighting for his life was released without bail today. The daily news reporting defendant few appeared in Bronx criminal court. He was freed on a misdemeanor assault charge for last Friday's attack on Jesus Cortez outside a local restaurant. The NYPD had initially charged man few with attempted murder, however The Bronx DA went with only an assault and harassment charge. He's required to have supervised release and his due back in court on September 6th. It's all in the hips. New York City is knocking down two dozen abandoned outdoor dining sheds. The mayor Adams helping with one today, the city has fielded numerous
WTOP
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on WTOP
"Wallace to be TLP sports. Here are the top stories we're following on WTO busy day the Trump organization's former chief financial officer pleading guilty just moments ago to tax violations. Alan weisselberg is charged with taking more than one and a half $1 million in off the books compensation from the Trump organization over several years. The deal requires him to testify about possible illicit business practices at the former president's company. Some of the country's biggest media organizations are asking a federal today to unseal the affidavit that supported the issue in several warrant giving FBI agents permission to search former president Trump's home last week. And The White House announcing this morning to boost the supply of monkeypox vaccine in the U.S. by making an additional 1.8 million doses available for ordering starting August 22nd. Keep it here on WTO more on these stories ahead. While stress can affect you in ways you might not even think about during psoriasis action month, the national psoriasis foundation is talking about how stress can play a role. I thought I had dandruff. I had a lot of flakes in my scalp. But Austin told you of D.C., who's 26, says what turned out to be psoriasis began to flare up, spreading to his legs during a particularly stressful time. Started kind of spiraling into a place where I wasn't really taking care of myself very well. His advice now to fellow sufferers? Find things that lower your stress levels and make you feel good. Also, he says, have a good dermatologist help find the medicine best for you. Christie king WTO P news. Still ahead in money news. The Dow is trading lower, a Maryland racetrack might be sold. I'm Jeff cable. To read a Kessler in the WTO beat traffic
WTOP
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on WTOP
"Certainty, understands where he belongs. He's very gifted. When a guy with his abilities is locked in and mentally really understands where he belongs, he's able to come to life, he's having a strong camp for us. And we're going to need him to play well forest tissue. More on WTO beat dot com. How about Brent to Beatty of the myths, his first swing in the major leagues? To run Homer. Let's beat the braves last night. Dave Johnson, WTO sports. The top stories we're following for you this morning on WTO P, the same federal magistrate judge who signed off on the FBI search or former president Trump's home in Florida, will he request today for many of the nation's largest media companies to release the affidavit supporting the warrant that allowed the search. Mister Trump's chief financial officer is expected to plead guilty to tax violations today. In a deal that would require him to testify about possible illicit business practices at the former president's company, Alan weisselberg is charged with taking more than $1.7 million in off the books compensation from the Trump organization over several years. Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is expected to be with the UN chief and turkey's president near Ukraine's border with Poland today. The talks will focus on the recent deal to resume Ukraine's grain exports, the volatile situation at a Russian occupied nuclear power plant and efforts to help end the war. Stay with WTO for more on these stories in just minutes. A bomb exploded at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers yesterday, at least 21 people were killed, including a prominent religious leader, and at least 33 wounded, including several children. There's been no claim of responsibility. The Islamic State groups, local affiliate has stepped up attacks, targeting the Taliban and civilians since the Taliban takeover last August last week, the group claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul. Coming up in money news, futures are unchanged, can a muscle car be electric. I'm Jeff clawton. It's 9 18. Back to the traffic
WNYC 93.9 FM
