by islander on July 8, 2021 1:02 pm
I’m sure there is a great deal that you are unaware of HtS…This is just a smattering of that…
This is who is indicted;
* From the indictment.
“SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK ___ } THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK | against : ‘THE TRUMP CORPORATION, | bla THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, i TRUMP PAYROLL CORP., i dia THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, ALLEN WEISSELBERG, Defendants. “|
“9. Beginning in 2012, one of Weisselberg’s family members began attending a private school in Manhattan. Beginning in 2014, second Weisselberg family member began attending the same private school. From 2012 through 2017, and as part of the scheme to defraud, Trump Corporation personnel, including Weisselberg, aranged for tuition expenses for Weissclberg’s family members to be paid by personal checks drawn on the account of and signed by Donald J. ‘Trump, and later drawn on the accountofthe Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust dated April 7, 2014. The payment of tuition expenses for Weisselberg’s family members constituted employee compensation and taxable income to Allen Weisselberg and was treated as part of Weisselberg’s annual compensation in intemal records maintained by the Trump Corporation. However, the indirect compensation in the formof tuition payments was not included on Weisselberg’s W-2 forms orotherwise reported to federal, state, or local tax authorities, and no income taxes were withheld by. the corporate defendants in connection with the tition payments. Weisselberg intentionallycaused the tuition payments to be omitted from his personal tax retums, despite knowing that those payments represented taxable income and were treated as compensationbythe Trump Corporation in internal records. Because the indirect compensation in the formoftuition paymentswas not reported by the corporate defendants to the tax authorities, was not subjected to income tax withholding by 7 thecorporate defendants, and was not included by Weisselbergon his personal tax returns, he did not pay taxes on approximately $359,058 in compensation he received during the tax years 2012 through 2017.”
“20. As a result of the defendants’ underreporting of Weisselberg’s income from 2005 through 2017, Weisselberg concealed approximately $1,760,630 in compensation from tax authorities, unlawfully evaded hundreds of thousandsofdollars in federal, tate, and local taxes, and requested and received refunds to which he was not entitled, including approximately $94,902 in refunds from the United States Internal Revenue Serviceand approximately $38,222 in refunds from the New York State DepartmentofTaxation
and Finance.”
Financial Institution #1 a federal tax refund in the amountofapproximately $10,049 based on his 2015 tax return, which underreported his total taxable income. 10) On or about September 2016, Allen Weisselberg directed a staffmember in the accounting department to remove the notations “Per Allen Weisselberg” from the entries in Donald J. Trump's Detail General Ledger relating o tuition payments paid on Weisselberg’sbehalfto his family members” private school. 11)On or about April 26, 2017, Allen Weisselberg caused to be deposited into his bank account at Financial Institution #1 a federal tax refund in the amountofapproximately $8,308 based on his 2016 tax retum, which underreported his total taxable income. 12)Onorabout April 27, 2018, Allen Weisselberg caused to be deposited nto his bank account at Financial Institution #1 a federal tax refund in the amountofapproximately $9,066 based on his 2017 tax retum, which underreported his total taxable income.
THIRD COUNT: AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, accuses the defendant Allen Weisselbergof the crime ofGRAND LARCENY IN THE SECOND DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law § 155.40(1), committed as follows The defendant Allen Weisselberg, in the Countyof New York and elsewhere, during the ‘period from on or about April 5, 2010 to on or about April 27, 2018 stole property from the United. States Internal Revenue Service and the valueofthe property exceeded fifty thousand dollars.