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#Marc Mukasey an attorney representing Matt Gaetz & Tr*mp Organization
malenipshadows · 3 years
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+ The Tr*mp Organization's legal team anticipates the company will be accused of tax crimes relating to alleged failure to pay taxes on corporate benefits and perks, including cars and apartment buildings provided to employees. + "They didn't use the word 'fringe benefits' or anything like that, but they alleged improper benefits that were conferred on some of the high-ranking individuals in the Tr*mp Organization," Fischetti said. + During last Thursday's meeting (6-24-2021), prosecutors left attorneys for Mr. Tr*mp and his company with the distinct impression that they planned to proceed with charges in the coming days, possibly as early as this week. + The decision to bring charges against the company itself — instead of company employees — could give prosecutors leverage to demand changes on the corporate level or levy fines as part of a negotiated settlement. 
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malenipshadows · 3 years
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+ Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office told former President Donald Tr*mp's lawyers that the Tr*mp Organization could face criminal charges, The New York Times first reported on Friday (6-25-2021). + Citing people with knowledge of the matter, The Times said that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. could announce charges against the Tr*mp Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, as soon as next week. + Tr*mp's lawyers met with Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday hoping to persuade them to abandon charges against the company, The Times reported. Ronald Fischetti, an attorney representing the Trump Organization, confirmed the meeting in an interview with NBC News. ... + N.Y. state prosecutors are nearing the end of a two-year investigation into whether Tr*mp's sprawling real-estate company violated New York laws. + The criminal inquiry began after Michael Cohen, Tr*mp's former lawyer and fixer, said the Tr*mp Organization had helped facilitate an illegal hush-money
payment to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. + Since then, the investigation has expanded to examine whether the company artificially inflated or deflated the value of its assets for loan and tax purposes. Prosecutors also have asked witnesses about perks that Tr*mp Organization executives received, possibly without paying the appropriate taxes on them. + It is not clear whether prosecutors in Vance's office will bring charges against the Tr*mp Organization, Weisselberg, any other executives, or Tr*mp himself. The office has empaneled a special grand jury that is reportedly weighing whether to indict subjects of the investigation. The Trump Organization has denied wrongdoing. + The investigation kicked into high gear in February when the Supreme Court cleared the way for Manhattan prosecutors to obtain eight years of Tr*mp's tax records.In the months since, they have increased pressure on Weisselberg. + Weisselberg has worked for the Tr*mps for more than four decades and is intimately familiar with the family's personal finances as well as the company's. Bringing charges against Weisselberg may make him Tr*mp Organization likely to cooperate, legal experts told Insider.
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malenipshadows · 3 years
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+ The retention of the Tr*mp firm's lawyer Marc Mukasey is noteworthy not only for Mukasey's record of handling serious criminal cases but also because Gaetz is among former Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp's most ardent defenders. + The moves came as a lawyer for Gaetz's friend Joel Greenberg indicated Thursday that Greenberg plans to plead guilty in a federal case in which he has been charged with sex trafficking of an underage girl, wire fraud, stalking and trying to bribe a federal official. + Gaetz, who has not been criminally charged, also has hired a public relations firm, the Washington-based Logan Circle Group, to manage what has been damning media fallout after news of the federal probe first broke last week in The New York Times. + The case against Greenberg, a former Florida county tax collector, led to the
ongoing investigation of Gaetz, 38, on suspicion of an illicit sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.Investigators also are eyeing whether Gaetz paid women to travel to the Bahamas for sex, according to NBC News, as well as whether he and Greenberg used the internet to search for women to be paid for sex. + The disclosure that Greenberg expects to reach a plea deal in his own case ignited immediate speculation that he would cooperate with federal authorities as they continue to investigate Gaetz, who has denied any wrongdoing.
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