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Executive at the Trump organization is expected to plead guilty to tax fraud in Manhattan criminal court today. That would make Alan weisselberg the latest Trump ally to be convicted at trial or plead guilty to a felony. He worked for Donald Trump long before he ran for president. And pierce Andrea Bernstein is here to explain good morning. Good morning. What has weisselberg done for Trump over the years? So Alan weisselberg is the closest any human being can come to being the physical embodiment of Trump's business. He's worked for the Trump since the 1970s when Donald Trump's father Fred was renting apartments in Brooklyn. Weisselberg really knows the ins and outs of the company better than anyone, excepting maybe Donald Trump. And as of today, if the plea deals accepted, weisselberg will be the highest level Trump organization official to admit to a felony. Well, I'm just thinking about this when you admit to a felony, you also have to state in court exactly what you did. What is he expected to say? So we don't know exactly until the hearing concludes, but weisselberg was charged with 15 felonies for carrying out a more than 15 year scheme to cheat taxpayers by taking part of his salary through untaxed benefits like a luxury apartment. Private school tuition for his grandchildren and Mercedes Benz for him and his wife. The prosecutors say he hid nearly $2 million of income in this way. The crimes he was charged with include fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny. And why is he admitting to all this now? So last week, the judge in the case denied weisselberg and the Trump organization's motions to dismiss the case. That's often a time when these plea deals happen. Well, what is known about the terms, like what is he getting in return in terms of reduced sentence or whatever else? So in this case, it looks like weisselberg, who's in his 70s. We'll say he committed crimes and agreed to a jail sentence of just months. Whistler may cooperate with prosecutors in some way, but it won't be certain exactly how that will work until the judge okays the deal. What we very much know is that weisselberg has worked hard not to do anything that could put him at odds with Donald Trump. Although if he is needing to cooperate as part of a deal, that means aiming presumably at his boss, investigators tend to go up the chain rather than down the chains and what kind of cooperation could he potentially provide. Well, it's complicated, but he can testify at a potential trial of Donald Trump's company. As of now, because Donald Trump's business is under criminal indictment in the same scheme and is not pleading guilty. There's a trial set for October 24th, and under New York law, if top executives have committed crimes, that's imputed to the corporation. His testimony could help make a case against Trump's company. But that might not necessarily implicate Donald Trump. How does this case fit in with the wider docket of former Trump employees? Weisselberg isn't even in the first top Trump executive to plead guilty to felonies. There was, for example, Michael Cohen, the former council and VP there that was Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who was convicted of tax fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy against the United States. The local adviser Roger Stone convicted of lying to Congress. Former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, convicted of blind to the FBI and just this summer, adviser Steve Bannon convicted of contempt of Congress. Manafort's stone and flyn were pardoned by Trump, but all these aides were convicted of felonies, weisselberg is just the latest, and though Trump is under investigation, he said he's done nothing wrong. And he says the investigations are politically motivated witch
AP News Radio
Trump loses appeal, must testify in New York civil probe
"A state appeals court has ruled former president Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York State's civil investigation into his business practices I'm Ben Thomas with details The four judge panel upheld a lower court ruling enforcing subpoenas for Trump and his two eldest children to give testimony in New York attorney general letitia James probe The former president's lawyers had argued that ordering the trumps to testify violated their constitutional rights because their answers could be used in a parallel criminal investigation The Manhattan district attorney's office has charged the Trump organization and its longtime financial chief Alan weisselberg with tax fraud alleging he collected more than $1.7 million in off the books compensation Weisselberg and the company have pleaded not guilty The ruling could mean a tough decision for Trump whether to answer questions or stay silent citing his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination I'm Ben Thomas
NPR's Business Story of the Day
The Trump Organization Is Back in Court to Fight Tax Fraud Charges in New York
"Trump's longtime business partner. Alan weisselberg is back in court. Today he served as the trump corporation's chief financial officer and he is accused of fifteen year scheme to defraud taxpayers journalist. Andrea bernstein is covering the case for npr news. and she's online good morning joining. I guess you'd better remind us because there have been so many investigations of trump. Which of the various investigations is this. So this is the criminal indictment. That was unsealed back in july. And what's significant about this case is that despite thousands of civil lawsuits for donald trump or his business and to impeachment trials for the former president. This is the first time. The trump corporation has been charged with a crime. The same goes for alan weisselberg that she financial officer who's worked with the trump family for nearly half a century which is the entire span of donald trump's business career.
