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- Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg’s lawyer said they expect more indictments from the Manhattan DA.
- “We have strong reason to believe other indictments are coming,” the lawyer said Monday.
- Weisselberg and the Trump Org. pleaded not guilty to 15 felony counts in July.
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A lawyer representing the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, said Monday morning that they have “strong reason to believe other indictments are coming” as part of the Manhattan DA’s criminal probe into the company.
He made the comment during a status conference at the New York state Supreme Court on Monday. The hearing came as prosecutors in the DA’s office continue investigating whether former President Donald Trump’s sprawling real-estate company violated state laws.
The DA’s office charged the Trump Organization and Weisselberg in July with 15 felony counts including scheme to defraud and grand larceny.
Prosecutors said the alleged criminal conduct was carried out as part of a “sweeping and audacious payment scheme” and that Weisselberg personally did not pay taxes on $1.7 million of his income dating back to March 2005.
Weisselberg and the Trump Organization pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were laid out in a 25-page indictment.
Among other things, investigators accused the defendants of filing false tax returns and said they “devised and operated a scheme to defraud federal, New York State, and New York City tax authorities” to compensate Weisselberg and other Trump Organization executives “off the books.”
Days before the indictment came down, Weisselberg resigned from a trust set up to control the Trump Organization’s assets, The Washington Post reported, citing government documents. The New York Times also reported that the company stripped Weisselberg of his leadership positions at subsidiaries.
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