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Trump Organization lawyers blame ex-CFO for criminal tax fraud scheme
Weisselberg previously slice a plea offer admitting he dodged taxes on $1.76 million in compensation. He testified, sometimes emotionally, in trade for the reduction of his possible 15-year prison sentence to five months on Rikers Island. The defense’s closing arguments also seized on that arrangement. “The prosecutors had him by the balls,” Trump Org. attorney Michael van der Veen instructed jurors. Former president Donald Trump is not a defendant in the situation — a single of a sprawling web of authorized matters tangling the former president and his businesses — but an adverse discovering could cost his namesake corporation $1.6 million in fines. The protection strike a snag Thursday when…