Dumb, Gay Politics
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Dumb, Gay Politics
"Universe gives their executives cards now. More of a problem is paying for grandchildren's education but the question is who's responsible for paying the taxes on that the organization which gives the perks. No the person gets. The perks has to put it on their tax return. So in this case it's weisberg not the trump organization that committed the crime and like when we lie on our taxes. All they're really going to do is just added up and then charge interest and make alan weisselberg pay the tax and insurance when i did right we do whatever you're right and then find it. They just send thing goes. We reassessed your thing now. We're charging another four grant. Yeah plus interest plus interest. You lose her ladies good. There's good news and bad news. The good news is they didn't prosecute you let you pay civilly. The bad news is never made a notch money so the wreck. That is absolutely correct. That is the truth. I mean. I don't think they drag anyone to jail unless you're apparently let's fucking al capone. Wesley snipes. Oh wesley snipes. The actor went to jail for tax evasion. You want to get technical. I- wizardly snipes went to jail for failing to file a tax so for several years. Wesley was not very intelligent. Even though he's an excellent actor one of my favorites he did not file his tax return. That's a misdemeanor. He was convicted of three misdemeanors of not filing tax returns. And the judge. Who was in orlando who i know is a total racist piece of shit. Put him in jail for eighteen months because he didn't like whistling. I mean and what about what they always do. Women to flow is the lady's name in new york. Leona helmsley all right now leeann. Oh this is. Typical of people. First of all leona was a lot more money. She built an entire mansion and somehow never mentioned that all the money was taken out of her company to pay like twenty million dollars more plus and all that and leona typically people in her position do things like this said only the little people pay taxes so right away as soon as you say that it proves motive you can't. It's like you giving giving your life on a platter to the prosecutor. They loved stuff like that. It's just like martha stewart everybody's insider-trading insider trading with martha stewart's got to be the asshole that got martha made cheap. What she did is martha hired former prosecutors from the southern district of new york because they're all buddies together right. Don't worry they were going to help her out so they go down to their office at bring. Oh mortal long say well. You can talk to these guys. Don't worry about it. So martha taking her lawyers advice that down in the office and promptly confessed to insider trading. She's like we did. It made no difference how serious it was there. She is confessing to it so ignore it. Is anyone in the trump organization going to go to jail right now. Do you think and listen. You're the asshole who told us in two thousand eighteen. He would never leave office he would never really truly be impeached. And you were right to times over so we gotta rip the band aid off like none of them are going to. I don't wanna waste my time on this. I don't wanna waste my emotions mill thing that we have seen so far indicates to me that there's a serious enough crime to send anyone to jail and by the way there's one thing i i get very exercise watching these so-called lawyers on television describing this and they're all going on about well yeah they indicted weisselberg and they're putting pressure on him and they may indict his kids and his wife and grandchildren in everybody in the world. So we could get to trump. And then i keep i. I would like to say to him here. You are advocating extortion and torture of a seventy four year. Old man to get your way and this is how we do justice in this country. You people should be ashamed of yourself. Glen i think about it. What are we doing to this guy..
Dumb, Gay Politics
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Dumb, Gay Politics
"Now. It's time to re trigger are trump. ptsd in our unfortunate new segment called. He's bad mortar thought. I'd finally meeting the his. He's genius business to business. It's pronounced this is our segment called. He's back where we update our fourteen listeners. On everything that the twice. Impeach disgraced former. President trump is up to now that he's back on the rally circuit and once again shining his corrupt orange glow in the bright reflection of the maga- limelight. But it hasn't been all revenge rallies and bill o'riley concert tours for donald trump prosecutors from the southern district of new york have been investigating the trump organization. Since the minute he left the white house. And now the indictments are raining down. I up allen weisselberg. The chief financial officer of the trump organization has been charged with quote tax related crimes. Which i'm assuming is basically a vague way of saying that. Alan weisselberg helped trump evade paying taxes. So today is the special trump indictment version of. He's back and we have a special guests here to help us break it all down. He's one of the world's most famous defense attorneys and that makes him the absolute last word on the law. No matter how problematic and frustrating it. Maybe he's a brilliant man who's very rich and even more generous and we are lucky..
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"They should have been paying. And so think about this thing just as a different kind of case. If i owned a restaurant and i wanted to pay my waiters under the table and i just would give them cash every week and then not report that to the irs. That'd be hard to prove because there wouldn't be records of it and you even if you if you arrested me. It would be hard to know how much money i had how much taxes i hit evaded because i didn't keep records of the cash gave out under the table. This is a different case. Allegedly the trump organization kept records. They understood that they were gonna pay allen weisselberg nine hundred forty thousand dollars every year but they worked hard to convert some of that nine hundred forty thousand into non-cash non paycheck payments and then they only paid taxes on the remainder that they paid through salary so they kept records showing they understood. This was compensation and then they also hit it from the irs. So they would. They were showing that they understood. What they were doing was wrong. But yes that makes sense to keep that separate book knowing it could turn up. It doesn't make a lot of sense. That's i think what surprise the tax law prosecutors so much that most people don't keep another set of books that show you exactly the details of their tax fraud knowing the company as well as i do. I think this is a collision of two values. In which trump had choose one over the other one of those values is not keeping records trump organization and trump particularly bitter famous for not keeping records on things. But there's also a current of cheapness right and the purpose of keeping the second set of books was to make sure that when you were giving these people payments under the table. Allegedly that you weren't giving them too much that they still weren't getting more benefits that ellen westerberg was getting paid nine hundred and forty thousand dollars a year not nine hundred forty one and so you had to keep these records to make sure that in the course this tax evasion. Alan weisselberg didn't get a little more cash than he didn't. He deserved for that. We can speaking to a large grab down. Theron seem to say well everybody do this destin. Everybody grant little here and a little there and help out with college. Tuition and an apartment. So he doesn't have to drive along way. It sounded as he was completely acknowledging that what the prosecutors are charging is.
