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By July 15, 2021, the Trump Organization was still dealing with the fallout from the July 1 criminal indictment of its corporate entities and longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. The charges alleged a yearslong compensation scheme that prosecutors said helped cover taxes on perks and other benefits.
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By July 15, 2021, the Trump Organization was still dealing with the fallout from the July 1 criminal indictment of its corporate entities and longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. The charges alleged a yearslong compensation scheme that prosecutors said helped cover taxes on perks and other benefits.
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By July 15, 2021, the Trump Organization was still dealing with the fallout from the July 1 criminal indictment of its corporate entities and longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. The charges alleged a yearslong compensation scheme that prosecutors said helped cover taxes on perks and other benefits.
The July 1, 2021 indictment of the Trump Organization and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was still hanging over the company on July 7. No new filing was reported that day, but the case had already put the corporate entities and Weisselberg in a criminal tax fight.
The July 1, 2021 indictment of the Trump Organization and longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg left the company facing a criminal tax case built around alleged off-the-books compensation and false reporting. Weisselberg pleaded not guilty, and the case quickly became a test of whether the family brand could keep separating political defiance from business conduct.
Two days earlier, on July 1, 2021, Manhattan prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, in a case that accuses them of hiding compensation and evading taxes. Both defendants pleaded not guilty as the criminal case began.
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