The Daily Beans
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on The Daily Beans
"I'm back from a week long vacation when everything ever decided to happen. The trump organization and alan weisselberg been indicted. The supreme court took another chunk out of voting rights. Pelosi created the one six select committee. The military sexual assault commission also recommends. What i've been asking for for the past decade. There's a lot going on. We have a lot to talk about. I'm alison gill. And i'm dana goldberg. Hello friend i missed you. I missed you as well. Komo staff humira the nbn. And i am a little bit sunburnt. Not not bad. I sold lathered myself in like a million. Spf and i saw the sun was so strong that some some got through But it was amazing. It was wonderful. I had three eighty minute massages while i was nice. I went to the gym every morning. That was nice And then most of the rest of the time was by the pool or by the beach you know. Have a knife and nothing happened while you were gone. So everything's fine. No totally calm week. Actually i'm gonna have to spread the news out over this coming week because of everything. I missed while i was on vacation. But i picked what i thought. Were the top stories. And we're going to cover those today. I imagined we'll be talking about these. Indictments this indictment against weisselberg on the trump org more than once in the week to come There are a lot of experts. I wanna talk to that. Includes andrew weissmann former muller prosecutor who. I was speaking speaking with today about the nature of these charges. Whether or not he thinks this is the end or the beginning. The tip of the weisselberg sodas. We will find out but we do have a lot to get.
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
"Dot com and sign up for free among others. It appears that. Ivanka trump benefited from the type of scheme. That's described it. The end of the indictment today the indictment says other executives also benefited from that scheme. And now we've got solid reporting that the investigation continues that raises the prospect. That further charges could be brought against his children. Yeah it does. And again i think they should be quite anxious right now. I think he would be surprised to learn that. I don't believe my cousins would exert that kind of exercise that kind of loyalty towards him because his relationship with them and their relationship with him is entirely transactional so and conditional. I should say so. They're not going to risk anything for him just as he wouldn't risk any thing for them. That's a great thing for someone to be saying about parents and their children. They're not going to risk anything for him just as he wouldn't risk anything for them. That's what donald trump's niece. Mary trump told rachel last night about how she thinks. Donald trump's children would react if they were swept up in the new york investigation that resulted in criminal charges against trump's financial officer as well as the trump business itself as we enter the next phase of this criminal case. The big question is where we'll prosecutors take this next. How confident you. Donald trump be that. Alan weisselberg will remain loyal to him. Who else at the trump organization might end up walking into a new york state courtroom in handcuffs joining us. Now former manhattan. Assistant district attorney rebecca roy fee rebecca. Good to see you again. Thank you for being with us. Michael cohen pointed out this week. Something that has been pointed out over the years and that one's reality no matter how important they are or or even wealthy ones reality changes when there are charges of this level of this magnitude filed against you and when those handcuffs go on it makes you rethink your priorities. Yeah i mean that's one hundred percent true and he's speaking obviously from personal experience but you know as a prosecutor you realize that this is true. I think it's most helpful to have. Somebody's cooperation at the very beginning of an investigation. But sometimes prosecutors can't get at and they need to wait to a later. Tele later phase when the reality really sets in for somebody to agree to cooperate. And the key question here as you say. Everybody's speculating why did they come down with this indictment of the organization if they're waiting to bring charges against somebody else and to me. What's really clear about this particular. Indictment there are two things one is. This is a really strong indictment issues. Fifteen years of you know off the books. Compensation scheme and the question is who was this designed to benefit and it. It's not convinced. Once you read this indictments really clear that. It wasn't alan weiss over the prosecutors. Do not think this was a scheme. That was designed to benefit alan weisselberg. There it has to be game was.
The Young Turks
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on The Young Turks
"The church jank uber. John rollo when you guys We are going to drop it but in the next segment. It said twist lots of twists on the young turks. There you go So let's just get right into. Let's do story. Yeah with no further ado no problem. I'm john by the way now. Okay we'll figure it out later but we've got some important news. So let's let's do this by the way did introduce did you. Yeah okay oh. I don't normally pay attention until you say john. So i guess it's kind of on me anyway. Okay oh in that case. Let's do the news. I guess so by now. You must know unless you've been watching fox news as your sole source of news that the trump organization as well as it. Cfo alan weisselberg are facing a number of charges. Basically alleging that for a decade and a half or so it's been running a variety of different little schemes to avoid having to pay taxes and the prosecutors in new york have come up with fifteen different felony counts Prosecutors have zeroed in on the benefits. That weisselberg in particular and his family received from trump including tens of thousands of dollars in private school tuition. For one of wei's lindbergh's grandchildren normal like company stuff pay for the dudes grandchildren schooling a rent free apartment. On the upper west side of manhattan and least mercedes benz vehicles weisselberg wife also receives her own least mercedes which you know i. I think it's safe to say that. We're in favor of robust benefits for.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"alan weisselberg" Discussed on America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"I mean how does that reporting even even get out there and desert corrupt the jury pool. That will sit on this case. Well i mean anybody who relies on truth and accuracy with regards to trump from the mainstream media's complete idiot They hate trump so much that it absolutely shades the reporting so don't rely on the mainstream media You know you know. Here's here's what really happened. you know sivan's spent all of this time millions and millions of taxpayer dollars. He put together a team of lawyers and accountants. They spent years trying to pin something on trump. He couldn't do it and this was a huge embarrassment to him. So in order to save face. This is what it's all about sivan's trying to save face. They come up with a lane. Charge against alan weisselberg In order to justify what they had. So you know is it any wonder jennifer americans spies. People like sivan's empower their corrupt. They're abusive vance's a prime example. And this is the problem. With having politicians serving in law enforcement and prosecutorial positions they politicize and weaponize their power. It's disgraceful You know good luck presenting the case in front of jury even a jury that probably despises donald trump since other people. And we're in our last moment here greg but how many other people and i'd look at hunter by that have not even seen one charge for things that maybe might constitute crimes. Then we're even talking about donald trump here. It's a double standard and and everybody pain. Remote attention knows it You know the info investigation under biden. Who in my judgment is committed real crimes crimes of and influence-peddling He won't be touched because you know as he said in an interview after the election he was relieved. His father.
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
Manhattan DA Convenes Grand Jury in Trump Investigation
"Washington post first to report that the manhattan district attorney as convened a grand jury. That is quote expected to decide whether to indict trump executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges the report continues to say the move indicates that manhattan district attorney cyrus vance investigation of the former president and his business has reached an advanced stage after more than two years. It suggests to advance believes he has found evidence of a crime if not by trump then by someone potentially close to him or by his company district attorney. Vance has been looking at trump's business practices before he was president. Vance fought all the way to the supreme court to get the former president's tax returns days ends. New york's attorney general letitia. James is also conducting a civil investigation into trump. she recently joined forces with vance's office and the criminal inquiry. These investigations are believed to be largely stemming from cases involving trump's former lawyer and fixer. Michael cohen will eventually of course famously turned on his boss after pleading guilty to making hush money payoffs for trump and lying to congress his latest. This latest investigation appears to hinge on longtime trump organization. Cfo alan weisselberg. Who has been under pressure from the manhattan. Da one of the post reporters who broke tonight story described wisel berg's importance to this case. He's almost the human equivalent of trump's taxes. He's the guy through which almost all of trump's financial transactions big and small have passed through for thirty years so he would be a valuable asset if you thought there was a financial crime to no one surprise. Trump tonight responded to the washington post story with a lengthy statement calling the da's investigation. And we quote here a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in american history purely political and an affront to the almost seventy five million voters who supported me in the presidential
WBZ Afternoon News
Top Trump Organization official Weisselberg was granted immunity in Cohen investigation
"Today we learned. President Trump's money man for from within four decades was granted immunity for providing information about Michael Cohen Mr.. Trump's former lawyer and fixer he joins a growing list. Of the president's inner circle who have cooperated or are cooperating with, federal prosecutors ouija Jiang is traveling tonight with the president's in, Ohio Today President Trump ignored questions about his. Longtime money man. Alan Weisselberg who spoke to federal prosecutors in exchange for unity in the case that led to a plea deal for the president's former fixer Michael Cohen Cohen said before